Incorporeal

Incorporeal creatures cannot be easily hit with normal weapons, which suffer a 50% chance of automatically missing the target.

Concealment and Dodge are different mechanics that provide a separate miss chance. See Miss chance.

Implementation in DDO

There's no such thing as touch attacks in DDO, which is how incorporeal undead attack in D&D. To compensate for this, developers gives them very high to-hit bonuses to simulate it. They can miss, but it takes substantial Armor Class to get it to be reliable.

Incorporeal monsters

Incorporeal creatures include:

• Ghosts
• Quells
• Reapers
• Shadows
• Spectres
• Wraiths
• some Wheeps - only those found in Accursed Ascension
• some Monster Champions

There are also unique, named monsters who have the incorporeal trait (many of which are of the above races), and sub-types of usually corporeal monsters such as Doomspheres, Dream Scourges, Umbral Gargoyles and Umbral Worgs, some Liches, and so on.

These monsters are affected by Incorporeal bane weapons.

Note that, despite the name, the Ghostly Skeletons in Delera's Tomb are not incorporeal.

Player characters as incorporeal

Players can gain an Incorporeal miss chance from various sources.

However, note that Incorporeality and Concealment have decreased effect in Reaper difficulty. This reduction begins with 10% Concealment and 5% Incorporeal bypass at Reaper 1, with a further 5% Concealment and Incorporeal bypass per Skull difficulty.

5%

• Ascendant Shroud (Pale Master enhancement) - 5%
• Shadow Shrouding (Dark Apostate enhancement) - 5%

10%

• Fey Energy Tap (Elf enhancement, temporary effect)
• Ghostly (item enchantment)
• Shroud of the Wraith (Pale Master enhancement)
• Enhanced Shadowform I (Dark Apostate enhancement) - 10%, requires Shadow Shrouding
• Ghost in the Wind (Pale Master enhancement) (Stacks to 20% if you are also using Shroud of the Wraith)

15%

• Enhanced Ghostly (item enchantment)
• Misty Escape (SLA, Warlock level 15 with Fey pact, temporary effect)
• Enhanced Shadowform II (Dark Apostate enhancement) - 15%, requires Shadow Shrouding

20%

• Enhanced Shadowform III (Dark Apostate enhancement) - 20%, requires Shadow Shrouding

25%

• Dark Discorporation (Warlock spell, temporary effect)
• Shadow Veil (Ninja Spy 3rd core enhancement, temporary effect)
• Ghostly Essence (Shadar-kai enhancement, temporary effect)
• Shadar-kai past life feat (temporary effect)
• Depths of Darkness (Shadowdancer mantle upgrade)
• The Shroud of the Wraith can be upgraded up to 25% incorporeal through enhancements in the Pale Master tree. (Ascendant Shroud + Ghost in the Wind)
• Master of Shadows (Dark Apostate capstone) - 25%, requires Shadow Shrouding
• Split the Soul (Light) (Grandmaster of Flowers epic moment, temporary effect) Doubled if following Path of Harmonious Balance

50%

• Shadow Mastery (Shadowdancer epic moment, temporary effect)
• Greater Form (Sky or Thorn) (Primal Avatar epic moment, temporary effect)

+5% stacking

• Whirlwind (Ranger enhancement)
• Subtle Force II (Eldritch Knight enhancement)

Up to +6% stacking

• Fey Presence +2/4/6% Incorporeality

Bypassing the incorporeal miss chance

• Ghost Touch and Ghostbane weapons bypass the Incorporeal penalty.
• Varous enhancements grant Ghost Touch
  • Paladins can take the Slayer of Evil II enhancement, which provides Ghost Touch for all weapons.
  • Wizards can get Undead Augmentation, which includes Unhallowed Touch, providing Ghost Touch for all weapons.
  • Rangers and Elves who take the Arcane Archer Force Imbue enhancement gain force damage AND makes your arrows Ghost Touch.
  • Wizards and Sorcerers who take Eldritch Knight Spellsword gain Ghost Touch on their weapons (even ranged ones!)
  • Aasimar Scourges gain Ghost Touch on all attacks; requires active Bond of the Scourge and a proper enhancement.
  • Vistani can gain an attack that grants Ghost Touch for 10 seconds.
• Players can wear an Ethereal or Ghostly item to have any of their weapons defeat Incorporeal.
  • Ethereal items - Note, although the tooltip says this affects melee attacks, it also affects ranged weapon attacks. Tested as of Update 74.
  • Ghostly items
• Named Augments:
  • ML1 (Red) - Ruby of Ghostbane
  • ML8 (Green) - Wraithborn Emerald
  • ML30 (Green) - Legendary Wraithborn Emerald
• Epic Destinies
  • Legendary Dreadnought: Esoteric Touch
  • Shadowdancer: Shadowform (Destiny Mantle)
• Epic Destiny feat Holy Strike

Tip: Incorporeal Bane items increase the damage dealt to incorporeal enemies, regardless of their race. However, in itself, this enchantment does not allow a weapon to bypass incorporeal miss chance. On some named weapons, this Bane effect is combined with Ghost Touch enchantment.

• Named Item: Phase Hammer provides Greater Incorporeal Bane.
• Named Item: Assassin's Kiss provides Lesser Incorporeal Bane.
• Named Item: Epic Assassin's Kiss provides Greater Incorporeal Bane.