All Status Ailments and Effects

Status Ailments in Metaphor: ReFantazio can make or break your battles if you don't know how to harness them well. Learn more about all Status Ailments in the game and what they do, and how to cure them in this guide!

Status Conditions Overview

What are Status Ailments?

Status Ailments are conditions cast upon targets that have adverse effects to them during battle. These ailments usually last for a couple of turns until they are cured or the target recovers.

The effects they cause may include losing a turn, taking damage over time, or lowering stats. Some spells can cause two or more of these setbacks to take effect.

There are two kinds of ailments in Metaphor: ReFantazio: Physical Ailments, ailments that stay with you even after battle, and Mental Ailments, ailments that get cured once battle is over.

List of Status Ailments

Physical Ailments

Ailment	Description
Poison	After getting inflicted by the Poison ailment, your HP depletes every time you take an action.
Paralysis	Paralysis makes it so that there's a high chance of an action failing to occur after selecting it.
Malady	Your Strength, Magic, Endurance, Agility, and Luck are greatly reduced when inflicted with Malady. Additionally,HP and MP recovery effects are nullified, with recovery amounts becoming 0.
Hex	When inflicted by Hex, half of any damage dealt is dealt to self as well. Additionally, resistance to Dark is greatly reduced, and susceptibility to status ailments is greatly increased.
Burn	Burn works the same as poison as additional damage will taken after being attacked when affected.
Frostbite	When affected with Frostbite, attack damage is greatly reduced.

Physical Ailments consists of conditions that will damages you over time or prevent healing in general.

These ailments persists even after the battle ends so it's best to heal these ailments before continuing exploration.

Mental Ailments

Ailment	Description
Daze	When Dazed, your Hit Rate for attacks is greatly reduced.
Charm	When you or your party member is Charmed, the character will act on their own, attacking allies or assisting enemies.
Forget	When your party is inflicted with Forget, the affected character cannot use Archetype skills.
Sleep	Your character cannot take any actions when asleep, and any physical attacks suffered are always critical hits.
Rage	When Enraged, the affected character has higher attack power, but damage from enemies is greatly increased. All actions become normal weapon attacks.
Anxiety	An Ally-only ailment preventing the use of Archetype skills. If attacked while afflicted, the enemy will not consume a Turn Icon.
Stun	This is an enemy-only ailment. When stunned, they cannot act for one turn.

Mental Ailments consists of conditions that focus on disabling control over party members or their skills.

They make combat harder to control and can result into a party member death if not dealt with quickly.

These ailments do not last until after the battle but healing them during combat is a priority.

How to Cure Status Ailments

Use Patra from the Healer Archetype

The Healer Archetype can reliably heal any status ailment as they have access to the Patra spell, which heals any status ailments inflicted on party members.

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Use Items

If you don't have access to the Healer Archetype yet, you can use items purchased in general shops or found while exploring that heals the status ailment inflicted on you.

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