Poison of Ravage Health (and co.)

[freepboot]

Can someone explain to me how a poison of ravage health is useful (let alone more useful than the cheaper and effectively longer-lasting poison of damage health)? I must be missing something.

[freepboot]

just a factoid: The magic effect for ravage health (not ravage stamina or ravage magicka though for some reason) doesn't have a vanilla resist value (pictured below). This might lead someone to believe that they're effective at bypassing poison resistances, but upon testing this theory I found that wasn't the case. Enemies with immunity to poison still fully resist the effects of a poison of ravage health. 

Edited June 29, 2022 by freepboot

[freepboot]

It's supposed to reduce maximum health on a target, right?

pictured here: the iron axe does a base 8 damage, and has a ravage health poison of 30 points applied as well.

when hit, why does the horker take health damage if its max health is supposed to be reduced? if that were the case, wouldn't I be seeing a full health bar right now (61.20/61.20 is 100%, so the horker's health is 'full')?

the lost health can also be healed while the poison is active, which defeats the purpose of a poison of ravage health; if it worked as it was intended to, an opponent affected by the poison couldn't regain the missing health until its effects wore off.

Edited June 29, 2022 by freepboot

[freepboot]

to be clear I have no mods installed that affect poison in any way (I have a creature testing cell mod installed that I made myself). is this a glitch with SSE? it's been so long since I've played oldrim that I literally cannot remember if this is how it worked in that release