Just lost very promising HuDlst due to strange phenomena — Character accidentally acquired Cold blood corruption in Ice Temple and thus got his speed drop to 10. Since self-fire-pumping isn't allowed in that area, read SoCR and got speed back to normal. Then pure human reached Blue Dragon Caves, accidental hit from stone grue bring second round of Cold Blood and surprisingly speed of 10 (!). It didn't takes long to Ancient Dragons to force me to retreat to the surface, there by some reinsurance I left all the sources of corruption removal (That WAS a mistake). To complete the tide of the bad luck the bunch of balors appeared and finished Duelist in just one round (with the speed of 13 it was a cakewalk for them).
The only explanation for me was the idea that Cold Blood corruption somehow remembered the exact temperature of the blood last time it was removed and then just strikes back =)
I don't sure the particular effect of the corruption was ever mentioned, still that might be the very dead end to many characters on D:50 etc. One corrupting hit of the balor may not only cost you half of the HP but also all the speed.
Has anybody got the same in the last times?
//Public version r60