Special and Chance Skills
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Special/Coup de Grace Skills
After completing a vocation's 4th vocation quest, you will unlock that vocation's Special Skill (known as Coup de Grace in Dragon Quest IX). These are powerful skills that have a chance to appear every time you execute an action or take damage. Each Special skill is unique to each class, and when used in a pinch, could potentially turn the tide of battle. When a Special skill is available, "Special/ひっさつ" will appear in blue at the top of your command menu for a short time.
| Class | Skill Name | Description | Showcase |
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| Warrior | Critical Claim (会心必中) | Deals an unresistable critical hit to a target and any enemies nearby. |
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| Boast of Battle [NNF] (戦陣の凱歌) | Boosts your attack and defense by 2 stages and grants you 100% critical rate for a duration. | Example | |
| Priest | Saint's Song (聖者の詩) | Recovers the HP and status effects of all allies, and revives all dead allies at about 50% HP. |
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| Blessed Boon [NNF] (神域の加護) | Recovers nearby allies' HP and grants them a Divine Blessing effect. | Example | |
| Mage | 0 Zone (ミラクルゾーン) | Reduces MP costs of spells to 0 and increases your spell damage and casting speed. |
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| Frizz Cracker [NNF] (メドローア) | Deals heavy magic damage to enemies in a straight line. Damage is proportional to magical might stat. | Example | |
| Martial Artist | Roaring Tirade (一喝） | Incapacitates all enemies and raises your tension 1 level. |
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| Decimate [NNF] (崩命拳) | Deals heavy damage to a single target. Damage is proportional to attack stat. | Example | |
| Thief | Itemised Kill (お宝ハンター) | Deals an attack to a single enemy that stuns them, and causes them to have a guaranteed item drop. Also increases the chance the enemy's rare item will drop. |
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| Phantom Hack [NNF] (ファントムハック) | Damages and incapacitates an enemy and any surrounding enemies. | Example | |
| Minstrel | Rough 'n' Tumble (アクロバットスター) | Increases dodge rate of all party members and raises your tension 1 level. Also, you may occasionally counter normal attacks while the effect is active. |
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| Trick Zone [NNF] (トリックゾーン) | Deals damage, inflicts confusion, and lowers defense by 2 stages of the target and any enemies surrounding the target. | Example | |
| Battle Master | Tension Boost (テンションブースト) | Raises your tension to the maximum level. Also grants you a tension lock effect for a duration. | Example |
| Rush Burn [NNF] (ラッシュバーン) | Deals 4 hits randomly to an enemy and any surrounding enemies. | Example | |
| Paladin | Knight Watch (パラディンガード) | Causes all enemies to become angry at you, and you take no damage for 30 seconds. | Example |
| Holy Armor [NNF] (聖光の鎧) | Significantly increases your maximum HP for a duration. | Example | |
| Armamentalist | Magic Roulette (マジックルーレット) | You and nearby allies will recover 999 MP every 3 seconds for 10 seconds. There is also a chance you and your allies' damage dealt will be increased for 15 seconds. | Example |
| Energy Fall [NNF] (エナジーフォール) | Consumes all MP to deal light-attribute damage to an enemy and any surrounding enemies. | Example | |
| Ranger | Brownie Boost (妖精のポルカ) | Raises party's attack and defense by one stage, and restores 30 HP/5 MP every 3 seconds for 2 minutes. |
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| Anubis Attack [NNF] (アヌビスアタック) | Deals 3 hits to a single target and reduces their defense to 0. | ||
| Sage | Spelly Breath (神の息吹) | Raises user's spell power/recovery by one stage, restores 20% of the user MP, increases spell damage dealt, and shortens spell casting time to 1 second for 60 seconds. | 
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| Divine Light [NNF] (天恵の光) | Grants nearby allies an effect that increases their maximum HP. | Example | |
| Superstar | Shocking Twist (モンスターゾーン) | Angers enemies and causes them to become paralyzed when they attack you. Also gain a Goddess' Grace and damage reduction effect. | 
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| Silver Screen [NNF] (銀幕の世界) | Reduces the charge time of all charge skills to 1 second for a duration, and raises attack and spell power by 2 stages. | Example | |
| Monster Master | Wild Side (ビーストモード) | Reduces your action interval to 0 for 40 seconds, and raises your Attack and Defense by 2 stages. | Example |
| Meteor Fang [NNF] (流星爪牙) | Deals heavy damage to a single target. | Example | |
| Item Master | Gadget Type-0 (強化ガジェット零式) | Creates a magic circle on the ground that will double damage and recovery, as well as increasing critical and haywire rates of allies standing inside. The circle lasts 20 seconds. | Example |
| Absolute Ray [NNF] (アブソリュートレイ) | Deals damage to a single target, and reduces their defense and spell resistance by 2 stages. | Example | |
| Dancer | Deity Dance (荒神の舞) | Increases the entire party's tension by 4 levels. | Example |
| Godly Score [NNF] (歌神のスコア) | Creates a magic circle on the ground that boosts the tension of any allies that stand inside. | Example | |
| Fortune Teller | Zodiac Code (ゾディアクコード) | All cards in your hand and any new cards that enter your hand will have Aura and using Tarots will not consume a turn for 40 seconds. | Example |
| Wildcard [NNF] (ワイルドカード) | While the effect is active, Tarots in your hand will not be consumed after using them. | Example | |
| Druid | Mark on Nature (天地鳴動の印) | Shortens you and your active summon's action interval, as well as increasing damage dealt and critical rate. Also resets the timer on your current summon's duration back to 2 minutes. | Example |
| Summon Pea Bird [NNF] (シュジャク召喚) | Deals heavy thunder-attribute damage to an enemy and any surrounding enemies. Damage is proportional to attack and magical might stats. | Example | |
| Gadabout | Hocus Pocus (パルプンテ) | A random effect is chosen out of several to occur. See here for a list of possible effects. | Example |
| Surprise Roulette [NNF] (びっくりルーレット) | Deals heavy damage with a random attribute to nearby enemies and reduces their resistance to a random attribute. | Example | |
| Death Master | Death Power Boost (デスパワーブースト) | Raises your Death Power to the maximum amount. | Example |
| Hades' Banquet [NNF] (冥界の祝宴) | Grants nearby allies a Goddess' Grace effect with a limited duration. | Example | |
| Demon Swordsman | Demonic Method (錬魔の秘法) | Increases your movement speed and skill activation speed, and reduces your action interval. | Example |
| Dark Release [NNF] (魔剣解放) | Boosts your Wave Gauge to the maximum amount and activates "Dark Veil". | Example | |
| Pirate | Ultra Cannon (ウルトラ大砲) | Places down a giant cannon that periodically fires at enemies for a time. | Example |
| Panic Cannon [NNF] (パニックキャノン) | Grants your currently active cannons a damage reduction effect, lowers their action interval, a chance to apply a fear effect when dealing damage, and resets their installation timer. | Example |
Chance Skills
After completing a certain quest during version 3, you will unlock the ability to use Chance skills. These will randomly trigger during battle much like Special/Coup de Grace skills, but every vocation is able to use every Chance skill. After a Chance skill is used during battle, it will take some time to recharge before it can be used again in the same battle. When a Chance skill becomes available, "Chance/チャンス" will appear in pink at the top of your command menu.
Triggering Chance Skills
Depending on the type of action that occurs in battle, there is a certain percent chance that your Chance command will become available.
| Action Type | Trigger Chance |
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| Execute any command | ~2% |
| Defeat an enemy | ~2% |
| Take damage from an enemy | ~2% |
| Deal critical damage | ~5% |
| Avoid an enemy attack by parrying, blocking, or dodging | ~5% |
| When an ally's Chance command triggers | ~2% |
The chance to trigger a Chance command off of an ally's Chance command trigger is called a Chance Chain (チャンス連鎖).
Chance Skill List
| Skill Name | Description | Charge Time (seconds) | Showcase |
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| Dragon Soul (ドラゴンソウル) | Deals large lightning damage to a single target and reduces their wind resistance. | 60 | Example |
| Pearly Gates (グランドクロス) | Deals wind damage to a target and its surroundings 2 times, and reduces lightning resistance. | 60 | Example |
| Reverse Enlightenment (げきりんのさとり) | Increases your spellcasting speed and all of your spells will guaranteed go haywire for 18 seconds. | 300 | Example |
| Star of Charity (慈愛の明星) | Restores about 400 HP to allies around you. | 600 | Example |
| Chaos Circle (災禍の陣) | Places a magic circle on the ground that causes any enemy inside to take 50% increased damage. The circle lasts 18 seconds. | 600 |
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| Scape Guard (スケープガード) | Reduces damage taken from nearby enemies by 100 and automatically protects nearby allies for 30 seconds. | 600 | Example |
