Garrulous Glaahk Untamed Banana Slug Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I'm currently running a Warrior through Geneforge 5, and was tossing up between the Charmed Falchion and the Frozen Blade. I equipping the Frozen Blade and used it against my creations to test how much health it drains, and found that it drains a huge chunk (approximately 30 hit points) of health. MY HEALTH! What the hell?! Is the Frozen Blade meant to drain your own health, or is it a bug with the game? If so, is the bug specific to my game. Guess I'll be sticking with the Charmed Falchion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 The frozen blade effect is just vampiric touch, right? Try testing it on something besides your own creations. Dikiyoba thinks the game handles attacking your own creations oddly, so the health drain is probably just messed up from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Untamed Banana Slug Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 OK, now this is weird. I was wearing Vampiric Gloves when I previously tested the Frozen Blade. I removed them, and now the Frozen Blade is cursing on every strike. There is no drain effect whatsoever? I'd rather have a Curse effect than a Drain effect, so whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 The health draining was probably just due to the gloves, then, though the sword's curse effect should still have activated even with the gloves on. Are you sure it didn't? Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 There is an effect but it is very tiny. Like, singular digit tiny. You have to bring up your stat screen to see the effect. The Last Archon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Untamed Banana Slug Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba The health draining was probably just due to the gloves, then, though the sword's curse effect should still have activated even with the gloves on. Are you sure it didn't? Dikiyoba. I don't remember seeing a curse effect, but I can't say with 100% certainty that there wasn't one. But I can say with 100% certainty that when I tested the Frozen Blade (while the Thirsting Gauntlets were equipped) against my creations in the Repository, my health was drained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Well, now I'm curious, so I ran a very small test. First I unequipped everything but the frozen blade and attacked one of my creations. There was always a message about the sword cursing my opponent and never one for draining life from my opponent. I also noticed that neither my creation nor any of the friendly people in the area went hostile after attacking my creation. Then I slapped some etheral bindings on the freezing sword and attacked my creation again. Both the curse effect and the drain life message appeared on every attack. I didn't check to see whether the life drain actually worked on my creation properly, but it never drained my health any. Dikiyoba did not, unfortunately, have the thirsting gloves or other items with vampiric touch handy, so Dikiyoba could not test with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 The draining effect is coming from the gloves. As to why it's draining your own health, I'm not sure. I think that attacking undead creations with vampiric touch equipment will damage you; it's possible that attacking your own creations mistakenly triggers the check to see if your target is undead for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 The curse function works every time, but the draining function is only about every 3rd or 4th time. The amount isn't much but it's better than nothing. I have to agree with Delicious Vlish that the Oozing Blade's acid effect is more useful. I add a runed onyx for slowing enhancement and whack away at creations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Untamed Banana Slug Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 Now that I've removed the Thirsting Gloves, I'm not getting any draining effect for the Frozen Blade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Spddin Ignis Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 i got a small draining effect but i got the sword early in the game, i got it before i finished the demo soo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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