Hello,
Currently, any Undead can be affected by the Deteriorated status, that inflict a severe -8 strength on all damage channels.
I wonder if the spirit of law wouldn't be here that only mechanical contraptions such as armours, machines, and bone assemblies (skeletons) that are affected by a Rust Strike can be deteriorated. That would exclude ghoul units, that are like diseased biological units. How can a zombie or a ghost be rusted?
Skeleton units are: Animated Cadavers, any Archon Revenants, Bone Collectors, Bone Wyverns and Dragons for sure. Perhaps Reanimators and Wraiths too? Death Bringers look as fleshy as ghouls. Souls, Banshees, and Dread Reapers should be immune.
Armoured ghoul units would still be affected by the defense penalty (from Rust Strike), though.
[EDIT See below: It looks like the Undead being affected by Deteriorated was introduced by the PBEM and SP Balance mod, when it made a change to the Rot spell. Nonetheless, the thing about the "spirit of the law" is still valid: isn't there any difference between a skeleton-like corporeal Undead, and a fleshy corporeal Undead? [/EDIT]
If I'm not wrong, the new Undead units came after the Archdruid class, by the way.
On the screenshot, there might be a separate bug, because the Deteriorated status is sourced to the Water Sphere's Rot spell ("Décrépitude"), not the AD's Rust Strike. Anyway, Rot should inflict Weakness to non uncorporeal Undead and Machines, and Weakness is not the same as Deteriorated, afaik.
Currently, any Undead can be affected by the Deteriorated status, that inflict a severe -8 strength on all damage channels.
I wonder if the spirit of law wouldn't be here that only mechanical contraptions such as armours, machines, and bone assemblies (skeletons) that are affected by a Rust Strike can be deteriorated. That would exclude ghoul units, that are like diseased biological units. How can a zombie or a ghost be rusted?
Skeleton units are: Animated Cadavers, any Archon Revenants, Bone Collectors, Bone Wyverns and Dragons for sure. Perhaps Reanimators and Wraiths too? Death Bringers look as fleshy as ghouls. Souls, Banshees, and Dread Reapers should be immune.
Armoured ghoul units would still be affected by the defense penalty (from Rust Strike), though.
[EDIT See below: It looks like the Undead being affected by Deteriorated was introduced by the PBEM and SP Balance mod, when it made a change to the Rot spell. Nonetheless, the thing about the "spirit of the law" is still valid: isn't there any difference between a skeleton-like corporeal Undead, and a fleshy corporeal Undead? [/EDIT]
If I'm not wrong, the new Undead units came after the Archdruid class, by the way.
On the screenshot, there might be a separate bug, because the Deteriorated status is sourced to the Water Sphere's Rot spell ("Décrépitude"), not the AD's Rust Strike. Anyway, Rot should inflict Weakness to non uncorporeal Undead and Machines, and Weakness is not the same as Deteriorated, afaik.
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