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

Image	Name	Effect
File:.png	Confused	Attacks their fellow party members or themselves. May also do nothing at all.				S
File:.png	Cursed	n/a				S
File:.png	Dazzled	n/a				M
File:.png	Dead	n/a				S
File:.png	Envenomated	Cragravation				S
File:.png	Fizzled	n/a
File:.png	Poisoned	Necropolis				S
File:.png	Sapped
File:.png	Sleep					S
File:.png	Stunned	Dark World				M

• 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, dropping accuracy to 3/8ths.
• Dead - Cannot act in any way until revived by a spell or the church.
• Envenomated - Takes damage after each round (becomes poisoned after battle). Reduces HP by 1/6th of maximum per turn in V, 1/8th in VI to IX.
• Fizzled - Cannot cast spells until the spell wears off or end of the battle.
• Poisoned - Takes 1 point of damage while traveling on the field. Every four steps in I~IV, eight steps in V~VI, and every step since VII.
• 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

Image	Name	Effect
File:.png	Accelerated	n/a				S
File:.png	Bounce	n/a				S
File:.png	Buffed	n/a				M
File:.png	Drsgon	n/a				S
File:.png	Insulated	Cragravation				S
File:.png	Kaclang	n/a
File:.png	Oomph	Necropolis				S
File:.png	Reverse Cycle
File:.png	Veiled					S

• 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 invincible 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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