Balogar's Blade is the Runelord divine skill in Octopath Traveler.
Effect[]
Attacks a single target with the power of every element, hitting 6 times (once for each element). Attacks will hit in the following order:
This is relevant for damage when used against unbroken targets, as enemies weak to elements earlier in the list will be broken sooner, boosting the damage of hits from elements later in the list. Each hit can also be individually boosted by certain pieces of equipment that boost the damage of a given element, such as the Bishop's Staff which increases all Light Damage by +30%.
Divine Skill: Can only be executed while at Boost level MAX, which requires the expenditure of 3 BP.
Formula[]
Damage = 6 hits x 4 x [Attacker E.Atk - (TargetE.Def x 0.5)]
Other Multipliers[]
- All Damage scales with the level of the attacker (see Level Multiplier)
- All Damage has a random multiplier (from x0.98 to x1.02) applied to it for each hit
- Hitting an enemy with a damage type it is weak to deals x1.3 damage (or x1.5 with Stronger Strikes); hitting a Broken enemy instead deals x2.0 damage
- The
Increased Elemental Attack buff on the attacker or the
Decreased Elemental Defense on the target increases damage by x1.5; with both, the total multiplier is x2.25
- The damage of each hit can also be boosted by weapons which increase the damage you deal with a given element:
- First Hit: Having a Harald's Sword or Heathcote's Dagger equipped increases damage by x1.3; with both, the multiplier is x1.6
- Second Hit: Having an Absolute Zero Staff or Battle-tested Axe equipped increases damage by x1.3; with both, the multiplier is x1.6
- Third Hit: Having either a Lizardking's Axe or Battle-tested Axe equipped increases damage by x1.3
- Fourth Hit: Having a Tradewinds Spear or Primeval Bow of Storms equipped increases damage by x1.3; with both, the multiplier is x1.6
- Fifth Hit: Having a Bishop's Staff equipped increases damage by x1.3
- Final Hit: Having a Adamantine Dagger equipped increases damage by x1.3
Synergies[]
Skills[]
- Donate BP provides BP to an ally (except the user), setting up for this divine skill
- Peacock Strut applies the
Increased Elemental Attack buff
- BP Boost applies the
BP Boost buff, setting up for this divine skill
- Elemental Break attacks one foe with a
Staff and applies the
Decreased Elemental Defense debuff to them
- Dreisang's Spell applies the
Dreisang's Spell buff for 3 turns, causing this skill to critically hit for ×1.25 damage
Support Skills[]
- Elemental Augmentation increases the Elem. Atk. stat by +50
- SP Saver halves and rounds down the SP Cost of this skill
- Surpassing Power increases the damage cap of each attack to 99,999
- Boost-Start on the equipping character causes them to start battles with 2 BP instead of 1, setting up for this divine skill
- BP Eater multiplies the damage output of boosted skills by an additional ×1.5
- Stronger Strikes multiplies the damage of attacks targeting an unbroken foe's weakness by ×1.5, instead of ×1.3
- Elemental Aid multiplies the damage of elemental skills by ×1.5 while multiplying their SP cost by ×2
- Augmented Elements multiplies the damage of elemental skills by ×1.2
- Elemental Edge applies the
Increased Elemental Attack and
Increased Elemental Defense buffs indefinitely
Trivia[]
- Balogar's Blade is the elemental counterpart to the Warmaster divine skill, Winnehild's Battle Cry, albeit targeting a single foe instead of all foes. This is probably because the Scholar, Sorcerer and Starseer jobs already have skills that deal elemental damage to all foes.