Weak

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Your physical attacks do less damage.

Weak is a status effect which reduces the target's melee damage. Player attacks are reduced by 25%, and monster attacks are reduced by 33%.

You can instantly cure yourself of weakness through use of Elyvilon's Purification ability.

Sources

• Enfeeble applies weakness and antimagic to any monster.
• Weakening Gaze is a monster-only spell that applies Weak.
• An orange demon's sting inflicts weakness on the victim (negated by poison resistance).
• Black Mark can apply weakness.
  • Player demonspawn can get the Black Mark mutation, inflicting weakness on melee attacks.
  • Monsters can cast Black Mark as a spell.
• Players can cast Mercury Vapours to inflict weakness on monsters.
• Players in Death Form inflict weakness with melee attacks. This does not work against nonliving monsters.

History

• In 0.31, Mercury Vapours and Death Form were added as player sources of weakness.
• In 0.28, Enfeeble was added as a reliable way to inflict weakness.
• Prior to 0.15, Elyvilon could punish the player for killing an apis by inflicting irresistible but temporary weakness.
• This status effect was added in 0.13.