Disease

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Condition. While suffering from this ailment, you lose Health over time. Disease is contagious between creatures of the same kind.

–In-game description

1 Related skills
2 Notes

[edit] Related skills

Miasma

[edit] Skills that cause disease

Putrid Flesh - by destroying animated undead minion
Rotting Flesh
Tainted Flesh (elite) - diseases enemy when ally is struck in melee
Virulence (elite) - requires other Condition on target foe
Signet of Infection (PvE only) - if target is Bleeding.
Radiation Field (PvE only)

[edit] Skills that enhance disease

Toxicity

[edit] Skills that prevent disease

[edit] Notes

Disease is a condition which causes 4 pips of health degeneration to a character. It can spread between creatures of the same kind which are nearby each other. The visual representation is a green mist containing black dots surrounding the affected character. The health bar for the affected character also turns pale green.
Disease is the only condition that is spontaneously transferable between creatures. This is the most significant difference between disease and poison.
Like poison, disease only works on fleshy creatures.
The range for contamination is nearby.
In PvE, 'kind' refers to family of the affected creature.
In PvP all NPCs and player characters are assumed to be 'of the same kind'. Pets are not 'of the same kind' and cannot transfer disease from themselves to player characters or NPCs, but they can transfer it to other pets.
When entering an area in which creatures are known to use disease, party members should bring a party-wide condition removal (e.g. Extinguish) to prevent an epidemic. In addition, it may be wise to use non-human heroes (if available) such as Ogden Stonehealer, Zhed Shadowhoof, Vekk, Jora, Razah and Pyre Fierceshot and the few non-human henchmen.
A Rune of Purity or the inscription "Cast Out the Unclean" can be used to reduce disease duration by 20%.
You can only be diseased once from each source once. Thus if an enemy casts rotting flesh and you remove it with mending touch, you will not become diseased again until the enemy casts rotting flesh again.
List of condition removal skills