Remaking classical status ailments

[Duelle]

Remember what the director of this game you're looking forward to said:

"This is a Final Fantasy game first."

Indeed.

Decent storytelling, the FF jobs we know and love, chocobo, airships and someone named Cid. So far the game has delivered on that front. Has nothing to do with the current discussion, though.

[Airget]

Well there are a lot of interesting ways they could implement status ailments into the game if they were to just add them without focusing on any visual image of it.

Mini for example could be an effect which Triples the damage you take, reduces damage you deal by 1/2 and triples your evasion

Petrify as mentioned earlier could cause one to take less dmg while under the effect but of course they would be unable to deal dmg. Said effect could be interesting to use if medication is made which can grant one the petrification effect.

Berserk Could simply be like Amnesia but also increases your att power.

Confuse could cause your weapon-skill to randomly change target from the one you were originally targeting.

Toad could pretty much be like amnesia cept your att is also lowered and dmg taken is increased

"Old" kind of like Doom cept with a longer timer to completion and gradually reduces attributes as the battle progresses. Could be made into a unique boss battle against a Time manipulator causing one to strike hard and fast before they become to old to fight on.

Those are the ones I can think of atm that could be fun to implement lol. But ya it would be nice to see more status ailments in the game as long as they aren't OPed and unfair to battle against.

[Alhanelem]

Remember those bosses in FF history that absolutely destroyed you because they had horrid status effects? Normally you could handle huge damage, even if it cost a phoenix down... but things like Confuse or Berserk? That threw everything off kilter.

I'd personally like to see a return of classical status ailments. I realize some of these are already in, but they're boring and uninspired.

Confuse
What it does: Makes you run around hitting friends, foes or yourself

how to cure it: Getting physically hit / Esuna / Remedy (thrown)

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Mini
What it does: Turns you into a miniature version of yourself, significantly weakening you, and lowering your maximum HP and halving magic power

how to cure it: Esuna / Remedy (thrown)

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Zombie
What it does: Either reverses healing into damage (I could see how this could be used to grief though) or makes it so you can't be healed at all for the duration

how to cure it: Viruna / Esuna / Remedy (thrown) / Holy Water (thrown)

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Charm
What it does: Forces you to attack your friends and allies

how to cure it: KO (Maybe something else, but this should be a nasty status ailment)

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Doom
What it does: Activates a countdown timer, when it hits 0 you die

how to cure it: Holy water (Low chance of removal) / Killing an enemy (100% chance of removal)

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Disease
What it does: Halves your maximum HP, MP and all stats, does not fill HP or MP on recovery

how to cure it: Esuna(?) / Viruna

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Berserk
What it does: Makes you unable to control your actions, but sharply increases attack / speed(?). You will not be able to choose a target, but you can only target enemies.

how to cure it: Esuna / Remedy(?)

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Toad
What it does: Turns you into a Toad, limiting you to greatly weakened physical attacks

how to cure it: Maiden's Kiss (?)

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Amnesia
What it does: Can't use weapon skills or job abilities

how to cure it: Esuna

These are just a few ideas, I want to actually fear varied status ailments and be in situations where multiple ones used at once would be very scary. Currently the status ailments are pretty potent, but they're generally pretty boring imo.

Amnesia is in the game, Qiqirns have it.

Most of the rest of those existed in FFXI and will probably exist in this game at some point except confuse.

[NefGP]

What about some of the new status that were in 12, like Bubble & Reverse?

[Elexia]

What about some of the new status that were in 12, like Bubble & Reverse?

Those weren't really new perse, just a different form. For example iirc, Bubble increased max HP right? That was something that's been around for a bit in various ways throughout older FF games.

Reverse for example is just a type of Absorb status, like in FFVII you had that monster in Shrina Mansion that had a physical heal mode or magical heal mode.

[PSxpert2011]

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Zombie
What it does: Either reverses healing into damage (I could see how this could be used to grief though) or makes it so you can't be healed at all for the duration

how to cure it:Viruna / Esuna/ Remedy (thrown) / Holy Water (thrown)

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These are just a few ideas, I want to actually fear varied status ailments and be in situations where multiple ones used at once would be very scary. Currently the status ailments are pretty potent, but they're generally pretty boring imo.

Some more contributions:

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(modified the zombie effect that the OP had to fit better with FFV/FFVI style)

Zombie (FFV/FFVI - inspired)
What it does: Lose control of character which walks towards and auto-attacks allies - healing magic is inverted and damages character ('Raise' effects will instant KO) - skin turns grey-green

how to cure it:Esuna, Holy Water,Remedy/Panacea,.

In the FF series, you'd loose a battle if everyone in your party turned to zombies. How do you translate this same situation in XIV?


Getting "zombie-fide" would probably be one of the most popular of all the stats but I would have to question the methods use to cure it. It's not like it a common/normal stat. It's basically a rare accorance and phonominon to happen to any living being, almost supernatural. Any common 'remedy' or the spell 'Esuna' wouldn't be so easy to cure this "wicked stat" as it would for a player in living condition.

It's an exclusive condition and it would be more frieghtening to have just one cure for it which ofcourse is "holy water".