Fortifier

What does this thing do?

I can't notice any effect when using it but when it runs out it drains my health and fatigue.

 

As far as I remember it raises your damage resistance by about 30%. Took me a while to figure it out as well.

 

30% indeed. It also acts as a technological equivalent of the Fatigue Slower, meaning it halves fatigue consumption.

What it's most effective at, though, is making your followers hate you after you use it on them and the effect wears off. Either an oversight or a cruel joke on the authors' side.

 

The fatigue limiter is the fourth degree is herbology, Muro.

 

The Fatigue Limiter halves fatigue consumption, but so does the Fortifier.

 

But it is the 'technological equivalent' of none, as they are both produced using technology!

 

There is a magic potion that does it as well. Pretty OP on a harm spamming mage!

 

Indeed, the Fatigue Slower I previously mentioned is a magical potion, while the Fatigue Limiter and the Fortifier are its technological equivalents when it comes to halving fatigue consumption.

 

Strange, I recall no fatigue slower... I'll look around for it, I'm currently doing a playthrough! :3

 

I never use Morgana's Tears myself. Costing four times as much as a Greater Fatigue Restore while regaining less than twice as much fatigue points? Thanks, I'll stick with the checked blue bottles. I'm quite curious who or what this Morgana person/creature/being might be, though. Same goes for Kalispi.

 

I've never taken my mages seriously, I've mostly done pure melee/dodge builds in the past. Although the first time I finished the game I did it with harm spamming.

 

This is what Morgana's Tears remind me of:

 

Well, you could also use several fortifiers to kill someone/something without alignment hit (f.e. the pigs in Ashbury) like the super stimpack in Fallout.

 

I thought the very same thing when I was working with the Fortifier, but testing proved that it wouldn't work. The moment the second Fortifier is applied, an NPC receives instant damage and becomes hostile. Plus, if someone dies in result of the side effect of the Fortifier, your alignment, Log Book and followers all detect that it is you who is responsible for it.

 

It could still be used to kill ore golems and the like without weapons, spells and so and so.

And what about planting these on possible targets ?
Will the npc use these ?

 

An most intriguing idea.

I just did some quick testing. It took 8 fortifiers to kill a Fire Elemental. It is up to the technologist to decide whether this use of the Fortifier makes it a weapon worth developing, carrying and using.

I'm not sure whether the AI has a tendency to use buffs in combat or not, but even if, the Fortifier takes so long to wear off and deal damage that planting it on someone and waiting for it to do any harm would be even less effective than waiting for a significant result of poisoning enemies.

 

Follower AI item usage depends on the number of available usable items (potions, spells, etc) and the level/toughness of enemies.
When I attacked Stringy Pete with 5/6 wizards with an inventory full of spells and potions, they never stopped spamming them.
I believe they don't start using them without combat, only healing stuff. So planting on plain NPCs without combat won't work, only with hexed items they can equip.
You might try to attack someone else (e.g. dominated zombie), perhaps they shall start using them while fleeing?