Status Effects

Status Effects are temporary conditions that can be inflicted on your character (or on monsters) during combat. They fall into two groups: classic status ailments — the well-known conditions that your defensive stats (VIT, LUK, AGI, INT and others) help you resist — and debuffs, a wider set of effects applied by specific skills. Boss-class monsters resist most ailments.

Status ailments

These are the classic conditions. Higher resistance stats lower both their chance to land and their duration, and Boss-class monsters are immune to most of them.

Effect	What it does
Stone (Petrify)	Turns you to stone: you cannot move, attack or cast. Lowers your DEF and MDEF and changes your element. Removed when you take a hit.
Petrify (warning)	The brief countdown before turning to stone — during it you cannot attack or cast.
Freeze	Frozen solid: you cannot move, attack or cast. Lowers DEF and MDEF and leaves you vulnerable. Removed when you take a hit.
Stun	Stunned: you cannot move, attack or cast for a short time.
Sleep	Asleep: you cannot move, attack or cast. You wake up when hit.
Poison	Drains HP over time and weakens your natural regeneration.
Curse	Drops your LUK to 0 and lowers your attack power and movement speed.
Silence	You cannot cast skills.
Confusion	Your movement becomes erratic and reversed.
Blind	Lowers your Hit and Flee and darkens your screen.
Bleeding	Drains HP over time and stops your natural HP and SP recovery.
Deadly Poison	A far stronger poison that drains HP very quickly.

Debuffs

Debuffs are applied by specific skills. Some can be removed by cleansing effects (such as Refresh), while a few are marked below as permanent until they expire.

Effect	What it does
Quagmire	Lowers AGI and DEX, reducing your attack speed and movement speed.
Signum Crucis	Lowers your DEF and MDEF.
Decrease AGI	Lowers your AGI, reducing Flee and movement speed.
Hallucination	Distorts the damage numbers you see on screen. Cannot be dispelled.
Slow Down	Reduces your movement speed and attack speed.
Strip Weapon	Forcibly unequips your weapon, lowering your attack.
Strip Shield	Forcibly unequips your shield, lowering your DEF.
Strip Armor	Forcibly unequips your armor, lowering your VIT.
Strip Helm	Forcibly unequips your headgear, lowering your INT.
Joint Beat	Depending on the limb struck, lowers your attack, defense, movement speed or attack speed.
Spider Web	Traps you in webbing so you cannot move, and lowers your Flee.
Orc's Head	Transforms your appearance into an orc head.
Wink of Charm	Charms you so you cannot attack the caster. Removed when you take a hit.
Stop	Roots you in place — you cannot move at all.
Suiton	Lowers your AGI and movement speed while you stand on the water field.
Swoo	Heavily lowers movement speed and MDEF (used by certain monsters).
Ska	A special crippling condition used by certain monsters.
Critical Wounds	Reduces the amount of healing you receive. Cannot be dispelled.
Slow Cast	Increases your skill cast time.
Fear	Lowers your Hit and Flee and can stop you from moving.
Burning	You are on fire, taking Fire damage over time with weakened attack.
Freezing (Frost Misty)	Lowers attack speed and movement speed and can lead to being frozen in crystal.
Wug Bite	A warg's bite holds you in place so you cannot move.
Toxin	A potent poison that damages you over time and briefly stuns you.

|- | All Stats Down || Lowers all of your stats by a large amount. |- | Ankle Snare || A hidden trap that roots you in place — you cannot move until the effect ends. |- | Armor Break || Your armor is broken, substantially lowering your DEF. |- | Blade Stop || You are locked in place mid-exchange; neither you nor your attacker can move until the effect ends. |- | Change Undead || Shifts your element to Undead. Healing magic will harm you instead of restoring HP. |- | Close Confine || You are locked in place alongside the caster — you cannot move away until the effect ends. |- | Coma || Instantly drops your HP and SP to 1. |- | Damage Heal || Any healing you receive instead deals damage to you. |- | Death Mark || A countdown begins; when it reaches zero your HP is dropped to 1. Cannot be dispelled. |- | Eternal Chaos || Your DEF is reduced to 0, leaving you completely unarmoured. |- | Fling || Strips away a portion of your DEF and MDEF. |- | Fog Wall || Reduces the accuracy of ranged attacks passing through it. |- | Gradual Gravity || Your movement speed worsens progressively the longer the effect lasts. |- | Gravity Field || Reduces your attack speed while you stand inside the gravity field. |- | Kirikage || Reduces your Flee, making you easier to hit (used by Ninja skills). |- | Lex Aeterna || Marks you so the next hit you receive deals double damage. Consumed on impact. |- | Mandragora Howl || Reduces your INT and DEX, significantly impairing your casting. |- | Meltdown || Each physical hit has a chance to break your weapon or armor. |- | Mind Breaker || Lowers your MDEF and increases the magical damage you take. |- | Paralysis || Reduces your attack speed and movement speed. |- | Paralyse || Restricts your actions and reduces your movement speed. |- | Rod of Hermode || Strips all active buffs from party members standing within the field. |- | Roki's Weil || Forces Silence on all Performer classes in the area. |- | Tarot Card || Inflicts a random debuff chosen from the Tarot — effects vary widely. |- | Vacuum Extreme || Pulls you into the center of a gravity vortex, holding you in place. |- | Venom Impress || Amplifies all Poison-property damage you take. |- | Weapon Break || Your weapon is broken, substantially lowering your attack power. |- | Wide Web || A large web trap holds you in place across a wide area.