Esuna and Detrimental Status Effects

[whiskeybravo]

You can't select which status effect it removes. It seems to prioritize based on what it deems "most detrimental" and then by which debuff has the longest duration left.

Could be.. Just seems like I remember one time trying to Esuna something off a warrior, and pacification came up and removed that instead of the effect I was attempting to remove. Memory is fuzzy after so many hours though.. maybe Pacification is very detrimental lol.

[LiadansWhisper]

Could be.. Just seems like I remember one time trying to Esuna something off a warrior, and pacification came up and removed that instead of the effect I was attempting to remove. Memory is fuzzy after so many hours though.. maybe Pacification is very detrimental lol.

If you were in an 8 man, maybe the other healer dispelled it first? If not, I'm not sure. I've never seen it take Pacification off over like, a healing status debuff, but maybe it prioritizes it over, say, Poison (though that seems silly, since Pacification is, what, a few seconds long?).

[whiskeybravo]

Yea pacification is usually gone by the time you notice/cast it lol, though as a side note I do try to always esuna it since war is my second main so I feel for them.

I'm pretty sure I was attempting to remove Paralysis when it did that. Not entirely sure, it's been a month or more since that happened. Now I just Esuna for anything I see pop up, don't pay much attention to the order it's removed. I think we at least confirmed you can't select which status effect to remove

[Classikal]

Just hit Totorak, and the amount of Poison used by mobs in this dungeon is sickening, lol. And it stacks... nothing says **** you more than 2 people getting 3 stacks of Poison just as the pull starts, and you can only Esuna one off at a time, lol.

[Enkidoh]

Wait til you hit Brayflox with the dragon boss - then you'll truly know the pain of multiple stacked poisons on a target. ; ;

Another way of noticing negative statuses from buffs is buffs usually have upward pointing arrows on them, with arrows on debuffs usually facing down. Not every buff/debuff is like this though, but those that do have it, it's a good way of telling them apart.

[Classikal]

Wait til you hit Brayflox with the dragon boss - then you'll truly know the pain of multiple stacked poisons on a target. ; ;

Another way of noticing negative statuses from buffs is buffs usually have upward pointing arrows on them, with arrows on debuffs usually facing down. Not every buff/debuff is like this though, but those that do have it, it's a good way of telling them apart.

I just got to Brayflox a couple of days ago, and the Poison stacks on Aiatar don't really seem all that bad in all honesty. The Poison stacks so slowly it's rare to see anything more than 1. And on the rare occasion it hits 2, they can both be removed still with one Esuna.

Off topic, I've seen a bunch of new and interesting detrimental effects from Brayflox as a whole. It's a fun area on WHM.

[Darkkos]

When you get Esuna, you dont "need" to remove those debuff ASAP(None of the debuff are deadly at low lv) and youll see Poison most of the time.Youll get time to learn the debuf. And while some debuff got a redscreen behind, its not true for all debuff (Idk the name of the debuf but when you fight the Purple Bavarois adds , some of the debuff arent red) The best way to reconize them is that the icon will point downward and when its a buff its upward.

[Seezur_Undies]

Could be.. Just seems like I remember one time trying to Esuna something off a warrior, and pacification came up and removed that instead of the effect I was attempting to remove. Memory is fuzzy after so many hours though.. maybe Pacification is very detrimental lol.

I noticed a trend where it seems like it takes off the least detrimental debuff off first, those who poo-poo spell speed, the fact i can cast an ensuna in a .5 seconds has saved me and my party few times

[Brises]

I filter my chat log to show only party text and status ailments. When someone is afflicted, it pops up in purple lettering and catches my eye. That especially useful if you don't know what all the icons mean. Also, remember only 5 icons will be displayed, so if the person has a lot of buffs on, the ailments icon might not show up.

[Euphe]

Just keep in mind to remove debuffs from tanks first or someone who may die because of them. If you need to see the full buffs/debuffs on a party member then just click their name in party. Check any red colored icons first (for beginners). Once you have encountered most of the debuff icons and come to recognize them it becomes second nature. I haven't tried the chat filtering method yet for myself but that would make it a lot easier (especially if you are just starting out) so I suggest giving that a try. I have heard in passing that SE was gonna make it easier to see debuffs in later patches however, but only time will tell if that stands to be true. Good luck out there!