Your most hated RPG status effect

[FalloutJack]

Charm, had many a battle in Persona 3 cocked up due to this little gem. Instant death is a close contender though.

Yeah, I especially hated when a boss would charm Yukari and then she'd cast Diaharan on the boss...

Although it's even more obnoxious in Persona 1 where status ailments stack for some god awful reason. So you get these enemies that just spam mass charm spells over and over and your entire party will be charmed pretty much indefinitely. I've never lost a battle because of that, but it was SO annoying.

Ah, so you know that one too, eh? Lemme guess: The subway tunnels.

You see, it's not so much the SPELL as the way it's being spammed over and over and OVER. Good examples are monsters that spam charm or confusion attacks (Persona, Dot-Hack), instant death at every turn (Lots of Final Fantasy, Persona, and SMT on this), and the weird unconventionals that were just there to screw with you. For instance, isn't it true that in FF8, any Malboro you come across automatically always strikes first with its Bad Breath power?

It basically boils down to "Any bad status that is overused and ramped in the enemy's favor is bullshit", and it's true!

 

[Volafortis]

Fear effects. Although anything that breaks control is pretty terrible.

 

[CulixCupric]

I hate confusion/berserk the most. Stop hitting yourself and kill the monsters already!

 

[Dark Aurora]

Knockdown in Neverwinter Nights. They make a quest in the Peninsula District where you have to fight gang leaders for a key who SPAM KNOCKDOWN. You can't move but you sure as hell can take repeated hits until you die. All the snare effects, and stone effects in Sacred, any paralysis effects in ANY game. Pretty much anything that restricts your movement so you can just get hammered on until you die. Sleep isn't so bad in most games due to waking up after getting hit (minus Final Fantasy games where getting hit by a blast of fire, or a meteor still doesn't wake you up..awesome logic there). It's like beating up someone with no arms or legs with the weapon of your choice. To me that's worse than cheating. Hell, you can put the Konami code in Contra and get 30 lives, but you can still die.
These bastards use shit that gives you no chance unless the game is party based where you need someone to pick your "hero" ass up off the ground every turn while still trying to maintain some offense to finish the battle before the inevitable ground and pound that only Brock Lesnar should be able to deliver. Don't get me wrong. Some games are generous with accessories etc... that can prevent these, and that's ok, but creating regular mobs that are able to do things equivalent to Chuck Norris V.S. Quadriplegic while Stoned, is ridiculous. Oh yeah. Any instant death attacks, and every status effect in MS Saga for PS2. There are probably more, but I can't think of them off the top of my head right now.

 

[Saviordd1]

Fear from WoW.

Seriously, fuck that shit; at lower level PVP zones it would absolutely kill you.

 

[Mirroga]

Being stoned sounds awesome. but nah, it just makes you permanently paralyzed with a chance of shattering.

 

[CrazyBlaze]

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.

7


IIRC that describes at least five bosses in that game, not counting marks and secret bosses.

OT: For me it has to be anything that screws with me hitting my enemies. I usuualy like to play as a shield and sword warrior who can rip through enemies so when I get hit with something like Blind or anything similar to it I can't stand it. High level pokemon? It uses five sand attacks in a row. Enter rage mode. hit with blind in FFXII, don't have spells to clear it up or no golden handkerchiefs left? enter me getting pissed.

Confusion is a close second though.

 

[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.

7


IIRC that describes at least five bosses in that game, not counting marks and secret bosses.

OT: For me it has to be anything that screws with me hitting my enemies. I usuualy like to play as a shield and sword warrior who can rip through enemies so when I get hit with something like Blind or anything similar to it I can't stand it. High level pokemon? It uses five sand attacks in a row. Enter rage mode. hit with blind in FFXII, don't have spells to clear it up or no golden handkerchiefs left? enter me getting pissed.

Confusion is a close second though.

7?...7 what, exactly? just don't know specifically what your talking about.. -_-


but yeah, i'm sure there are at least 5 bosses that are described by that, I just remember that was the first one I ran into and was heavily annoyed, so after I beat him I went and did that gambit glitch thing and let all my guys get to lvl 90 overnight, so I could steamplow everything regardless of those annoying status effects.

I will say blind/accuracy decreases are definitely gear grinding worthy though, thankfully I've never ran out of meds or magic spells to help it though, otherwise i'd be bloody pissed off i'm sure.

 

[CrazyBlaze]

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.

7


IIRC that describes at least five bosses in that game, not counting marks and secret bosses.

OT: For me it has to be anything that screws with me hitting my enemies. I usuualy like to play as a shield and sword warrior who can rip through enemies so when I get hit with something like Blind or anything similar to it I can't stand it. High level pokemon? It uses five sand attacks in a row. Enter rage mode. hit with blind in FFXII, don't have spells to clear it up or no golden handkerchiefs left? enter me getting pissed.

Confusion is a close second though.

7?...7 what, exactly? just don't know specifically what your talking about.. -_-


but yeah, i'm sure there are at least 5 bosses that are described by that, I just remember that was the first one I ran into and was heavily annoyed, so after I beat him I went and did that gambit glitch thing and let all my guys get to lvl 90 overnight, so I could steamplow everything regardless of those annoying status effects.

I will say blind/accuracy decreases are definitely gear grinding worthy though, thankfully I've never ran out of meds or magic spells to help it though, otherwise i'd be bloody pissed off i'm sure.

SEVEN MINUTES TO WIN IT! No its a typo. Damn typos. DAMN YOU TYPO OVERLORDS! ONE DAY YOU SHALL FALL!!!!

 

[piinyouri]

Charm.
Charm can turn your greatest power into your greatest weakness and undo you in an instant.

 

[Ganath]

Curse in Dark souls deserves a mention. Damn doom frogs in the sewers. I have a strong dislike for disarm effects too, as I usually play melee oriented characters. Constant flinching in pokemon has always been annoying. Luckily that doesn't happen that often but when it does...damn.

 

[Plucky]

Amongst all RPGS, the most annoying of all has to be Pokemon's Confusion status effect....

Imagine reaching a cave for the first time, all fine and dandy until you encounter Zubat every few steps, it'll always have a compulsion to use Supersonic and a bunch of Leech Life attacks, eventually later in the game, it gains access to Confuse Ray which has higher accuracy, screw that, it ALWAYS hits!


Solution could be simply having a Pikachu or whatever, but by the time you beaten Brock, chances are that your starter is simply over leveled purely because their moves tends to be convenient. D:

 

[Beautiful End]

Yeah, it depends on the game. but off the top of my head:

-Dragon Age: Stunt (By Rogues). My character becomes a sitting duck, just taking hits and amazingly not snapping out of it despite the butt kicking he's getting. Also, sleep or stop. Basically the same deal.

-FF games: Poison, zombie and sleep. None of those stats ever work on the enemy but they ALWAYS work on you. God knows why. But above all, I hate those random, not well known stats like Toad. Really? I'm a toad?! Or Tiny! What is this? Mario bros?

-Pokemon: Stunt, freeze and poison. Same as above.

But I guess the one status I hate the most is Confuse. Again, it always works on your characters and it's quite common for someone to use them. It's a cheap shot because the enemy can't clearly defeat you so they brainwash your allies. And in order to heal your ally, you either gotta hit them or lose a turn and use an item. Fucking hate that.

 

[Ryotknife]

dang another thread necro.

anyways, confusion for me.

 

[Pearwood]

Confusion. Fuck you confusion. Specially in Pokemon where it's rigged to hurt you more than the enemies.

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Is there some new rule that everyones first post must be a necro?

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Stun or root. Just sitting there helpless as an enemy starts tearing my character down pisses me off.

Still, its fun to do it to others so eh...

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

A lot of it depends on -which- RPG we're talking about, but in general, Paralyze effects, as I mostly play Rogues, Thieves, Bards, and other classes who rely on their speed and agility to surive, paralisis murders me.

Yes. Paralysis or crippling effect. It sucks.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

"RUB" from the original FF game, oh how I hated those damn sorcerers that looked like mini C'thulhu's

 

[TehCookie]

The most powerful one of course. I hate it when poison does more damage than being attacked and still exists after a battle. Oh and all the bosses are immune or it has a hit rate of 2% for you and 90% for the enemies.

Though charm has made me rage quit before. I was playing Persona 3 got to the final boss and almost killed him when he charmed a teammate. I could survive her attacking me but no, she heals completely heals the boss. The moment she cast that spell I just hit the powerbutton.