Curse

FuriousGoddess · May 05, 2005, 08:42 PM // 20:42

I am trying to better understand conditions. Like for instance, under disease, it says lose 4 arrows of health...what is up with the arrows? I see them on my bar but I dont understand how good the dmg really is for one of these conditions, what exactly is 4 arrows to a person with 500hp. The same for weakness or posion. Can anybody who really understands the conditions, their benefit and dmg, please help me out here?

adam.skinner · May 05, 2005, 08:50 PM // 20:50

Each arrow of HP is 2hp per second. Each arrow of energy is 1/3 energy per second.

$hade. · May 05, 2005, 10:18 PM // 22:18

There are arrows that can appear on your HP and energy bars. arrows going to the right (>>>>) mean that your gaining more energy or HP and left (<<<<) means your degenerating energy or HP. The more arrows the faster the degeneration/regeneration. THink of it as this:Arrows going right means GOOD. Arrows going left means BAD.

Kadeton · May 06, 2005, 01:48 AM // 01:48

Regen/Degen seem to be very powerful in the early stages of the game, and get less and less so as time goes on. Because low-level characters and monsters have low HP, conditions that cause degen will remove a significant chunk. The Mesmer hex "Conjure Phantasm" is a good example of this; in Pre-Searing Ascalon it is trivial to kill enemies using just this spell. Past about level 8 or so, it becomes vastly less powerful.

As someone mentioned before, regen/degen is 2 HP per second or 1 energy every 3 seconds, per arrow. It's capped at ten arrows, I believe, so you can't lose or gain more than 20 HP/second due to conditions and hexes.