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Status Effects Explained

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Avowed Status Effects Explained

Status Effects can occur as debuffs or damaging effects in Avowed. See how many status effects there are and what they do in this guide!

All Status Effects

Status Effect Accumulation Type and Effect
Avowed FrozenFrozen Accumulation Type: Frost
When Frost accumulation reaches max, enemies become Frozen. They can then be shattered with a weapon hit for significant damage.
Avowed BurningBurning Accumulation Type: Fire
When Fire accumulation reaches max, enemies are Ignited. This causes them to take damage-over-time over a small period.
Avowed ShockedShocked Accumulation Type: Electric
When Electric accumulation reaches max, enemies are Shocked. This sends out a small shockwave to the target and nearby enemies, interrupting their attacks and functioning as a mini-stun.
Avowed BleedingBleeding Accumulation Type: Bleed
Enemies bleed at max accumulation stacks as a damage-over-time effect over a small period of time.
Avowed PoisonedPoisoned Accumulation Type: Poison
When Poison accumulation reaches max, enemies become Poisoned and take damage-over-time for the duration of the status effect's period.
Avowed ResistanceResistance Improved Defense to particular Status Effect, taking longer to accumulate the status effect.
Avowed WeaknessWeakness Weak to particular Status Effect, making it easier to afflict the status effect.
Avowed ImmuneImmune Is immune to the particular Status Effect, and cannot be afflicted by the Status Effect.

What Are Status Effects?

Buffing or Debuffing Effects in Combat

Avowed Status Effects

During combat, you may deal enough of a certain element or enough bleed damage to an opponent or have the same applied enough to you.

When that happens, it applies Status Effects that either hinder the affected target's movement, actions, or deals damage over time to them.

Multiple Effects Can Happen Simultaneously

Each Status Effect have their own Accumulation Stacks independent of each other, both for you and your enemy.

This means that all of their durations are independent, and that you can potentially apply all Status Effects to a single target with enough accumulation.

Boss Enemies Will be Resistant, Weak, or Immune to Some Effects

Avowed Other Status Effects

Different boss-type enemies in the game will either have a resistance, weakness, or be immune to a particular effect.

This is indicated below their health bars, where one of the main 5 Status Effects will be there, along with a Shield and either arrows or an X to indicate how resistant or weak they are to that particular effect.

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