Pain Conduit guide
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Board game: Pain Conduit is Shackles in the official FAQ. Its condition and damage interactions are folded below.
How this class enters a campaign
Follow the campaign instruction opening this box. Retirement alone is not a verified class-unlock recipe. See the unlock guide for scope and source limits.
Builds
Editorial recommendation: calculate the full health and condition consequences before choosing both actions. Check damage rules, defensive items and solo restrictions rather than assuming every self-damage combination is survivable.
Questions
Shackles spoilers: what is damage suffered?
It is damage remaining after mitigation and negation, capped at the figure's remaining health. Damage a figure 'would suffer' is calculated before actual loss of health and is not capped that way. Burned at Both Ends and Chained by Spite use the damage actually suffered.
Shackles spoilers: which condition and printing limits matter?
Shared Affliction can remove your condition even if its recipient is immune, but cannot remove one while another effect forbids removal. Delayed Malady does not prevent incoming curses. The second printing renames the level-8 Wave of Anguish to Wave of Suffering; this is not Deathwalker's card.
Related guides
Sources
- Official Frosthaven FAQ — Board game, sections 8.11 (#page_811) and 1.1 (#page_011).
- Cephalofair-linked envelope contents — Shackles = Pain Conduit; checked 2026-10-18.