All Status Effects, Ailments, and Buffs Explained

Status Effects, Ailments, Buffs, and Debuffs are different effects that can be applied to both characters and enemies to change the tide of a battle in Octopath Traveler 2. Read on to learn about the different status effects, buffs, and debuffs and their effects.

All Status Effects, Ailments, and Buffs

List of Status Effects

Status Effect	Description
Poison	Suffer damage after performing an action.
Silence	Unable to use skills.
Blindness	Accuracy of physical attacks decreased.
Terror	Unable to boost.
Unconsciousness	Unable to perform any actions.
Sleep	Cannot perform any actions until hit by an attack
Confusion	Actions decided at random until hit by an attack.

List of Buffs and Debuffs

Icon	Description
	Physical Attack ↑ Increased / ↓ Decreased
	Physical Defense ↑ Increased / ↓ Decreased
	Elemental Attack ↑ Increased / ↓ Decreased
	Elemental Defense ↑ Increased / ↓ Decreased
	Accuracy ↑ Increased / ↓ Decreased
	Critical ↑ Increased / ↓ Decreased
	Speed ↑ Increased / ↓ Decreased
	Evasion ↑ Increased / ↓ Decreased

List of Skills With Status Effects

Job Skills

Skill	Job	Description
Rehabilitate	Apothecary	Grant a single ally immunity to status ailments for 2 turns.
Replenish Health	Apothecary	For 3 turns, grant HP to a single ally after they perform an action.
Preventive Measues	Apothecary	Grants the equipping character immunity to enfeebling effects for 3 turns at the start of battle.
Leghold Trap	Hunter	Cause a single foe to act at the end of the turn for 2 turns.
Springy Boots	Inventor	Cause a single ally to act first for 5 turns from the next turn.
Incite	Warrior	Draw foes' single-target attacks to yourself for 3 turns.
Vengeful Blade	Warrior	Grant yourself the ability to counter physical damage with a sword attack 2 times.
Sidestep	Merchant	Dodge 1 physical attack with a 100% success rate.
Advanced Magic	Scholar	Boosts the intensity of a single ally's spells 2 times.
Sacred Shield	Cleric	Grant a shield to a single ally, reducing damage taken from the next hit by 50%.
Seal of Immortality	Arcanist	Grant yourself an effect that leaves you with 1 HP when hit with an otherwise lethal attack. This effect will disappear once triggered, or after 3/5/7/9 turns.
Seal of Diffusion	Arcanist	Extend the reach of skills that only target the user to affect all allies for 3/5/7/9 turns.
Reflective Barrier	Arcanist	Apply reflect magic to an ally.
Dance of Immunity	Conjurer	Grant a single ally immunity to enfeebling effects for 2/4/6/8 turns.
Conjure Flames	Conjurer	Grant the weapons of all allies an additional fire-based attack for 2 turns.
Conjure Ice	Conjurer	Grant the weapons of all allies an additional ice-based attack for 2 turns.>
Conjure Lightning	Conjurer	Grant the weapons of all allies an additional lightning-based attack for 2 turns.
Conjure Gusts	Conjurer	Grant the weapons of all allies an additional wind-based attack for 2/3/4/5 turns.
Prayer for Rain	Conjurer	For 2/3/4/5 turns, grant SP to all allies after they perform an action.

List of All Job Skills

Divine Skills

Skill	Job	Description
Dohter's Charity	Apothecary	Extend the reach of a single ally's items to affect all for 3 turns.
Sealticge's Seduction	Dancer	Extend the reach of a single ally's skills to all for 3 turns. This does not affect divine skills or skills that only affect the user.
Alephan's Wisdom	Scholar	Greatly boosts the intensity of a single ally's spells 3 times.
Aelfric's Blessing	Cleric	Grant a single ally the ability to act again at the end of a turn for 3 turns. Only one additional action can be taken per turn.
BP Boost	Conjurer	Grant a single ally 2 BP at the start of every turn for 3 turns.

List of All Divine Skills and How to Get

EX Skills

Skill	Job	Description
Ultimate Stance	Hikari	Extend the reach of your Attack to all foes for 3/5/7/9 turns.
Veil of Darkness	Throne	Cause all foes to miss a physical attack with a 100% success rate.
Disguise	Throne	Disguise as an ally for 2/4/6/8 turns.

List of All EX Skills

Status Effects, Ailments, and Buffs Explained

What are Status Effects?

Status effects are negative effects that can be applied to characters and enemy units. They can be removed by consuming the correct type of potion or through some character skills.

What are Buffs and Debuffs?

Buffs and Debuffs respectively increase and decrease the affected unit's stats. The number beside the icon indicates how many turns the effect will last.

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