Status Effects

Status effects are temporary changes applied during combat. They come in two kinds:

Debuffs are harmful effects placed on a target (you or an enemy).
Buffs are helpful effects you carry, and many can be shared with your party.

This page lists every effect, what it does, and how to deal with it.

Resisting and removing effects

A few stats and tools decide how much status effects matter to you:

Resilience lowers the chance an incoming debuff lands on you.
Tenacity shortens the duration of debuffs that do land.
Cleanse Elixir removes damage-over-time and control effects from you.
Cleanse abilities let healers remove effects from allies.
Purge is found on some attacks and strips helpful effects off enemies.

Most effects refresh their timer if reapplied. A few stack (grow stronger each time), noted below.

Debuffs

Damage over time

All damage in Idle Wushu is either physical or spiritual. Effect names like Burn or Frostbite are flavor: what matters is the damage type and the extra effect each one carries.

Effect	What it does
Bleed	Physical damage every few seconds. Stacks up to 5 times for more damage.
Poison	Spiritual damage every few seconds. Stacks up to 8 times for more damage.
Burn	Spiritual damage every few seconds. Often applied to several foes at once by area attacks.
Wither	Spiritual damage every few seconds that grows stronger the longer it lasts.
Frostbite	Spiritual damage every few seconds that also slows the target.
Shock	Spiritual damage every few seconds that ignores the target’s defenses.
Acid	Physical damage every few seconds that also lowers physical defense. Stacks up to 3 times.

Control

Effect	What it does
Stun	Cannot act at all.
Freeze	Cannot act at all. Some attacks deal bonus damage to frozen targets.
Slow	Auto-attacks and abilities come out more slowly.
Disarm	Cannot auto-attack.
Silence	Cannot cast abilities.
Choke	Cannot use consumables (food, elixirs, pills).
Daze	Reduced accuracy and dodge.

Weakening

Effect	What it does
Weaken	The target deals less damage.
Sunder	Reduced physical defense. Stacks.
Rend	Reduced spiritual defense. Stacks.
Expose	The target takes more damage from all sources.
Mark	The marked target takes extra damage from whoever marked it. Great for focusing a target as a group.
Blunt	Reduced critical hit chance.
Unnerve	Reduced resilience and tenacity, so further effects land more easily.
Enfeeble	Reduced maximum health.

Healing and resource

Effect	What it does
Fester	Reduces the healing the target receives.
Necrosis	The next portion of healing is wasted before it lands.
Sap	Drains qi over time and lowers qi regeneration.

Buffs

Defensive

Effect	What it does
Armor	More physical defense.
Ward	More spiritual defense.
Fortify	Take less damage.
Barrier	A shield that absorbs damage before your health is touched.
Dodge	Higher chance to evade attacks.

Offensive

Effect	What it does
Empower	Deal more damage (and healing).
Haste	Attack and cast faster.
Keen	Higher critical hit chance.
Focus	Higher accuracy.
Frenzy	Deal more damage and act faster, but take more damage. Risk and reward.

Sustain and resource

Effect	What it does
Regen	Restores health over time.
Vigil	A safety net that auto-heals you when your health drops low, then fades.
Grace	Increases the healing you receive.
Leech	Heal for a portion of the damage you deal.
Flow	Restores qi faster.
Vessel	Increases your maximum qi.
Vigor	Increases your maximum health.
Nourish	Makes your consumables stronger.

Utility and survival

Effect	What it does
Resolve	Resist debuffs more often, and for shorter durations.
Nullify	Blocks the next debuff applied to you.
Unstoppable	Immune to control effects.
Invulnerable	Immune to all damage for a short time.
Undying	Survive the next lethal blow at 1 health.
Reflect	Return a portion of damage taken back to the attacker.
Guard	Take a portion of a nearby ally’s incoming damage for them.
Taunt	Forces enemies to attack you.
Fade	Lowers your threat, so enemies are less likely to target you.

Tips

Cleanse is your friend against damage-over-time and control. Keep a Cleanse Elixir slotted when fighting enemies that apply them.
Resilience and tenacity are the stats that make you slippery to status effects. Stack them if a fight is built around debuffs.
In a group, a tank uses Taunt to hold enemies, a healer keeps Regen and Barrier up, and damage dealers stack Sunder, Rend, Expose, and Mark to make the target fall faster.

Combat: how ticks, hit chance, and damage work.
Cultivation: the realms that raise your core stats.