Effects: Prevents Stragus from learning Memorized Techniques, and that's it. The same problem that causes the evade bug prevents 'darkness' from having its intended effect of halving the affected's hit rate and giving attacks against the affected a 25% bonus to hit.

Symptoms: Black gunk over the eyes. Or cool shades, if you prefer.

Cause with: Edgar's Sunbeam, Stragus's Reflect???? (only to targets with 'reflect' status) or Foul Breath

Remove with: Eyedrops; Panacea; Sleeping Bag; Tent; Esuna spell; Unicorn summon Heal Horn; Mash's Spiral Soul or Chakra; Mog's Basking in the Forest (Forest Nocturne), Tapir (Love Serenade), or Raccoon (Water Harmony); Stragus's Fusion; Setzer's Mysidia Rabbit (Slots)

Prevent with: Silver-Rimmed Glasses, Amulet, Fairy Ring, Ribbon

Effects: Character is uncontrollable, counts as dead for game over purposes, and keeps attacking even if HP is 0. May attack either enemies or allies, and has a 1/16 chance each of inflicting 'darkness' or 'poison' on hit. This status also prevents the user from activating a secret deathblow skill (thankfully). Finally, entering 'zombie' status removes 'darkness', 'poison', 'near death', 'berserk', 'confusion', and 'sleep', even if the target is immune to any of these (which normally makes then unremovable).

Zombified monsters instead die immediately.

Attacks against zombies are supposed to have a 25% bonus to hit rate, but the evade bug keeps this from working.

Symptoms: Green skin, vacant stare, attacks automatically, indiscriminately, and even with 0 HP. Might mumble, "Braaaiinnnsss..." if the game had speech.

No player skill causes 'zombie'.

Remove with: Holy Water, Sleeping Bag, Tent, Mash's Spiral Soul, Mog's Tapir (Love Serenade) or Raccoon (Water Harmony), Stragus's Fusion

Prevent with: Amulet, Ribbon, Memento Ring, Safety Bit

Effects: Periodically hits the affected with Poison damage. The amount inflicted starts out relatively low, but has a multiplier that increments each time the damage occurs, up to a maximum of 8 times the base value. The amount has some random variation. Higher stamina increases damage from poison, as does a higher max HP, up to a point (damage before variation and multiplier is capped at 255).

Attackers are also supposed to have a 25% penalty to hit rate against those affected, but the evade bug keeps this from working.

Poison status remains out of combat, where poisoned characters will lose 1/32 of their max HP with each step, but only down to 1 HP.

Symptoms: Purple skin, green bubbles around head, crouched over, periodically takes damage without being attacked

Cause with: Poison Rod (may cast Poison on attack), Dark Claw (may cast Poison on attack), Poison spell, Bio spell, Sorcery skill Bio Blaster (Tina only), Edgar's Bio Blast, Stragus's Foul Breath, Mog's Poison Frog (Darkness Requiem)

Remove with: Antidote; Panacea; Sleeping Bag; Tent; Poisona or Esuna spell; Unicorn summon Heal Horn; Mash's Chakra or Spiral Soul; Mog's Basking in the Forest (Forest Nocturne), Tapir (Love Serenade), or Raccoon (Water Harmony); Stragos's Fusion; Setzer's Mysidia Rabbit (Slots)

Prevent with: Star Pendant, Amulet, Fairy Ring, Ribbon, Hero's Shield, Sleepy Cat Suit, Chocobo Suit, Moogle Suit

Because damage from 'poison' has the Poison trait, it is affected accordingly by weakness, resistance, or absorption of the same. Immunity to the Poison trait additionally confers immunity to 'poison' status, rather than simply negating the damage, with two minor caveats. First, equipping a status immunity item when out of combat normally cures the affected status if afflicted with it, but equipping something with Poison trait immunity won't immediately cure 'poison' status. However, the status will be removed upon entering combat. Second, equipping a Poison trait immunity item (i.e., the Hero's Shield) during combat while afflicted with 'poison' status won't remove the status, but will cause it to inflict zero damage.

Not named in-game. This status is set when the party is riding Imperial Sorcerous Armor.

Effects: The Battle command is replaced with the Sorcery command. All other commands except Magic, Chain Magic, and Item are disabled. Tina gets more Sorcery abilities than the others. Umaro or characters under 'berserk' will randomly use Fire Beam, Ice Beam, or Thunder Beam every round.

Symptoms: Riding a big mech around.

It's normally not possible to have only part of the party with this status, but if it happens, everyone is shown on a mech, even those who don't actually have the status. Those without it set retain their usual commands.

Cause with: Storyline only

Remove with: Storyline only

Prevent with: N/A

Effects: Always dodge all physical attacks (even unblockable ones), but never dodge magic. Having 'transparent' status also prevents 'reflect' status from working. This status prevents the user from activating a secret deathblow skill (not desperate enough?).

Due to a bug, this status also negates instant death protection, leading to the infamous Vanish/Doom exploit.

Note that negating instant death protection works for all spells that normally check it, not just those that actually inflict death outright. This includes most petrifying attacks, various percent-based attacks (like the Gravity spell), and the oddball Eerie Soundwave. It also lets reviving spells hit characters who don't need reviving. Since Vanish/Doom is an obvious bug and cheap tactic, I'll be largely ignoring it except when it's relevant to something I find interesting.

Symptoms: Only the character's outline is visible. Monsters with 'transparent' are simply not displayed.

Cause with: Vanish spell, Phantom summon Vanishing Body, Konoha Gakure (use with Throw, affects user)

Remove with: Anything the game considers magic, Sleeping Bag, Tent

Prevent with: N/A

The kappa is a supernatural water creature of Japanese folklore with a tendency to play tricks on (or do nastier things to) humans.

Effects: All abilities except Battle (or Jump), Magic (or Chain Magic), and Item are disabled, and all spells except Kappa are also disabled. All weapons except Sa Gojō's Spear provide only 1 attack power (including unarmed, which normally gives 10), and all armor except the Carapace Shield, Dish, and Armor Kappa provide only 1 defense power. However, these four items give their (unusually high) listed power instead of the 1 they give otherwise.

Most monsters use 1 as their attack power under 'kappa' status, though some not only retain full attack power but also get critical hits on every attack.

Symptoms: Turned into a funny-looking green creature with a blue shell and beak, and water on the head. Monsters in 'kappa' status get a similar, if more grotesque, sprite, with coloration based on the monster's palette.

Cause with: Kappa spell, Stragus's Foul Breath

Remove with: Yellow Cherry, Panacea, Sleeping Bag, Tent, Kappa spell, Mash's Spiral Soul, Mog's Tapir (Love Serenade)

Prevent with: White Cape, Ribbon

Effects: Cannot act, cannot dodge, and counts as dead for game over purposes, but is immune to nearly every form of attack, for what it's worth. The Ultima Weapon still deals 1 damage thanks to its unusual damage modifiers.

Petrified monsters instead die immediately.

Symptoms: Character turns gray and is essentially invincible but can't act, time bar stops

Cause with: Break Blade (may cast Break on attack), Break spell, Catoblepas summon Demon's Eye, Mog's Cockatrice (Wind Rhapsody)

Remove with: Gold Needle; Panacea; Sleeping Bag; Tent; Esuna spell; Unicorn summon Heal Horn; Mash's Spiral Soul; Strago's Fusion; Mog's Basking in the Forest (Forest Nocturne), Tapir (Love Serenade), or Raccoon (Water Harmony)

Prevent with: Jewel Ring, Ribbon, Memento Ring, Safety Bit

Effects: Can't do anything, counts as dead for game over purposes, and is a valid target only for items, skills, and spells that remove this condition.

Symptoms: Lying flat on the ground with 0 HP, stopped time bar

Cause instantly (but heal undead) with: Assassin Dagger, Soul Saber (may cast Death on attack), Ichigeki Blade, Wing Edge, Death's Cards (may cast Death on attack), One-Shot Darts, Death spell, Stragus's Death Roulette

Cause instantly only to undead with: X-Potion, Elixir, Last Elixir (only targets allies), Phoenix Tail, Holy Water, Raise spell, Araise spell, Phoenix summon Flames of Reincarnation (only targets allies)

Cause instantly, undead or not, with: Zantetsuken (weapon), Dejon spell, Odin summon Zantetsuken, Raideen summon True Zantetsuken, Sorcery skill Dejonater (Tina only), Cayenne's Sever, Setzer's Joker Death (Slots), Stragus's Level 5 Death, Mog's Ant Lion (Desert Lullaby) or Pitfall (Love Serenade, Darkness Requiem, or Snowman Rondo), Stragus's secret deathblow Sever Soul, Relm's secret deathblow Star Prism, Ghost's Possess (also eliminates user). Additionally, Mash's Spiral Soul and Stragos's Fusion kill the user (Self-Destruct also does, but through damage rather than directly).

Cause regardless with: Enough damage to drop HP to 0. Certain monsters are also incapacitated if their MP reaches 0.

Remove with (fails on undead): Phoenix Tail, Tent, Raise spell, Araise spell, Phoenix summon Flames of Reincarnation

Prevent instant causes with: Memento Ring, Safety Bit. Additionally, the Ring of the Dead renders the wearer undead, affecting vulnerabilities as noted above. However, Joker Death ignores instant death protection, and Mash's Spiral Soul and Stragos's Fusion kill the user regardless.

Prevent nearly all causes with: 'reraise' status (fails on undead). This even works against Joker Death, but Mash's Spiral Soul and Stragos's Fusion still kill the user regardless.

Effects: Inflicts 'incapacitated' when the timer runs out; harmless until then. However, immunity to instant death will prevent the deadly part from working, and the undead will recover full health instead of dying. The countdown length is influenced by the caster's level, with higher levels tending to produce shorter countdowns.

Symptoms: Timer counting down over the affected's head.

Cause with: Stragus's Death Sentence

Remove with: End of combat, Mash's Spiral Soul, Stragus's Fusion, Mog's Tapir (Love Serenade) or Raccoon (Water Harmony).

Prevent with: N/A, but some causes fail if the target has instant death protection, and anything that prevents instant death makes it impotent anyway.

Effects: Triggers some equipment special effects and gives a small chance of using a secret deathblow instead of attacking when using the Battle command. Gau and Umaro have no Battle command, so they have no secret deathblows.

Attackers are supposed to have a 25% penalty to hit rate against those affected, but the evade bug keeps this from working.

Symptoms: Character is crouched over, but not from poison or other status effects.

Cause by: Lowering HP below 1/8 of maximum

Remove by: Raising HP above 1/8 of maximum

Prevent by: Keeping HP high enough

This status is normally set and cleared automatically as a character's current HP changes. However, certain skills can temporarily bypass this (mainly Ripple), and immunity to 'near death' (typically from a Rage) can prevent it from being removed once set.

'Decoy' is not truly an adequate translation of 'bunshin', but it's close enough for our purposes.

Effects: Automatically dodge physical attacks. However, each such dodge has a 25% chance of removing the status. Automatic dodging (and its possible removal) takes place before the normal chance to dodge. This status also prevents the user from activating a secret deathblow skill (not desperate enough?).

You still can't dodge while also under 'sleep', 'petrify', 'frozen', or 'stop' status, when attacked in the back, or when the attack is unblockable, but hits taken in these cases will never remove the status either.

Symptoms: Multiple blinking figures

Cause with: Mirage Vest (when worn), Kage Bunshin (use with Throw, affects user only), Fenrir summon Howling Moon

Remove with: End of combat, Dispel spell, randomly removed after dodging

Prevent with: N/A

Effects: Can't use Magic, Chain Magic, or Memorized Techniques.

Symptoms: Speech bubble with '...'

Cause with: Silence spell, Siren summon Lunatic Voice, Stragus's Reflect???? (only on targets with 'reflect' status) or Foul Breath

Remove with: End of combat; Echo Smokescreen; Panacea; Esuna spell; Unicorn summon Heal Horn; Mash's Chakra or Spiral Soul; Stragus's Fusion; Mog's Basking in the Forest (Forest Nocturne), Tapir (Love Serenade), or Raccoon (Water Harmony)

Prevent with: White Cape, Ribbon

Effects: Attacks opponents uncontrollably with a physical damage bonus of +50%. Affected enemies will always use normal physical attacks. Affected player characters may use Battle or any of the following commands if available: Battle, Mug, Jump, Rage, or Sorcery (note that Battle appears twice; the first always-available instance allows characters without the command to use it, and increases the odds for everyone else).

Adding 'berserk' status to 'rage' status does not seem to affect behavior (the character continues to use whatever abilities the Rage makes available), but still provides the damage bonus. Umaro, similarly, gets the damage bonus with no apparent effect on behavior, and may still use any attack otherwise available to him. Adding 'berserk' status to 'dance' status appears to have no effect at all. For everything else, any commands entered but not executed before the status is applied will be executed normally, with the damage bonus taking effect if applicable.

Symptoms: Character turns bright red, fumes, and attacks uncontrollably

Cause with: Berserk spell

Remove with: End of combat, Dispel spell, Mash's Spiral Soul, Stragus's Fusion, Mog's Tapir (Love Serenade) or Raccoon (Water Harmony)

Prevent with: Tranquil Ring, Ribbon

Effects: Acts at random with inverted targeting (attacks allies and heals enemies). Confused characters will never use Item, Revert, Throw, Control, Slots, Leap, Defend, Summon, or Possess. Any commands entered but not executed before the status occurs will be carried out, but with reversed targeting. This status also prevents the user from activating a secret deathblow skill (thankfully).

Confused monsters pick from the command list that appears when Relm Controls them, which frequently includes abilities not in their normal action script.

Attackers are supposed to have a 25% bonus to hit rate against those affected, but the evade bug keeps this from working.

Symptoms: Wild spinning in place and green crescent whirling above head. Monsters under 'confusion' have their sprites flipped.

Cause with: Confuse spell; Cait Sith summon Cat Rain; Edgar's Blast Voice; Stragus's Level 3 Confuse, Foul Breath, or Stoning; Mog's Apparition (Love Serenade or Water Harmony)

Remove with: End of combat; any physical damage that hits; Esuna spell; Unicorn summon Heal Horn; Mash's Spiral Soul; Stragus's Fusion; Mog's Basking in the Forest (Forest Nocturne), Tapir (Love Serenade), or Raccoon (Water Harmony). Being thrown by Umaro works, too.

Prevent with: Tranquil Ring, Ribbon

Effects: Periodically inflicts damage, more often than 'poison' status does, but the damage isn't elemental and doesn't increase over time. The amount has some random variation. Higher stamina will increase damage taken, as will higher max HP, to a point (damage before variation is capped at 255).

Attackers are supposed to have a 25% penalty to hit rate against those affected, but the evade bug keeps this from working.

Symptoms: Periodic small damage without being attacked. No other visual indications.

Cause with: Sorcery skills Bio Blaster or Sorcery Missile (both Tina only); Cayenne's Tiger (only if target vulnerable to instant death); Shadow's Shadow Fang; Mog's Sonic Boom (Earth Blues), Cave In (Darkness Requiem), or Snowball (Snowman Rondo)

Remove with: End of combat; Panacea; Poisona spell; Esuna spell; Unicorn summon Heal Horn; Mash's Chakra or Spiral Soul; Stragus's Fusion; Mog's Basking in the Forest (Forest Nocturne), Tapir (Love Serenade), or Raccoon (Water Harmony); 'regenerate' status

Prevent with: Angel's Ring, Miracle Shoes, Ribbon

Additionally, 'slip' and 'regenerate' are mutually exclusive status effects. Anything that sets 'regenerate' automatically cancels 'slip' in the process, and vice versa. Similarly, immunity to one prevents either of them from being set (or removed if active).

Effects: Can't take action or evade attacks.

Symptoms: Crouched over and snoring, stopped time bar

Cause with: Sleepel spell, Stragus's Foul Breath

Remove with: End of combat; any physical damage that hits; Esuna spell; Unicorn summon Heal Horn; Mash's Spiral Soul; Stragus's Fusion; Setzer's Mysidia Rabbit (Slots); Mog's Basking in the Forest (Forest Nocturne), Tapir (Love Serenade), or Raccoon (Water Harmony). Being thrown by Umaro works, too.

Additionally, if 'sleep' lasts long enough, a tapir will appear and remove the status automatically.

Prevent with: Ribbon

Not named in-game except as a command. This is the state entered by using the Dance command successfully.

Effects: Character automatically uses a random ability from the current dance set every turn.

Symptoms: Uncontrollable dancing

Cause with: Dance command (affects user)

Remove with: End of combat, 'petrified' status, 'incapacitated' status. Randomly stumbling due to mismatched terrain will also remove the status, but that's only possible on the initial turn of dancing, unless you have two characters using different dances.

'Kappa' status will replace the dances with normal attacks, but won't remove the status itself.

Prevent with: Avoid the Dance command

Effects: Periodic small HP recovery. The effect is opposite that of the 'slip' status. The amount has some random variation. Higher stamina will increase the amount healed, as will higher max HP, to a point (healing before variation is capped at 255).

Symptoms: Periodic HP recovery

Cause with: Angel's Ring (when worn), Miracle Shoes (when worn), Regenerate spell, Qilin summon Holy Brighten

Remove with: End of combat, Dispel spell, 'slip' status

Prevent with: N/A

Additionally, 'regenerate' and 'slip' are mutually exclusive status effects. Anything that sets 'slip' automatically cancels 'regenerate' in the process, and vice versa. Similarly, immunity to one prevents either of them from being set (or removed if active).

Effects: Time bar fills more slowly (half normal speed), so turns come less often. Also slows time-linked effects like 'poison' status, and causes effects that wear off on their own to do so more slowly.

Attackers are supposed to have a 25% bonus to hit rate against those affected, but the evade bug keeps this from working.

Symptoms: Glowing white outline, sluggish time bar

Cause with: Slow or Slowga spell, Stragus's Reflect???? (only if target has 'reflect' status)

Remove with: End of combat; Esuna or Dispel spell; Unicorn summon Heal Horn; Mash's Spiral Soul; Stragus's Fusion; Mog's Basking in the Forest (Forest Nocturne), Tapir (Love Serenade), or Raccoon (Water Harmony); 'haste' status

Prevent with: Hermes's Shoes, Miracle Shoes

Additionally, 'slow' and 'haste' are mutually exclusive status effects. Anything that sets 'haste' automatically cancels 'slow' in the process, and vice versa. Similarly, immunity to one prevents either of them from being set (or removed if active).

Effects: Time bar fills more quickly (nearly 1/3 faster than usual), so turns come more often. Also speeds time-linked effects like 'poison' status, and causes effects that wear off on their own to do so more quickly.

Attackers are supposed to have a 25% penalty to hit rate against those affected, but the evade bug keeps this from working.

Symptoms: Glowing red outline, speedy time bar

Cause with: Hermes's Shoes (when worn), Miracle Shoes (when worn), Haste or Hastega spell, Mog's Meerkat (Desert Lullaby)

Remove with: End of combat, Dispel spell, 'slow' status

Prevent with: N/A

Additionally, 'haste' and 'slow' are mutually exclusive status effects. Anything that sets 'slow' automatically cancels 'haste' in the process, and vice versa. Similarly, immunity to one prevents either of them from being set (or removed if active).

Effects: Time bar halts. Can't take action or evade attacks. Pauses the duration timer on most effects that wear off over time (other than itself, of course). This also pauses periodic effects like 'poison' and 'regenerate'.

Symptoms: Glowing pink outline, stopped time bar.

Cause with: Kagenui (may cast Stop on attack), Stop spell, Cayenne's Moon

Remove with: End of combat; Esuna or Dispel spell; Unicorn summon Heal Horn; Mash's Spiral Soul; Stragus's Fusion; Mog's Basking in the Forest (Forest Nocturne), Tapir (Love Serenade), or Raccoon (Water Harmony). This status also eventually wears off on its own.

Prevent with: N/A

Effects: Magic damage taken reduced by approximately 1/3, except defense-ignoring attacks.

Symptoms: Glowing green outline

Cause with: Force Shield (when worn), Barrier Ring (activates in 'near death' status when worn), Princess Ring (activates in 'near death' status when worn), Protection Bracelet (when worn), Miracle Shoes (when worn), Shell spell, Zone Seeker summon Magic Shield, Stragus's Mighty Guard

Remove with: End of combat, Dispel spell

Prevent with: N/A

Effects: Physical damage taken reduced by approximately 1/3, except defense-ignoring attacks.

Symptoms: Glowing yellow outline

Cause with: Mithril Bracer (activates in 'near death' status when worn), Princess Ring (activates in 'near death' status when worn), Protect Ring (when worn), Protection Bracelet (when worn), Miracle Shoes (when worn), Protect spell, Stragus's Mighty Guard

Remove with: End of combat, Dispel spell

Prevent with: N/A

Effects: Reflects most, but not all, magic at half strength, without discriminating between harmful and helpful spells. Once reflected, a spell cannot be reflected again. Spells will not be reflected if the target also has 'transparent' status. Finally, only targets with 'reflect' status are affected by Stragus's Reflect????.

Symptoms: Glowing blue outline, spells bounce off

Cause with: Reflect Ring (when worn), Reflect spell, Carbuncle summon Ruby Light

Remove with: End of combat, Dispel spell. This status also eventually wears off on its own.

Prevent with: N/A

Not named in-game except as a command. This is the state entered by using the Rage command.

Effects: Character automatically either attacks or uses the ability associated with the current Rage.

Symptoms: Fuming, automatic actions

Cause with: Rage command (affects user)

Remove with: End of combat, 'petrified' status, 'incapacitated' status. 'Kappa' status will force normal attacks, but not remove the status itself.

Prevent with: Avoid the Rage command

Not named in-game, but it's pretty obvious what's going on.

Effects: Time bar halts. Can't act or evade attacks.

Symptoms: Character turns blue and can't act, time bar stops

Cause with: Enemy skill Nothern Cross via Gau's Dragonfiend Rage (monster #37, Doom Drgn in NA version).

Remove with: End of combat, any Flame attack (though this still causes damage as usual), Mash's Spiral Soul, Mog's Raccoon (Water Harmony). This status also eventually wears off on its own, though it takes nearly twice as long as 'stop' or 'sleep'.

Prevent with: N/A

Effects: Upon entering 'incapacitated' status, either through instant death or HP loss, this automatically casts the Raise spell on the affected and cancels 'reraise' status. However, Mash's Spiral Soul and Stragos's Fusion still kill the user regardless.

Attackers are supposed to have a 25% bonus to hit rate against those affected (safety breeding carelessness?), but the evade bug keeps this from working.

Symptoms: None

Cause with: Reraise spell

Remove with: End of combat, Dispel spell, enter 'incapacitated' status

Prevent with: N/A

Not named in-game except as a command. This is the state Tina enters by using her Transform command.

Effects: Adds a +100% bonus to physical and magical damage (except defense-ignoring attacks), halves magic damage taken (except defense-ignoring attacks).

Transformation additionally doubles the effect of 'regenerate' and 'slip' status, and also seems to affect 'poison' similarly.

Symptoms: The "supernatural being" look is unmistakable.

Cause with: Tina's Transform command

Remove with: End of combat, duration expires, Tina's Revert command

Prevent with: Avoid the Transform command

Not named in the game. This is the state Relm (or Gogo) enters when Controlling an enemy. If a character enters this status by any other means (i.e., Ripple), the game is likely to freeze when it tries to show the command menu for that character, so avoid that.

Effects: Use Controlled enemy's Control command list

Symptoms: Continuous chanting

Cause with: Control command (sets on user if successful)

Remove with: End of combat, kill the Controlled monster, any successful physical attack to Controlled monster, (make the controller unable to act?)

Prevent with: Avoid Control command

Not named in-game.

Effects: Not shown at all, can't be targeted or hit.

Symptoms: Not displayed on screen

Cause with: Unsure, but probably nearly anything that takes someone out of the action, such as the Jump command, the Quetzal summon Sonic Dive, running away, Mash's Spiral Soul, Stragus's Fusion, and the ejection skills used by certain monsters.

Remove with: End of combat, or if Jumping caused it, wait for the jump to end

Prevent with: Avoid abilities that cause it, otherwise N/A

Not named in the game. This is an internal flag normally found on Shadow (except on the Mystic Continent) and only on Shadow.

Effects: Interceptor randomly intercepts physical attacks (even attacks from behind, which are normally unblockable) aimed at the character, and has a chance to counterattack with Hound Tackle or Wild Fang afterward.

Shadow starts with this status, and normally keeps it for the entire game except the brief interruption noted above. However, Ripple can swap it, even though it's not supposed to, so Shadow can lose Interceptor's assistance permanently. Keep Shadow away from enemies that use Ripple!

Effects: Ground-based attacks automatically those affected, but vulnerability to Lock's Hawkeye and Sniper weapons is increased (rarely an issue for player characters). Enemies that appear to be flying typically have this status permanently set.

Symptoms: Hovering a few feet off the ground

Cause with: Angel Wings (when worn), Levitate spell

Remove with: Sleeping Bag, Tent, Dispel spell

Prevent with: N/A

Not named in-game. This is a special status effect caused only by the Temptation skill (refer to enemy skills). It's also incredibly abusable.

Effects: This works like the 'confusion' status effect, but is more complicated in how it is applied, and more insidious in that it can't be cured or (short of blocking the attack) prevented.

A single caster may have only one 'charmed' victim at a time (the skill fails automatically if a currect victim exists). A successful use of Temptation by a different caster on the same target will leave the target 'charmed', but it now counts as the second caster's victim, allowing the first caster to successfully use Temptation on a different target (or the same one, which again resets the victim link and frees the second caster to use Temptation on something else).

The 'charmed' status can also exist alongside the 'confusion' status. In this case, actions are randomized as usual, but targeting is inverted twice, resulting in attacking enemies and healing allies. Sometimes two wrongs do make a right, sort of.

Symptoms: Other than behavior, none.

Cause with: Enemy skill Temptation via Gau's Roflesh Meadow Rage (monster #51, Nightshade in NA version).

Remove with: End of combat, caster dies or leaves combat, victim dies or leaves combat

Prevent with: Other than blocking or dodging the Temptation skill, you can't. Not even bosses are immune!