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If you ignore bleed/madness/sleep being toxic in PvP, status effect build is one of the most fun ways to play the game. Until you have to fight Elden Beast, fun is not allowed in this fight

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Man, I wish there were some more "gimmicky" status effects that don't rely on straight up dealing damage to accommodate a more fun or trolling set of playstyles. Right now, we only have sleep. But, some ideas that come to mind:

- Fire causes Burning buildup; on proc, those afflicted receive heavy damage over a short period of time, removable by rolling several times (not sidestepping).

- Lightning causes Electrified buildup; on proc, those afflicted lose their health in proportion to how much stamina they lose when performing an action (running, rolling, jumping, attacking, casting, and blocking now all deal damage). Players with higher endurance receive less damage, as they lose less stamina in proportion to their max stamina.

- Magic causes Siphon buildup; on proc, players lose FP in proportion to damage taken to their HP.

- Holy causes Enlightened buildup; on proc, players are disarmed and can only cast spells, use items, and use non-physical AoWs. Increases defense, but lowers attack. Opposite of Blood Lust.

- Blood Lust; a status effect that when procced, disables a player's ability to cast spells, use items, and use non-physical AoWs. Increases attack, but also lowers defense. Opposite of Enlightened.

- Atrophy; causes equip load to become heavier. Light Load becomes Medium, Medium Load becomes Heavy, and Heavy Load becomes Overburdened.

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Bleed is (literally) broken, sleep, madness and deathblight are complete cancer only held back by the lack of options for them, poison and rot are memes unless you're laming beginners, only frostbite isn't problematic, except oh wait, phantom hits.

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It looks like they missed adding the Icon Shield under health regen. They have Great Turtle Shell in for Stam regen though.

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When a game would be better if an entire mechanic was just removed:

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hello everyone, I would like to know if the arcane boosts status effects even if the weapon is not scall on the arcane

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Ok let's examine status effects in pvp real quick. Rot and Poison are used to lame unprepared noobs at low levels, and are almost completely ignored in every other setting. Bleed. Thanks to phantom hits, statuses will always build up, even when dodging perfectly, so if you play cautiously, you will still take massive damage. If you try to trade, you will lose and take massive damage because a good bleed build will proc in 3 hits or less, even against high robustness. You can roll through the bleed proc to avoid all damage and make the build-up completely worthless. This is clearly broken. Anyway. Sleep, sleep is either worthless or busted, there is no in-between. Sleep is ignored by everyone except the jungle halberd, which is considered a build so toxic that players only use it as a way to signal disrespect. Madness, only notable for vyke's war spear. Madness, like most status effects, cannot be rolled through on a phantom proc. Combine with great spear jump attacks and powerstanced running attacks, cool, awesome. Unavoidable damage. What's the play? Run away. Frostbite-- phantom hits, cannot avoid phantom proc, will stagger you on proc, damage you, and increase future damage taken. Unavoidable. Used by every tryhard player. Often paired with bleed to get a nice, unavoidable double-stagger as they chase you down with unavoidable damage. And that about covers it. The pvp scene would be objectively better without status effects, since FromSoft can't seem to fix phantom buildup (it's been a problem forever), don't hold your breath. I hear Lies of P is pretty good.

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Fromsoft actually fixing phantom buildup and procs challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

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Nothing is mentioned about the symbol that appears next to your character when In the round table that prevents all attacks.

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Why is the Ice Crest Shield categorized as buffing Immunity even though it buffs frost resist?

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I have one with 8 yellow dots connected in a ring, any idea what it means?

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Rot, madness, bleed and sleep. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Lands Between.

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We need a Vow of Silence in this game, and have it also affect weapon skills.

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"Increases damage taken" effect is also caused by Crucible Feather Talisman

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Either no stagger on buildup, or fix the issue of build up even when dodging the attack. Having both makes people abuse dual straight swords with cold or bleed, it's such a PvP crutch.

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i think the fact that there's an icon for fp regen over time implying there was a ring for it but doesn't exist in game is proof the universe hates us as a whole

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The "Guardian Garb (Full Bloom)"
Also Produces the Increases healing effect from the Flask of Crimson Tears.

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The most confusing eight stars buff is not explained here.

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Using malenia’s great rune also causes reduced healing from having it activated with a rune arc. Just found that out.

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I actually like the status effect system in concept. Having a gauge that slowly fills up per area of contact or per hit is a great way to implement status ailments in a melee action-rpg without resorting to nasty RNG or making it instant. in fact souls clones (Nioh, The Surge, Code Vein) have shown that the system has potential but sadly souls always execute it very poorly.

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Fire should have had a Burn effect that weakened healing items and/or temporarily lowered max health.

Lighting should have had a Paralysis effect that immobilized you for a brief moment.

Sacred should have had a Purify effect that removed all active buffs and temporarily blocked them.

Would’ve added more variety to combat imo.

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ripostes should have done higher status application. would have made weapons like scorpion stinger make more sense

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WHY THE FRICK DOES MADNESS EXIST

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The two status effects:
Bar fills up and you die and Bar slowly drains and you slowly die.

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I don't really get how or why the status effects were distributed the way they were among the stat allocations.

Cold affinity and frost spells are by far the most reliable way to proc frost and is mostly limited to int and int/hybrid builds. But faith and faith/arcane hybrids can access it too using dragon breaths and frozen lightning spear.

Rot is split between a few different weapons (3 infusible, one str colossal, the rotten crystal stuff (which is mostly quality scaling with a little int), and the scorp stinger), one faith spell and two faith/arcane dragon breath spells.

Madness is limited to faith spells, vyke's war spear (which is dex/faith) and the fingerprint shield, but potentially works best on faith/arc hybrid because DCS increases the buildup of the spells and Blood/Poison infused fingerprint shield also gets more madness buildup with arcane.

Sleep can be used on one quality-int sword, one torch and with greases. But works best on arcane due to the ripple weapons getting absurd buildup with the poison/blood/sleep grease at high arcane.

Poison/Blood are obviously best on arcane builds or arc and str/dex hybrids.

Death Blight is limited to 1 dex/faith weapon, 1 pure faith spell and 1 int/faith spell.

Overall, it seems all over the place with arc and arc hybrids being the best for most of them with int and int hybrids being best for frost. Wish that the statuses were built more for hybrid builds in general. Like there was a status effect infusion for all the statuses (except Death Blight I guess because that would be ridiculous in pvp), which was suited to hybrid stat building of a particular kind. For example: dex/arc hybrids could get the blood infusion, while str/arc could get the poison infusion, dex/faith could get a madness infusion, dex/int gets the cold infusion, while str/int gets a rot infusion. str/faith could get a sleep infusion. Would add more build choices for hybrid builds imo, because as it stands, hybridisation (unless you're going faith/arc) limits your spellcasting potential while giving you lower overall damage on infusible weapons (you could get a little more AR out of a cold infusion on a str/int hybrid than a pure str build due to the 2-handing str bonus at RL150, but it's split damage). It would be interesting from a gameplay mechanics perspective if particular hybridisations would be rewarded for particular affinities.

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FromSoftware is a company where some of the most talented artists, writers, and game designers in the entire industry work... who still haven't figured out how to fix hit detection and status effects after more than ten years. But the best thing about this is that they design bosses like Vordt, Mohg and even Malenia around this borked system that doesn't really make sense. Hell, Bloodborne's rally mechanic thematically incorporates it by being able to take back health from fallen foes for one or two seconds. Such a strange developer.

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Str talisman an dex talisman both raise attack power with no borders

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The peapod with an up arrow means that equipment you're wearing is raising some Resistance. (Immunity, etc.)

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Silences Movement appears when wearing the black knife chest piece.

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I’m trying to build my first arcane char. And I was questionning. Does arcane bonus (status effect) apply on something witch does not have arcane scaling? There is some weapons for exemple with bleed, rot, poison but no native arcane scaling.

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Instead of nerfing the status buildup of dual wielded weapons they should have nerfed the status buildup of dual wielded weapons with daggers as an exception. From hates daggers, especially powerstanced daggers.

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Congrats they ruined dual dags completely with 1.07!

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just be thankful theres no enfeebled status effect in elden ring lol

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Table is missing perfumer shield, raises immunity permanently too.

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Anyone on here know if procing frostbite on a target increases the tick damage a target takes from rot and poison? Currently running dual Antspur rapiers with blood and poison and I'm wondering if I could get more damage from the rot and poison. It does mention above that frostbite increases damage from all sources but clarification on other status affects would be nice.

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Stormhawk Deenh grants the temporary strength boost icon!!

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status buildup should be reduced on powerstanced weapons, getting bled out twice in a single curved sword running attack at 450 robustness just shouldn't be a thing

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So I’m pretty sure FromSoft finished developing the damage types then moved on to status effect and decided to do so in alphabetical order starting with blood. After blood they started on cold and that is when they ran into a deadline and had to get the game in the stores. They threw in the mist animation with a weapon slash for the other status effects.

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status effect is not intended to be able to build up when opponents rolled your attacks, it needs to be fixed, status effect can build up really fast already, its very broken = =

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5-6 games in and they still can't make split damage work worth a crap.

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I hate that status effects in this game are just about overpowering your opponent. They should be about applying pressure to your opponent, forcing them to make mistakes. Look to the blood incantations for an example of what I mean. But in reality they're just another way of nuking your opponent's health bar and not all that different from the blue death rays that mages use. As someone who prefers a more technical playstyle, it's really disappointing.

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I’m not sure if this is known, I can’t find this exact info. Do we know how much status effect build up there is per arcane point?

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wtf is the point of sleep. i dealt 1000+ damage with this and the invader tanked all of it. why

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https://imgur.com/a/nZbdtS5 about this. Isn't this a Craigblade Ash of War?

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I can't help but feel FromSoft dropped the ball when it comes to PvE status effects. With the massively limited capacity of Madness, Sleep and Deathblight (While Poison just sucks... Even Deadly Poison is just worse than Scarlet Rot) despite them having such potential.

Madness should be able to affect any target (That isn't immune for lore reasons). With non-boss enemies gaining a debuff that makes them attack ANY target and apply Madness build up on hit (Like the maddened Rats you encounter do) allowing the status effect to create actual Chaos where a group of enemies starts attacking each other while you watch and cackle with glee...

Sleep should put all non-boss/Tarnished targets to sleep. Like, full sleep. Not the BS "Sleepy for 1 second then shake it off" nonsense that 90% of enemies present. While bosses and Tarnished should be resistant and offer that brief period of vulnerability (It should also interrupt actions to put them to sleep, none of this "Waiting 10 seconds for the boss to finish doing their 10000 attack combo". It should still be balanced because unlike Bleed/Frostbite it doesn't just nuke their health bar)

Deathblight should simply work on all non-boss targets (Excluding undead/basilisks/wormfaces). It shouldn't be too broken since by the time you actually build it up, you've likely killed most non-boss targets through damage (Unless you're specifically just dancing around Fia's Mist for whatever reason). While bosses should take 10% max health + 5% current health in damage on proc instead of insta-death (Sort of a progressively weaker Bleed)

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So would it be possible that certain classes with certain base templates have certain buffs
Do they differ is it just what ever base template you chose I mean there are little hints in the words
But I have yet to be able to find any explanation for this Mysterious buff that shows up randomly like a pickle fowl foot but I have not even found a fowl foot let alone consumption of one
So yeah I’m happy with it but now wonder what all the base templates offer

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So would it be possible that certain classes with certain base templates have certain buffs
Do they differ is it just what ever base template you chose I mean there are little hints in the words
But I have yet to be able to find any explanation for this Mysterious buff that shows up randomly like a pickle fowl foot but I have not even found a fowl foot let alone consumption of one
So yeah I’m happy with it but now wonder what all the base templates offer

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So would it be possible that certain classes with certain base templates have certain buffs
Do they differ is it just what ever base template you chose I mean there are little hints in the words
But I have yet to be able to find any explanation for this Mysterious buff that shows up randomly like a pickle fowl foot but I have not even found a fowl foot let alone consumption of one
So yeah I’m happy with it but now wonder what all the base templates offer

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Is there a way to see what these icons mean in game? Some sort of mouse-over effect?

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so I did some number crunching
if you add every weapon with any of these innate damages together, excluding bleed, bleed still overpowers all of them in options by 27.
For reference there are...
5 weapons with innate Poison
8 weapons with innate Scarlet Rot
50 weapons with innate Blood Loss
6 weapons with innate Frostbite
3 weapons with innate Madness
and 1 weapon with innate death blight

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Under the S.E. that gives the following: Increases All Status Resistances
Increases Immunity
Increases Robustness
Increases Focus
Increases Immunity, Robustness, and Focus
Increases Vitality

Item number 1 that is all ??? Is the rift Shield, which you start off with when you chose the Prisoner Class

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5th under miscellaneous, blue tear drop: possibly Starlight shards, used to gradually recover FP.

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flame grant me strenght gives extra stamina regen

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flame grant me strenght gives extra stamina regen

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Rot,broken. sleep,broken.bleed, super broken. frost, same as bleed. madness, broken. they all need nerfs.

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There seems to be a discovery buff at night not mentioned here. Looks like chicken foot with arrow but without any background.

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I would really like if someone could better organize the main 7 status effects, poison maddness etc, I tried my best but the wiki editor is driving me crazy and I just can't figure out how to get it to keep the formatting it currently has. I want the effects with matching icons to be paired together, I always thought that I was a nice detail.

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About the icon of 'Recovers HP upon Defeating Enemies', the great stars weapon recover HP also on hit enemies (work in mult hit animations like backstab animation), not only defeating enemies

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I'm pretty sure the '???' one means that your attacks causes more Posture damage. For exemple using the Stonebarb Cracked Tear.

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What is the % decrease when a weapon with a status effect is blocked? Is there any way of finding this out. For example: A player using 2 Hoslow Petal Whips has the cold affinity and successfully hits the opposing players who blocks the hits with a fingerprint shield. How would you calculate the status buildup of bleed and frostbite in this example?

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Reduces Item FP Consumption is from Primal Glintstone Blade, it also reduces HP 140 I believe

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Silence movement is from Crepus's Vial

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I noticed a status effect i had that wasn't on this list, and i realized what it is. Its the icon that looks like the grace with a red x in the corner, it shows up when you've been ensnared in a trap. It means you can't fast travel until you get to a grace, i'm guessing. Figured i'd mention this if someone wanted to add it to the list above! Thanks for this awesome elden wiki its helped me more than you know!!

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I have the red square with down arrow on now and I have no idea what it’s from, I’ve taken off all my gear and it’s still there, anyone know if it may be something I did? Really weird and sorta pissing me off at this point as I’ve noticed it’s been on my character for a long damn time

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It's 100% ridiculous that the game has no way of telling you what those symbols mean. It's like hieroglyphics and the community has to decode. WTF From.

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Someone know how coop scaling down works? I do a level 1 run with a friend and my friend are scaling down (less life). But we are both at level 1.

The only thing I see is because he are farer in the game than me. Before he hit the capital there was no scaling down.

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"Temporarily Decreases Physical Damage" and "Temporarily Reduces Damage Negation" are both applied from the roar of the largest dragon near Fort Faroth.

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add the celebrant's cleaver too

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The Crimson Hood that Roderika used to wear (can be picked up in Stormveil Castle) also increases Vigor a small amount and you get the Red Square icon

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Two things I noticed that I don't really know how to fix, it is possible to get a temporary max health debuff through Black Knife Assassin, Skill: Blade of Death, and Maliketh. I've also noticed that the 5th icon in the "Cleanup" table is the same icon as the Rune counter portion of the HUD, so it may not be intended as a status icon at all. I'd love to know if anyone could confirm if it is indeed used as a status icon.

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The blood slash proc increases blood loss the one with all the red bubbles kinda op

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In your opinion what's the strongest status buildup in the game?

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The gold fowl foot w/o background is also for group passwords when someone in your group defeats a shardbearer, though I think this effect lasts either for 5 minutes or until you reload the area/teleport out the area, whichever comes first. I notice it goes away if I sit at a site of grace.

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Increased item discovery - Marais Mask

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Temporary physical damage reduction is caused by the orange mist that patches uses in his boss fight, however i'm not sure what that is

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Temporary physical damage reduction is caused by the orange mist that patches uses in his boss fight, however i'm not sure what that is

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Temporarily raises intelligence is not howl of shabiri but Terra magica

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How much status buildup do you need vs an enemy with 0 resistance? Is it 100?

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I believe the third from the bottom is the level scaling when summoned to a lower level players world. It seem to kick in at a 10 level difference

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Cerulean Tear Scarab = Increased damage taken (debuff)

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Two things. The windy crystal tear (enhances dodge rolls) physick mix also seems to have the same aggro icon and effect as shabiri's talisman.

I also have seen with the applied affects (bleed, madness, frost, etc) that it take more applications after each successful application. This is not just the initial damage giving a boost, as it takes more every time. Tested on great greyll with both bleed and poison. Implications are that enemies gain resistance after each application.

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If you have multiple group passwords set in multilayer, do the rune buffs from that stack?

E.g. you get 5% more runes from one group and an additional 5% from another, or is the buff always 5% regardless of how many groups you're currently in via their passwords?

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Why do I gain status bars everytime I spawn or port somewhere

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Gold chicken foot effect also activates when another user with the same online password defeats a story significant boss. A message pop up on screen about their success, and the effect is temporarily applied for about 30s.

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Silver circular icon is attack up buff from Ritual Sword Talisman. The red square max HP increase buff and green square max stamina increase buff are both also granted by any variation of Erdtree’s Favor

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The ones that are unknown on the permanent attribute raising effects, as in the damage negation, the magic attack power and faith/intelligence and the physical attribute plus dex/strength. The question marks as to where the effects come from the unknown ones are Godricks great rune. Those are all benefits of his great rune.

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I've killed Malenia but I don't have Malenia's rune activated and I still have the Flask Debuff Icon (Number 15 / 16 on the list), though there might 2 things that can trigger the debuff; I have done the Volcano Manor contracts on this playthrough and I am thinking that might be why I have the debuff. I'm on NG+ and haven't done anything major except for those contracts at Volcano Manor.

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The flask debuff symbol in a square(icon nr. 15) comes from Malenias great rune when its activated. It makes your flasks weaker.

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They should make it so that status doesn’t go through rolls, rn they stagger so if you get a proc while you are in a roll/quickstep/bloodhound step the enemy can just get a free hit on you with madness or bleed or poison/scarlet rot/frostbite you even if you’ve avoided every one of their hits.

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They should make it so that status doesn’t go through rolls, rn they stagger so if you get a proc while you are in a roll/quickstep/bloodhound step the enemy can just get a free hit on you with madness or bleed or poison/scarlet rot/frostbite you even if you’ve avoided every one of their hits.

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Temporary physical damage debuff is caused by wearing Silver Tear Mask https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Silver+Tear+Mask

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Would be great if they would add a debuff/buff bar to the enemies when you lock onto them with tab target. In boss fights like Radan its hard to tell at all if your rot arrows are doing anything

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The Blessed Dew Talisman grants the Red tear drop symbol currently listed in Work in progress! Its probably the symbol for health over time.

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Blessed+Dew+Talisman

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The "temporal Gain FP on kill" effect is granted by the Sacrificial Axe. Killing a target restores 4 FP. Buff indicator is displayed after a target has been killed, but will be removed if the weapon is switched.

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The HP debuff from embracing Fia is also caused by wearing the Twinsage Glintstone Crown.

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"Temporarily attarct enemies' aggression." is applied to the caster after casting the Howl of Shabiri incantation.

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Not sure if its here, i didnt see it but elements have positive and negative effect with theit opposits and their conductors. For example of you stand in water your lgihting negating goes down by atleast 8 while your fire neg goes up by about 9. This works for all targets including bosses and minor enimies as well as pvp. Also is affected by rain. Im unsure about snow or cold temps as well as extream heat areas but id presume they due. Rolling in poison also makes you take more poison build up. Again im assuming the same happens with rot.

Curse seems to last the longest with build up timers than any other status effect. Could only tret this with the ugly eyed frogs. (I know those aren't their eyes) needs more testing but i dont think you can dual coat status effects unless they are passive. Applying them as active seems to only have the right hand work while the lect hand just gets and damage boost.. i hope to be proven wrong here.

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You get the temporary physical damage boost from the spirit summon Stormhawk Deenh. Symbol is the sword with a diamond background and white up arrow. The hawk will screech periodically, buffing your physical attack power. The boost lasts for approximately 30 seconds.

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Scarlet rot is NOT instant death. It deals sizable chunks of your health every second in a similar, yet more powerful, version of poison. You can get it and survive pretty easily

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La reduccion cooperativa es tal alta que apenas sirve de nada ayudar a un podeedor de dedos con menos atributos

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