Talk:Debilitation/@comment-24458380-20141123020946/@comment-23878607-20141124084157

In my experience, it is not foolproof. I've kitted my pawn and my Arisen out with 100% resistances and they still acquired debilitations: possession, lowered strength, petrification, all of them. Admittedly they were less frequent than when those resistances were less, but it was never absolute immunity.

Specific words have specific meanings. Resistance means exactly that, something is resistant rather than immune. I suppose a better analogy would be a vaccine-- an injection confers statistically high resistance to a specific pathogen, but as the inoculated organism ages, the vaccine's efficacy wanes. Ten years later, that immunity has all but vanished. Resistances convey a very high statistical chance of shrugging off a debilitation, but there is no absolute statistical guarantee of immunity.

So why did the translator-- who was subtle enough to understand the usage of archaic words-- not choose immunity instead of resistance? Because immunity is indeed an absolute, and that's not quite what's going on here.