Rotting Flesh???

Hello all,

Anyway i'm kind of confused. I run a cross campaign Rt/N Minion Bomber. I usually use rotting flesh to help gain quick access to corpses or help take out mobs quicker. Anyway not to long ago I was in a PUG "with some heros" and I noticed that rotting flesh was affecting other peoples heros. Of course once their heros got infected with disease the rest of us did.

Now the thing is I don't recall ever having this problem before. I've been using this build for awhile now and it hasn't happened until tonight. At least I think so.

My question is has rotting flesh always spread to everybody, or is it new with the update? If so any advice on a good skill to replace it with? I hope it's just a bug.

Big thanks in advance if anybody can help me.

Well I guess i'll test it out some more. That whole mission though it was doing that and the only npc necros were blood based.

I don't have much experience first-hand, but the talk page for the Guild Wiki article on Disease suggests that with Nightfall enemy human NPCs could transfer Disease to your party. Here's the talk page.

Since it seems to depend on the "species" for some (but not all) creatures, it depends on what you're fighting. Have you just started fighting human NPCs recently? That might be why there seems to have been a change.

Hmmm that might be it. We were fighting human based npc's on that mission. But in Elona most of the starter missions have been human based npc's. Well for me since i'm from Cantha. Maybe I just didn't notice before in other missions. But we did really well in those and I don't remember my group getting diseased. I think i'll hold onto this skill for awhile and see what happens. If it continues to be a problem i'll find something else to replace it with. Thank you for your help.

rotting flesh is species related. if you cast it on any species with flesh, then it will spread only to the same type of species. if you cast it on a human enemy, then you are also putting your party at risk of infection.

That's the reason I don't like rotting flesh on my MM unless I'm facing solely Afflicted or other non-human enemies. Against human enemies, Deathly swarm > Rotting Flesh IMO

Rotting flesh really screws you over if you fight against other human type monsters, but otherwise it's solid degen.

I hate Rotting Flesh with a passion. You never know when you will run into human mobs...and then it ends up being a burden not a boon.