Any real downside to being undead?

[Red Purger]

When the game said "being undead has it's own unique risks and challenges etc" I really thought it would be more difficult, like only being able to wear headgear that covers my entire head and face, having to wear full clothing sets at all times, and not letting people touch me (like shaking my hand or hugging me). Even the skull at the start says "people don't like looking at their future" but so far I have no had a single problem being undead.

No one you meet in the story really cares that you are undead. None of the companions care that you're a skelly. None of the main story people care that you're an undead. Hats don't even matter; you can literally wear a hat that shows your entire head clear as day, or exposes your entire face, and apparently no one notices or cares even when speaking directly to you. Not to mention you will find yourself wearing full sets of armor 100% of the time anyway, since there is no benefit to not wearing armor or clothing.

Meanwhile there are tons of benefits to being undead, such as being able to pick locks without lockpicks, and being immune to poison, bleeding, suffocation, and deathfog. Not to mention the cool factor of being a literal skeleton (which is the main reason I play undead)
So are there REALLY any actual downsides to being an undead?

[Razorblade]

Enemies will know you're Undead in combat (due to all having high Loremaster skills), which means they'll target you with healing spells. Healing spells do quite a lot of damage when used as damage-dealing spells, so it can be dangerous.

Other than vulnerability to healing, though, you shouldn't really experience any downsides.

[Yellowdragon]

Can't Aoe heal with living allies.

[Primordial Geist]

You wanna have some fun? Play an Undead Elf!

[Panda]

Before middle of an act 2 - some problems with healing damage, pretty easy after it.

[Red Purger]

Originally posted by Primordial Geist:

You wanna have some fun? Play an Undead Elf!

I've considered doing this before, but i really hate how the elf armors look

[hexentwerk]

Originally posted by Red Purger:

Originally posted by Primordial Geist:

You wanna have some fun? Play an Undead Elf!

I've considered doing this before, but i really hate how the elf armors look

The unique sets look pretty good on (female) undead elf though, especially devourer and tyrant. Tyrants set reveals parts of the skelly bones and has purple color shades

[Mennan]

Theoretically you're supposed to be using your mask of many faces or full body covering to hide the fact your a Undead, or at least that was the whole story subplot around it was about.

However i suppose the developers thought that would be too annoying to switch between just for talking to people and just scrapped the idea(or just never felt like going through and implementing it for every different outfit.)

So now any outfit counts even if it doesn't actually hide the fact your a skeleton. If you take the outfit off people will suddenly realize your actually Undead scream in fear and try to kill you. Even if your outfit was a tophat shorts and a blazer.

Good for a game play perspective bad from a narrative perspective.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Bluewhale:

Can't Aoe heal with living allies.

No, but having a Geomage in the party damage enemies while also healing you with the AoE kinda makes up for it.

[felmari]

with the mask you can get all races responses in theory as long as you are looking like it when talking which does not address more than one race of possible race responses within a single conversation. of course any character can talk but normally the main character is your mouth piece.

think they sided with playability while keeping the roleplay aspect of it. it could have been much stricter.

[Echsrick]

the downside is that you dont have any skin and kind of look ugly