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Status Effects are temporary combat states applied to the player or an enemy. They fall into two broad categories: self-buffs that the player maintains on themselves (through resting, weapon specials, or consumables), and enemy debuffs that the player applies through specific weapons and talents.

Self-Buffs and States

Enemy Debuffs

Environmental and Naval States

Not every state comes from a melee or ranged weapon. A couple of important ones are tied to where you are and what you are doing rather than a hit landing.

Exact figures for these can move with balance patches during Early Access, so read the percentages as current values rather than fixed constants.

How Status Effects Work

Most status effects are applied on hit by a weapon with the matching mechanic. A few (Rested, Winded) are driven by environmental or resource conditions rather than a specific weapon. Stack caps and duration rules are per-effect; most effects communicated in the game's UI show a stack counter or a timer.

The most common build-defining interaction is between a weapon's stack mechanic and the talents that reward it. Rapier of a Thousand Cuts builds want Bleeding on the target as the baseline DPS loop. Plague weapon builds layer Plague Marks on the enemy and Plague Echoes on the wielder simultaneously. Marksman builds prioritize Vulnerability setups for a 15% incoming-damage multiplier on boss targets.

Wielder-side plague stacking is documented in depth on the Corruption page, which covers the 5-stack heal release and the weapons that feed it. For the talent trees that turn these effects into damage, see the Talent System and the wider Combat systems overview.

Related Talents

• Deadly Finale - scales damage per consecutive hit, strongest with bleed rotations

• Bulletstorm - scales damage per consecutive ranged hit; benefits from Vulnerability windows

• Retribution - converts Temporal Health to Health more effectively; central to Plague Echoes sustain

• You Will Answer for This - more Temporal Health on damage taken; central to Plague sustain

See Also

• Bleeding - the signature Rapier of a Thousand Cuts DoT

• Plague Echoes - wielder stacks from plague weapons

• Plague Marks - enemy debuff from Rapier of Devastation / Plague Halberd

• Winded - out-of-stamina state

• Rested - stamina-regen buff from bonfires

• Vulnerability - Epic Drake's Double-Barreled Pistol debuff

• Combat - overall combat systems

• Corruption: the wielder plague resource and the Wood Plague environmental hazard

• Naval Tactics: ship buffs and debuffs, including Broken Rhythm