Hmmm, odd

Ironhawk · #1 May 23rd, 2008, 01:45 PM

1) I think thats just flavor text. Bone Grinding is just a regular damage spell.

2) Life drain of any kind can push you over your max hp limit. Can't remember what the percentage is.

As for the afflictions... I dunno about that. I suppose its possible you cant be afflicted if your are over your max? Are you sure you just didnt happen to take big enough damage?

MaxWilson · #2 May 23rd, 2008, 02:22 PM

2.) Not 100% sure. It was only one combat. One the other hand, Wraith Lords typically don't pick up many afflictions in my combats and this might be one factor. I may test this more extensively later but I wanted to check the forums first to see if this is known behavior.

-Max

Renojustin · #3 May 24th, 2008, 12:01 AM

"An attack on every unit in the battlefield, including friendly units, doing 3 points of damage and ignoring armor. In addition, units must make a magic resistance roll at +4 to avoid becoming Crippled (recieving the Crippled affliction)."

Doesn't sound like flavor text to me. Did you try it with some +penetration?

MaxWilson · #4 May 24th, 2008, 12:18 AM

No items. He was D9, so that's +1 penetration there, and it was Ulm after all... I expected to see *something* on at least a quarter of the units. Plenty of afflictions, no crippling on the 8 or 9 units I looked at.

-Max

Renojustin · #5 May 24th, 2008, 12:25 AM

Well, +1 penetration on a MR Easy check is still -3 and will only succeed 24% of the time on the DRN. So it's within the realm of possibility that you just missed them if you only checked 8 or 9.

Give it another shot, I say!

MaxWilson · #6 May 24th, 2008, 03:29 AM

But, it's Ulm! They all have a magic resistance of 8. Even in a Drain dominion, which it probably was, they're resisting an MR Easy check on 12, which is +2 (since the MR resist is the "attacker" mathematically), which means 38% should be crippled.

I probably will give it another shot at some point, though. Could have been unlucky.

-Max