Your most hated RPG status effect

[Brawndo]

I particularly despise silence because I tend to play a mage-build in RPGs. Then I am left with nothing but a shitty dagger or a wooden staff to ward off melee enemies.

Death Effects.

They never work on the enemy and they always work on you.

True story. I remember how much I hated the Doom spell in Final Fantasy games. It never worked against bosses, and against regular enemies there was no point because you could easily kill them with regular attacks before the death countdown got anywhere close to completion.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Stun effects or silence effects, **** those

 

[SoranMBane]

Speaking from the context of having played Oblivion, anything that damages my strength. I'll have so much stuff on me most of the time that a strength-damaging effect will leave me over-encumbered in the middle of a fight.

 

[smearyllama]

Sleep/paralysis, which are just annoying.
About to win a pokebattle? Nope. Some electric type just used shockwave, paralyzing you.
Poison effects are bad, too, because you're gonna lose whatever afflicted party members you have if there's no inn/item shop nearby and you don't have an antidote on you.

 

[berthafelts143]

What I hated most is the Death effect and the silence effects.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Oh god...anyone played The Last Remnant?

First I may have to explain how the battles are set out. You control teams you can set up with leader units or secondary units. Each turn you pick your teams behaviour and each unit will attack in that way...confusing? Kinda. That's part of why it wasn't successful

"Curse" in that game, before every single unit's turn they have a 50% chance of dying and it's uncurable...
To make this worse, if your team leader dies it puts your entire team into a status called "Botch" ...this status puts everyone in berserk and gives each unit a 50% chance of failing to attack.

Yeah...also there is a monster that uses this tactic early on in the game along with poisoning your teams...yeah it's a painful boss monster and yes I have died a lot in this game!

 

[museofdoom]

Anything that paralyzes you. There is nothing more infuriating to me than when you're sitting there helpless watching your health go down whilst some dude wails on you mercilessly.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Don't remember it exactly, but in FF12, if i remember right, this one stupid boss would lay down most effects onto your party at the same time, quite easily the most annoying thing ever (had to grind for roughly 10-15 levels just for that one boss in that one area that i had to go through. think it was like galmore jungle or such?)

bah, fuck that.

also death effects as people have stated, they never work on the opponent but seem to magnetize to your whole party with the biggest troll face.

 

[geekRAGE]

STUNNED!!!! ugh i hate that shit

 

[Antari]

Repair effects ... damaged armor and weapons. Would have to be my biggest hate in RPG's.

 

[MammothBlade]

Definitely charm, which is a regular-brand annoyance - and especially when used against my main tank, who could easily kill the entire team in one or two hits.

Though weird status effects such as "curse" and "zombie" are also a pain, because the items to cure them are quite rare, and they tend to be paired with the toughest enemies in the game.

 

[Berenzen]

Guild Wars' disease. Holy hell that was annoying, you get hit with it, your entire party then shares it, and it'll last the whole damned battle and for a time afterward as the disease retriggers on people that the person hasn't passed it to.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Anything that permanently kills you and cannot be revived. In some games, being Petrified and then broken into pieces does this and especially in Xenosaga, if you are on an AGWS, Stop permanently shuts you down and you cannot make anymore moves.

 

[Krxis Rowe]

Flu from Chrono Cross. Makes you zigzag when walking around on the world map. It's unbelievably annoying.

 

[UrieHusky]

Anything that causes me to miss constantly or any other time wasting ability (paralysis etc)

So much rage in pokemon and Final Fantasy from stuff like that >_<

Seriously... who thought things that do nothing but draw out a fight was a good idea?

 

[Scabadus]

The "Fear Rings" that Dragons in the origional Neverwinter Nights had were one of the most annoying things I've ever experianced in a game. In a fight near the end where you fight two dragons at once, each with a (high) chance of you getting Feared when you started attacking it I ended up just quicksaving and quickloading until I got through both at once.

 

[cgentero]

Charm or confuse, anything that can lead your characters to killing themselves.

 

[WaReloaded]

Getting stunned or paralysed never fails to annoy/irritate me.

Repair effects ... damaged armor and weapons. Would have to be my biggest hate in RPG's.

I also share your pain, especially in Diablo.