What the bayou does to you

Caused by fire. Reduces your maximum health and can permanently destroy Health Chunks.

• Damage runs until the fire you took is spent: a fire bomb splash is 11 HP of burn, a Hellfire bomb 49.
• Unchecked, the fire's intensity climbs 2 a second, so a long burn turns intense.
• Burnt health grows back at 0.5 HP/s (2 when wet). The game warns that fire can destroy a whole health chunk.
• Salveskin or being wet takes a quarter off both the fire you catch and the burn rate; with both it's ×0.5625. Salveskin also stops the escalation. Blazeborne cuts standing-in-fire damage to 1 HP/s.
• Burning Hunters can't be looted!

Drains your health until stopped. Caused by bladed weapons, concertina wire, and certain ammunition types.

• Intensity drains one point a second, and it's also the seconds left. A bleed steps down through its levels as it runs.
• It doesn't eat health chunks, but a long intense bleed can take most of a health bar.
• Bloodless caps the intensity at 20, so a bleed never goes past light. Bandaging stops the damage while you hold it.

Prevents you from healing and stops health regeneration. Wait until the effect wears off or use an Antidote Shot.

• Poison does no damage over time in this build. The hit and the cloud do the damage; the status blocks all healing and health regeneration, and blurs your vision.
• It lasts one second per point of intensity: 20 s at most, 5 s with Mithridatist.
• An Antidote Shot clears it instantly and keeps it off for a while.

The Choke Bomb exudes a gas that extinguishes any flames within its radius while active—as well as preventing new fires from being lit—and induces heavy coughing.

• Coughing gives you away. The gas stops 0.6 s after you step out, but the cough lingers for 15 s.
• It puts out AI on fire and burning bodies, and stops new fires from starting inside the cloud. Nothing in the files lets it put out a living hunter.

You won’t catch fire as easily and your burned health regenerates faster, but you also make more noise when moving.

• Any water damage soaks you for 15 s and each splash resets the timer. It stacks with Salveskin.

Explosions and heavy blows leave you half-deaf for a few seconds. Sound only: no damage, no slow.

• Each source sets a strength, a hold at full strength and a steady fade. The chart below shows how long each one rings.

Light bomb that requires a short priming for its mercury-based chemical reaction. The explosion is capable of blinding all in close proximity, even if their eyes are shielded or averted.

• How long the white-out lasts isn't in the game files; the client handles it. Bulwark greatly shortens it.

Burned-out Hunters can't be looted!

• A downed hunter on fire loses health chunks until they're gone. More fire speeds it up. Reviving pauses it, and water or choke gas puts it out.

Monsters don't use the hunter burn. They take a flat rate for a fixed time.

• Water half a metre deep (after walking 3 m in it) or choke gas puts them out.