| Life Drain | |
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| Details | |
Type |
Other Negative |
Effects |
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Duration |
∞ |
Life Drain is a permanent effect in Outward, received from the Exalted skill.
Description[ | ]
| “ | This Illness will eventually kill you. | „ |
Effects[ | ]
Life Drain comes in multiple stages and has infinite duration. It progresses to a more severe stage every 10 days, starting from 10 days after Exalted is received (this timer is reset on character load).
Life Drain 1[ | ]
- Maximum Health -30%
Life Drain 2[ | ]
- Maximum Health -60%
Life Drain 3[ | ]
- Maximum Health -90%
- Dying with this status active will send the player to the In Between zone. Elatt will be present and offer some lines of dialogue about the player's life and achievements on Aurai. There is no way to exit this zone in single player, but the character can still be used in multiplayer.
Stage 3 Notes:
- While in the In Between, some ways of damaging oneself such as eating Crabeye or Miasmapod, or casting Immolate, will not cause any damage.
Acquired From[ | ]
This disease is contracted on the final quest of the Holy Mission faction, when choosing to sacrifice yourself in order to save Ellinara from death during the queen's ascension. Elatt warns you that you will die in one month, and this disease is eventually contracted afterwards.
Notes[ | ]
- It is currently possible to fully prevent acquisition of Life Drain by having 100% Status Effect Resistance at the time of obtaining Exalted.
- It is possible to survive indefinitely with stage 3 Life Drain. With maximum resistances, the player can be basically immune to all forms of damage, apart from bleeding, raw damage and fall damage.
Prevention[ | ]
- Life Drain only has to be resisted once for a character to be safe from it indefinitely, so long as the player is mindful of the timer.
- The simplest method of preventing Life Drain is to wear the Slayer's Set and a Weaver's Backpack while holding a Djinn's Lamp in your hand, while also being well-rested with Miasmic Tolerance. Alternatively, you can have >25% Status Effect Resistance natively and 75% from a Hex Cleaner or Bracing Potion, but as those only last for 60 seconds, it is naturally less reliable.
- After successfully resisting Life Drain, a timer is started. Every 10 days, your character will attempt to contract the first (or next) phase of Life Drain. This timer is reset every single time you reload your character, which is very important to consider when performing construction in New Sirocco and traveling between regions. What this means is if a player wants to safely commit a week of in-game time to construction (or travel), then they should probably exit to the main menu first and reload the character.
Gallery[ | ]
The In Between with Elatt, after a Stage 3 Life-Drain death.
