>Ok so maybe the hours don't change but if a character is AGED
>shouldn't the age indicator young, mature, middle-aged, old,
>etc reflect that? I guess that's what we aren't understanding?
>I know when my arial age died I was only Mature.

No. I do not think it should be changed. Have you met anyone who dropped dead of a heart attack at age 40 who looked like they were 40? That's the point I am trying to get across. You can age die without looking old.

>So Wither is the grand balancer of no save vs spell vs damage? Not sleep, plague, and a million other maledicting spells and communes or damaging spells? Just seems pretty lame having a power that specifically ####s over non-throw away characters. Also with Skryth I wasn't pure damage, in fact because I had to fight so many imperial shamans I started gearing for saves and strength alot more so I wouldn't keep dropping my weapons. But when you are forced to fight shamans all the time and all they do is spam wither, even with good saves as an arial your basically screwed. So what do I do then, throw my roleplay out the window and say as Harbinger I'm not going to raid because the imperial shamans keep spammin wither on me or have a character I put tons of effort in die at 169 hours or so?

No. It is one of the many things that balances out the guy with the "single" aspect of a character. Kubilak was a pure damage output type of character and his pk record shows it. Wither is a supplication that requires a couple of things to happen for the age affect to hit. Bad saves and bad luck (Luck as in RNG, not stat). Wither is not going to end an elf's life the way it will a human/arial/orc. Kubilak died looking like a middle-aged orc. Not an old, decrepit orc.