Afflictions

Brief discussion from Imperian forums that shows how curing "pools" work (and why your autocuring affliction priorities are only part of the picture):

Asker: "Why is laurel curing hellsight first when madness is priority 1 for me"?

Wysrias: "Your priorities don't determine what affliction is actually cured. Laurel can cure both madness and hellsight, and hellsight is not a madness affliction, so both can be cured by that action".

Asker: "So basically it was a 50/50 shot at hellsight/madness"?

Wysrias: "Yep, and that's the case for nearly all afflictions that share the same curing pool. Priorities are important for selecting the right cure, not necessarily curing the right affliction. You don't want to waste your herb balance curing something mediocre like, say, agoraphobia, when that orphine you just chugged would have been much more useful as maidenhair to cure off that paralysis.

Curing pools are the fundamental concept behind things like herb affliction stacking - you have an affliction that you want 'buried' (let's say, asthma or hemotoxin), and then you stack additional afflictions (clumsiness, weariness, butisol for the kelp pool) to lower their chances of curing the affliction you want to stick around.

As a side note, this is one of the major sources of complexity in affliction tracking - you have to make a lot of 'educated guesses' about what afflictions are actually being cured off of your target, and rely on a combination of context clues (they ate kelp and immediately smoked a pipe - bet they cured asthma) and sheer luck to be as accurate as possible".

Cure Table

Affliction	Herb Cure	Smoke Cure	Salve Cure	Focus?	Purge?	Other Cure
ablaze	--	--	mending			quench skin
actinium	--	--	mending		v	tree
addiction	nightshade	--	--
aeon	--	laurel	--
agoraphobia	orphine	--	--	v
amnesia	--	--	--
anorexia	--	--	epidermal	v	v
asthma	kelp	--	--		v
blackout	--	--	--
bloodtears	--	--	mending
butisol	kelp	--	--		v
calotropis	--	--	epidermal		v
carve	--	--	restoration
claustrophobia	orphine	--	--	v
clumsiness	kelp	--	--		v	tree
confusion	wormwood	--	--	v
cyanide	--	--	--			drink immunity
deadening	mandrake	--	--	v
dementia	wormwood	--	--	v
disfigurement	--	--	epidermal
disloyalty	--	lovage	--	v	v
disruption	--	--	--			concentrate
dissonance	mandrake	--	--
dizziness	mandrake	--	--	v	v
dryblood	nightshade	--	--			tree
entropy	wormwood	--	--
epilepsy	--	laurel	--	v
fear	--	--	--			compose
frozen	--	--	caloric			heat blood
generosity	galingale	--	--	v
gutwyrm	galingale/ginger	--	--
haemophilia	nightshade	--	--
hallucinations	wormwood	--	--	v
healthleech	kelp	--	--
hellsight	--	laurel	--
hemotoxin	kelp	--	--
heroism	mandrake	--	--	v
hypersomnia	wormwood	--	--	v
hypochondria	kelp	--	--
impatience	mandrake	--	--			tree
justice	galingale	--	--
lethargy	nightshade	--	--			tree
loneliness	orphine	--	--	v
lovers	galingale	--	--
madness	--	laurel	--
manaleech	--	lovage	--
masochism	orphine	--	--	v
metrazol	maidenhair	--	--		v
nausea	nightshade	--	--		v	tree
numbness	maidenhair	--	--		v
paralysis	maidenhair	--	--		v
paranoia	wormwood	--	--	v
peace	galingale	--	--
recklessness	mandrake	--	--	v	v	tree
ridigity	kelp	--	--
scars	--	--	mending
sensitivity	maidenhair	--	--		v
shivering	--	--	caloric			heat blood
shyness	mandrake	--	--	v
slickness	maidenhair	lovage	--		v
slow balance	--	lovage	--		v
slow elixir	--	--	epidermal		v
slow equilibrium	--	laurel	--		v
slow herb	--	--	epidermal		v
stupidity	orphine	--	--	v	v
stuttering	--	--	epidermal	v
sulfonal	nightshade	--	--		v
sunallergy	nightshade	--	--		v
vertigo	orphine	--	--	v
weariness	kelp	--	--		v
withered throat	--	--	epidermal		v
yoth	--	--	--

A

Ablaze

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	ablaze.
Cure	The raging fire about your skin is put out.
	The cool waters quench the flames about your body.
Give	A fiery efreeti spins into you, causing you to burst into flame.
	A roaring inferno of fire engulfs you as the red ink bleeds out of SKETCH.
	Extreme heat roars through your body at the touch of WEAPON.
	Flames erupt all over your body and begin to consume your flesh.
	Flames lick around you - you are on fire!
	You are scorched by the firewall as you pass through.
	Your flesh is set alight by the Ouroboros.
	A demonic lamia gazes at you and your body suddenly erupts into flames.
	The plant burns you.
	Tongues of flame lash out at you from a vortex of colors swirling around NAME, burning you horribly.

Actinium

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	losing the bond with the animal spirits.
Cure	You feel the barrier that separated you from your animal consciousness has dissipated.
Give	You shudder and grimace, straining to maintain your bonding.

Addiction

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	addicted to elixirs.
Cure	Your terrible addiction to lovely elixirs seems to wane.
Give	You feel a terrible thirst for elixirs grow within you.

Aeon

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	afflicted with the curse of the Aeon.
Cure	The curse of the Aeon wears off and you return to the normal timestream.
Give	NAME stands a tarot on h{is|er} open palm, and blows it lightly at you.
	NAME draws back with a knowing smirk and utters some alien word that vibrates deep within your bones.
	NAME mixes some purple and blue bone dust and throws it at you, slowing down your movement in the time stream.

Agoraphobia

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	agoraphobic.
Cure	You can handle the idea of open spaces again.
Give	Terror descends upon you and your head swims - you must find shelter!

Amnesia

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Give	Your mind feels vacant as a translucent phantom levels his gaze on you.

Anorexia

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	anorexic.
Cure	Food is no longer repulsive to you.
Give	You feel suddenly as if food is the most repulsive thing you can imagine.
	The bleeding loshre rune on your chest burns with intense pain.
	You lose all desire to eat upon gazing at a loshre rune.
	The idea of eating or drinking is repulsive to you.
	The thought of eating sickens you.
	The thought of food revolts you all of a sudden.

Asthma

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	afflicted by horrible asthma.
Cure	Your lungs relax and you can breathe easy once again.
	You purge yourself of the affliction of constriction. (fitness)
Give	Your lungs tighten and it becomes hard to breathe.
	Your heavy lungs are much too constricted to smoke.

B

Description: If not cured with tree, it will go in its own after 10 seconds. While you are in this state, you will receive only masked affliction and curing messages.

Blackout

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	devoid of senses.
Cure	Your senses return to you as the blackout ends.

Bloodtears

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	shedding tears of blood.
Cure	Your eyes have stopped shedding tears of blood.

Butisol

Give/Cure/Diagnose?	Message
Diagnose	afflicted with poor salve absorption.
Cure	Your sweating subsides and your skin temperature returns to normal.
Give	You begin sweating heavily, your skin heating to unnatural temperatures.

C

Carved Rune

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
As (Person) finishes carving the inguz rune into your flesh, the ink fuses with the blood, sealing the symbol onto your being.	Runeguard	Give	PVP
The bleeding (Rune) rune on your chest burns with intense pain.	Runeguard	Secondary	PVP
The gaping wound on your chest stops bleeding.	Runeguard	Cure	PVP
The wound on your chest closes up, leaving only a scar.	Runeguard	Cure(phase 2)	PVP

Chills

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
NAME opens h{is\|er} maw and exhales a blast of frigidly cold air on you.	Hunter\Druid	Give	Both
NAME raises a hand towards you and blasts you with cold, frigid air.	Mage	Give	PVP
NAME sends an icy blue tendril of light that lashes out at you and wraps around you, sending a strange chill deep into your bones.	Summoner	Give	PVP
The bubonis entity sinks its teeth into you, and you begin shivering.	Summoner	Give	PVP
At NAMES's order, a demonic lamia stares intently into your eyes, but only manages to cure your blindness.	Assassin	Give	PVP
The plant chills your body.	Renegade\Assassin	Give	PVP
Though still shivering, you are no longer gripped in icy paralysis.		Give	Both
A demon of fire and ice reaches out and gently touches you on the shoulder. You feel a magical cold seeping into your very bones.		Give	PVE
A fiendish spectre reaches out and chills you with its lifeless claws.		Give	PVE
You feel the strength ebb from your body as the cold takes its toll.		Give	Both
You suddenly have an extremely intense shiver.		Give	Both
shivering.		Diagnose
Your body warms up and you stop shivering.		Cure

Claustrophobia

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
"Don't get trapped now...", the bubonis entity whispers to you.	Summoner	Give	PVP
The walls close in to suffocate you - you must escape!	Diabolist\Assassin\Renegade\Wytch	Give	PVP
claustrophobic.		Diagnose
Small spaces no longer frighten you.		Cure

Clumsiness

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
You stumble and it becomes very difficult to concentrate on your coordination.	Toxin/Mobs	Give	Both
You lash out clumsily.	Mobs	Secondary	Both
afflicted with clumsiness.		Diagnose	Both
You feel coordinated once more.		Cure	Both

Confusion

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
NAME mixes some yellow and red bone dust and throws it lightly at you.	Wytch	Give	PVP
NAME spins about you, flashing h{is\|er} shield into your eyes confusing you.	Wardancer	Give	PVP
The bubonis entity strokes your forehead and your thoughts are thrown into disarray.	Summoner	Give	PVP
Your head spins as your mind is drowned in chaos and confusion.	Diabolist	Give	PVP
Your mind feels suddenly confused and jumbled.	Assassin\Renegade\Wytch\Diabolist	Give	PVP
confused.		Diagnose	PVP
You are too confused to concentrate on anything.		Secondary	PVP
You are too confused to concentrate properly.		Secondary	PVP
You raise your weapons to strike, but the purpose for it eludes you.		Secondary	PVP
The confusion lifts from your mind and it is clear once again.		Cure	Both

Cyanide

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
A viper-like sleizak rune suddenly extends from a totem to bite you painfully.	Runeguard/Wytch (totem)	Give	Both
A viper-like sleizak rune suddenly extends from the ground to bite you painfully.	Runeguard/Wytch (ground/circle)	Give	PVP
You begin feeling slightly flushed.		Give, second message	Both
Blood begins to slowly drip from your nose.		Give, third message	Both
You cough suddenly, expelling black fluid with bits of what looks to be tissue suspended in it.		Give, Fourth message	Both
Your legs tremble slightly as a yellow jaundice begins to creep through your now-pale features.		Give, Fifth message	Both
Your body begins to convulse, and as a scream that won't come claws frantically at your throat, your back snaps from the sheer force of the spasms, killing you instantly.		Death	Both
You start to feel slightly unwell, and one of the bites the badger gave you suddenly seems to burn.	Khandavan Warrens Badger	Give	PVE

D

Deadening

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
You feel a deadening pall overcome your mind, put there by (person).		Give	PVP

Dementia

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
You look about yourself, frenzied and wild-eyed.		Give	Both

Dissonance

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Disfigurement

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
The bubonis entity strokes your forehead and your thoughts are thrown into disarray.	Summoner	Give	PVP
(person) curses you with the visage of a rotting corpse.		Give	PvP

Disloyalty

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
(person) feints towards your legs, then quickly brings the sharpened tip of (weapon) up to jab at your face.		Give	PvP
Your spirit writhes in torment as it achieves new depths of dishonour.		Give	Both
You feel ugliness radiating from you.		Give	Both
Blood spews as (person) lacerates your face with (his her) knife, scarring it horribly.	Predator	Give	PvP
You stand in such dishonour that not even your loyal friends will help you.		Give	Both

Dizziness

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

E

Equilibrium Loss

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
Upon NAMES's command, a brown bear roars fiercely at you, disrupting your mental equilibrium.	Predator	Give	PVP

Elixir Slow

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Epilepsy

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

F

Fear

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Freezing

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Focus Affliction

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

G

Generosity

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

H

Haemophilia

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Hallucinations

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Health Leech

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Hellsight

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Hemotoxin

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Herbs Reject

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Herb Slow

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Heroism

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
You stand upright and flex your muscles, a true hero!	Renegade/Assassin	Give	PVP
You are a hero! You have no need of protection!	Renegade/Assassin	Give	PVP
You realise that perhaps you are not a hero after all.		Cure	PVP
feeling like a true hero.		Diag	PVP

Hypersomnia

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Hypochondria

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

I

Immolate

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Impatience

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

J

Justice

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

L

Lethargy

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Limb Paralysis

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Loneliness

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Lovers

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

M

Madness

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Mana-leech

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Masochism

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Mending

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

N

Nausea

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
A blood-streaked demon kicks you in the gut with his metallic back hooves.	A blood-streaked demon.	Give	PVE
You feel sick as the filthy lake water seeps into your pores.	Tainted Water	Give	PVE

P

Pacifism

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Paralysis

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Peace

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

R

Recklessness

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE
None may stand in your way! You are invincible!		Give	Both
Pain leaves your body and you feel ready to take on the world.		Give	Both
Pain is something only the weak feel!		Give	Both
Prudence rules your psyche once again.		Cure	Both
reckless.		Diagnose

S

Salve Slow

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Slickness

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Stupidity

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Sunlight Allergy

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Sensitivity

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Slow Equilibrium

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Slow Balance

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Weakness

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Shyness

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Vetigo

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Paranoia

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Withered Throat

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Stuttering

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Scars

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

Random Affliction

Message	Class/Mob	Give/Cure/Diagnose?	PVP/PVE

See also

• Writhes
• Breaks