Game Terms

An attack made with your weapon.

• Carried by 115 attacks.
• Carried by every Basic Attack (45 of 45), every Combo Attack (8 of 8), most Counter Attacks (7 of 9), most Ultimate Attacks (44 of 53).
• Skills that fire on it: 32 watch the tag, 17 watch it some other way.
• Raised by 3 items, skills or runes and 6 tree nodes, and while 1 status effect is carried.
• Lowered by 1 item or skill.

A battler's ordinary attack.

• Carried by 45 attacks.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Weapon Attack.
• Skills that fire on it: 16 watch the tag.
• Raised by 4 items, skills or runes and 3 tree nodes, and while 1 status effect is carried.
• Resisted by 2 items, skills or runes and 4 tree nodes.

An extra attack. Combo Rate is the stat that gives a chance of one.

• Carried by 8 attacks.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Weapon Attack.
• Skills that fire on it: 13 watch the tag.
• Raised by 7 items, skills or runes and 2 tree nodes.
• Resisted by 2 items, skills or runes and 3 tree nodes.

An attack made in reply. Counter Rate is the stat that gives a chance of one.

• Carried by 9 attacks.
• Skills that fire on it: 13 watch the tag.
• Raised by 5 items, skills or runes and 2 tree nodes, and while 1 status effect is carried.
• Resisted by 2 items, skills or runes and 4 tree nodes.

Your Ultimate. It charges on Rage, the gauge skill text calls Ultimate Charge.

• Carried by 53 attacks.
• Skills that fire on it: 32 watch the tag.
• Raised by 5 items, skills or runes and 3 tree nodes.
• Resisted by 1 item, skill or rune.

The tag skill hits carry, as opposed to your weapon's own attacks. Kitsura only counts hits that carry it.

• Carried by 79 attacks.
• Carried by every Bolts hit (5 of 5), every Icicle hit (1 of 1), every Cleave hit (4 of 4), most Shuriken hits (8 of 12), most Mount hits (3 of 4).
• Skills that fire on it: 4 watch the tag, 39 watch one exact attack carrying it, 10 watch it some other way.
• Raised by 5 items, skills or runes and 8 tree nodes, and while 4 status effects are carried.
• Lowered by 1 item or skill.
• Resisted by 3 tree nodes.

One of the two damage schools.

How it works. Every Physical DMG bonus multiplies Physical hits, one factor per source, and every Physical resistance divides them.

• Carried by 144 attacks, and by the ticks of Miasma, Poison, Wound.
• Carried by most Shuriken hits (11 of 12), every Cleave hit (4 of 4), no Fire hits (0 of 26), some Ice hits (3 of 21).
• Skills that fire on it: 19 watch one exact attack carrying it.
• Raised by 6 items, skills or runes and 1 tree node.
• Lowered by 1 item or skill.
• Resisted by 3 items, skills or runes and 1 tree node.

The other damage school.

How it works. Every Magical DMG bonus multiplies Magical hits, one factor per source, and every Magical resistance divides them.

• Carried by 82 attacks, and by the ticks of Burn.
• Carried by every Lightning hit (21 of 21), most Fire hits (24 of 26), most Ice hits (17 of 21).
• Skills that fire on it: 29 watch one exact attack carrying it, 1 watches it some other way.
• Raised by 6 items, skills or runes and 3 tree nodes, and while 1 status effect is carried.
• Lowered by 2 items or skills.
• Resisted by 1 item, skill or rune and 1 tree node.

The fire element.

How it works. A Burn tick is not Fire damage. It carries Magical, Burn and Status Effect, so Fire DMG bonuses do not raise it and Fire resistance does not reduce it.

• Carried by 26 attacks.
• Skills that fire on it: 6 watch the tag, 8 watch one exact attack carrying it, 3 watch it some other way.
• Raised by 8 items, skills or runes, and while 3 status effects are carried.
• Resisted by 4 items, skills or runes.

The ice element. Chill and Freeze are status effects, not this tag.

• Carried by 21 attacks.
• Skills that fire on it: 5 watch the tag, 10 watch one exact attack carrying it, 1 watches it some other way.
• Raised by 7 items, skills or runes, and while 3 status effects are carried.
• Resisted by 4 items, skills or runes.

The lightning element.

• Carried by 21 attacks.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Magical.
• Skills that fire on it: 4 watch the tag, 11 watch one exact attack carrying it, 1 watches it some other way.
• Raised by 6 items, skills or runes, and while 5 status effects are carried.
• Resisted by 4 items, skills or runes.

The tag on the ticks of damaging status effects. The game names it Status Effect, which is what skill text means by Status Effect DMG.

How it works. When an enemy's status ticks on you, the tick skips your DEF and all of your Damage Reduction. Tag resistance, Parry, Final DMG Reduction and your Shield still apply. In Arena and Guild Conquest the other side counts as a player, not an enemy, so its ticks pay your DEF and Damage Reduction like any hit. Each stack is worked out as its own small hit, and damage over time never crits.

• No attack carries it, only the ticks of Burn, Miasma, Poison, Wound.
• Raised by 2 items, skills or runes and 2 tree nodes, and while 1 status effect is carried.
• Resisted by 1 item, skill or rune.

The poison tag, on Poison ticks and on attacks that deal poison damage.

• Carried by 6 attacks, and by the ticks of Poison, Poisonous Dungeon.
• Skills that fire on it: 1 watches one exact attack carrying it, 3 watch it some other way.
• Raised by 5 items, skills or runes and 1 tree node.
• Resisted by 2 items, skills or runes.

The wound tag, on Wound ticks and on attacks that deal it.

• Carried by 3 attacks, and by the ticks of Wound.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Physical.
• Skills that fire on it: 2 watch one exact attack carrying it, 2 watch it some other way.
• Raised by 4 items, skills or runes and 1 tree node, and while 1 status effect is carried.
• Resisted by 2 items, skills or runes.

The burn tag.

• No attack carries it, only the ticks of Burn.
• Skills that fire on it: 2 watch the tag.
• Raised by 2 items, skills or runes and 1 tree node, and while 1 status effect is carried.

The miasma tag.

• No attack carries it, only the ticks of Miasma.

The Eternal Flame tag.

• No attack carries it, only the ticks of Eternal Flame.
• Raised only while a status effect is carried: Through the Fire and Flames Buff.

The Bolt family.

How it works. Some skills watch this tag and some watch exact attacks. A skill watching the tag counts every hit that carries it, Divine Bolts included, but not an attack that is only called a bolt: Volt Band's Bolt All Enemies carries no Bolts tag. A skill watching exact attacks counts only the ones it names, and when Tempest Wrath turns a Bolt into a Divine Bolt, a skill watching Bolt stops counting it.

• Carried by 5 attacks.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Skill, Magical and Lightning.
• Skills that fire on it: 5 watch the tag, 8 watch one exact attack carrying it.
• Raised only while a status effect is carried: Rolling Thunder.

A stronger bolt.

How it works. Every skill watching the Bolts tag counts a Divine Bolt. A Divine Bolt is never the attack named Bolt, so skills watching that attack do not.

• Carried by 3 attacks: Judgement Bolt, Tempest Wrath Divine Bolt, Tempest Wrath Divine Bolt Enhanced.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Skill, Magical, Lightning and Bolts.
• Skills that fire on it: 2 watch one exact attack carrying it.

The Shuriken family.

• Carried by 12 attacks.
• Skills that fire on it: 6 watch the tag, 8 watch one exact attack carrying it.
• Raised by 7 items, skills or runes and 2 tree nodes.
• Lowered by 1 item or skill.

The Icicle family.

• Carried by 1 attack: Icicle.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Skill, Magical and Ice.
• Skills that fire on it: 5 watch one exact attack carrying it.

The Cleave family.

• Carried by 4 attacks.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Skill and Physical.
• Skills that fire on it: 2 watch the tag, 2 watch one exact attack carrying it.
• Raised by 2 items, skills or runes and 1 tree node.

The Steel Cyclone tag.

• Carried by 1 attack: Steel Cyclone.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Skill, Physical and Cleave.
• Skills that fire on it: 1 watches one exact attack carrying it.

The Soul Harvest tag.

• Carried by 1 attack: Soul Harvest.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Skill and Physical.
• Skills that fire on it: 1 watches it some other way.

The Rampant Rage tag.

• Carried by 1 attack: Rampant Rage.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Skill and Physical.
• Skills that fire on it: 1 watches the tag.
• Raised only while a status effect is carried: Rampant Rage Enraged.

The Tides of Blood tag.

• Carried by 1 attack: Tides Of Blood Strike.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Skill and Physical.
• Skills that fire on it: 1 watches one exact attack carrying it.
• Raised by 1 item, skill or rune.

The Death Mark tag.

• Carried by 1 attack: Death Sentence Execution.
• Every hit that carries it also carries True and Ignore Shield.
• Skills that fire on it: 1 watches it some other way.

The Glacidrake tag.

• Carried by 1 attack: Glacidrake Evolved Action.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Magical, Ice and Pet.
• Skills that fire on it: 1 watches one exact attack carrying it.

The thorns tag.

• Carried by 2 attacks: Magma Elemental Thorns Damage, Stone Elemental Thorns Damage.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Skill, Counter Attack and Physical.
• Raised only while a status effect is carried: Thorns.

The Spirit Sword tag.

• Nothing in the game uses this tag: no attack, tick, trigger or bonus.

The Orb tag.

• Nothing in the game uses this tag: no attack, tick, trigger or bonus.

The tag on pet attacks.

• Carried by 24 attacks.
• Skills that fire on it: 2 watch the tag, 6 watch one exact attack carrying it, 2 watch it some other way.
• Raised by 2 items, skills or runes and 1 tree node, and while 1 status effect is carried.
• Resisted by 1 tree node.

The tag on mount attacks.

• Carried by 4 attacks.
• Skills that fire on it: 2 watch one exact attack carrying it, 1 watches it some other way.

The tag on sentinel attacks.

• Carried by 19 attacks.
• Skills that fire on it: 4 watch one exact attack carrying it, 1 watches it some other way.
• Raised by 1 tree node.

Damage that skips DEF, every Damage Reduction and the rest of the defence side of a hit.

How it works. A True hit keeps its attacker's ATK and tag multipliers and still pays the target's tag resistance. Everything after that is skipped: DEF, every Damage Reduction, the per attacker cuts, Parry, DMG Boost, the situational bonuses such as DMG vs Boss, Final DMG Boost and Final DMG Reduction. What still stops it: a Shield, unless the hit also carries Ignore Shield; an active mount, unless it carries Ignore Mount; and invincibility. An attack that only ignores DEF is different: it still pays Parry, the boosts and Final DMG Reduction.

• Carried by 34 attacks, and by the ticks of Barnacles, Burning Dungeon, Darkside, Eternal Flame, Hydra Poison, Poisonous Dungeon, Thousand Cuts, Tides of Blood.

A hit that goes past shields.

How it works. A Shield normally absorbs a hit before HP. A hit carrying this skips the Shield.

• Carried by 6 attacks, and by the ticks of Barnacles.

A hit that goes past a mount.

How it works. An active mount takes a hit meant for its rider unless the hit carries this tag.

• Carried by 2 attacks, and by the ticks of Barnacles.
• Every hit that carries it also carries True and Ignore Shield.

What this tag changes is not known yet.

• Carried by 1 attack: Curse Seal Action.
• Every hit that carries it also carries True.

The tag on heals.

How it works. A heal is multiplied by its receiver's healing received bonuses, one factor per source, where the same kind of bonus on a damage tag would divide the hit.

• Carried by 61 attacks, and by the ticks of Abomination Regen, Abomination Regen (Chaos, Absolute Zero, Chaos Enrage, Chaos Regeneration, Enemies Restore HP Each Turn, Enemy Restore HP Each Turn, Enraged Recovery, Recovery, Recovery Lv. 2 Status, Recovery Lv. 2+ Status, Recovery+, Red Slimy Recovery, Slimy Recovery, Stumpy Heal, Tides of Blood.
• Skills that fire on it: 2 watch one exact attack carrying it, 4 watch it some other way.

The tag on shield grants.

How it works. What a shield grant fills is the Shield stat, which absorbs damage before HP. A grant is multiplied by its receiver's Shield gained bonuses, one factor per source.

• Carried by 41 attacks.
• Skills that fire on it: 3 watch it some other way.
• Raised by 1 item, skill or rune.

The tag on lifesteal heals.

How it works. A lifesteal heal is multiplied by its receiver's lifesteal healing bonuses, one factor per source.

• Carried by 14 attacks.
• Every hit that carries it also carries Restoration.
• Skills that fire on it: 3 watch the tag, 2 watch it some other way.
• Raised by 2 items, skills or runes, and while 1 status effect is carried.

A Status Effect that deals damage to the afflicted battler every turn. Can stack infinitely.

• Up to 10 stacks; some items and skills raise the cap (+989).
• Lasts 4 turns.
• Each stack deals 20% of ATK every turn, carrying Magical, Burn, Status Effect.
• Applied by 6 skills or items and 18 attacks.
• 6 skills fire on it.
• 6 items or skills make it stronger or hit harder against it.

Taking damage over time.

How it works. Poison has no duration, so a stack stays until the fight ends. Its stack cap is a real cap: at the cap, a new stack is simply not added.

• Up to 999 stacks.
• No duration: it stays until removed or the fight ends.
• Each stack deals 15% of ATK every turn, carrying Physical, Poison, Status Effect.
• Applied by 12 skills or items and 18 attacks.
• 6 skills fire on it.
• 4 items or skills make it stronger or hit harder against it.

Taking damage over time.

• Up to 10 stacks; some items and skills raise the cap (+10 to +20).
• Lasts 5 turns.
• Each stack deals 20% of ATK every turn, carrying Physical, Wound, Status Effect.
• Applied by 7 skills or items and 9 attacks.
• 5 skills fire on it.
• 7 items or skills make it stronger or hit harder against it.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 10 stacks.
• Lasts 3 turns.
• Each stack deals 20% of ATK every turn, carrying Physical, Status Effect, Miasma.
• While carried: -10% healing received, -10% Shield gained.
• Applied by 2 skills or items and 4 attacks.
• 1 item or skill makes it stronger or hit harder against it.

A Status Effect that lowers the ATK of the battler by 5% per stack. Max 5.

• Up to 5 stacks.
• Lasts 3 turns.
• While carried: -5% ATK.
• Applied by 2 skills or items and 13 attacks.
• 3 skills fire on it.
• 7 items or skills make it stronger or hit harder against it.

A Status Effect that prevents the battler from attacking for 1 turn.

• Lasts 2 turns.
• Applied by 2 skills or items and 7 attacks.
• 5 skills fire on it.
• 3 items or skills make it stronger or hit harder against it.

A Status Effect that prevents the battler from attacking for 1 turn.

• Lasts 2 turns.
• Applied by 4 skills or items and 21 attacks.
• 3 skills fire on it.

A Status Effect that prevents the battler and its pets, mounts, and sentinels from acting.

• Lasts 2 turns.
• Applied by 1 attack.

Encased in ice.

• Lasts 2 turns.
• Each stack restores 15% of Max HP every turn, carrying Restoration.
• Applied by 1 attack.

The game gives it no description.

• Lasts 2 turns.
• While carried: -50% to -25% ATK, -50% to -25% DEF.
• Applied by 1 attack.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 15 stacks.
• While carried: -5% to -3% Max HP.
• Applied by 1 attack.

The game gives it no description.

• Lasts 3 turns.
• While carried: +50% Wound DMG.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 999 stacks.
• Applied by 1 attack.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 3 stacks.
• While carried: -5% to -3% Combo Rate, -5% to -3% Counter Rate, -5% to -3% Dodge Rate.
• Applied by 1 attack.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 10 or 20 stacks.
• While carried: +5% ATK.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.

The game gives it no description.

• Applied by 1 skill or item.

The game gives it no description.

• Lasts 2 turns.
• While carried: -100% Shield gained.
• Applied by 1 attack.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 100 stacks.
• Applied by 12 attacks.

Frost residue clinging to a frozen enemy.

• Up to 99 stacks.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.
• 1 skill fires on it.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 10 stacks.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.
• 1 skill fires on it.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 999 stacks.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.
• 1 skill fires on it.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 5 stacks.
• No duration: it stays until removed or the fight ends.
• Each stack deals 3% of Max HP every turn, carrying True, Eternal Flame.
• Applied by 1 attack.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 3 or 6 stacks.
• While carried: +10% healing received.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.

Combo Rate and Counter Rate +3% per stack

• Up to 99 stacks.
• While carried: +3% Combo Rate, +3% Counter Rate.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.
• 1 skill fires on it.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 5 stacks.
• While carried: -5% Physical DMG, -5% Magical DMG, -5% to -3% Crit Rate.
• Applied by 1 attack.
• 1 skill fires on it.

The game gives it no description.

• Lasts 1 turn.
• While carried: +100% Combo Rate, +100% Counter Rate, +100% Damage Reduction.
• Applied by 1 attack.

Holy Justice's Ultimate bonus deals +1% of your current HP as DMG per stack.

• Up to 999 stacks.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.
• 1 skill fires on it.

The game gives it no description.

• Lasts 2 turns.
• While carried: -60% to -40% Skill resistance.
• Applied by 1 attack.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 2 stacks.
• While carried: +5% to +10% Final DMG Reduction.
• Applied by 1 skill or item and 1 attack.

+5% Fire Crit Rate per stack.

• Up to 10 stacks.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.

The game gives it no description.

• Applied by 1 skill or item.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 3 stacks.
• While carried: +10% Shield gained.
• Applied by 1 attack.

Bolt DMG +10% per stack

• Up to 10 stacks.
• While carried: +10% Bolts DMG.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.
• 1 skill fires on it.

The game gives it no description.

• Lasts 2 turns.
• While carried: -15% to -10% Max HP, -15% to -10% ATK.
• Applied by 1 attack.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 9 stacks.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.
• 2 skills fire on it.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 9 stacks.
• Lasts 2 turns.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.
• 1 skill fires on it.

The game gives it no description.

• Up to 99 stacks.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.
• 1 skill fires on it.

Each stack unleashes a follow-up strike after the Ultimate.

• Up to 999 stacks.
• Applied by 1 skill or item.

The game gives it no description.

• Lasts 1 turn.
• Applied by 1 attack.
• 1 skill fires on it.

Your attack, and the two percentage stats that grow it. Most attacks deal a share of ATK.

How it works. Final ATK is ATK times (1 + ATK %) times (1 + Global ATK %). Every ATK % source adds into one pool and every Global ATK % source into another, so a new bonus is worth less the more of that pool you already have.

Your health, and the two percentage stats that grow it.

How it works. Final HP is HP times Max HP % times Global HP %. Each of the two starts at 100%, every source adds to it, and neither can drop below 10%. Two penalties add together; they never compound.

Your defence, and the two percentage stats that grow it.

How it works. DEF is subtracted from a hit, but never takes more than 90% of it.

Your current HP, as opposed to your maximum.

The chance for a hit to be a critical hit.

How it works. Which bonuses join Crit Rate for a given hit is not known yet.

How hard a critical hit lands.

How it works. Shown as the whole multiplier: 150% means a crit hits for 1.5 times. A tag's own Crit DMG adds to the part above 100% on hits carrying that tag.

Two multipliers on every hit you deal.

How it works. Each is shown as the whole multiplier: 125% is 1.25 times on every hit. Every source adds its percent to it.

Bonus damage against bosses, targets above 70% HP, targets below 40% HP, and shielded targets.

How it works. All four share one pool, so they add rather than multiply. DMG vs Boss counts true bosses only, never elites. The HP rows read the target's current HP against its maximum, and DMG to Shielded needs the target's Shield above zero.

A chance for a Skill hit to cut through Damage Reduction.

How it works. On a success, the target's raw Damage Reduction total is halved before its curve.

A share taken off every hit you receive, plus two versions that only count while mounted or when a boss hits you.

How it works. Every source is summed into one raw number, then a curve runs on the total: effective = min(raw, 100 x raw / (raw + 100) + 10). Stats Details shows the raw total, so 90% there is 57.4% effective. The mounted and vs Boss rows join the total only while you ride, or when a boss is the one hitting you.

A second, separate cut late in the hit.

How it works. It sums its own sources and runs the same curve as Damage Reduction, on its own.

Final DMG Reduction against one kind of attacker.

How it works. What these change is not known yet.

Protection against critical hits.

How it works. It shrinks only the part of a crit above 100%: 50% turns a 1.5 times crit into 1.25 times.

A chance to parry a hit, and how much a parry removes.

How it works. A parry is rolled per hit against Parry Rate and takes Parry % off what is left. Shields Up! grants both: a 50% chance, and 20% off.

A layer of protection on top of HP.

How it works. It absorbs damage before HP does, true damage included, unless the hit carries Ignore Shield.

Your chance of a Combo Attack, of a Counter Attack, and of dodging.

How it works. When each one is rolled is not known yet.

Lowers an enemy's chance of those.

How it works. How it is subtracted is not known yet.

A chance to resist Stun and Freeze.

Rage is the gauge skill text calls Ultimate Charge. Max Rage and Rage Gain % are the game's names for its size and how fast it fills.

How it works. The exact rules are not known yet.

Speed.

How it works. What Speed changes is not known yet.

Your mount's HP.

Extra EXP from battles.

A damage bonus for hits carrying one tag, such as Lightning DMG.

How it works. These multiply, one factor per source: five +30% Lightning sources are 1.30 to the 5th power, 3.71 times, not +150%.

A resistance to hits carrying one tag, such as Fire DMG Reduction.

How it works. A resistance divides the hit instead of taking a share off it: you take 1 / (1 + resistance). 100% means half damage, and it never reaches immunity. Resistances multiply, and a hit pays the resistance for every tag it carries.

Crit Rate or Crit DMG for hits carrying one tag, such as Magical Crit DMG.

Stats that only exist in Arena and Guild Conquest.

How it works. They come from the Specialization Skill Tree. PvP DMG Reduction is a straight cut, not curved.

The gauge that charges your Ultimate. Its stat is Rage, and some effects add to it or drain an enemy's.

What an attack can scale from instead of ATK. Most attacks deal a share of ATK; some deal a share of Max HP, current HP or Missing HP, and a few deal a flat amount.

How it works. An attack written against Missing HP grows as HP is lost, and stacking ATK does nothing for it.

How many copies of a status effect a battler carries. Many effects work per stack.

How it works. Every status has a stack cap, and the cap is real: at the cap a new stack is simply not added, even at 999.

The three levels an enemy can have. A minion is an ordinary enemy.

How it works. DMG vs Boss only counts against a Boss, never an Elite. Some bosses of an event are Elites.

A status effect that helps whoever carries it, and one that hurts them.

A state some effects grant.

How it works. An invincible battler takes zero from a hit, true damage included.

One of your other heroes equipped onto the hero you play, lending its companion skill.

A flag some attacks carry. It is not the True tag.

How it works. An attack that ignores DEF skips DEF and Damage Reduction, but still pays Parry, the damage boosts and Final DMG Reduction. A True hit skips those too.