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Status Guide (Easytype)

by Lassarina Aoibhell

Besides damaging your characters with attacks, monsters are able to inflict status effects on your characters. While a few status effects are helpful, most are not. Your party, in turn, can inflict status effects on enemies using spells and certain weaponry. The following list details the status effects, how you know you've got them, and what to do when you need to cure them. I've tried to make this list as complete as I can, but I may have screwed up. If so, feel free to email me and tell me I'm wrong.

If a menu screen indicator is not listed, the status effect fades after battle. Unless stated otherwise, menu screen indicators appear to the right of the character's name.

Status Effects
Name	Battle Indication	Menu Screen Indication	Effect	Cure
Berserk	None	None	Character's attack power increases by 50%. Character is taken out of your control, performs physical attacks and acts faster than normal.	Heal (item or spell)
Charm	Character steps forward, turns to face his/her allies, and a green rotating circle appears over his/her head.	None	Character will randomly attack allies or self.	Heal (item or spell)
Curse	Dark cloud over character's head, character hunches over	?	Attack power is halved.	Heal (item or spell)
Darkness	Character wears shades	Sunglasses	Attack rate halved	Heal (item or spell)
Doom	White numbers over character's head	None	When countdown reaches 0, character will be KO'd	End the battle. Quickly.
Float	Character floats	Feather	Cannot be harmed by earth attacks or damaging floors (like in the Sylvan Cave)	Tent, Cabin, or entering another floor of a dungeon.
Haste	None	None	Character acts more frequently	Dispel
Mute	Speech bubble next to character	Orange speech bubble	Character cannot use magic	EchoNote, Remedy, Esuna
Paralysis	Character hunches over and wavy black lines flash on either side of him/her	None	Character is frozen in place and cannot act.	Unihorn, Remedy, Esuna
Pig	Character turns into a pig	Character's picture replaced by one of a pig	Cannot cast any spell but Pig; cannot use Aim	Diet Food, Remedy, Esuna
Poison	Character turns purple and hunches over	Beaker	Gradual HP loss in and out of battle	Antidote, Remedy, Esuna
Sleep	Character hunches over and Z's appear above his/her head	None	Character cannot act until awakened	Alarm, Esuna, physical attack
Slow	None	None	Character acts more slowly	Dispel
Small	Character becomes tiny	Character's picture replaced by graphic of a tiny person	Attack and Defense go to 0, character will be attacked more often, cannot use Throw, Aim, Jump or Cover	Mallet, Remedy, Esuna
Stone	Character turns gray	Small white rock	Character cannot act. If entire party is petrified, Game Over.	Soft, Remedy, Esuna
Stop	None	None	Cannot act	Dispel
Swoon	Character falls down	The word "KO"	Character's HP is zero; cannot act until revived	Life item, Life or Life2 spell
Wall	None	None	Most magic is reflected	Dispel

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