Prerelease 7 adjusted Orb Guardian effects via feature Issue 1244.

I'm basing this off of Keriax in Prelease 5 - I got the impression from others on the Adom forums that he had not been changed with that fix or since, so I'm assuming my information is up-to-date (and Keriax was not mentioned in issue 1244)

Keriax's corpse (according to the GB) provides a whole bunch of stat increases(including +10 st and +10 to) at the cost of a BUNCH of corruption. In my recent game, I ate his corpse and got no strength and 1 toughness out of it because my stats were at their potential caps.

I know that stat potential/stats have changed somewhat since prerelease 1.5, but I believe potentials are still hard limits for corpses like his.

I don't think he should provide the full benefit if you're at your potentials, but he should provide some benefits besides the sometimes benefit of gaining corruptions.

Note that right now he is not exactly "free" even if you can use the white unicorn immediately after eating, because in order to do that you had to give up the POGA rewards from the black unicorn quest, which DO increase potential stats.

Suggestions:
1) If you want to keep it just stats - let it raise potentials by some fraction of the current stat boost - 1/3 to 1/5. So if your strength is already at potential, you get 3-5 points from the corpse. This would also bring the positive benefits inline with those received from doing the Black Unicorn quest, albeit with the cost of having to feed the ratling, potentially pass the 90 day mark, and actually kill him.
2) I honestly don't know what the the new corpse effects from the orb guardians are in prerelease 7, but Keriax could get some benefits similar to those.


(As I said I'm basing this on play experience in Prerelease 5 and my understanding of issue 1244, but not actual play experience - if he's dramatically changed his corpse behavior since then it may already not be valid)