Guide

Status effects

Burning, poison, frost and blessings: how they tick, stack and wear off.

How statuses work

Ticks: statuses tick once per second, and the duration counts down in seconds.
Stacks: effects that tick scale with the number of stacks.
Re-applying: applying a status again adds stacks, up to that status's maximum. The time left becomes whichever is longer: the time remaining or the new duration.
Families: Mighty and Giant's Might don't add up, and neither do Nimble and Fleet. The stronger replaces the weaker, and the weaker can't replace the stronger.
Away from heroes: a creature's statuses pause while no hero is within 20 tiles.
Death: dying clears every status. The temple, shrines and healers remove poison and burning.
Bosses: dungeon bosses stay Frozen for only half as long.

Status	Base duration	Effect	Max stacks
Burning	4s	2 damage per second per stack	10
Poisoned	8s	1 damage per second per stack	12
Regenerating	10s	+2 HP per second	—
Frozen	3s	Can't move or act. A frozen hero can't walk, swing, shoot or cast, and a spell they were winding up stops.	—
Mighty (strengthened)	60s	+25% damage	—
Giant's Might	60s	+45% damage	—
Nimble	90s	+10 Dexterity	—
Fleet	90s	+20 Dexterity	—
Venom-coated	45s	Each weapon blow that lands leaves one stack of Poisoned per stack	9
Weakened	20s	−25% damage	—
Blessed	300s	Skill gain chance ×1.5	—

Poisoned:
- Creatures with a poison chance, with max(1, level / 6) stacks.
- The Venom spell, with max(1, Magery / 15) stacks.
Frozen: Frost Bolt, Frost Nova (it also freezes friends in the blast) and Paralyze (5s base).
Weakened: the Weaken spell.
Mighty: the Might spell, the Strength potion and the Drake Steak.
Giant's Might: the Greater Strength potion.
Nimble, Fleet: the Agility and Greater Agility potions.
Venom-coated: a poison applied to your weapon (Lesser 1 stack, Poison 2, Greater 4, Deadly 6).
Poisoned also comes from a Venom-coated hero's blows.
Burning: the Explosion potions, with 3 stacks on the target (1 on foes caught in a Greater Explosion's blast).
Blessed: the Elixir of Insight, the Angler's Feast and a wayside shrine. The shrine also gives Regenerating.
Durations: spell-applied statuses last longer with Magery and with cast quality. Statuses from potions last longer with the drinker's Alchemy: × (1 + Alchemy / 100).