Eth's -25% defense

[Crystalion]

I'm wondering how long this effect lasts.  Is it similar in (erratic) duration to PMH?  How does the game decide when to shut these off?...or forget to sustain them, as seems more likely.

Beats me.

I seem to recall reports that some necros in prior versions took advantage of terror-sped hyper zombies and frenzied 'taurs as revives. In other words, effects might even last past death, in some cases.

Certainly it occurred to me previously to have a friend Malice tap an Iron golem made from CTC on being struck until the IG DR was (permanently?!) zero.

Lots of little oddities in the game... no one really knows everything about all of them. Of course I get the same impression IRL, every time I read a scientific news report... the latest amazing thing I saw was (further) hacks possible with aerogels... now there's a mmorpg "magical"-type substance if ever I heard of one.