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

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

(The list is contains icons until 08/19/2021.)

Table of Contents

1. @DaveCozy 's original topics:

• 📑 Status Effects (Buffs and Ailments) and Stacks - Dead topic see link in post #190
• Native/Innate Resistances - Heroes of the Month (HOTM) - Dead topic see link in post #9

I am now combining his list and those which are collected by players later in this topic:

• Help a dude help the fourm

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
Special Skill Increase		Increases the amount of damage an offensive special skill deals (more info)
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
Defense Up		Increased defense
Increasing Defence Up		Increased Defence which increases further every time they are hit.
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
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)
Critical Up		Increased critical attack chance (x2 damage)
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
Reflect Nature		Reflect all status effects and damage, and block other negative effects from Nature special skills
Reflect Dark		Reflect all status effects and damage, and block other negative effects from Dark special skills
Reflect Ailment Damage		Reflects 100% of damage received from caster’s status ailments to all enemies. All enemies get the full damage.
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.
Status Ailments Damage Reduction		Reduces damage received from status ailments by 50% for all allies
Dig a Hole		For 2 turns, caster cannot gain mana, is immune to normal attacks, specials and status effects. After 2 turns, caster does damage to a random enemy. The enemy cannot gain mana for 2 turns.
Hiding		Caster is immune to status effects and stacks. Received damage is reduced by 30%. When effect ends, deals damage to all enemies who used special skills while target was hiding.
Unbreakable Brawler		Deals 165% damage to a random enemy for as long as caster has boosted health. Undispellable.
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
Elemental link mana generation		Gives small amount of mana to all allies of same colored elements
Elemental Link Recover		Gives 10% increase for any healing received to all heroes of the same colored element for 4 turns

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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
Attack reduction through fiend		Attack is reduced by X% as long as target has a fiend
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
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)
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 speed decrease through fiend		Mana speed is reduced by x% as long as target has a fiend
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
Buff Immunity		The target cannot receive new buffs for 3 turns
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
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
Corrosive Burn		Burn damage and decreases target’s defense by an increasing amount per turn
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
Corrosive Poison		Poison damage and decreases target’s mana speed by an increasing amount per turn
Corrosive Frost		Frost damage and decreases target’s attack by an increasing amount each turn
Abyss Ghost		For 4 turns, target cannot gain mana, can’t do normal attacks or cast special skills. Target is immune to normal attacks, specials, status effects and stacks. Last enemy in the battle cannot be affected by this.
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
Bleed		Receives bleed damage over a number of turns, stacks with similar effects
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.

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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
Recover HP per turn		Recover X HP per turn
Mana generation speed increase		+X% mana generation

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Innate Resistances

Here is the table for the innate resistances:

Hero	Icon	Name	Ability
Chakkoszrot		Resist Direct Mana Reduction	This hero has an innate resistance against direct Mana Reduction.
Devana Vela		Minion Effect Protection	This hero has innate resistance against incoming negative effects and damage from minions.
Malosi		Defense Ailment Protection	This Hero has innate resistance against status ailments that affect Defense. Doesn’t apply to status ailments that affect elemental defense.
Yang Mai Zocc		Water Damage Protection	This Hero has innate resistance against Water damage
Elradir		Mana Gain per Ailment	The Hero gains a small amout of mana when they receive a status ailment
Bertila Onatel		Accuracy Protection	This Hero has innate resistance against status ailments that affect Accurancy. Doesn’t apply to status effects from allies.
Uraeus Zulag		Sand Damage Protection	This Hero has innate ressistance against Sand damage.
Frosth		Burn Damage Protection	This Hero has innate resistance against Burn.
Clarissa		Poison Damage Protection	This Hero has innate resistance against Poison.
Raffaele		Attack Ailment Protection	This Hero has innate resistance against status ailments that affect Attack.
Bai Yeong		Minion Ailment Protection	This Hero has innate resistance against status ailments that are from Minions
Glenda		Buff Immunity Protection	This Hero has innate resistance against status ailments that give immunity to new buffs.
Reuben		Mana Speed Protection	The Hero has innate resistance against status ailments that affect Mana Generation. Doesn’t apply to status ailments that stop mana generation or steal mana.
Grazul		Healing Protection	The Hero has innate resistance against status ailments that affect Healing.
Telluria		This Hero has innate resistance against Minion Removal
Neith		Mana Block Protection	This Hero has innate resistance against status ailments that Stop Mana Generation.
Slayer heroes		Ailment Damage Reduction	Damage from ailments reduced by 50%

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Innate Abilities

This section is added to track the passive abilities that Generation 4 HotM’s have (Starting with Bertila in January 2021). These abilities will trigger on a given event that occurs in gameplay.

Hero	Icon	Ability
Elradir		The hero gains a small amount of mana when they recieve a status ailment.
Gramps Tettukh Dr. Moreau Phileas Fogg		Special Skill Damage Reduction
Helo Mack Elizabeth		Increase Buff Duration
Morris Rokkamush Russula		Decreased Ailment Duration
Poppy Griffin Zila Lei Aouda		Increased Special Skill Damage
Vollermork Prof Lidenbrock Captain Nemo		Start Battle with Mana
Chakkoszrot		Mana Buff Per Status Ailment
Yang Mai		Attack Buff on Mana Reduction
Malicna		Resist Health Drain
Malicna		Holy Defense buff on Mana Cut
Noor		Sparrow Summoner
Frosth		Ailment Cleanse by Minion Destruction
Uraeus		Heal by Minion Destruction
Bertilla		Mana Gain by Minion Destruction

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Counter attack and Sturdiness

@DaveCozy

While higher defense does mean you counter less damage per hit, you can survive by taking more hits and thus keep countering damage for longer durations. That’s where the high defense helps

I agree 100%

This is why ZS nerfed Titanium Shield and 1* 1.1 heroes

You also want to consider the Defense stat, and HP, of the other 2x to 4x heroes getting counter attack buff

Dead heroes

Once a fragile hero dies on your team, they are no longer targeted by enemy special skills, and normal damage / tile damage / matching damage

This concentrates the attacks on fewer heroes

Counter attack nearby versus all

Counter attack all is helpful once one of the heroes next to Boril dies, since that immediately cuts

b.Boril counter attack from 3x 1.25 to 2x 1.25 ( effectively 3.75 for whole team to 2.5 for whole team )

c.Boril is cut from 5x 0.6 to 4x 0.6 ( effectively 3.0 for whole team to 2.4 for whole team )

FIN

[freetgy]

Negativ Stacks can be counter acted with positive Stacks.

The stack increases, decreases as a number if a stack of the opposite effect is cast.

e. g. mana generation ailment stack vs. mana generation buff stack of magic family.

Not many interactions at the moment, but Yang Mail vs. Congalach and Skadi vs. Magic Family Bonus behave like that.

[danenp]

Thanks for the great work, @PlayForFun.

Just to clarify for me, the attack up from miki and tarlak that have the words “normal attack” mean that it only applies to tile damage and slash attack, correct? While wu Kong and ranvir’s attack up buff those two AND direct damage from specials? Attack ups from others (like kiril, boldtusk) also affect specials too?

Also, no attack up will affect the damage from DoT, correct? Thanks.

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@danenp

miki and tarlak that have the words “normal attack” mean that it only applies to tile damage and slash attack, correct?

Yes, correct.

@danenp

Also, no attack up will affect the damage from DoT, correct? Thanks.

Yes, DoT attacks is not affected by any attack up or defense down.
It is a always constant number after the battle starts, and it is only effected by the troops you bring to battle.

[Liam_K]

There are things that affect DoT damage. For example, Clarissa’s extra damage to Holy means Holy opponents get a higher poison damage per turn

Haven’t tested with a damage booster like Franz or Motega’s butterfly minion. Anyone knows if that boosts the damage from DoT?

[danenp]

Thanks, @PlayForFun. Since you’re so knowledgeable, would you mind answering how much (in either tiles or %) is a small amount of mana, and how much is a moderate amount of mana? Thanks.

[PlayForFun]

As I remember small amount is 0.3-0.4 tile, and moderate amount: 0.8 tile.

[Zack]

The small amount of mana provided by Yang Mai and Elradir is 0.3157 tiles/turn (between 0.31578947 and 0.31590414).

The small amount of mana from Gramps is 0.5 tiles/turn (between 0.5 and 0.50135501).

The moderate amount of mana from Alby is 0.8 tiles/turn (between 0.8 and 0.80060423).

[danenp]

Thanks for answering my question about mana, @PlayForFun, @Zack.

[Liam_K]

There’s a new status ailment from Kelile’s 2nd costume. I guess it’s Vampiric Burn?

[BlackZed]

love your description. Makes sense in a way.

Health is transferred via burn damage.

[PlayForFun]

Maybe we should start collecting these again as there are lof of them introduced recently.

[Liam_K]

I actually prefer Flaming Fangs of Death

[BlackZed]

Yes. Many new icons here and there. I check the card midway these days to be absolutely sure what’s going on with an enemy these days.