I did some informal testing with thrown poccs to see just _how_ good they were... tests done using Candle Gnome Priest. No effect from level (1 or 17), stats (starting or flat-99), skills (16 levelups worth of increase), tactics (!) (always throw poccs on coward), or target (!!) (tested chaos lizard, chaos warrior, chaos wizard, chaos warlord, balor, Ancient Chaos Wyrm, with the same effect; chaos knight and greater black unicorn suffered no damage, as to be expected for a non-corrupting-touch creature).

All creatures tested took ca 50 damage from a cursed potion, 150 from uncursed, and 300 from blessed. The chaos warrior LOST his innate regeneration; the Wyrm did NOT lose his healing spells, and was back to full in four casts.

Follow-up testing with a mindcrafter shows that pocced balors can be mindcrafted without corruption penalty.

Stopping regen might be handy on the ASB.