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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%,^[1] and monster attacks are reduced by 33%.^[2]

You can instantly cure yourself of weakness through use of Elyvilon's Purification ability.

Sources

Enfeeble applies weakness and antimagic to any monster.
Weakening Gaze is a monster-only spell that applies Weak.
An orange demon's sting inflicts 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

Enfeeble was added as a reliable way to inflict weakness in 0.28.
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.

References

↑ melee-attack.cc:1482 (0.30.1)
↑ melee-attack.cc:3638 (0.30.1)

[1] -attack.cc:1482 (0.30.1)

[2] -attack.cc:3638 (0.30.1)

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-'''Weak''' is a [[status effect]] which reduces the target's melee damage output until sufficient time has passed: in essence an anti-[[might]]. It reduces monster melee damage by 33%<ref>{{source ref|0.28.0|melee-attack.cc|3571}}</ref> (exactly cancelling out monster might), and player melee damage by 25%<ref>{{source ref|0.28.0|melee-attack.cc|1438}}</ref>.
+'''Weak''' is a [[status effect]] which reduces the target's melee damage. Player attacks are reduced by 25%,<ref>{{source ref|0.30.1|melee-attack.cc|1482}}</ref> and monster attacks are reduced by 33%.<ref>{{source ref|0.30.1|melee-attack.cc|3638}}</ref>
 You can instantly cure yourself of weakness through use of [[Elyvilon]]'s Purification ability.
 ==Sources==
-*Your melee attacks may inflict weakness if you have the [[Black Mark]] [[demonspawn mutation]].
 *[[Enfeeble]] applies weakness and antimagic to any monster.
-*The monstrous version of [[Black Mark]] may inflict weakness; the only non-unique to have this ability is the [[black sun]].
+*[[Weakening Gaze]] is a monster-only spell that applies Weak.
 *An [[orange demon]]'s sting inflicts weakness on the victim (negated by [[poison]] resistance).
+*[[Black Mark]] can apply weakness.
+**Player [[demonspawn]] can get the [[Black Mark (mutation)|Black Mark mutation]], inflicting weakness on melee attacks.
+**Monsters can cast Black Mark as a spell.
 ==History==