Status Effects

There are many status debuffs (or status ailments) in Ragnarok Online that work against you in many ways. Both player characters and monsters are capable of inflicting them.

Bleeding

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC BLEEDING.

This status ailment causes the following effect:

• Causes "rapid" loss of HP over time. Contrary to the effect of Poison, this CAN kill the victim however, the damage is slow enough that it rarely will. The red icon disappears but the effect stays even after re-logging or map/zone changes.
• Natural HP/SP Regen disabled.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Dying cancels this ailment.
• High VIT to prevent the occurrence and reduce lasting time.
• Battle Chant instantly removes all buffs and status effects from the Paladin who cast it, including Bleeding.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Bleeding status.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Bleeding status.
• Dispell removes this ailment. (?)
• Mercenary's skill Compress can undo the effect.

Card effects:

• Ungoliant Card grants immunity.
• Wootan Fighter Card increases resistance by 20%.
• Killer Mantis Card gives a 6% chance to inflict bleeding when receiving physical damage.

Equipment:

• Bone Head increases resistance by 5%.

Weapon Effects:

• Hatii Claw Adds a 2% chance of inflicting [Bleeding] on the target when doing a melee attack.

Blind

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC BLINDATTACK.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Reduce your HIT and FLEE rate by 25%.
• Also graphically reduces the range of your visibility.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Green Potion, Panacea, Royal Jelly, and Cure can undo the effect.
• Having high VIT and LUK will reduce the amount of time this ailment affects you, as well as the chance of being affected.
• INT also reduces the chance and duration.
• Typing "/effect" will disable the reduced visibility effect, but HIT and FLEE will still be reduced.
• Battle Chant instantly removes all buffs and status effects from the Paladin who cast it, including Blind.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Blind status.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Blind status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.

Card effects:

• Deviruchi Card grants immunity.
• Martin Card increases resistance by 20%.
• Obeaune Card allows use of Cure, which removes blind.
• Flame Skull Card increases resistance by 30%.

Equipment:

• Blinker and Dark Blinder grants immunity.
• Alarm Mask increases resistance by 50%.
• Geek Glasses increases resistance by 15%.
• Purple Glasses increases resistance by 10%.
• Sunglasses and Slotted Sunglasses increases resistance by 5%.
• Rudra Bow increases resistance by 50%.

Break

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Movement Speed -50% if Ankle Break
• Movement Speed -30% and ASPD -10% if Knee Break
• ASPD -25% if Wrist Break
• Soft DEF -50% if Shoulder Break
• Soft DEF -25% and ATK -25% if Waist Break
• Doubles damage from this skill, leaves vulnerable to Critical Hits (?) and inflicts Bleeding if Neck Break

This status ailment is caused by:

• Lord Knight skill: Joint Beat

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• STR affects the infliction chance. (STR 204 = immune)
• Stats#AGIAGI and LUK reduce the duration
• One of Gospel's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Break status.

Chaos

Also known as Confusion. This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Causes the character to move in unintended directions when trying to navigate.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Getting hit automatically cancels the effect.
• INT reduces the chances of occurrence and duration.
• Acolyte's skill - Cure, Panacea, Royal Jelly can undo the effect.
• [[[Gospel]] instantly removes all buffs and status effects from the Paladin who cast it, including Chaos.
• One of Gospel's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Chaos status.
• One of Gospel's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Chaos status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.

Card effects:

• Evil Snake Lord Card and Giearth Card grant immunity.
• Wootan Shooter Card increases resistance by 20%.

Equipment:

• Rudra Bow increases resistance by 50%.

Coma

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC DARKBLESSING.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Reduces afflicted target's HP to 1.
• Reduces afflicted target's SP to 0.
• When used against monsters, the amount of EXP that equals the damage you dealt during this period is not given when the monster dies.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Heal, Healing Items
• One of Gospel's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Coma. (Editor's Note: Untested. It's hard to classify Coma as a status effect, and I do not know if it is covered by Battle Chant's immunity effect.)

Card effects:

• Golden Thiefbug Card grants immunity.

Other notes:

• You can dodge coma-inducing physical attacks if you have high flee.
• Having higher LUK will decrease the chance of coma when attacked.
• Inversely, having higher LUK will increase the chances for coma infliction when attacking.

Critical Wounds

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC CRITICALWOUND.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Lowers the effectiveness of healing skills on you, including Heal, Sanctuary, Potion Pitcher, and recovery items. This reduction is 20% times the level of Critical Wounds that inflicted it.
• Those afflicted by Lv. 5 Critical Wounds can only recover using a Yggdrasil Berry.
• Lasts 30 seconds.
• If a Crusader or Paladin uses Devotion on the inflicted person, they can take the damage and be healed, regardless of the critical wounds on the target.
• You can dodge critical wounds inducing physical attacks if you have high flee, are in Safety Wall (at close range), or in Pneuma (at long range).
• Relogging cancels the status.

Curse

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC CURSEATTACK and NPC WIDECURSE.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Reduce your ATK by 25%.
• LUK becomes 0.
• Drastically Reduces your Movement Speed.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Panacea, Royal Jelly, Holy Water, Acolyte's skill - Blessing can undo the effect.
• LUK reduces the chance of being Cursed, and VIT reduces the duration of being Cursed. NOTE: VIT may play a part in resisting as well.
• Battle Chant instantly removes all buffs and status effects from the Paladin who cast it, including Curse.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Cursed status.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Cursed status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.
• Mercenary's skill Benediction can undo the effect.

Card effects:

• Evil Snake Lord Card grants immunity.
• Flame Skull Card increases resistance by 30%.

Equipment:

• Colored Drooping Cats increase resistance by 30%.
• Censor Bar increases resistance by 5%.
• Divine Cloth increases resistance by 5%.
• Ear Muffs increases resistance by 10%.
• Headset increases resistance by 10%.
• Rudra Bow increases resistance by 50%.

Divest

This status ailment causes the following effect:

• Rogues can divest players and monsters by individually using Strip Armor, Strip Helm, Strip Shield, and Strip Weapon.
• Stalkers can divest players and monsters of all of their equipment by using Full Strip.
• The player can not reequip any items into a given equipment slot, depending on which one was targeted.

To prevent infliction:

• High DEX lowers the chance.
• Alchemists may grant immunity to individual equipment by using Chemical Protection Weapon, Chemical Protection Helm, Chemical Protection Shield, Chemical Protection Armor.
• Biochemists may grant immunity to all divestable equipment by using Full Chemical Protection.

To recover from this ailment:

• Relogging removes the status.
• Alchemist protection skills "cure" divest status.
• Gospel instantly removes all buffs and status effects from the Paladin who cast it, including Divest.
• Gospel's random effects remove all abnormal status effects from party members, including Divest status.
• Gospel's random effects grant 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Divest status.

Frozen

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC WIDEFREEZE.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• All DEF contributed by items reduced by 50%.
• Monsters Hard-DEF and Soft-DEF is reduced by 50% (round up).
• Any flee will be negated.
• Increases your Hard-MDEF by 25%.
• Ignores Steal, Lex Aeterna, Wizard's skill - Storm Gust, Ninja's skill - Snow Flake Draft.
• Impossible to move, attack, pick up items, skill usage, sitting, force disconnection, and item usage.
• Armor attribute becomes "Water 1". (175% damage from Wind-based attacks, 25% damage from Water, 50% damage from Fire).

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Getting hit automatically cancels the effect.
• Priest's skill Status Recovery can undo the effect.
• Swordman's skill Provoke cancels the effect.
• Scholar's skill Mind Breaker cancels the effect.
• Having high hard MDEF and LUK will reduce the amount of time this ailment affects you, as well as the chance of being affected.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Frozen. However, it can't remove the frozen status from the paladin itself since it can't cast any skill as long as he/she is frozen.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Frozen status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.
• Mercenary's skill Tender can undo the effect.

Card effects:

• Evil Druid Card grants elemental immunity.
• Marc Card grants immunity.
• Megalodon Card increases resistance by 20%.
• Detardeus Card grants immunity.

Equipment:

• Diabolus Ring increases resistance by 15%.
• Dark Bacilium increases resistance by 20% + 2%*upgrade.
• Winter Hat increases resistance by 10%.
• Note Headphone increases resistance by 10%.
• Shafka increases resistance by 10%.
• Meteo Plate Armor increases resistance by 30%.

Hallucination

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC HALLUCINATION.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• The screen goes wavy and you see crazy numbers for all damage that is processed around you, but they are all fake. Even other players see those numbers at you. The wavy screen effect will cause severe local-machine lag on many newer computers (less than 1 fps), making it difficult to move or use skills or items.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Panacea, Royal Jelly.
• Typing "/effect" will disable the "wavy" rendering effect, but the damage will still be displayed as random numbers.
• Battle Chant instantly removes all buffs and status effects from the Paladin who use it, including Hallucination.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Hallucination status.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Hallucination status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.
• Mercenary's skill Mental Cure can undo the effect.

Card effects:

• None

Hell's Power

This status ailment is inflicted only by Satan Morroc.

This status ailment causes the following effect:

• The affected player cannot be resurrected.
• A purple skull appears on the player's screen to indicate the status effect is active and lasts approximately 5 minutes.
• It is unpreventable
• Relogging does NOT cancel the effect

Poison

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC POISON.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Status-oriented DEF is reduced by 25%.
• If HP is over 25%, you will lose 1.5% + 2 HP of your max HP every second.
• SP Regeneration is disabled.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Green Herb, Green Potion, Panacea, Royal Jelly, Thief's skill - Detoxify can undo the effect.
• Having high VIT and LUK will reduce the amount of time this ailment affects you, as well as the chance of being affected.
• Priest's Slow Poison prevents damage taken from poison but does not cure the reduced DEF effect. It is a very rarely used counter.
• Battle Chant initially removes all buffs and status effects from the Paladin who use it, including poison.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including poison status.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including poison status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.
• Mercenary's skill Recuperate can undo the effect.

Card effects:

• Argiope Card grants Poison element, and immunity to Poison attacks, but not the poison status itself.
• Ghoul Card increases resistance to poison by 20%.
• Poporing Card allows use of Detoxify (which cancels poison).
• Venomous Card has a 30% chance of inflicting poison on self and a 30% chance of inflicting poison on the attacker when receiving physical damage.

Equipment:

• Eye of Dullahan grants immunity.
• Gas Mask increases resistance by 30%.
• Oxygen Mask increases resistance by 20%.
• Rudra Bow increases resistance by 50%.

Silence

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC SILENCEATTACK and NPC WIDESILENCE.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Inability to use any active skills.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Priest's skill - Lex Divina, Green Potion, Panacea, Royal Jelly, Acolyte's/Crusader skill - Cure can undo the effect.
• Having high VIT and LUK will reduce the amount of time this ailment affects you, as well as the chance of being affected.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Silence status. However, it can't remove the silence status from the paladin itself since it can't cast any skill as long as he/she is silenced.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Silence status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.

Card effects:

• Marduk Card grants immunity.
• Stainer Card increases resistance by 20%.
• Gemini-S58 Card Add 30% resistance if the user has 90 or more base AGI points.

Equipment:

• Gangster Mask increases resistance by 15%.
• Valkyrian Armor increases resistance by 50%. if the user is Acolyte, Archer, or Mage Class.
• Divine Cloth increases resistance by 5%.
• Flu Mask increases resistance by 10%.
• Rudra Bow increase resistance by 50%.

Sleep

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC SLEEPATTACK and NPC WIDESLEEP.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Impossible to move, attack, pick up items, skill usage, sitting, force disconnection, and item usage.
• If an enemy attacks you, you will always get hit.
• If an enemy attacks you, they will have 2x CRIT chance with their attack.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Getting hit automatically cancels the effect.
• Having high INT and LUK will reduce the amount of time this ailment affects you, as well as the chance of being affected.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Sleep status. However, it can't remove the sleep status from the paladin itself since it can't cast any skill as long as he/she is sleeping.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Sleep status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.
• Mercenary's skill Regain can undo the effect.

Card effects:

• Nightmare Card grants immunity.
• Coco Card increases resistance by 20%.
• Gemini-S58 Card increases resistance by 50% if the user has 80 or more base VIT.

Equipment:

• Lazy Smokie increases resistance by 20%.
• Divine Cloth increases resistance by 5%.

Slow Casting

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC SLOWCAST.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Increases your casting time by 20% - 100%.
• Effect lasts 30 seconds.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• None.

Card effects:

• None.

Stone

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC PETRIFYATTACK and NPC WIDESTONE. This status ailment causes the following effects:

• All DEF contributed by items is reduced by 50%.
• Monsters Hard-DEF and Soft-DEF are reduced by 50% (round up).
• If HP is over 25%, you will lose 1% of your HP every 5 seconds.
• Increases your MDEF by 25%.
• Changes your elemental status to "Earth LV 1"
• Ignores Steal and Lex Aeterna.
• Impossible to move, attack, pick up items, skill usage, sitting, force disconnection, and item usage.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Getting hit by any damaging attack or skill (physical or magical) automatically cancels the effect.
• Status Recovery and Blessing can undo the effect.
• Having high hard MDEF and LUK will reduce the amount of time this ailment affects you, as well as the chance of being affected.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Stone status, however it can't remove the Stone status from the paladin itself since it can't cast any skill as long as he/she is in stone status.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Stone status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.

Card effects:

• Medusa Card grants immunity.
• Evil Druid Card grants immunity by Undead element.
• Munak Card increases resistance by 15%.
• Argos Card increases resistance by 20%.
• Flame Skull Card increases resistance by 30%.
• Seeker Card increases resistance by 30%.
• Gemini-S58 Card increases resistance by 50% if the user has 80 or more base VIT.

Equipment:

• Dark Bacilium increases resistance by 20% + 2%*upgrade.
• Diabolus Armor increases resistance by 5%.
• Divine Cloth increases resistance by 5%.

Note: The Stone status effect is a two-stage effect. When a character is first inflicted with the Stone status, they are still able to move, and being attacked does not cancel the effect - note that during this time they can be affected by Lex Aeterna, and cannot attack or use skills but are still able to use items. Once the Stone "hardens," the character is immobilized, and being attacked will break the Stone curse.

Stun

For the Monster Exclusive Skill see NPC STUNATTACK and NPC WIDESTUN.

This status ailment causes the following effects:

• Any flee will be negated.
• Impossible to move, attack, pick up items, skill usage, sitting, force disconnection, and item usage.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Priest's skill Status Recovery can undo the effect.
• VIT (greatly) and LUK (very minorly) will reduce the duration of this ailment and the chance to be inflicted. Base level will slightly lower the chance of Stun being inflicted.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects removes all abnormal status effects from party members, including Stun status. However it can't remove the Stun status from the paladin itself since it can't cast any skill as long as he/she is stunned.
• One of Battle Chant's random effects grants 60 seconds of immunity to all status effects to party members, including Stun status.
• Dispell removes this ailment.
• Mercenary's skill Regain can undo the effect.

Card effects:

• Orc Hero Card grants immunity.
• Stalactic Golem Card increases resistance by 20%.
• Gemini-S58 Card increases resistance by 30% if the user has 90 or more base AGI.
• Flame Skull Card increases resistance by 30%.

Equipment:

• Valkyrian Armor increases resistance by 50% if the user is Merchant, Swordsman or Thief Class.
• Note Headphone increases resistance by 10%.
• Dark Bacilium increases resistance by 20% + 2%*upgrade.
• Diabolus Armor increases resistance by 5%.
• Bone Head increases resistance by 5%
• Dark Blinder increases resistance by 2%
• Divine Cloth increases resistance by 5%
• Meteo Plate increases resistance by 30%
• Parade Hat increases resistance by 10%
• Warlock's Battle Robe complete set increases resistance by 20%

Undead

This status ailment is caused solely by the Monster Exclusive Skills NPC CHANGEUNDEAD and NPC_DRAGONFEAR.

This status ailment causes the following effect:

• The player becomes Undead property.
• Support buffs such as Blessing and Increase AGI are removed.
• Support buffs such as Blessing and Increase AGI deal damage to the player and the buffs are not applied, even in PVM. They will do 1 damage, but cannot be copied by the Rogue class using Intimidate
• Heal and Sanctuary have no effect on the player in PvM
• Aspersio will deal damage to the player and can be copied by Rogue's Intimidate (verify?)
• The ailment causes the player's sprite to glow green.

To prevent infliction:

• Bathory Card causes the skill inflicting this status to miss.
• Evil Druid Card causes the skill inflicting this status to miss.

To assist in recovering from this ailment:

• Relogging cancels the status.
• Battle Chant instantly removes all buffs and status effects from the Paladin who uses it, including Undead.
• Dispell removes this ailment.