Might

Version 0.25: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

You are unnaturally mighty, doing significantly more damage in physical combat.

Might is a status effect that adds +1d10 to melee damage for its duration.

Sources

The possible sources for might are:

• Potions of might.
  • Also available through Gozag's Potion Petition.
• The Demonspawn mutation Powered by Pain can cause a might effect.
• Chaos-branded attacks can inflict might.
• Xom can occasionally bless the player with might.

Berserk includes a might effect.

Mechanics

The +1d10 damage is rolled separately from the effective enchantment roll (slaying + to-damage of your weapon), but the defender's AC reduction is still only applied to the total damage (i.e. it is not applied separately to the damage from the might effect). This means that as compared to +10 slaying, might gives a more consistent damage bonus that is also very slightly higher on average.

The damage bonus also applies for auxiliary attacks, but not for constriction.

Tips & Tricks

Might is useful for dealing with monsters that are troublesome, but for which berserk or haste would be overkill and/or unsafe - compared to those, might has no real drawbacks and is safe to use. Unfortunately, as it is only easily available through a potion, you may find yourself with a very limited number of uses per game.

Short Blades-users should be sure be bring along might before engaging in combat with extremely powerful foes. The extra damage adds up quickly when you're attacking with a quick blade.

Monster Version

Monsters with might get 50% damage bonus, which can be even more powerful than the player version. For this reason, one should exercise extreme caution around monsters which can might themselves or their allies.

The following enemies cast Might:

• z Antique champion
• @ Donald
• X Mlioglotl
• X Thrashing horror
• g Wiglaf

The following enemies cast Might Other:

• T Deep troll shaman
• p Ironbound convoker

History

• Prior to 0.25, Might provided a +5 bonus to Strength.
• Prior to 0.19, the player could get the Might status effect by drawing a Potion card.
• Prior to 0.12, extending might through further quaffing of potions would inflict one point of magic contamination.