Status Effects

In Empires & Puzzles, status effects can be grouped into 2 categories: beneficial effects, called buffs, and hindering effects, called status ailments. Status effects can modify nearly every aspect of a battle (e.g. attack, defense, incoming damage and usage of Special Skills). A wise use of them can turn the tide of a battle. Status effects tipically last from 2 to 6 turns.

Most of the status effects can stack with each other, but some may overwrite the current status (most notably opposite status like increased attack and decreased attack). DaveCozy has made a list of which status can or can't be overwritten. Click here to check it out.

Buffs

Beneficial modifiers applied by Buffers to allies. Can be removed (dispelled) by Dispellers, unless they are marked as Undispellable. You can check below which heroes and items can apply them.

Current available buffs:

• Increased attack.

• Increased attack with a further increase every time the hero is hit.

• Increased attack with decreased accuracy.

• Increased attack and decreased accuracy that only applies when the target has more health than the target.

• Increased Normal attack (tile/slash).

• Increased Normal attack that only applies when the target has more health than the target.

• Increased chance to drop any received damage to 1.

• Increased defense.

• Increased defense. (Stacks with other defense modifiers.)

• Increased defense against Ice.

• Increased defense against Nature.

• Increased defense against Dark.

• Increased defense against Fire.

• Increased defense against Holy.

• Increased defense against Special Skills.

• Can't be targeted by enemies.

• Taunt prevents enemies from using Special Skills on the caster's allies.

• Increased healing for any healing received.

• Recover HP over turns.

• Heal part of dealt normal damage.

• Share received damage with other team members.

• Increased critical chance.

• Increased mana generation.

• Recover mana over turns.

• Immune to negative mana effects.

• Immune to effects that block usage of Special Skills.

• Counterattack with part of the damage received.

• All status effects and part of the damage is reflected back to the attacker.

• A moderate amount mana received for every counterattack. The effect gets diminished for consecutive activations during the same turn.

• Reflect all status effects and part of the damage from Ice Special Skills back to the attacker.

• Reflect all status effects and part of the damage from Holy Special Skills back to the attacker.

• Increased chance to dodge Special Skills that do damage. The higher the damage from the special is, the higher the chance to dodge it. Receive mana on dodge.

• Increased chance to dodge Special Skills. Each dodge summons a Sakura Fox Minion.

• Increased attack. Immune to normal attacks, Special Skill attacks and status effects. Can't gain mana.

• The hero is resurrected with some health when they die.

• When the character dies, they will be reborn as a Zombie.

• The hero is reborn in Chameleon Mode with some health, increased attack, and decreased defense when they die.

• Chameleon Mode: increased attack, decreased defense.

• Immune to status ailments.

• Increased attack and defense.

• Increased attack and defense.

• Increased attack and defense.

• Increased attack and defense.

• Increased attack and defense.

• Recover some health per turn.

• Recover some health per turn.

• Recover some health per turn.

• Recover some health per turn.

• Recover some health per turn.

• Increased defense against Holy.

• Increased defense against Nature.

• Increased defense against Ice.

• Increased defense against Fire.

• Increased defense against Dark.

• Increased mana generation.

• Increased mana generation.

• Increased mana generation.

• Increased mana generation.

• Increased mana generation.

Status Ailments

Harmful modifiers applied by Debuffers and damage over time. Typically applied to enemies, but in some cases it can be applied to the caster itself. Can be removed (dispelled) by Cleansers and Antidotes, unless they are marked as Undispellable. You can check below which heroes and items can apply them.

Current available status ailments:

• Decreased accuracy.

• Decreased attack.

• Decreased attack with a further decrease every time the character is hit.

• Decreased attack. The effect duration resets if the character is healed.

• Decreased defense.

• Decreased defense with a further decrease every time the character is hit.

• Decreased defense against Ice.

• Decreased defense against Nature.

• Decreased defense against Dark.

• Decreased defense against Fire.

• Decreased defense against Holy.

• Decreased healing for any healing received.

• Decreased healing for any healing received.

• Part of applied healing is stolen.

• Decreased mana generation.

• Part of received mana is stolen.

• Can't gain mana.

• Can't use Special Skill.

• Receive some damage and reduce mana when mana is full.

• Automatically cast Mindless Attack on a random ally when mana is full.

• Receive some Burn damage per turn.

• Receive some Poison damage per turn.

• Receive some damage per turn.

• Receive some damage per turn.

• Receive some Bleed damage per turn.

• Receive damage over turns. Damage increase every turn.

• The caster drains some HP per turn.

Special Buffs

This category of buffs are always active once their conditions are met and are not applied by heroes. They are available during some special rules of Wars and Raid Tournaments.

• Increased attack from Attack Boost. (10% times Stack Count)

  

(During Attack Boost - stacks with other attack modifiers.)

• Increased attack from Buff Booster. (20% times Buffs active)

  

(During Buff Booster - multiplier always active when character has any other buffs.)