positive energy vs undead

djshale · Post by **djshale** » Tue May 18, 2004 7:42 pm

how does positive energy work when cast on undead. I cast cure critical wounds on the undead minatour lich thing near dearon and I did +500 plus damage, the 2nd cast I did +300 damage, and the last cast about 60... after that it was dead with a couple of hits from my hammer. Im not sure about the number but I know they were a lot.

I always thought it was supposed to deal equal damage to what you would normally heal with the spell... but I've learned never to fully trust bioware spell description... anyway I have never tried casting cure spells on undead before so I dont know if this is unique to NS.

So is the big damage a feature, a bug or has it always worked this way.

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Tue May 18, 2004 7:46 pm

It does a percentage based on a die roll. May be caps depending on level and whether you have the heal domain. I would like a minimum though. It gets annoying when you cast cure critical (as a heal domain cleric of 16th level) on a skeletal rat and it does 5 damage.

mordraneth · Post by **mordraneth** » Tue May 18, 2004 8:04 pm

I was under the impression that heal at least worked the same way as harm does on the living. ie does 1/4 remaining hp damage. Not sure how the cure critical etc are implemented.

Good question though, be interested to see what other people know.

dond · Post by **dond** » Tue May 18, 2004 8:26 pm

DrakhanValane wrote:It does a percentage based on a die roll. May be caps depending on level and whether you have the heal domain. I would like a minimum though. It gets annoying when you cast cure critical (as a heal domain cleric of 16th level) on a skeletal rat and it does 5 damage.

why is a 16th lvl cleric casting cure critical on a skeletal rat?!?!

Joran · Post by **Joran** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:06 pm

dond wrote:
DrakhanValane wrote:It does a percentage based on a die roll. May be caps depending on level and whether you have the heal domain. I would like a minimum though. It gets annoying when you cast cure critical (as a heal domain cleric of 16th level) on a skeletal rat and it does 5 damage.
why is a 16th lvl cleric casting cure critical on a skeletal rat?!?!

That would be the most appropriate question, yes :)

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:48 pm

I've got to do SOMETHING when travelling to and from Daeron. :)