📑 Status Effects (Buffs and Ailments) and Stacks - Dead topic see link in post #190

[DaveCozy]

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A comprehensive list and guide to all status effects in the game.

Table of Contents

1. Description of Status Effects and what Overwrites what
2. Primer on Status Effects
3. Class Talents & Non-PVP status effects

Last Update: 2021-01-19T05:52:00Z

• Reuben Special Skill effect added:
• Krampus Special Skill effect added:

Wiki Page on Status Effects (list of all heroes who cast them)

Buffs

Note: All the status effects in this section will grant a stackable attack boost in “Buff Booster” raid tournaments.

Name	Icon	Description	Overwritten
Attack Up (Buff Booster)		Increased offensive power by 20% for each active buff.	–

Tip: casting the same buff acts as a form of resetting the turn count of the buff, including undispellable buffs being casted by the same hero

Name	Icon	Description	Overwritten
Attack Up		Increased offensive power
Attack Up (Midgard)		All allies get +5%/+10%/+15% per each Midgard ally in battle, as long as one Midgard ally has low health
Defense Up		Increased defense
Increasing Defence Up		Increased Defence which increases further every time they are hit.
Protect		Paladin talent activated, increased defense
Special Skill Defense Up		Increased defense against special skill damage
Damage Reduction		Reduces all received damage
Effect Damage Reduction		Reduces the damage from effects
Martial Prowess		Significantly increased damage of normal attacks, stacks with other attack buffs (up to +160% attack max)
Wrath of Tundra		Greatly increased damage of normal attack that only applies if enemy HP is higher than attacker. Stacks with other attack buffs (up to +170% attack max)
Special Skill Increase		Increases the amount of damage an offensive special skill deals (more info)
Critical Up		Increased critical attack chance (x2 damage)
Berserk		Increased offense, further increased with each hit taken (up to 5 increases)
Rage		Owner gets increased offense, further increased with each hit taken by them or their allies. When the effect ends, the owner deals damage to all enemies – each hit taken during the turn duration increases the damage dealt to all enemies
Gambler Stance		Offense greatly increased with reduced accuracy
Mystic Virtue		Offense greatly increased with reduced accuracy, if enemy HP is higher than attacker
Attack Heal		Heal x% of damage dealt each normal attack
Recover Up		Increases recovery of healing skills and status effects
HP Regenaration		Recovers HP over set amount of turns
Mana Gain		Mana gained increased
Mana Regeneration		Recover mana per turn
Mana Reduction Protection		Resists direct mana reduction
Mana Protection		Resists new negative mana ailments ( ) and effects that reduce mana
Special Skill Protection		Resists new status effects that block special skill activation ( )
Defense Protection		New status ailments affecting defense will be replaced by a defense buff
Dispel Protection		Prevents the owner from getting buffs dispelled
Ailment Protection		Resists new status ailments
Ailment Cleanse		Cleanses ailments at the end of each turn, for as long as this effect is active
Damage Share		Damage is shared between allies with this status effect
Brawler		Deals damage to a random enemy each turn for as long as the caster has the effect active (see card for condition).
Taunt		Prevents enemies from using Special Skills on the owners allies (including dispels)
Just a Flesh Wound!		Chance to drop any received damage to 1 point
Counter		Returns a counterattack per each direct hit
Mana Gain per Counter		Recover mana for each counterattack, decreasing amount of mana recovered for each successive counterattack in the same turn
Reflect Holy		Reflect all status effects and damage, and block other negative effects from Holy special skills
Reflect Ice		Reflect all status effects and damage, and block other negative effects from Ice special skills
Dark defense up		Increased defense against dark element attacks and offensive skills
Holy defense up		Increased defense against holy element attacks and offensive skills
Ice defense up		Increased defense against ice element attacks and offensive skills
Nature defense up		Increased defense against nature element attacks and offensive skills
Fire defense up		Increased defense against fire element attacks and offensive skills
Dodge		Chance to dodge special skills that deal damage
Minion Dodge		Moderate chance to dodge special skills. If dodge is successful, the owner generates a minion specified by the skill description (Minions do not count as status effects)
Quick Dodge		Chance to dodge damaging special skill and gain moderate amount of mana with a successful dodge. Chance is higher the more damage the special skill deals
Immortal		If the owner is defeated while this status effect is active, they are resurrected the next turn with 32% health and all status effects removed
Draugr Blessing		If the blessed owner is defeated while this status effect is active, they will be reborn as a Draugr with 100% inherited health, 500 attack, 500 defense, and the Eternal Loyalty special skill
Zombie Blessing		If the blessed owner is defeated while this status effect is active, they are reborn as a zombie the next turn with 100% health, 500 attack, 500 defense, and Poison Bite special skill
Bruise Bro		If the owner is defeated while this status effect is active, they are revived in Chameleon mode (undispellable)
Chameleon Mode		Increased attack, decreased defense, special skill replaced by Fierce Slash	*can’t be overwritten nor removed
Ghost form		Removes all buffs and ailments; moderate increase to normal attack; can’t gain mana; immune to all normal attacks, Special Skill attacks, status effects and stacks	*can’t be overwritten, removed, nor stack with any other status effect
Dire Ghost		Removes all buffs and ailments; automatically deals damage against a random enemy each turn; can’t gain mana; immune to all normal attacks, Special Skill attacks, status effects and stacks, except damage from the opposing element	*can’t be overwritten, removed, nor stack with any other status effect
Dance of Spirits		Significantly increased attack, moderate damage reduction on all recieved damage. If the caster dies, receive 100% damage and mana is decreased by -100%. Immune to new status effects.
Elemental Link Atk+Def up		Gives a small attack and defense boost to all heroes of the same colored element
Elemental Link Recover HP		Recovers a small amount of HP per turn to all heroes of the same colored element
Elemental Link Weakness Defense up		Gives a moderate defense boost against elemental attacks that the colored hero is weak to (indicated), to all heroes of the same colored element
Elemental Link Mana up		Slightly increases mana generation for all allies of the same colored element
Element Link Critical up		Small increase of critical strikes chance (x2 damage) for all allies of the same colored element
Element Link Special Skill Defense up		Moderate increase of defense against enemy special skills for all allies of same colored element

Ailments

Note: Status ailments that currently only exist as undispellable can only be overwritten by the same hero casting the ailment again (which resets the turn count on the ailment)

Name	Icon	Description	Overwritten
Attack Down		Decreased offense
Decreasing Attack Down		Decreased offense, further decreased by -4% with each hit taken (up to 5 attack reductions)
Heal Reset Attack Down		Attack decreased, turn duration reset if healed
Defense Down		Decreased defense
Decreasing Defense Down		Decreased defense, further decreased by -4% with each hit taken (up to 6 defense reductions)
Heal Reset Defense Down		Defense decreased, turn duration reset if healed
Special Skill Defense Down		Decreased defense against special skills
Health Drain		Steals health over a number of turns
Vampirism		Health recovered is stolen by caster
Deep Wound		Reduces healing received
Sargasso’s Curse		Reduces healing received
Mana down		Mana gained decreased
Mana block		Blocks mana gain
Mana Steal		Mana gained is stolen by caster
Status Block		Cannot cast status effects or stacks on enemies or allies
Silence		Blocks special skill use
Mindless Attack		Skill replaced by mindless attack; targets an ally when mana is full, with chance to miss
Spell Slayer		Receives damage when mana is full, mana is halved when full
Minion Block		Can’t receive new minions
Buff Block		Blocks the owner from gaining any new buffs
Blind		Reduced accuracy on offensive attacks and skills
Blind (Nifleheim)		Reduced accuracy by -5%/-10%/-15% per each Nifleheim ally on offensive attacks and skills, active as long as one Niflheim ally has low health
Boast		Receives status ailments (, , ) after the ailment turn count expires
Dark defense down		Decreased defense against dark attacks and offensive skills
Holy defense down		Decreased defense against holy attacks and offensive skills
Ice defense down		Decreased defense against ice attacks and offensive skills
Nature defense down		Decreased defense against nature attacks and offensive skills
Fire defense down		Decreased defense against fire attacks and offensive skills
Element Change		Changes the element to the one the target is strong against. Ice Fire Nature Ice Holy Dark	*(see note)
Twist of Fate		Gains defensive weakness against strong element Fire ice & nature Ice nature & fire Nature fire & ice Holy dark & holy Dark holy & dark
Burn		Receives burn damage over a number of turns
Burn (Muspelheim)		Receives 22/37/64 burn damage per Muspelheim ally, for as long as one Muspelheim ally has low health
Poison		Receives poison damage over a number of turns
Poison (Svartalfheim)		Receives 22/34/64 poison damage per each Svartalfheim ally, for as long as one Svartalfheim ally has low health
Water		Recieves water damage over a number of turns
Sand Twister		Receives sand damage over a number of turns
Moonlight Serenade		Receives damage over a number of turns, starting low and increasing with each turn
Blood Poisoning		Receives damage over a number of turns, damage increases if afflicted with this ailment again	*damage over turns increased if afflicted by this ailment again
Bomb		Target and nearby receive damage after a number of turns. The bomb explodes if the target is defeated and deals damage to nearby targets immediately.
Bleed		Receives bleed damage over a number of turns, stacks with similar effects

Stacks

Although similar, stacks are not considered status effects by the game. For more information on Stacks, please read the 3rd post in this guide.

Name	Icon	Description
Attack Up		Offensive power increased
Mana Generation Down		Mana speed decreased
Frost		Deals damage each turn

Please correct me if I’m wrong with anything that overwrites a buff or ailment

Old thread: Status Effects

Newer version:

• 📑 Updated Status Effects (Buffs and Ailments), Stacks, Innate Abilities and Resistances

[DaveCozy]

Status Effects - Buffs and Ailments

In the table on the first post, I have included a column with the icons that will overwrite said status effect. Everything else stacks with that status effect.

Read this post to learn about:

• buffs vs ailments
• dispelling vs cleansing vs removing

Primer: Buffs vs Ailments

Buffs

A buff is an effect that the game considers to be positive. Typically these are good effects, such as an attack boost to increase damage.

However, some are more complex and come with negative effects. Examples include Wu Kong’s “Gambler’s Stance,” which comes with a massive attack buff at the expense of an accuracy drop, or Aemonna’s “Ghost” which prevents her from getting damaged at the expense of not gaining mana while it’s active.

Buffs are usually casted and given to the hero or their allies. Gunnar (costumed) and Wilbur are unique exceptions; their skills give enemies the Shared Damage buff, but pair it with a defense drop in order to spread more damage to the enemy team.

Ailments

An ailment is a negative effect that the game considers to be detrimental. These effects are always bad to have, such as lingering damage that is automatically inflicted each turn.

Note that some ailments will prevent other status effects from working. Examples include Hel’s Crush, which will prevent other mana effects on that target (such as Onatel’s drain and Alberich’s mana recovery) from being effective.

Primer: “Dispels” vs “Cleanses” vs “Removes”

Hero skill cards are always very specific when it comes to describing what exactly they dispel.

Dispelling

Skills that get rid of any buffs the enemy has active are referred to as dispels.

A buff can only be dispelled if it is not listed as undispellable under the description of the buff casted.

Melendor and Sabina have the “Fog of the Fallen” skill, which dispels buffs from all enemies. But element links are undispellable, so they will not be dispelled.

Dispels can miss! They are affected by status effects that decrease accuracy.

As of Version 25, Reflect buffs now block dispells from heroes of the protected color.

Although Frida’s “Polar Bash” skill dispels buffs, she cannot dispel Mitsuko’s “Mirror of Flames” because her reflect buff blocks negative effects

Cleansing

A cleanse is the act of dispelling any ailments that an ally or allies have active.

Ailments listed as uncleansable under the description of the ailment can not be cleansed.

Rigard has the “Purification” skill, which dispels any ailments from his allies. But it will not dispel Jack O’ Hare’s uncleansable defense drop if he used his “Reckless Slash” skill first.

Cleanses can’t miss: they are not affected by any accuracy drops from status effects.

Removing

Skills that specifically say they remove will wipe all status effects, including undispellable and uncleansable ones.

Note that this covers both buffs and ailments.

If the hero Ameonna has a burn ailment, an attack buff, and a dark element link, her skill “Ghost” will remove all of them, including the undispellable element link.

Patch Notes -- terminology clarifications

@EmpiresPuzzles

We have updated the wording to be clearer to differentiate dispelling buffs and status ailments: “cleanse” when you remove status ailments, and “dispel” when you remove buffs.

Primer: Overwriting Buffs and Ailments

Some buffs and ailments can be overwritten by other buffs or ailments. The skill that casts the buff or ailment will not say that this is possible.

Typically, the same status effect will overwrite itself if it’s casted again. For e.g.: Attack up, casted on an ally who already has Attack up. This also acts as a way to reset the turn duration. Note that the last casted buff or ailment will persist:

Using Kiril’s “Blessed Brew” and Boldtusk’s “War Cry” in that order, will grant a 48% attack boost to all allies. Using them in reverse order will grant a 30% attack boost to all allies.

However, there are some exceptions to buffs and ailments that get overwritten. Typically these are opposites to each other:

Brienne’s “Berserker Fury” skill grants the berserk buff which increases attack. But Gill-Ra’s “Lament of Regression” skill lowers attack, and will overwrite the buff with her ailment. The opposite is true if it occurs in reverse order: the attack down will be overwritten by the berserk buff.

Note that buffs listed as “undispellable” and ailments listed as “uncleansable” cannot be overwritten by their opposites or by the same ailment – unless it is the exact same undispellable status effect that is casted again!

Squire Wabbit casts a -20% defense ailment on himself after his “Reckless Stab” skill. Gill-Ra can not overwrite his ailment with her -34% defense ailment, because Squire Wabbit’s ailment is uncleansable and hers is not. But Squire Wabbit using his skill again will overwrite his ailment (resetting the turn count).

Note that this has to be the exact same caster! In other words, you can’t overwrite Hisan’s deep wound with Arman’s deep wound.

Finally, there are some 5* heroes that have native resistances to certain ailments. This will prevent overwriting a buff with that ailment if they resist it.

Anzogh has a resistance to ailments that decrease mana generation. That means if he has a mana generation up buff, Alasie cannot overwrite it with her “Spirit Arrow” skill. However, the buff can still be dispelled by skills that do so.

Reference topic:

@DaveCozy

Hero	Resists
Anzogh
Bai Yeong	– All ailments casted by minions
Bertila
Clarissa
Frida
Glenda
Grazul
Grimble
Jean-François
Kingston
Kunchen
Malosi
Margaret	– buffs on her can’t be dispelled nor stolen (by The Hatter for e.g.). Note that they can still be overwritten by opposite effects
Miki
Neith
Onatel
Raffaele
Ranvir
Reuben	-
Seshat	– direct mana reductions
Telluria	– minion destruction (i.e. minions on her can’t be destroyed by skills that do so)
Uraeus
Vela	– minion damage and negative effects. This includes ailments casted by minion strikes. Do note that positive effects still work.
Zocc
Zulag

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Passive Abilities

Hero	Icon	Ability
Bertila		The Hero gains a small amount of Mana when a Minion owned by them is destroyed.
Noor		Summons a Sparrow Minion for self when an enemy summons any Minions by Special Skill.
Ureaus		The hero gains 50 HP when a Minion owned by them is destroyed.

[DaveCozy]

Stacks

Stacks are classified separately from Status Effects, although they are closely related.

Like Status Effects, stacks can be positive or negative. For example, they can increase a heroes attack stat, or deal damage over a number of turns.

Unlike Status Effects, stacks do not have a turn duration or limit, and they can’t be dispelled either by skills that say they dispel buffs or ailments. Stacks can’t be overwritten by similar or opposite status effects either.

Below is an example with Mireweave. Note that she has an attack stack active, as well as an attack buff:

The number beside the stack indicates the amount of times the stack has been casted. The more that the stack is casted, the more the effect increases. Please see the card description for how much the attack stack increases by.

For the stacks currently available, please see the first post in this guide.

Class Talents

Thanks to Kerridoc’s Version 18 - Class Talents - #190 by zephyr1 for the chart. I took and repurposed it to list the relationship between certain talents and status effects.

Now you know what that Cleric class resists, and what Peirce can bypass!

@DaveCozy

Class	Talent	Relationship with Status Effects
Barbarian	Wound	Wound ailment = .
Ranger	Pierce	The “bypass defensive buffs” bit refers to the following:
Monk	Resist	“Resist status ailments” means all status ailments. Since there’s too many of them to list, check the 📑 Status Effects (Buffs and Ailments) and Stacks - Dead topic see link in post #190 topic (see Ailments section in post 1)
Wizard	Jinx	“Deal +15% extra damage per each active buff” refers to any buffs active. Since there’s too many of them to list, check the 📑 Status Effects (Buffs and Ailments) and Stacks - Dead topic see link in post #190 topic (see Buffs section in post 1)
Sorcerer	Delay	Delay ailment is the same as the mana generation down ailment: . Note that this effect does not stack with skills that drop mana generation (e.g. Little John’s “Massive Chop,” Alasie’s “Spirit Arrow”)
Cleric	Manashield	“Negative mana effects” refers to these effects: and any mana removing effects. “Effects that prevent the use of special skills” refers to:
Rogue	Evade	Note that Evade will only avoid damage, not status ailments
Fighter	Revive	Note that the fighter keeps any status effects (buffs or ailments)
Druid	Companion	Note that minions are not considered status effects

Order of Operations – Stackable Status Effects

Damage over Turns, always applies before Healing over Turns buffs
Just a Flesh Wound always activates after Shared Damage

Buffs (non-pvp)

The following buffs are casted by items or map/quest exclusive enemies. Therefore these can’t be used in raids, and do not apply to the Buff Booster tournament rule (as they can never be casted there).

Name	Buff_Icon	Description	Overwritten
Mend		Recovers HP over set amount of turns (casted by Green Runic Rocks)
Replenish		Recover mana over set amount of turns (casted by Yellow Runic Rocks)
Reflect Damage		All status effects and damage is reflected back to the enemy (casted by Titanium Shield)
Invisible		Can’t be targeted by enemies (casted by Invisibility Potion)

Ailments (non-pvp)

The following ailments are casted by items or map/quest exclusive enemies. Therefore these can’t be used in raids or wars.

Name	Icon	Description	Overwritten
Shatter		All enemies get -20% defense (casted by Blue Runic Rocks)
Scorch		Receive 109 Burn damage over a number of turns (casted by Red Runic Rocks)
Poison		Receive 104 Poison damage over a number of turns (casted by Purple Runic Rocks)

[Sarah2]

Thanks for this… Super helpful

[Gee333]

Is there a link to download this? Would love to print it.

[jinbatsu]

Reflect element should replaced/overwrited by any other reflect element, right?

Ursena – New Atlantis Hero: First Thoughts & Discussion

Searched topic and did not see it, so just wanted to mention that Mits Reflect and Ursena Reflect overwrite each other. I was kind of hoping they would stack like elemental debuffs but I can understand why they don’t. If they eventually develop a rainbow of healers with reflect, that would be unbalanced if someone fielded a team that reflects the entire rainbow.

Edit:
Just want to make sure here. I though non-element reflect is also everwrite, but not, I have try Boril with Ursena, and it does not overwrite. So your tables desc is correct

Margaret status:

[DaveCozy]

@Gee333

Is there a link to download this? Would love to print it.

I’ll be working on an image or a pair of images to make this mobile friendly in the near future For now you can bookmark the first post.

@jinbatsu thanks a ton for providing that answer and Margaret’s dodge, and thanks @Slingbow for sharing that! I only have Mitsuko so I didn’t realize that they wouldn’t stack together. Makes sense why though!

I’ll be updating the thread with her dodge later today

[DaveCozy]

Added Margaret’s dodge.

Pirates is coming up next month so I’ll grab Sargasso’s curse status effect then. He’s unbelievably hard to find in raids!

[Pois1]

This is absolutely gorgeous. Wish I could take the pictures out of the game like that. Great Job Dave!!!

[PapaHeavy]

@DaveCozy, you are ACES!! This is not only helpful, it looks awesome. Now to figure out how to save this on my phone…

[DaveCozy]

Thanks! I’ll be working on a mobile friendly version of the chart soon. Since June is coming up I’ll wait for the new hero of the month to show up first and also to get the Sargasso status ailment this event.

[PapaHeavy]

Awesome stuff @DaveCozy, looking forward to it. Thanks for taking the time to put this all together!

[Slingbow]

great stuff…my only request, to satisfy my OCD…please spell check HOLY* thanks for creating this

[DaveCozy]

Will run a spell and grammar check! thank you

[DaveCozy]

Thanks @Kerridoc for providing the screenshot for Sargasso’s curse

[Raghstpart]

Like this one???

[jinbatsu]

I though Ranvir is the same like Wu Kong icon status,… well but this skill will replace each other right?

OK, I crop from your screenshot like this.

[DaveCozy]

Yes thank you!

It does look like Wu’s. Just with the little heart representing the HP condition

[DaveCozy]

Ranvir’s Mystic Virtue status effect has been added

[_John_Doe]

@DaveCozy

The other day i was looking for the holy heroes that defense debuff the dark ones other than gjackal. So i came here.

What do you say if we create clickable links near the buffs/debuffs skills which redirects to post of this/other topic where heroes with those ability are enumerated?