Debilitation

Debilitations are the various negative Status Effects. They can be inflicted by a variety of factors, including by foes, allies, the environment, and even some items. All except unconsciousness, petrification, and possession are temporary and will eventually wear off if not treated.

Overview
Debilitations are status effects that can affect allies and foes alike, they can be inflicted with special weapons, debilitating spells, as secondary effects of the Five Archmagicks, with thrown items, with Special Arrows, some special skills, and by special creature attacks.

In general infliction of debilitation requires that a foe's resistance to it is overcome - this usually means successive attacks to increase the cumulative effect until a threshold is passed.

The Augments of Morbidity, Toxicity, and Magnitude reduce the number of strikes or time it takes to debilitate, with Morbidity working with physical attacks, Toxicity with poison attacks, and Magnitude with debilitation spells.

In some cases the debilitation can be transferred through a sequence of spells and attacks - for example a Magick Cannon hit with Rusted Weapons may inflict poison or torpor with its orbs; or when an ally is electrified with Fulmination cast with Golden Weapons the ally's attacks may silence; a Perfect Block with a Rusted Shield may also cause Poison or Torpor.

Elemental Debilitations
The debilitations from the Archmagicks of fire, ice, and lightning are separate from the elements themselfs; thus fire resistance does not prevent burning, and frozen resistance does not prevent damage from ice. Unlike golden, rusted, or aneled weapons the enhancement level of an enchanted weapon does not increase the frequency of debilitation; however high level spell enchantments do grant higher frequencies of debilitation.

The healing and critical effects from holy and dark magicks act in a similar way to debilitations - in that the effect happens when the cumulative strikes reach a critical value.

With holy magic the effect is to heal the attacker, whilst with dark magic the effect is a Critical Hit - in both cases the effect is instantaneous, not long lasting, much like Thundershock.

Debilitation Resistance
All creatures have differing innate resistances to different debilitations - a few such as the Ur-Dragon are immune to all debilitations. In general it seems that larger creatures are more resistant to debilitations even when they are relatively weak to the magick causing it - small creatures such as Spiders tend to be debilitated on the first hit.

Any spell or item granting the status Impervious gives a temporary resistance to all debilitations. The augments Resistance and Intervention give resistances to certain non-elemental and elemental debilitations respectively.

Various pieces of equipment can also give resistances to some debilitations. Please refer to individual debilitations for a list of equipment, or look within Category:Debilitation and Elemental Resistance Lists for a specific page.

It seems that some large creatures are more susceptible to rapid infliction of debilitation - so for example a Drake when hit with torporing arrows using Quick-Loose may take over 20 arrow hits to torpor, whilst when using Fivefold Flurry torporing can occur after around 10 arrow strikes.

List of foe resistances

 * Note - incomplete table


 * * indicates immunity
 * - indicates impossibility to obtain a value
 * ? indicates uncertainty in value

Dragon's Dogma
Creatures in Gransys and The Everfall

Dark Arisen
Creatures found in Bitterblack Isle

Measurement

 * Fire.png Burning is measured as number of strikes with a Fire Boon enchanted weapon to set alight
 * Frozen.pngn is measure as number of 'ticks' of Frazil needed to Freeze. Ice Boon enchanted magick bolts are approximately equivalent.
 * LIGHTNING_BASED.png Thundershock is measured as number of strikes with a Thunder Boon enchanted weapon to cause chain lightning
 * Tarred.png Tarring is measured as number of Oil Arrows to tar. An un-upgraded Aneled Weapon debilitates faster.
 * DrenchedWater.png Drenched is measured as number of Flask of Water needed to cause wetting.
 * Poison.png Poison is measured as number of Poison Arrows needed
 * Blindness.png Blindness is measured as the number of Blinder Arrows needed ('ticks' of Blearing required in brackets)
 * Silence.png Silence is measured as the number of Silencer Arrows needed ('ticks' of Silentium required in brackets).
 * Sleep.png Sleep is measured as number of Sleeper Arrows needed.
 * Torpor.png Torpor is measured as number of strikes with a 3* rusted weapon needed. (Lassitude in brackets)
 * Petrification.png Petrification is measured as number of Petrifying Arrow needed. (number of seconds of the spell Petrifaction requires in brackets)
 * Curse.png Curse measured as number of thrown Skulls to curse. (Perdition in brackets)
 * StrengthLowered.png Lowered Strength obtained with unenhanced Sapfire Daggers
 * DefenseLowered.png Lowered Defense obtained with unenhanced Dragon's Roost.
 * MagickLowered.png Lowered Magick obtained with unenhanced Magebreaker.
 * MagickDefenseLowered.png Lowered Magick Defense resistance information is limited to those creatures affected by Magick Rebalancer.
 * Values under HOLY BASED.png Holy and DARK BASED.png Dark correspond to Holy Healing and Dark Criticals, and are measured as number of strikes with a weapon enchanted with Holy Boon or Dark Boon.

Other

 * Note that 'High' versions of debilitation spells debilitate at a much faster rate (typically half as fast again), as do 'Affinity' and 'Pact' enchants compared to 'Boons'