Debuffs are status effects that affect the player or target negatively. This is a comprehensive list of all debuffs added by the Calamity Mod.
Calamity removes the buff slot limit, allowing the concurrent infliction of far more debuffs on enemies.
From enemies[]
Icon | Name | From | Effect | Tooltip |
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Abyssal Flames | Supreme Calamitas, Supreme Catastrophe, Supreme Cataclysm, Soul Seekers, and melee weapons with Calamitas' Brew or Elemental Gauntlet. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 62.5 health per second and 6 defense. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 8 health per second, 6 defense, and no life regeneration. |
Your soul is being consumed | |
Armor Crunch | Golem, any type of Biome Blade, Earth Elemental weapons, Spear of Paleolith, The Ballista, Apotheosis, and melee and rogue attacks with Crumbling Potion or Shattering Potion. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 10 defense. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 10 defense and 66.67% damage reduction. |
Your armor is shredded | |
Ancient Astral Blight | Astrum Deus and the blighted weapons it drops. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 52 health per second and 10 defense. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 14 health per second, 12 defense and 15% movement speed. |
An ancient cosmic affliction spreads through you | |
Astral Infection (debuff) | Astrum Aureus, Enemies in the Astral Infection biome and weapons crafted from Astral Bars or dropped by enemies in the Astral Infection. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 37.5 health per second and 6 defense. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 10 health per second, 6 defense and 15% movement speed. |
Your flesh is melting off | |
Boss Effects | While any boss is alive | Reduces spawn rate by 80% and maximum spawn count by 99.9%. | The active boss is reducing spawn rates...a lot | |
Brimstone Flames | Calamitas, Catastrophe, Cataclysm, Brimstone Elemental, Calamity Eyes, Soul Slurpers, The Slime God, Heat Spirits, and various weapons. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 20 health per second. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 8 health per second. |
Rapid health loss | |
Burning Blood | The Perforators, Fulguration Halberd, Utensil Poker | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 25 health per second. If inflicted on the player: Target loses 4 health per second, 3 defense, and the Darkness debuff is inflicted. Melee damage and move speed are slightly increased, but melee speed, ranged damage, and magic damage are slightly decreased. |
Your blood is on fire | |
Clamity | Giant Clam | Spawn rates of Clams go up and Clams become aggressive, all other spawn rates are reduced to zero | The clams have been angered! | |
Crush Depth | The Abyss, Bloatfish, Bobbit Worms, Colossal Squids, Eidolon Wyrms, Giant Squids, Gulper Eels, Reaper Sharks, and various weapons. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 30 health per second (in Pre-Hardmode) or 200 health per second (in Hardmode) If inflicted on a player: Target loses 9 health per second. The higher defense a target has, the less damage taken per second. |
Aquatic pressure | |
Dragon Fire | Jungle Dragon, Yharon, Profaned Guardians | Player loses 9 health per second and 15% movement speed. | Losing life, reduced movement speed | |
Embers of Civilization | The Wall of Bronze, Metal Maw, Mechanical Leech, Large Father, A M S, The WOBbler, Bronze Serpent, Clockwork Bat. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 50 health per second and 15% Damage Reduction. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 15 health per second, 15% damage inflicted on enemies, uses 30% more mana and loses 3 minion slots for the duration of the debuff. |
Ashes to ashes, bronze to bronze | |
Embers of Duality | The Starborn Moth and the items she drops, Mechawyrm, and Empyreon. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 35 health per second and 10% Damage Reduction. Portals appear around the target that fire friendly bolts. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 7% defense and damage reduction. Portals appear around the target that fire bolts and summon spirits. |
Celestial voids are manifesting around you; defense and damage reduction reduced | |
Extreme Gravity | Astrum Deus, The Devourer of Gods | All infinite flight is disabled, and maximum flight time is reduced by 25%. | Your wing time is reduced by 25%, infinite flight is disabled | |
Fish Alert | Luminous Corvina | Enemies in the Abyss can notice the player more easily and from further away. | The abyssal creatures have spotted you! | |
Glacial State | Cryogen, Cryon, Ice Clasper, Ice Golem, and various weapons. | Target loses 10 defense and cannot move at all. | Cannot move and defense is shattered | |
God Slayer Inferno | The Devourer of Gods, Cosmic Guardian, and various weapons. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 125 health per second and 10 defense. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 15 health per second, 10 defense and 15% movement speed. |
Your flesh is burning off | |
Holy Flames | Providence, the Profaned Goddess, Sunskater, Sun Bat, and various weapons. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 25 health per second. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 8 health per second. |
Dissolving from holy light | |
Holy Inferno | Providence, the Profaned Goddess | Target takes damage that exponentially increases in severity as time spent away from Providence increases to a maximum of 100 health per second. | You've gone too far from the Profaned Goddess! | |
Icarus' Folly | Providence, the Profaned Goddess | All infinite flight is disabled, maximum flight time is reduced by 33%. | Your wing time is reduced by 33%, infinite flight is disabled. | |
Irradiated | Acid Rain enemies, Helium Flash, Karasawa, and several Acid Rain themed weapons. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 10 health per second. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 10 defense, 10% damage reduction and 10% movement speed but gains 5% damage and 50% minion knockback. |
Your skin is burning off | |
Moon Burnt | Providence, the Profaned Goddess, Profaned Energy, Polterghast, various weapons, and Umbraphile armor. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 100 health per second. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 8 health per second. |
Incinerated by lunar rays | |
Plague | The Plaguebringer Goliath, Plaguebringers, Melters, Plagueshells, Virulings, Pestilent Slimes, Plague Chargers, and various weapons. | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 50 health per second and 4 defense. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 10 health per second, 4 defense, and 15% movement speed, and their vision is darkened. |
Rotting from the inside | |
Sulphuric Poisoning | Water in the Sulphurous Sea, several weapons, Nuclear Terrors, and Radiators post-Polterghast | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 90 health per second. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 3 health per second and natural regen is disabled. |
The acidic water burns away your flesh | |
Vaporfied | Various light, rainbow, and mediocre matter themed weapons and enemies, XF-09 Ares | If inflicted on an enemy: Target loses 25 health per second and has 15% reduced movement speed. If inflicted on a player: Target loses 10 health per second, 2 defense, 10% movement speed, has afterimages that persist until the debuff ends, and their vision is darkened. |
Vaporizing senses and mind | |
Vulnerability Hex | Supreme Calamitas, Supreme Cataclysm, Supreme Catastrophe, and Soul Seekers | Disables life regeneration, target loses 8 health per second, 30 defense, 30% damage reduction, and 10% move speed, and their vision is darkened. Flight time is reduced by 75% and all infinite flight is disabled. | You are weak | |
Warped | The Devourer of Gods | Target has increased vertical acceleration. | Movement is being warped | |
War Cleave | Overloaded Soldier, Phantom Debris, Temporal Umbrella, Waraxe, Warblade | Target's defense is reduced by 15 and damage reduction is reduced by 25%. | Defense and protection reduced | |
Weak Petrification | Ravager | Disables additional jumps and jump height boosts. Flight time is reduced by 50%, all infinite flight and mounts are disabled. | Your vertical movement is weakened | |
Whispering Death | Signus, Envoy of the Devourer, The Devourer of Gods, Omniblade | If inflicted on an enemy: Target's defense is reduced by 50. If inflicted on a player: Target's defense is reduced by 20, damage reduced by 10%, movement speed reduced by 10%, and no life regen. |
Death approaches; defense, movement speed, attack power and life regen reduced |
From the Drunk Princess' Drinks[]
Icon | Name | From | Effect | Tooltip |
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Alcohol Poisoning | Consuming more than three drinks at a time. | Reduces the player's life regen by 3 for each drink debuff currently active. | You drank too much and you are now dying | |
Bloody Mary (debuff) | Bloody Mary | Boosts damage and melee speed by 15%, movement speed by 10% and critical strike chance by 7% during a Blood Moon Reduces life regen by 2 and defense by 4%. | Damage, critical strike chance, movement speed, and melee speed boosted during a Blood Moon, life regen and defense reduced | |
Caribbean Rum (debuff) | Caribbean Rum | Boosts life regen by 2, movement speed by 10% and wing flight time by 20%. Makes you floaty and reduces defense by 10%. | Life regen, movement speed, and wing flight time boosted, you are floaty and defense is reduced | |
Cinnamon Roll (debuff) | Cinnamon Roll | Boosts mana regeneration rate and multiplies all fire-based weapon damage by 1.1. Reduces defense by 10%. | Mana regen rate and fire weapon damage boosted, defense reduced | |
Everclear (debuff) | Everclear | Boosts damage by 25%. Reduces life regen by 10 and defense by 30%. | Damage boosted, life regen and defense reduced | |
Evergreen Gin (debuff) | Evergreen Gin | Multiplies nature-based weapon damage by 1.1 and increases damage reduction by 5%. Reduces life regen by 1. | Nature-based weapon damage and damage reduction boosted, life regen reduced | |
Fluorescent | Fluorescent Vodka | Increases all damage by 8% and lengthens immune time after being struck. Decreases defense by 10%. | You feel lively | |
Fireball (debuff) | Fireball | Multiplies all fire-based weapon damage by 1.1. Reduces life regen by 1. | Fire weapon damage boosted, life regen reduced | |
Grape Beer (debuff) | Grape Beer | Reduces defense by 3% and movement speed by 5%. | Defense and movement speed reduced | |
Margarita (debuff) | Margarita | Halves the duration to most debuffs. Reduces defense by 6% and life regen by 1. | Reduced duration to most debuffs, defense and life regen reduced | |
Moonshine (debuff) | Moonshine | Increases defense by 10 and damage reduction by 5%. Reduces life regen by 1. | Defense and damage reduction boosted, life regen reduced | |
Moscow Mule (debuff) | Moscow Mule | Boosts damage and knockback by 9% and critical strike chance by 3%. Reduces life regen by 2. | Damage, critical strike chance, and knockback boosted, life regen reduced | |
Red Wine (debuff) | Red Wine | Reduces life regen by 1. | Life regen reduced | |
Rum (debuff) | Rum | Boosts life regen by 2 and movement speed by 10%. Reduces defense by 5%. | Movement speed and life regen boosted, defense reduced | |
Screwdriver (debuff) | Screwdriver | Multiplies piercing projectile damage by 1.05. Reduces life regen by 1. | Piercing projectile damage boosted, life regen reduced | |
Star Beam Rye (debuff) | Star Beam Rye | Boosts max mana by 50, magic damage by 8%, and reduces mana usage by 10%. Reduces defense by 6% and life regen by 1. | Max mana and magic damage increased. Defense, mana usage, and life regen reduced | |
Tequila (debuff) | Tequila | Boosts damage, damage reduction, and knockback by 3%, critical strike chance by 2%, and defense by 5 during daytime. Reduces life regen by 1. | Damage, critical strike chance, damage reduction, defense, and knockback boosted during daytime, life regen reduced | |
Tequila Sunrise (debuff) | Tequila Sunrise | Boosts damage, damage reduction, and knockback by 7%, critical strike chance by 3%, and defense by 10 during daytime. Reduces life regen by 1. | Damage, critical strike chance, damage reduction, defense, and knockback boosted during daytime, life regen reduced | |
Vodka (debuff) | Vodka | Boosts damage by 6% and critical strike chance by 2%. Reduces life regen by 1 and defense by 5%. | Damage and critical stike chance boosted, defense and life regen reduced | |
Whiskey (debuff) | Whiskey | Boosts damage and knockback by 4% and critical strike chance by 2%. Reduces defense by 5%. | Damage, critical strike chance, and knockback boosted, defense reduced | |
White Wine (debuff) | White Wine | Boosts magic damage by 10%. Reduces defense by 6% and life regen by 1. | Magic damage boosted, life regen and defense reduced |
From Items and the Environment[]
Icon | Name | From | Effect | Tooltip |
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Abyssal Diving Suit Plates Broken | Abyssal Diving Suit | The effect of the Abyssal Diving Suit Plates buff is reversed. | The plates are regenerating | |
Abyssal Evade Cooldown | Abyssal Mirror | The evade effect from the Abyssal Mirror cannot trigger for 20 seconds. | Your Abyssal Mirror's dodge is recharging | |
Abyssal Madness Cooldown | Omega Blue armor | Disabled usage of Abyssal Madness for 30 seconds. | Your abyssal madness is recharging | |
Blood Frenzy Cooldown | Bloodflare armor and Auric Tesla armor | Blood Frenzy cannot trigger for 30 seconds. | Your blood frenzy is recharging | |
Bloodflare Soul Cooldown | Bloodflare armor and Auric Tesla armor | Disabled usage of Bloodflare Soul for 30 seconds. | Your souls are recharging | |
Brimflame Frenzy Cooldown | Brimflame armor | Disabled usage of Brimflame Frenzy for 30 seconds. | Your use of brimstone magic has left you exhausted | |
Burnt Out | Profaned Soul Artifact | The Guardians' stat boosts and healing effects are disabled. | You've been burnt out and your guardians are less effective | |
Calamitous Anxiety | Sugars of Calamity | 15% increased movement speed, and 5 increased defense. 50% decreased damage and 90% decreased critical strike chance. | Something is watching your every move | |
Calamitous Dysphoria | Sugars of Calamity | 10 decreased defense, 10% decreased movement speed, 20% decreased damage, 20% decreased critical strike chance, 40% reduced mining speed. | You feel like something is out of place, but don't know what it is | |
Concoction Cooldown | Permafrost's Concoction | The revive effect from Permafrost's Concoction cannot trigger for 3 minutes. | Revive is recharging | |
Divine Recharge | Angelic Alliance | Disabled usage of Divine Bless for 1 minute. | Your divine powers are recharging | |
Draconic Surge Cooldown | Draconic Elixir | Draconic Surge cannot trigger for 30 seconds. | A mysterious force prevents the absorption of draconic energy | |
Eclipse Evade Cooldown | Eclipse Mirror | The evade effect from the Eclipse Mirror cannot trigger for 20 seconds. | Your Eclipse Mirror's dodge is recharging | |
Energy Shell Cooldown | Lion Heart | The energy shell effect from the Lion Heart cannot trigger for 45 seconds. | Your energy shell is recharging | |
Enraged | Demonshade armor | The player deals 125% more damage but takes 25% more damage. | All damage taken is increased by 25% | |
Evasion Scarf Cooldown | Evasion Scarf | Cannot perform another dodge with the Evasion Scarf for 13 seconds. | Your dodge is recharging | |
Flesh Totem Cooldown | Flesh Totem and Core of the Blood God | The decreased damage effect from the Flesh Totem cannot trigger for 20 seconds. | The Flesh Totem effect is recharging | |
Freezing Weather | Blizzards during Death Mode | Gradually decreases the player's speed over time, freezes them after 30 seconds, then kills them 3 seconds later. | The weather slows your movement as you freeze to death | |
Frozen Lungs | Water in the Snow biome and Ice biome in Expert Mode | The breath meter decreases significantly faster. | The icy waters restrict your breathing | |
God Slayer Cooldown | God Slayer armor and Auric Tesla armor | Disabled usage of God Slayer Dash for 35 seconds. | God Slayer dash is recharging | |
Heat Exhaustion | The Underworld during Death Mode | Inflicts increasingly debilitating debuffs onto the player over the course of 30 seconds. | The overwhelming heat weakens your bodily functions | |
Ice Shield Cooldown | Aquatic Heart | Prevents the player from absorbing damage for 30 seconds. | The shield is regenerating | |
Ink Bomb Cooldown | Ink Bomb | The smoke effect from the Ink Bomb cannot trigger for 20 seconds. | Your Ink Bomb is recharging | |
Mana Burn | Chaos Stone if the player is inflicted with Mana Sickness | Exponentially deals more damage to the player over time, peaking at 36 damage per second. Replaces Mana Sickness. | The excess of mana sears your body and mind. | |
Noseless Popo | Magic Scarf and Hat | The player (as a snowman) loses their nose | Your nose has been stolen! | |
Plague Blackout Cooldown | Plague Reaper armor | The plague blackout effect from the Plague Reaper armor cannot trigger for 25 seconds. | Your plague blackout ability is recharging | |
Prismatic Cooldown | Prismatic armor | The laser attack from the Prismatic armor cannot be used for 30 seconds. | Your laser attack is recharging | |
Resilience Cooldown | Relic of Resilience | Disallows the player from summoning in a new artifact of resilience. | You cannot re-summon a relic of resilience | |
Sand Cloak Cooldown | Sand Cloak | Disabled usage of Sand Cloak Effect for 30 seconds. | Your Sand Cloak is recharging | |
Scarf Cooldown | Counter Scarf | Cannot perform another dodge with the Counter Scarf for 15 seconds. | Your dodge is recharging | |
Searing Lava | Lava in the Brimstone Crag | Player loses 15 health per second. | The brimstone lava sears your flesh | |
Sunken Withdrawal | Ashes of the Sunken Sea | 10 increased defense. 30% decreased movement speed, 20% decreased damage, 30% decreased critical strike chance, 50% reduced mining speed. | You feel like garbage | |
Tarragon Cloak Cooldown | Tarragon armor and Auric Tesla armor | Disabled usage of Tarragon Cloak for 30 seconds. | Your cloak is recharging | |
Tarragon Immunity Cooldown | Tarragon armor and Auric Tesla armor | Tarragon Immunity cannot trigger for 30 seconds. | Your immunity is recharging | |
Universe Splitter Cooldown | Universe Splitter | The player cannot use the Universe Splitter. | You cannot use the Universe Splitter | |
Weak Brimstone Flames | Using any weapon with the Aflame Enchantment | The player loses 3.5 health per second. | Health Loss | |
Withered | Using any weapon with the Withering Enchantement | Decreases life regeneration based on how long the Enchanted weapon had been held for. | Holding withered weapons causes you to suffer but makes your weapons strong |
From the player[]
Icon | Name | From | Effect | Tooltip |
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Banishing Fire | Angelic Alliance | If the target has less than 1,000,000 max health, it will lose 2,000 damage per second. If the target has more than 1,000,000 max health, it will lose 0.2% of its max health as damage per second. |
You shall not be forgiven for your sins | |
Clammed | Snap Clam | Target loses 30 health per second per attached clam, capping at 2 clams. | Clam clap | |
Sunscreamed | Helios Partisan | Target loses 3000 health per second. | Recieved a five thousand degree burn from pure light and radiation | |
Demon Flames | Apotheosis, all weapons while Demonshade armor is equipped | Target loses 1250 health per second. | Another flames debuff... | |
Eutrophication | Big coral from Coral Cannon, Eutrophic Scimitar, Clam Crusher, Prismalline, and Abyssal Mirror shards | Target cannot move. | Excessive nutrients restrict your movement | |
Exo Freeze | Exoblade, Photoviscerator, Heavenly Gale, Drataliornus, Subsuming Vortex, Vivid Clarity, Apotheosis, Cosmic Immaterializer, and Celestus | Target cannot move at all. | Cannot move | |
Flahmes | Flah Rounds and Quantum Flahium Ejection Device | Target loses 500 health per second and has their damage reduction reduced by 35% | Vaporizing from total flahium annihilation | |
Galvanic Corrosion | Tesla Potion | Target's horizontal and vertical speeds are crippled. | Your limbs have begun to corrode | |
Hell Judgement | Divine Intervention | Target loses 3 health per second and has their defense reduced by 3. | You feel as if the apostate of hate has turned his gaze... | |
Kami Flu | Yanmei's Knife | Target's damage reduction is reduced by 20% and they take 125 damage per second. | Defenseless and dying | |
Marked | Marked Magnum, Lunic Eye, Anti-materiel Rifle, Skullmasher and Deep Wounder. | Target's damage reduction reduced by 50%. | Damage reduction reduced | |
Pearl Aura | Giant Pearl | Target's horizontal and vertical speeds are slowed. | Slowed down | |
Profaned Weakness | Relic of Resilience | Target's next attack damage is reduced by 45%. | You do less damage | |
Sage Poison | Viral Sprout | Deals a constant 22.5 damage per second, with higher damage per tick the more Sage Spirits are present. | Poisoned | |
Shellfish Claps | Shellfish Staff | Target loses 125 health per second per summoned shellfish, capping at 5 shellfish, or 625 damage per second. | Clamfest | |
Shred | Soma Prime | Target loses 750 health per second. | Blood | |
Temporal Sadness | Teardrop Cleaver, Statis' Blessing, Statis' Curse, Statis' Void Sash, any type of Biome Blade in the Glowing Mushroom biome | Target's damage is reduced by 15 and movement speed is cut in half. | You are crying | |
Terror of the Abyss | Gloomy Trident | Target's DR is reduced by 50%, their attack reduced by 30%, and their defense by 60. | You feel like you're being silenced by the abyss itself... | |
Time Distortion | Time Bolt | Target's movement speed is reduced by 15% | Time is slowed | |
Wither | Rem's Revenge | Reduces enemy's defense by 20. | Withered Defense reduced by 20 |
Vanilla Debuff Changes[]
Icon | Name | From | Effect | Tooltip |
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Betsy's Curse | Betsy's Wrath and Drataliornus in Revengeance Mode | Target's damage reduction is reduced by 34%. | Defense is lowered | |
Chaos State | Rod of Discord, Normality Relocator, and Spectral Veil | Rod of Discord, Normality Relocator and Spectral Veil teleports can't be used | Rod of Discord teleports are disabled | |
Cursed Inferno | Various enemies and weapons | If inflicted on an enemy: Target's damage reduction is reduced by 20%. Reduced effectiveness on certain Godseeker Mode bosses. If inflicted on a player: Target receives 20% more damage from all sources. |
Losing life All damage taken increased by 20% | |
Ichor (debuff) | Various enemies and weapons | Defense reduced by 20 | Defense reduced by 20 | |
Oiled | Totality Breakers | Increases the effectiveness of flame debuffs within the Calamity Mod by increasing their damage per second by 25%. | Taking more damage from being on fire | |
Poisoned | Various enemies and weapons | If inflicted on a player: Target's movement speed reduced by 10%. | Slowly losing life | |
Shadowflame | Various enemies and weapons in Revengeance Mode | If inflicted on a player: Target loses 15 health per second and natural health regeneration. | Losing life | |
Venom | Lionfish and Sulphuric Acid Cannon | Target loses 25 damage per second per attached lionfish and 15 damage per second per attached sulphuric bubble up to 6 attached lionfish and 4 sulphuric bubbles. If inflicted on a player: Target's movement speed reduced by 15%. |
Losing life | |
Water Candle (debuff) | Water Candle | Increases all spawn rates by 48.15% and maximum spawn count by 65% | Increased monster spawn rate |
See also[]
Game mechanics | |||||||||
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Combat | Damage Reduction • Defense damage • Elemental System • Hit Sounds • Immunity frames • Lifesteal • Minions • Proficiency • Rogue • Shortstrike • Taming | ||||||||
Environment | Biome backgrounds • Events • Music • Status messages | ||||||||
Events | 22 Bullet Theory • Acid Rain • Boss Rush • Martian Madness • Mechanical Horde • Solar Eclipse • Noxus Eclipse | ||||||||
Items | Alternative crafting ingredients • Charge • Consumable • Crafting stations (By Hand) • Drops • Modifiers • Rarity • Item Classification System • Recipes • Vanilla item recipes | ||||||||
Game | AI • Boss Health Bar • Configuration options • Death Mode • Endings • Fishing • Game controls • Lore • Malice Mode • Nightmare Mode • Revengeance Mode • Vanilla changes | ||||||||
Player | Adrenaline Meter • Aggro • Buffs and Debuffs • Death Prevention • Defense • Rage Meter • Stamina Meter | ||||||||
Other | Cutscenes • Item Upgrade System • Sanity |