Elemental Debuff

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Description

Elemental Debuffs are harmful status effects that deal damage over time and lower abilities until they wear off or are removed. Afflicted characters receive damage over time and a reduction to one primary stat (e.g. Strength) depending on the element of the spell. A target can be afflicted with as many as 3 elemental debuffs at once, provided that their elements don't conflict: for example, Burn and Choke can coexist because Fire and Wind don't interact with one another, but Rasp and Shock cannot, because Earth trumps Lightning.

The damage over time as well as the stat down effect of an elemental debuff depends on the caster's intelligence. Damage dealt by the elemental debuff effect will wake characters under the effect of sleep.

It is currently unknown whether or not it is possible for a player to achieve 6hp/tic damage at some point far beyond 150 INT, however mobs that inflict elemental debuffs are capable of causing damage and stat reductions far in excess of those listed above.

The Basics:

Drown Lowers STR (Water) - Lowers target's melee damage
Burn Lowers INT (Fire) - Target's offensive magic spells do less damage, damage from black magic increases
Frost Lowers AGI (Ice) - Target's evasion and ranged accuracy decrease
Choke Lowers VIT (Wind) - Target's defense is reduced
Rasp Lowers DEX (Earth) - Lowers target's accuracy and chance of critical attacks
Shock Lowers MND (Lightning) - MND-based debuffs hit more often and last longer

1 - 39 INT = 1hp/tic (-5 stat)
40 - 69 INT = 2hp/tic (-7 stat)
70 - 99 INT = 3hp/tic (-9 stat)
100 - 149 INT = 4hp/tic (-11 stat)
150 - ??? INT = 5hp/tic (-13 stat)