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==Strategy==
==Strategy==
*While this spell is unlikely to wipe out any powerful enemies, hitting an entire group with guaranteed slow and poison can be very helpful, granting you additional turns to safely kite enemies or the opportunity to flee entirely.
*While this spell is unlikely to wipe out any powerful enemies, hitting an entire group with guaranteed slow and poison can be very helpful, granting you additional turns to safely kite enemies or the opportunity to flee entirely.
*You can position a corpse in a specific place through use of [[Portal Projectile]]. Alternatively, if you just want to gas everything and don't mind miasma yourself, [[Kiku]]'s corpse delivery ability can set up a large area around you.
*Alternatively, if you just want to gas everything and don't mind miasma yourself, [[Kiku]]'s corpse delivery ability can set up a large area around you.


==History==
==History==
In [[0.15]], corpses will no longer be able to be picked up, disabling Portal Projectile's usefulness here.
Prior to [[0.15]], you were able to pick up corpses. You could position a corpse in a specific place through use of [[Portal Projectile]].

Revision as of 17:17, 17 May 2015

Version 0.16: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.
 Corpse Rot
Level 2
School1 Necromancy
Source(s)
Casting noise 2
Spell noise 0
This spell rapidly accelerates the decomposition of any corpses lying around the caster, emitting in the process a foul miasmic vapour, which eats away at the life force of any creature it envelops.

Corpse Rot is a level 2 Necromancy spell which converts nearby corpses into clouds of miasma. Any living thing which enters these clouds will suffer rotting, poison, slow, and take damage (undead, plants, and constructs, however, will be unaffected). Most enemies will try to avoid this, so the spell can be used to block off corridors much like Conjure Flame. The cloud can be created on top of an enemy if it is standing over a corpse when the spell is cast.

Miasma is a very dangerous substance. Read the article on it before playing around with it.

Strategy

  • While this spell is unlikely to wipe out any powerful enemies, hitting an entire group with guaranteed slow and poison can be very helpful, granting you additional turns to safely kite enemies or the opportunity to flee entirely.
  • Alternatively, if you just want to gas everything and don't mind miasma yourself, Kiku's corpse delivery ability can set up a large area around you.

History

Prior to 0.15, you were able to pick up corpses. You could position a corpse in a specific place through use of Portal Projectile.