- Not to be confused with Crystal Curse.
| “ | A curse will reduce your maximum HP and MP until the condition wears off. | „ |
| ~ Loading tip from Ritual of the Night |
Curse is a damage type featured in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. It is a status ailment that instantly halves the player's HP and MP.
Description[]
Certain enemies in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night have the ability to Curse the hero; these usually are of ghostly or otherworldly origin (such as the Cyhyraeth). Gremory also has an attack where she launches five homing dark fireballs that curse the hero during her boss fight.
When the hero has been Cursed, their character model will become engulfed in a reddish black fiery aura and both their HP and MP bars on the HUD will instantly get locked at half their capacities (displayed as metal bars that occupy the right halves of the bars), regardless of their current Level. As such, during the duration of the effect, the player will temporarily lose their ability to use these resources, putting them in an instant disadvantageous position for suddenly being at half their health and at risk to die in just a few more enemy hits, and also not being able to fully use their magical abilities to defend themselves. Fortunately, the Curse status lasts a relatively short time before it wears off by itself. Once the effect wears off, the player will regain the HP and MP they had before they were inflicted with the status.
Treatments[]
- The most basic method to cure Curse is just to wait until the effect wears off by itself, which happens after just a few seconds.
- Resting at a Save Room will instantly cure the Curse status, fully regaining both their HP and MP bars.
- The Resist Curses Passive Shard reduces the probability of being Cursed after sustaining a Curse inducing attack. At a higher Rank, the higher the chance of totally nullifying the Curse attack. At a higher Grade (i.e., number of shards collected), the higher the chance of not contracting the ailment.
- If this shard is enhanced to Rank 9 and becomes a Skill Shard, the player will have a permanent +10 bonus to their resist Curse stat (as long as the shard is enabled).