Status effect

Status effects are a recurring element of the Dragon Quest series.

Status ailments damage, immobilize or otherwise debilitate a combatant. Almost every status ailment can be lifted with the help of a spell specific to that ailment. Many status ailments disappear immediately after a battle, while others can only be removed with a spell or a visit to the church.

Some spells exist expressly to inflict status effects, and some weapons have a small chance of inflicting a status ailment after a successful hit. Occasionally, a special move may have a chance of causing a status effect. Some equipment bestows positive or negative status effects.

A number of these effects can be wiped out by Disruptive Wave.

List of recurring status effects

Negative Status Ailments

• Confused - Attacks their fellow party members or themselves. May also do nothing at all.
• Cursed - The character's statistics are set to 0 as a result of wearing cursed equipment. They can only remove the equipment by visiting a church. In some installments, it is caused by certain attacks.
• Dazzled - Much more likely to miss with physical attacks.
• Dead - Cannot act in any way until revived by a spell or the church.
• Envenomated - Takes damage after each round. (becomes poisoned after battle)
• Fizzled - Cannot cast spells until the end of the battle.
• Poisoned - Takes damage while traveling on the field.
• Sapped - Defence is decreased.
• Sleep - Cannot act until woken by an attack or until a random number of turns have passed.
• Stunned - Must waste a turn frozen in fear, rolling around laughing, knocked down, grinning after a Puff-Puff, etc.

Positive Status Enhancements

• Accelerated - Agility is increased.
• Bounce - Reflects magic spells.
• Buffed - Defence is increased.
• Dragon - Morphed into a giant dragon.
• Insulated - Damage from fire- and ice-based attacks is decreased.
• Kaclang - Turned into solid steel.
• Oomph - Attack power doubled.
• Reverse Cycle - Reflects breath attacks.
• Veiled - Magical attacks have no effect on the target from now on.

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