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[[Quaff]]ing a '''potion of decay''' will make characters without [[rot]] resistance immediately lose 1d10+9 max [[HP]] (as though they had suffered rot damage). You can repair this damage by [[healing]] yourself while already at full HP. [[Undead]] characters are unaffected.
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[[Quaff]]ing a '''potion of decay''' will make characters without [[rot]] resistance immediately lose 2+1d3 max [[HP]] (as though they had suffered rot damage). You can repair this damage by [[healing]] yourself while already at full HP. [[Undead]] characters are unaffected.
  
 
==History==
 
==History==

Revision as of 09:47, 4 August 2013

Version 0.12: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.
Type Potion
Name Potion of decay
Icon Potion of decay.png
A vile and putrid cursed liquid which causes your flesh to decay before your very eyes.

Quaffing a potion of decay will make characters without rot resistance immediately lose 2+1d3 max HP (as though they had suffered rot damage). You can repair this damage by healing yourself while already at full HP. Undead characters are unaffected.

History

Prior to 0.12, the loss of max HP occurred over time through the rot status effect. Also, the potion was useful when coupled with Evaporate, an obsolete spell that allowed you to turn potions into harmful clouds. Potions of decay would create clouds of extremely powerful miasma.

The following methods for generating potions of decay have been removed in recent versions: