# Death Mark, new hotness, or basic? **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (General)\ **Created:** [July 15, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/death-mark-new-hotness-or-basic/9634 "2016-07-15T16:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 53
**Author:** ![Cell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cell/32/5524_2.png) [@Cell](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cell)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/death-mark-new-hotness-or-basic/9634/53 "2016-07-17T00:40:16Z")
The adjustment to deathmark was actually a suggestion in a thread I started (thanks for listening @Sirrian) as I felt that a troop having 2 turns where it can naturally cleanse before even having a chance to die was underwhelming and I have indeed seen deathmark (as well as poison, burn, and frozen) clense on the 1st turn (in the case of burn and poison do damage was delt and no life was lost respectively) My suggestion in the thread that if an immediate effect could be taken by deathmark that perhaps there should be a cumulative 5% chance to die (as a cumulative 10% chance to heal would make the chance of death always be 1/2 the chance to heal) My other suggestion was to keep the 10% thing even but not allow a troop to naturally heal for the same 2 turns so that it wouldn’t clense before it even gets a chance to do its thing You can find my original post below > [@Death mark in need of a buff?](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/death-mark-in-need-of-a-buff/8465): > > Am I alone in believing that death Mark is under performing? I’ve seen a lot of troops marked, but to date I haven’t ever seen a troop die from it, troops always seem to recover even after being afflicted for 6 whole turns. I mostly attribute this to the first 2 turns where it cannot die, this seems a little out of balance as a troop can recover from the debuff during those turns. I was thinking that a buff to the debuff is in order and I was wondering what other people thought about it. I hav… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/death-mark-new-hotness-or-basic/9634)._