Oblivion talk:Damage Health

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I don't understand the difference between Damage Health and Frost Damage, Fire Damage, and Shock Damage. Does Damage Health actually hurt the person, or does it basicly do the same thing as drain health? ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.102.83.18 (talk • contribs).}

with elemental damage(fire,frost,shock) the person could restore their health with a simple restore health spell, while if you damage their health with the damage health spell,it won't be healed by a simple heal spell and is permanent until it is healed--LordSil 14:16, 31 May 2008 (EDT)

Damage Health is another form of damage, like Fire Damage, Frost Damage and Shock Damage. The only difference is in how they are resisted/countered. All are countered by Magic Resistance, but Fire Damage is also countered by Fire Resistance, Frost Damage by Frost Resistance, and Shock Damage by Shock Resistance. Certain enemies have resistance/weakness to certain forms of damage, so you would use different types of damage for different enemies (e.g. use Frost Damage on Fire Atronachs, Fire Damage on Frost Atronachs, and so on). If you encountered an enemy that was resistant to Fire, Frost, and Shock, you would want to use Damage Health on them.

While Damage Health is permanent (it needs to be healed), Drain Health is temporary, and the 'lost' health is restored when the spell ends.

--Gaebrial 03:47, 2 June 2008 (EDT)