Curses

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Curses (呪い) are hexes that afflict the target with a wide variety of potent effects. Some curses are permanently set upon certain items as well: see Cursed Equipment for a list. These items must be removed in a Church before the bearer can equip anything else, but the curses chanted in battle can be removed with the Sheen spell.

Appearances

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride

Curses have several debilitating effects, and only characters with high Luck can reliably avoid them. The potential damnation are:

  • Reducing HP by 1 for every four steps
  • Reducing MP by 1 for every four steps
  • Randomly becoming stunned during battle
  • Randomly causing spells and skills to fail during battle
  • Forcing a character to randomly attack an ally

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

Curses are cast by undead and demonic monsters, which force characters to lose a turn. The Hero is immune to all curses, save by one cast by the bonus boss in the post-game.

Dragon Quest X

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

Possible effects include:

  • Halving the maximum HP of a character for the battle
  • Halving the maximum MP of a character for the battle
  • Forcing the character to succumb to instant death with a high probability within a random number of turns