* [[File:EBF5 Status Surrender.png|right]]'''Typical cause''': When [[Foes & Bestiary#Scare|scared]] the foe either surrenders and flees or goes [[#Berserk|Berserk]]. Can also be forced by certain skills such as Screamer, or when an enemy is near death and badly debuffed.
* [[File:EBF5 Status Surrender.png|right]]'''Typical cause''': When [[Foes & Bestiary#Scare|scared]] the foe either surrenders and flees or goes [[#Berserk|Berserk]]. Can also be forced by certain skills such as Screamer, or when an enemy is near death and badly debuffed.
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* '''Effects''': The foe will flee on its turn. It will drop the same rewards as it would have if it was defeated normally.
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* '''Effects''': The foe will flee on its turn. It will drop the same rewards as it would have if it was defeated normally and its chance to be captured increases dramatically.
* '''Cure''': None
* '''Cure''': None
* '''First appeared in''': ''Epic Battle Fantasy 5.''
* '''First appeared in''': ''Epic Battle Fantasy 5.''
Revision as of 16:56, 4 February 2019
EBF4 Status Effects, with a certain foe having immunity to all of them.
Status effects, commonly shortened to just statuses, are special conditions in the Epic Battle Fantasy series. They can be inflicted during battle, hindering or helping their prowess in a variety of ways. Since Epic Battle Fantasy 3, hovering the cursor over an inflicted status effect will show its description.
Negative status effects are often referred to as "ailments" or "debuffs", while positive status effects may be called "buffs". However, they should not be confused with abilities or equipment that modify stats (although some status effects also affect the target's stats).
Additionally,
Most negative and many neutral status effects can be cured. Standard methods include Garlic(since EBF3) / Antidote(EBF1&2) as consumable items, Purify, Medipack(since EBF3) and Cleanse(EBF4) as ordinary skills, Heaven's Gate's and Seraphim's Unleashes(EBF3 only) as self-heals, and Kyun(since EBF2) as a Limit Break. Dying also works.
Most status effects also fade/wear off over time/turns.
All status effects will be cleared upon returning to overworld (since EBF3) or reaching a checkpoint (EBF1&2).
Most of status effects can be stacked, e.g. inflicting tier 2 Poison three times on the same target will result in tier 6 Poison, not considering status fading. However, for most statuses it only increases their duration and not the strength of their effects.
The division between positive, negative and neutral statuses is purely for user convenience and may not accurately reflect their technical category in-game.
Auto-Revive / Autolife (Gold halo / white feather)
in 3+
in 2
Typical cause: Certain skills and the passive effects of some equipment.
Effects: The target immediately comes back to life when its HP hits 0, retaining stat (de)buffs and most status effects except Auto-Revive itself, and regains a portion of its HP. In EBF2, only stat (de)buffs are retained, as with normal revival.
Cure: Dispel (except in EBF3), defeat the target, or wait for it to wear off (except if on EBF2Spirit).
First appeared in: Epic Battle Fantasy 2, under the name Autolife; renamed into Auto-Revive in Epic Battle Fantasy 4.
Typical cause: Certain healing skills and the passive effects of some equipment. Breeze weather.
Effects: The target is immune to be inflicted with "negative" status effects, including (but not limited to) Dispel, Doom and Instant Death, as well as Wet and most instances of Berserk. Doesn't clear already inflicted status effects. Doesn't affect self-induced statuses, such as Bone Armor's Curse. Doesn't affect stat debuffs.
Cure: As it cannot be Dispelled, the only cure is to wait for it to wear off with time.
Typical cause: Certain buffing skills and the passive effects of some equipment. Sunny weather.
Effects: The target has a greatly increased critical hit chance (base% * 2 + 20) and immunity to being struck by a critical hit (except if affected by Stagger).
Typical cause: Certain skills and the passive effects of some equipment. On higher difficulties, some enemies enter the battle with the status on them already.
Effects: Allows the target to launch certain powerful attack (i.e. Hyper Beam for Lance, Ion Cannon for Praetorian), expending the status. Doesn't vanish upon death.
Cure: None; either defeat the affected foe or disable them (preferably with Stun or Freeze; Syphon and Berserk may or may not work, depending on the foe) and wait it out.
First appeared in: Epic Battle Fantasy 4, but similar effects existed since the first Epic Battle Fantasy.
Effects: A powerful aura gives crazy buffs every turn (all stats increased by 25%, 20% after buff fading is taken into account). Status cannot be removed.
Typical cause: Certain skills and summons. Sacred Land weather.
Effects: Attacks have 25% more accuracy, 25% more critical hit chance and 5% more chance to cause status effects and debuffs. Incoming attacks have 10% less accuracy, 30% less critical hit chance, 25% less chance to cause status effects and debuffs. Incoming Instant Death becomes Stagger
Typical cause: Passive effects of some equipment and the Kitten Fort summon. Sunny weather.
Effects: The target cannot be killed in one hit if their HP is above or equal 49%; a lethal blow will only reduce them to 1 HP. This includes Instant Death, Doom and the "overflow" attack, but not the Sacrifice skill.
Typical cause: The effects of some equipment, skills, and summons. Sacred Land weather
Effects: Restores some of the target's HP at the beginning of their side's turn (EBF4), or during the foes-to-players turn transition, before Poison (EBF2&3).
Cure: Dispel or wait for it to wear off. Alternatively, a damage-over-time effect like Poison may offset the HP gain.
Effects: Attacks have 20% less accuracy, 20% less critical hit chance, 20% less chance to cause status effects and debuffs. Incoming attacks have 10% more accuracy, 30% more critical hit chance, 25% more chance to cause status effects and debuffs. Incoming Doom becomes Instant Death.
Effects: Buff effects are reversed, causing them to act as if they were debuffs. Debuffs are still bad. Buffs from the Turtle Gi and inverted stats from the Eyebot summons are unaffected. Status cannot be removed.
Typical cause:Dark-based skills. Some equipment inflicts this on the user.
Effects: Target's Defence and Magic Defence are debuffed by 10% each turn, with the usual stat (de)buff fading (by 5%) going afterwards — in total, the debuff would be 15% per turn when the affected has corresponding stat buffs, or 5% otherwise. Also increases Holy-elemental damage taken by 50%, which consumes one turn of Curse per hit.
Typical cause:The Devourer's "Delete Earth" attack, used when it reaches roughly 30% HP.
Effects: Earth has been deleted. Players will take more and more damage every turn. Status cannot be removed. Also stops the Flee command from working.
Effects: The target loses any buffs and "positive" status effects it had. The status isn't lasting, thus doesn't prevent applying the buffs again. Doesn't affect Wet, EBF3 Berserk and EBF3 Auto-Revive.
Cure: Buff back. Try to prevent Dispel via corresponding status resistance or Bless.
First appeared in: Epic Battle Fantasy, under the name Debuff (not to be confused with stat debuffs); renamed into Dispel in Epic Battle Fantasy 3.
Effects: Applies Instant Death onto the target when the status expires (its "timer" reaches zero), OR light non-elemental damage if Death was resisted. Cannot be stacked. "Timer" will jump to 1 if Bad Luck is applied while active, and will immediately cause Instant Death if inflicted on a target already suffering from Bad Luck.
Cure: Standard methods except waiting it out. During the "countdown", you can apply Bless or change equipment to get Death immunity.
Typical cause:Ice-based skills, being hit by a skill that causes Chill while Wet.
Effects: Target skips their turn as long as they are Frozen. They take increased damage from the next attack that hits them, which cancels Freeze. In EBF4, Poison and Burn will not cause damage, yet continue to tick down.
Cure: Damaging (including cases when damage is nullified by elemental resistance) or healing the target; Purify and Cleanse will not help. For players, "forced" movement also helps, such as catching items, intro animations of certain summons and Limit Breaks (except in EBF3), and in EBF2 cheering after clearing a wave. Additionally, EBF3 Freeze lasts forever until disrupted, thus waiting it out wouldn't work.
Typical cause:Dark-based skills, being hit by a skill that causes Doom when Bad Luck is active.
Effects: The target dies, regardless of its health remaining. The status isn't lasting.
Cure: Revive. Corresponding status resistance (including Bless) is the only way to prevent Instant Death; otherwise, Auto-Revive and Morale can be used to minimize the harm. Good Luck status will cause Instant Death to be reduced to Stagger instead.
First appeared in: Epic Battle Fantasy 3, but similar effects existed since Epic Battle Fantasy 2.
Typical cause:Poison-based skills. Some equipment inflicts this on the user.
Effects: Target takes Poison/Bio damage at the end of their side's turn (EBF4), or during the foes-to-players turn transition, after Regen (EBF1-3). Damage affected by Poison resistance and the # of Poison inflicted.
Cure: Standard methods (although prior to EBF4, Poison did not wear off naturally).
Typical cause: Being hit by a Slime; occurs rarely and at random.
Effects: Target is transformed into a Slime, unable to take turns and catch items. Damage taken is doubled. The status cannot be inflicted again as long as any player is currently Slimed.
Cure: Waiting for the effect to wear off, or having the afflicted target die (even with Auto-Revive). Other standard methods will not work.
Effects: Target is guaranteed to suffer a critical hit from the next attack to hit them. Has priority over Brave's critical hit immunity. Cannot be stacked and lasts only one turn.
Effects: Cannot use Limit Breaks, and it's Game Over when time runs out (removes Morale, Auto-Life, Enchant, and Invisible before inflicting unavoidable damage equal to ten time's the player's max health). Status cannot be removed.
Typical cause:Thunder-based skills and strong physical attacks (such as stabs or body slams). Electric weather.
Effects: Target skips their turn as long as they are Stunned. In EBF4, it also increases Earth-elemental damage taken by 50%, which consumes one turn of Stun per hit.
Effects: For players, blocks MP-consuming skills from use (Limit Breaks are still available, and magic spells that are auto-cast by certain equipment still work); for enemies, switches them to an alternative pattern for varying effects, usually restricting the affected to regular physical attacks.
Cure: Standard methods.
First appeared in: Epic Battle Fantasy, under the name Seal; renamed into Syphon in Epic Battle Fantasy 3.
Typical cause:Earth-based skills. Some equipment inflicts this on the user.
Effects: Target's Accuracy and Evade are debuffed by 10% each turn, with the usual stat (de)buff fading (by 5%) going afterwards — in total, the debuff would be 15% per turn when the affected has corresponding stat buffs, or 5% otherwise. Also increases Bio damage received by 50%.
Effects: Fire and Holy resistance is decreased by 100%, and healing magic has no effect; Revive can still be used but will leave the revived player with 0 health. Status cannot be removed.
Effects: Deals twice as much Bio damage per turn as Poison, and has a chance of inflicting Virus on anyone else on the field each turn. Does not go away with time.
Cure: Standard methods, but will not wear off on its own- in fact it will actually stack with itself. The condition may spread back to a previously cured target, requiring all allies and foes so affected to be cured in order to keep it from coming back.
Effects: Target's Attack and Magic Attack are debuffed by 10% each turn, with the usual stat (de)buff fading (by 5%) going afterwards — in total, the debuff would be 15% per turn when the affected has corresponding stat buffs, or 5% otherwise. Also increases Dark-elemental damage taken by 50%, which consumes one turn of Weaken per hit.
Typical cause:Fire-based skills and passive effects of some equipment. Bears will go berserk when hit by a powerful attack.
Effects: Players become uncontrollable and use their standard attack on random foes; in EBF4, they may occasionally use stronger physical skills instead. Foes switch to an alternative pattern for varying effects, usually blocking magical attacks from use or/and forcing to use certain attack over and over. Both sides receive a damage boost. In EBF3, players also gain Freeze immunity, while foes also half physical damage taken.
Cure: Standard anti-negative methods, Dispel (only in EBF4), or hitting the affected with a Water- or Ice-based attack (Ice only in EBF3).
Typical cause: Ice based skills, Hugh Hail weather
Effects: Increases Ice and Water-elemental damage taken by 50%, halves Bio-elemental damage taken; all consume one turn of Chill per hit. Will cause Frozen instead if effect triggers against a target that is currently Wet. Fire damage will consume one turn of Chill as well but will not have its damage affected.
Typical cause: Fire based skills, Sandstorm weather.
Effects: Increases Fire and Bomb-elemental damage taken by 50%, halves Ice and Thunder-elemental damage taken; all consume one turn of Dry per hit. Doubles the chance of being Burned or Scorched. Water also removes a turn of Dry per hit but its damage will not be affected by Dry.
Cure: Standard anti-neutral methods, or be hit by a move that causes Wet. Dispel will not work.
Typical cause: When scared the foe either surrenders and flees or goes Berserk. Can also be forced by certain skills such as Screamer, or when an enemy is near death and badly debuffed.
Effects: The foe will flee on its turn. It will drop the same rewards as it would have if it was defeated normally and its chance to be captured increases dramatically.
Effects: Increases Thunder- and Ice-elemental damage taken by 50%, halves Fire-elemental damage taken; all consume one turn of Wet per hit. Doubles the chance of getting Frozen. Will cause Frozen if hit by an attack that would normally cause Chill.
Cure: Standard anti-negative methods (only in EBF4), anti-neutral methods, or be hit by a move that causes Dry. Dispel will not work.
