Infested

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**Infested** is a minion that players can create, adding to Iratus' army of undead. **Infested** is available to players who own Supporter Pack.

## Abilities

Heavy Sling     | +2
Slingshot     | +2

- Ignores Armor.
- Ignores Block.

Plague Breath     | +1
Rancid Breath     | +2

- Curses the target for 2 turns, dealing an additional 60% damage per turn.
- Curses the target for 2 turns, dealing an additional 35% damage per turn.
- Curses the target for 3 turns, dealing an additional 35% damage per turn.

Feast on Malady     | +1+1
Absorb Malady     | +5

Wretched Luck     | +2
Magnified Wretchedness     | +5

- Can stack.
- Can stack.
- Can stack.

Plaguefall     | +2
Pestilent Rain     | +5

- A critical hit deals 225% damage.
- Cannot miss.

Garden of Death     | +5
Plague Garden     | +5

Cost: 60
Cost: 60
Cost: 45

## Strategy

***Roles: Heavy stress dealer  - Physical damage dealer  - Self-Buff - Self-healer  - Debuff remover***

***Upgradable Stats:*** Attack , Dread , Vigor , Initiative , Accuracy , Luck , Evasion , Block , Ward

***Best Positions:***

Infested has a heavy focus on stress damage, having only one Vigor -damage ability. Similar to minions like Ghoul  or Zombie , Infested revolves around offensive play style and self-Buff to become more effective. Compared to other minions, Infested has the highest base Dread , second highest Initiative , Evasion  and Luck . His Attack  is decent as well, but is largely not needed, as he doesn't focus on dealing Vigor  damage. With the right ability upgrade, Infested's stress dealt will get high very quickly as his Dread  increases. Due to his Evasion  and Luck  being already high, increasing these stats is recommended. High Evasion  can make up for his utter lack of defenses, while high Luck  will eventually make Infested very dangerous.

Infested attacks multiple times with ***Pestilent Rain***, allowing him to easily clear all Ward  from a target or likely kill it at zero Sanity . The ***Plaguefall*** upgrade is a very powerful single-target stress nuke, deals vast stress if he crits. With high enough Luck , he will score multiple crits in a row. ***Carpet with Filth*** is very against high-Evasion  targets. Due to its multi-hit mechanics, ***Pestilent Rain*** is very effective when Infested is equipped with Crow Paw or Spider Mandibles, causing excessive stress to enemies.

***Magnified Wretchedness*** gives Infested a large boost in Initiative , Luck  and Accuracy , which can be used as a substitute for Fate spell if his Luck  is high enough. With one use of ***Wretched Luck*** upgrade to get his Luck  near perfect value (100%), Infested will score crits with almost all strikes from ***Plaguefall***, easily driving some enemies insanein just one action. Infested's Dread  can be raised further with Ghoul , Banshee  or Lich  providing Buffs for him. Banshee  and Lich  provide a massive Dread  boost with their Buffs, while Ghoul  gives more stats that Infested are high in: Evasion  and Luck .

***Rancid Breath*** and ***Plague Garden*** applies Curseon opponents for additional stress ticks to increase their chances of dying to heart attack. The Curse effects also provide more healing for Mummies equipped with Cursed Bandages. However, this effect is counted as Debuff. Therefore, it can be removed by Bard with ease.

***Absorb Malady*** is useful for removing Debuffs and Marks. Compared to Mummy 's ***Absorb Curses***, the ability can't remove Debuff on Infested himself and targets only one minion, rather than a whole party. ***Feast on Malady*** can raise Dread  further for harder stress hits.

***Slingshot*** mostly serves to push Infested further to suitable positions. It is still possible to consistently deal Vigor  damage if this move is maintained when used along with Unfrozen 's ***Ice River*** or Lost Soul 's ***Searing Vision***. However, the Infested is still much deadlier as a stress dealer. In case he has to face mechanical enemies, ***Heavy Sling*** will come in handy as they usually have high Armor . Against Berserkers, dealing Vigor  damage to them with ***Slingshot*** can be a safer option, compared to dealing stress, which can be extremely risky.

## Dialogue

* **Starting turn:** *"I bear more gifts."*
* **Killing an enemy:** *"\*inhale\* Decay now..."*
* **Ally gets killed:** *"Not good enough. That \*inhale\* one..."*
* **Getting hit by critical attack:** *"I still...breeeathe..."*
* **Delivering a critical attack:** *"Feed my maggots...mortal."*
* **Enemy** **flees:** *"Take the plague with you..."*
* **Buffed by Iratus:** *"More...contagion..."*
* **Vigor** **gets low:** *"I feel rather...bloated now..."*

## Trivia

* Despite being described as frail, Infested has an average base Vigor . In fact, some minions still have much lower Vigor  than him, such as Unfrozen .