Special and Chance Skills
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. | |
Boast of Battle (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. | |
Blessed Boon (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. | |
Medroa (メドローア) | Deals heavy non-elemental 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. | |
Punch Out (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. | |
Seeing Stars (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. | |
Haze Over (トリックゾーン) | Deals damage, inflicts blind, 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 |
Burn Rush (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 Grail (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 |
Magic Blast (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. | |
Anubis Assault (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. | |
Lively Light (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. | |
Industry Expert (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 |
Crash Claw [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 Beam (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 |
Supreme Score (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 (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 |
Pea Shocker (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 Spinner (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 (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 Mark (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. This cannon does not count against the 3 cannon limit. | Example |
Gone Ballistic (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).