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
	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.
File:.png	Dazzled	Much more likely to miss with physical attacks, dropping accuracy to 3/8ths.
File:.png	Dead	Cannot act in any way until revived by a spell or the church.
File:.png	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.
File:.png	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.
File:.png	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
	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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