Copy Image  

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Analysis How to remove the effect Loses no images, receives no damage Loses one copy image, receives no damage Loses a variable number of copy images, and can take damage Loses all copy images, and takes damage and/or becomes enfeebled Loses no copy image, but takes damage Loses no copy image, but becomes enfeebled How the effect is inflicted/gained Spells

Analysis

Copy Image is a beneficial status effect that provides shadow images to absorb enemy attacks until it wears off or is removed. Characters gain a number of images that absorb normal attacks, most spells and some monster abilities in a more effective fashion than the shadow images given by Blink. Once an image absorbs an attack, it is spent.

How to remove the effect

• The effect can be removed manually.
• The effect wears off on its own after 15 minutes has passed.
• The effect expires once all copied images are removed by attacks and/or spells.
• Attacks, spells, and abilities can remove zero or more images at a time.

Loses no images, receives no damage

• The caster successfully evades or parries a physical attack.

Loses one copy image, receives no damage

• The caster is hit by a single physical hit or WS.
• The caster is hit by a single-target spell.

Loses a variable number of copy images, and can take damage

• The caster is hit by a multiple-hitting attack, such as Penta Thrust, or by a physical AoE attack (e.g. Whirl of Rage). (Loses X shadows, X being the number of hits the attack would "normally" do.)

Loses all copy images, and takes damage and/or becomes enfeebled

• The caster is hit by an AoE magical WS such as Blood Saber, or an AoE spell such as Firaga.
• The caster is hit by an AoE enfeebling spell like Breakga.

Note: Some spells (e.g.Diaga) and WS's (e.g. Negative Whirl) can remove images, do damage, and enfeeble a character simultaneously.

Loses no copy image, but takes damage

• Breath attacks (e.g. Heat Breath)
• Self-Destruct type attacks
• Throat Stab-like attacks.

Loses no copy image, but becomes enfeebled

• The caster is hit by certain enfeebling WS's, such as Chaotic Eye or Jamming Wave.
• Note that this does not apply to spells: (Single-target enfeebles remove one image, multi-target spells such as Breakga strip all images and enfeeble targets).

How the effect is inflicted/gained

Spells

• Ninjutsu
• Utsusemi: Ichi: Gives the caster three images.
• Utsusemi: Ni: Gives the caster four images if Ninja is main job; gives three shadows instead if Ninja is sub job.

Notes:
Utsusemi: Ni overwrites both Utsusemi: Ni and Utsusemi: Ichi.
Utsusemi: Ichi overwrites an existing Utsusemi: Ichi, but does not overwrite Utsusemi: Ni.
A character cannot have both the Copy Image and the Blink status effect simultaneously.
Copy Image has higher priority than the Blink status effect.
Both Utsusemi: Ichi and Utsusemi: Ni overwrite Blink, while Blink-type spells (e.g. Aerial Armor, Zephyr Mantle) do not overwrite the Copy Image effect.

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