how do i proctect against ability damage?

[kaiserp]

Is there any way to prevent ability damage to the party that does not require a mystic spellbook?

[hilburnashua]

Depends on the source of the ability damage, some cannot be prevented. Need more information to be helpful.

[kaiserp]

uh... combat :D so i guess either spells or abilites or both. and not the temporary things either...

[forkofspite]

fiery body
(that's just one method - others exist)

[Gracey Face]

Originally posted by kaiserp:

uh... combat :D so i guess either spells or abilites or both. and not the temporary things either...

It depends on the specific ability you're being hit with as to what protects you from it.

Two spells, death ward and delay poison, will protect you from most but not all ability damage in the early game and later on as Spite mentions you get some transmutation/polymorph abilities that will just give you blanket immunity to stat damage.

[Grish]

Characters like Daeran also get bulk 15+ casts of restoration which removes pretty much all ability damage in one cast, give him a rod of quickening and you can remove two characters ability damage per turn.

[fox5s]

Yup, depends on the source of the ability damage. Poisons and undead/negative energy effects are the things that will MOST commonly do stat damage.

A communal Delay Poison will actually make you Immune to poison while it is up. Death ward catches most Negative energy sources. There's even an amulet that will automatically Extend any castings of Death Ward and give you an extra AC. Plus you don't need to keep the amulet on. Just equip it, Death Ward the party, and throw back on your normal amulet.

There are other sources of ability damage, so it is difficult to protect yourself from everything. There's an Illusion spell that the enemies will throw at you that causes wisdom damage. Only way to protect against that, that I'm aware of, is to have a high Will save.

There might be some creature types that are immune to ability damage all together and polymorphing into to them would protect you. Fiery Body would turn you into the Elemental type which might protect you. Not sure.

But you can fix ability damage. A Heal spell catches it all. And Restoration spells as well. But that can eat through your Diamond Dust. Though, that's what it's there for and you can just buy more.

[Immortal Reaver]

Angel Mythic Path has spells that protect againts every such thing. It is spell Ward from Harm.

[kaiserp]

Heal does remove ability damage? O.o.

well, rtfm... thanks.

[Drake]

Originally posted by kaiserp:

Heal does remove ability damage? O.o.

well, rtfm... thanks.

Yes, Heal removes a lot of things besides doing good healing. It's a very handy spell.

[kaiserp]

:D I just looked it up. the spell description says it does NOT heal permanent ability damage :(

[forkofspite]

Originally posted by kaiserp:

:D I just looked it up. the spell description says it does NOT heal permanent ability damage :(

The heal spell (not cure X wounds) heals all ability damage. It does not cure ability drain. Ability damage and ability drain are different conditions.

To fix ability drain, you need different spells such as restoration or greater restoration (lesser restoration does not help ability drain).

[Brother Santodes]

with the same icon... which is the issue.

[kaiserp]

Originally posted by forkofspite:

Ability damage and ability drain are different conditions.

hm. my bad.