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    Purifying Abilities Inconsistent Tooltips

    I think SE should do a better job at consolidating their tooltips into something more uniform and following the same language when it comes to ailment purifiers like Purify.

    For instance, Purify reads:

    Removes Stun, Heavy, Bind, Silence, Deep Freeze, and Miracle of Nature.
    Additional Effect: Grants Resilience
    Resilience Effect: Nullifies status afflictions that can be removed by Purify, as well as knockback and draw-in effects.
    Compare to Meikyo, that DOESN'T remove ailments, only prevents them (nullifies):

    Grants Meikyo Shisui.
    Meikyo Shisui Effect: Nullifies status afflictions that can be removed by Purify, as well as knockback and draw-in effects
    So far, so good, both are consistent. Let's continue on with Warden's Paean:

    Removes one status affliction from self or target party member that can be removed by Purify. If a status affliction cannot be removed, creates a barrier that will nullify the next status affliction that can be removed by Purify.
    This still follows the same pattern: it removes one ailment OR prevent (nullifies) another.

    Now for aquaveil:

    Creates a barrier around self or target party member that absorbs damage equivalent to a heal of 8,000 potency.
    Duration: 10s
    Additional Effect: Nullifies one status affliction that can be removed by Purify
    Barrier potency is doubled when successfully nullifying a status affliction.
    This still follows the same pattern. You have a barrier that only prevents ailments (nullifies), but this is obviously removed with the buff when the barrier is broken by damage.

    Now look at Swift, that suddenly breaks all of the conventions and just uses its own language, which I think is just confusing for no real reason because it's essentially just a nullifier (preventing, not removing):

    Increases movement speed by 100% and grants immunity to Stun, Heavy, Bind, Silence, Half-asleep, Sleep, Deep Freeze, and knockback and draw-in effects.
    Please be consistent with those tooltips? Either uses "nullifies" like all the others, or change "nullifies" into something less ambiguous like "grants immunity" like Swift, but not both at the same time?
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    According to the Japanese text, Swift nullifies the same debuffs as Meikyo Shisui: it includes Miracle of Nature, but not Half-asleep or Sleep. The German and French versions follow the same pattern as the Japanese version. The English text appears to differ from the other language versions and may be incorrect.
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    It's always, always the EN translation, doesn't it?
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    It really is. I posted bug reports on inconsistency of nullifiable debuff types for "Swift" and "Guard" in Japanese Forums. In the Japanese version, they are the same as "Meikyo Shisui," but this is not the case in the English version. A reply pointed out that "Primal Scream" has the same problem. They moved to "Accepted Bugs" section. I hope these issues will be fixed.
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