Status Effects

A wide range of equipment create Status Effects. An icon appears in the top left of the HUD to indicate the current effect(s).

Icon	Status	Causes
	Phantom Limit Up	Dried Finger
	Searching for World to Invade	Red Eye Orb
	Estus Healing Reduced	Soldering Iron Jailer
	Attack Up or Stamina Damage Up	Lloyd's Sword Ring Pontiff's Right Eye Knight Slayer's Ring Red Tearstone Ring Old Wolf Curved Sword Morion Blade Warcry Sharpen (Great Machete) Oath of Sunlight (Sunlight Straight Sword) Lothric War Banner (Lothric War Banner) Ember (Ringed Knight Spear) Call to Stone (Ledo's Great Hammer) Power Within Deep Protection Sacred Oath
	Spell AR Up	Scholar's Candlestick Crown of Dusk Steady Chant (Staves) Chant from the Depths (Murky Longstaff) Awakening (Rose of Ariandel) Young Dragon Ring Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring Great Swamp Ring Witch's Ring Morne's Ring Ring of the Sun's First Born
	Absorption Up or Backstab Damage Reduced	Dragon Tooth Oath of Sunlight (Sunlight Straight Sword) Iron Flesh Deep Protection Sacred Oath Blue Tearstone Ring Lloyd's Shield Ring Dragonscale Ring Blue/Red/Yellow/Black Bug Pellet
	Element Absorption and/or Resistance Up	Wolf Knight's Greatshield Flash Sweat Profuse Sweat Deep Protection Magic Barrier Great Magic Barrier Mossfruit
	Stamina Regen Up	Grass Crest Shield Chloranthy Ring Galvanize Deep Protection Green Blossom Budding Green Blossom
	HP Regen	Blessed Equipment Anri's Straight Sword Ancient Dragon Greatshield Ethereal Oak Shield Gentle Prayer (Chimes) Pray for Favor (Sacred Chime of Filianore) Sun Princess Ring Replenishment Bountiful Light Bountiful Sunlight
	FP Regen	Simple Equipment
	Estus Healing Up	Estus Ring
	Ashen Estus Healing Up	Ashen Estus Ring
	Kills, Ripostes, or Hits Restore HP	Arstor's Spear Sharpen (Butcher Knife) Feast Bell (Eleonora) Pontiff's Left Eye Ring of the Evil Eye Aldrich's Ruby
	Kills or Ripostes Restore FP	Executioner's Greatsword Aldrich's Sapphire
	Spells FP Consumption Reduced	Dusk Crown Ring
	Skills FP Consumption Reduced	Farron Ring
	Durability Degrade Reduced	Wood Grain Ring
	Rolling Changed	Carthus Milkring Carthus Bloodring
	Falling Damage Nullified	Spook Silvercat Ring
	Muffled Footsteps	Spook Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring
	Souls Remain on Death	Ring of Sacrifice
	Range Increased	Hawk Ring
	Counter Damage Up	Leo Ring
	More Messages	Guiding Light (Cleric's Candlestick) Seek Guidance
	Item Discovery Up	Crystal Sage's Rapier Symbol of Avarice Covetous Gold Serpent Ring Rusted Coin Rusted Gold Coin
	Soul Gain Up	Mendicant's Staff Shield of Want Symbol of Avarice Covetous Silver Serpent Ring
	Enemy Attraction Up	Moaning Shield Atonement Skull Ring
	Poise Up	Lothric Knight Long Spear Yhorm's Greatshield Wolf Ring
	Absorption Reduced	Calamity Ring Prisoner's Chain Fire/Magic/Lightning/Dark Clutch Ring
	Enemies Can Target Invaders	Seed of a Giant Tree
	Armor At Risk	Armor Durability < 30%
	Armor Broken	Armor Durability = 0
	Password Activated	Password System
	Phantom Downscaled	Password Downscaling

• Effects that do not produce an icon are not listed, such as Power Within's Stamina Regen Up

Status Ailment

There are five Status Ailments that can affect the player and enemies. This is shown by a bar on your screen with an icon of the ailment. As Status Ailments are inflicted repeatedly, the bar becomes increasingly full and the effect occurs when maxed.

Poison

Poison will deal damage over time once built up, and the bar will be shown as the duration.

The amount of Poison inflicted by weapons wielded by the player is influenced by Luck.

Poison resistance is influenced by Level and Vitality, as well as Armor and various other modifiers.

Effects

Source	Damage	Duration
Player Poison	[MaxHP * 0.0007] + 7	90 seconds
Storyteller's Staff Poison	[MaxHP * 0.005] + 7	90 seconds
Enemy Poison Environmental Poison Poison Arrow Poison	[MaxHP * 0.0007] + 3	180 seconds

• Round down
• Bosses typically take 50% damage from Poison
  • Slave Knight Gael^TRC takes 20% damage from Poison in Phase 2 and 3
• Environmental Poison: Cathedral of the Deep statues, Farron Keep and Earthen Peak Ruins^TRC swamps

Poison Weaponry

• Arstor's Spear
• Ghru Rotshield
• Poison Arrow
• Poison Infusion
• Poison Mist
• Poison Throwing Knife
• Rotten Ghru Curved Sword
• Rotten Ghru Dagger
• Rotten Ghru Spear
• Rotten Pine Resin
• Spotted Whip
• Storyteller's Staff

Poison Prevention

• Deep Protection (+20)
• Fleshbite Ring (+40/+60)
• Iron Flesh (+45)
• Mossfruit (+80)
• Poisonbite Ring (+90/+140)
• Profuse Sweat (+80)
• Wolf Knight's Greatshield (+50)

Poison Recovery

• Blooming Purple Moss Clump
• Caressing Tears
• Divine Blessing
• Purple Moss Clump

Enemy Sources

Toxic

Toxic will deal damage over time once built up, and the bar will be shown as the duration.

Toxic resistance is influenced by Level and Vitality, as well as Armor and various other modifiers.

Effects

Source	Damage	Duration
Player Toxic	[MaxHP * 0.001] + 22	90 seconds
Toxic Mist	[MaxHP * 0.001] + 22	60 seconds
Enemy Toxic Environmental Toxic	[MaxHP * 0.001] + 13	300 seconds

• Round down
• -15 to stamina regeneration
• Bosses typically take 50% Toxic damage
  • Slave Knight Gael^TRC takes 20% damage from Toxic in Phase 2 and 3
• Environmental Toxic: Profaned Capital and Consumed King's Garden swamps

Toxic Weaponry

• Dung Pie
• Stalk Dung Pie
• Toxic Mist

Toxic Prevention

• Deep Protection (+20)
• Iron Flesh (+45)
• Mossfruit (+80)
• Profuse Sweat (+80)

Toxic Recovery

• Blooming Purple Moss Clump
• Caressing Tears
• Divine Blessing

Enemy Sources

• Corvian Peasant
• Demon Prince
• Sewer Centipede
• Smouldering Ghru

Bleed

Bleed will deal damage instantly once built up, and the bar will then reset.

The amount of Bleed inflicted by weapons wielded by the player is influenced by Luck.

Bleed resistance is influenced by Level and Endurance, as well as Armor and various other modifiers.

Effects

Source	Damage
Regular Bleed	[MaxHP * 0.15] + 50
Unique/Boss Bleed	[MaxHP * 0.15] + 60
Blood Infusion w/o innate Bleed	[MaxHP * 01.5] + 50 + [5 * Reinforcement Level]
Blood Infusion w/ innate Bleed	[MaxHP * 01.5] + 100 + [10 * Reinforcement Level]
Other Sources of Bleed	[MaxHP * 0.15] + 100

• Round down
• Bosses typically take 50% Bleed damage
  • Slave Knight Gael^TRC takes 20% damage from Bleed in Phase 2 and 3

Bleed Weaponry

• Bandit's Knife
• Barbed Straight Sword
• Black Blade
• Blood Infusion
• Bloodlust
• Carthus Curved Greatsword
• Carthus Curved Sword
• Carthus Rouge
• Carthus Shotel
• Chaos Blade
• Claw
• Crow Talons
• Darkdrift
• Dorhys' Gnawing
• Eleonora
• Flamberge
• Frayed Blade
• Gnaw
• Great Corvian Scythe
• Great Scythe
• Kukri
• Manikin Claws
• Morion Blade
• Morning Star
• Notched Whip
• Onikiri and Ubadachi
• Painting Guardian's Curved Sword
• Pontiff Knight Great Scythe
• Reinforced Club
• Rose of Ariandel
• Spiked Mace
• Spiked Shield
• Splintering Bolt
• Uchigatana
• Warden Twinblades
• Washing Pole

Bleed Prevention

• Bloodbite Ring (+90/+140)
• Deep Protection (+20)
• Fleshbite Ring (+40/+60)
• Iron Flesh (+45)
• Mossfruit (+80)
• Profuse Sweat (+80)
• Wolf Knight's Greatshield (+50)

Bleed Recovery

• Bloodred Moss Clump
• Caressing Tears
• Divine Blessing

Enemy Sources

Frost

Frostbite will deal damage instantly once built up, and the bar will be shown as a duration for the other effects.

Frost resistance is influenced by Level and Vigor, as well as Armor and various other modifiers.

Frostbite Effects

Damage
[MaxHP * 0.11] + 85 damage
Effects	Duration
-15 stamina regen -7% absorption	15 seconds

• Round down
• Bosses typically take 50% Frostbite damage
  • Slave Knight Gael^TRC takes 20% damage from Frostbite in Phase 2 and 3
• Frostbite can be reset with Fire damage, however it has no effect on build up

Frost Weaponry

• Friede's Great Scythe
• Frozen Weapon
• Irithyll Rapier
• Irithyll Straight Sword
• Pontiff Knight Curved Sword
• Pontiff Knight Great Scythe
• Snap Freeze
• Vordt's Great Hammer

Frost Prevention

• Chillbite Ring (+140)
• Deep Protection (+20)
• Fleshbite Ring (+40/+60)
• Iron Flesh (+45)
• Mossfruit (+80)
• Profuse Sweat (+80)
• Siegbrau (+150)
• Wolf Knight's Greatshield (+50)

Frost Recovery

• Caressing Tears
• Divine Blessing
• Rime-blue Moss Clump

Enemy Sources

Curse

Curse will instantly kill the player when built up.

Curse resistance is influenced by Level and Luck, as well as Armor and various other modifiers.

Effects

• Instant death
• Ignores Ring of Sacrifice

Curse Prevention

• Cursebite Ring (+150)
• Deep Protection (+20)
• Fleshbite Ring (+40/+60)
• Iron Flesh (+45)
• Mossfruit (+80)
• Profuse Sweat (+80)
• Wolf Knight's Greatshield (+50)

Enemy Sources

• Angel
• Basilisk
• Deacons of the Deep
• Deep Accursed
• Grand Archives Books
• Pilgrim
• Pus of Man

Environmental Effects

Various Environmental Effects exist, where certain enemies may apply negative effects without any bar indications.

Enemy Debuffs

Status	Effect	Duration	Causes
Wet	Movement Speed Reduced	10 Seconds	Great Crab
Maggots	Bleed Build Up	80 seconds	Reanimated Corpse Infested Corpse Corpse-grub Man-grub
Branded	Estus Healing Reduced Movement Speed Reduced Fat Rolling	5 seconds	Jailer
Waxed	-100% Fire Absorption -300% Fire Absorption and Overencumbered	20 seconds 10 seconds	Archive Scholar (Lit)
Maggots	Bleed Build Up Damage over Time	40 seconds	Giant FlyAoA

• Maggots may be removed with a Bloodred Moss Clump, Torch, or Follower Torch
• Wax has two layers, with the second layer applied on further hits from wax attacks

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External Links

• Miscellaneous Data (Bleed/Frostbite/Poison/Toxic Calculator)

Footnotes

1. What is the LOWEST ABSORPTION POSSIBLE? -DS3