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 or a potion of cancellation. Yara's Violent Unravelling can also remove weakness, but at the cost of heavy damage, malmutation, and magical contamination; using it merely to remove weakness is rather excessive, especially since many monsters that can weaken the player can easily reapply the status.

Sources

• Soul Splinter weakens the target when successful.
• Mercury Vapours may inflict weakness on the target and any adjacent monsters.
• Enfeeble applies weakness and antimagic to any monster, even if the target resists or is otherwise immune to the spell.
• Players in Death Form inflict weakness with melee attacks. This does not work against nonliving monsters.
• Demonspawn with level 3 of the Weakening Stinger mutation apply weakness with their auxiliary tail attacks.
• Weakening Gaze is a monster-only spell that applies Weak.
• An orange demon's melee attacks inflict 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.

History

• 0.32 added Soul Splinter.
• 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.