At the start of any Voidwatch battle, several weakness triggers are chosen and grouped into various levels. There will be six normal vulnerabilities The chance of seeing drop is increased after procing green abilities on the monster., two high vulnerabilities The chance of seeing drop is increased after procing red abilities on the monster., and one extreme vulnerability The chance of seeing drop is increased after procing white abilities on the monster.. Weaknesses are chosen randomly from any of the job or pet abilities, weapon skills, and spells listed in the tables below and hints to those weakness triggers are provided by various periapt items acquired fromVoidwatch Officers. Once a weakness is hit, it will be replaced randomly with the same level weakness (normal or high, extreme weaknesses can only be hit once per battle), but not necessarily the same kind of trigger (ability, weapon skill, or spell). Except on Ig-Alima and Botulus Rex, appropriate timing of the weakness trigger during a monster's TP move or spell cast will cause it to yield additional alignment bonus, temporary items, and/or duration. See the weakness section of the Voidwatch page for more information.

If a weapon skill, ability, or spell has no effect (except Dispel & Magic Finale), is completely resisted, or completely misses, it cannot trigger a weakness even if it is the vulnerability and must be tried again. For example, Poison and Poisonga cannot overwrite Poison II if it has already been applied, and so they cannot trigger weakness until the Poison II effect wears off. This can occasionally lead to impossible triggers in certain cases where a particular monster is immune to the weakness trigger chosen.

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Job Ability Vulnerabilities

  • Jobs not listed in the table below do not have any job abilities that can be weakness triggers.
Job Weakness Triggers
Black Mage Enmity Douse            
Corsair Fire Shot Ice Shot Wind Shot Earth Shot Thunder Shot Water Shot  
Dancer Quickstep Stutter Step Box Step Feather Step Violent Flourish Animated Flourish Desperate Flourish
Dark Knight Weapon Bash            
Dragoon Jump High Jump Spirit Jump Soul Jump Angon    
Monk Chi Blast            
Paladin Shield Bash            
Puppetmaster Ventriloquy            
Ranger Bounty Shot Shadowbind          
Samurai Blade Bash            
Scholar Modus Veritas            
Warrior Provoke Tomahawk          

Pet Vulnerabilities

  • Offensive abilities acquired by beastmaster jug pets can trigger weaknesses. Reference the weakness message for the type of jug pet (leechflytrapdiremite, etc.)
  • Offensive wyvern breaths can trigger weaknesses. The element of the breath will be specified by the weakness message, leaving only one possibility.
  • Offensive automaton special abilities can trigger weaknesses.
  • Automaton weapon skills can trigger weaknesses (the frame with the weapon skill will be referenced in the message) and are grouped into the weapon skill table in the next section.
  • Avatar blood pact weaknesses are specified by element and the possible triggers are listed in the table below:
Element Avatar Weakness Triggers
Light Carbuncle Poison Nails Meteorite Holy Mist          
Darkness Diabolos Camisado Nether Blast Night Terror Somnolence Nightmare Ultimate Terror    
Fenrir Moonlit Charge Crescent Fang Eclipse Bite Lunar Bay Lunar Cry Lunar Roar    
Fire Ifrit Fire II Fire IV Punch Burning Strike Double Punch Flaming Crush Meteor Strike  
Ice Shiva Blizzard II Blizzard IV Axe Kick Double Slap Rush Heavenly Strike Diamond Storm  
Wind Garuda Aero II Aero IV Claw Predator Claws Wind Blade      
Earth Titan Stone II Stone IV Rock Throw Rock Buster Megalith Throw Mountain Buster Geocrush  
Lightning Ramuh Thunder II Thunder IV Shock Strike Thunderspark Chaotic Strike Thunderstorm    
Water Leviathan Water II Water IV Slowga Barracuda Dive Tail Whip Spinning Dive Grand Fall Tidal Roar

Weapon Skill Vulnerabilities

Weapon Weakness Triggers
Archery Flaming Arrow Piercing Arrow Dulling Arrow Sidewinder Blast Arrow Arching Arrow
Empyreal Arrow Refulgent Arrow        
Axe Raging Axe Smash Axe Gale Axe Avalanche Axe Spinning Axe Rampage
Calamity Mistral Axe Decimation Bora Axe    
Automaton Sharpshot Z-500 Arcuballista Daze Armor Piercer Armor Shatterer  
Valoredge X-900 String Clipper Chimera Ripper Cannibal Blade Bone Crusher String Shredder
Stormwaker Y-700 Slapstick Knockout Magic Mortar    
Club Shining Strike Seraph Strike Brainshaker Skullbreaker True Strike Judgment
Hexa Strike Black Halo Flash Nova      
Dagger Wasp Sting Gust Slash Shadowstitch Viper Bite Cyclone Energy Steal
Energy Drain Dancing Edge Shark Bite Evisceration Aeolian Edge  
Great Axe Shield Break Iron Tempest Sturmwind Armor Break Keen Edge Weapon Break
Raging Rush Full Break Steel Cyclone Fell Cleave    
Great Katana Tachi: Enpi Tachi: Hobaku Tachi: Goten Tachi: Kagero Tachi: Jinpu Tachi: Koki
Tachi: Yukikaze Tachi: Gekko Tachi: Kasha Tachi: Ageha    
Great Sword Hard Slash Power Slash Frostbite Freezebite Shockwave Crescent Moon
Sickle Moon Spinning Slash Ground Strike Herculean Slash    
Hand-to-Hand Combo Shoulder Tackle One Inch Punch Backhand Blow Raging Fists Spinning Attack
Howling Fist Dragon Kick Asuran Fists Tornado Kick    
Katana Blade: Rin Blade: Retsu Blade: Teki Blade: To Blade: Chi Blade: Ei
Blade: Jin Blade: Ten Blade: Ku Blade: Yu    
Marksmanship Hot Shot Split Shot Sniper Shot Slug Shot Blast Shot Heavy Shot
Detonator Numbing Shot        
Polearm Double Thrust Thunder Thrust Raiden Thrust Leg Sweep Penta Thrust Vorpal Thrust
Skewer Wheeling Thrust Impulse Drive Sonic Thrust    
Scythe Slice Dark Harvest Shadow of Death Nightmare Scythe Spinning Scythe Vorpal Scythe
Guillotine Cross Reaper Spiral Hell Infernal Scythe    
Staff Heavy Swing Rock Crusher Earth Crusher Starburst Sunburst Shell Crusher
Full Swing Spirit Taker Retribution Cataclysm    
Sword Fast Blade Burning Blade Red Lotus Blade Flat Blade Shining Blade Seraph Blade
Circle Blade Spirits Within Vorpal Blade Swift Blade Savage Blade Sanguine Blade

Magic Vulnerabilities

Magic Type Fire Earth Water Wind Ice Lightning Light Darkness
Black Magic
&
White Magicw
Pyrohelix Geohelix Hydrohelix Anemohelix Cryohelix Ionohelix Luminohelix Noctohelix
Fire II Stone II Water II Aero II Blizzard II Thunder II   Drain
Fire III Stone III Water III Aero III Blizzard III Thunder III   Drain II
Fire IV Stone IV Water IV Aero IV Blizzard IV Thunder IV   Aspir
Firaga Stonega Waterga Aeroga Blizzaga Thundaga   Aspir II
Firaga II Stonega II Waterga II Aeroga II Blizzaga II Thundaga II   Absorb-STR
Firaga III Stonega III Waterga III Aeroga III Blizzaga III Thundaga III   Absorb-DEX
Firaja Stoneja Waterja Aeroja Blizzaja Thundaja   Absorb-AGI
Flare Quake Flood Tornado Freeze Burst   Absorb-VIT
Flare II Quake II Flood II Tornado II Freeze II Burst II   Absorb-INT
Burn Rasp Drown Choke Frost Shock Banish IIw Absorb-MND
    Poison     Stun Banish IIIw Absorb-CHR
    Poison II       Banishgaw Absorb-TP
    Poisonga       Banishga IIw Absorb-ACC
            Holyw Bio II
            Flashw Bio III
Addlew Sloww     Paralyzew   Dia IIw Blind
  Slow IIw     Paralyze IIw   Dia IIIw Blind II
            Diagaw Dispel
                 
Ninjutsu Katon: Ichi Doton: Ichi Suiton: Ichi Huton: Ichi Hyoton: Ichi Raiton: Ichi   Kurayami: Ichi
Katon: Ni Doton: Ni Suiton: Ni Huton: Ni Hyoton: Ni Raiton: Ni   Kurayami: Ni
Katon: San Doton: San Suiton: San Huton: San Hyoton: San Raiton: San   Yurin: Ichi
  Hojo: Ichi Dokumori: Ichi   Jubaku: Ichi      
  Hojo: Ni Aisha: Ichi          
                 
Bard Songs Ice Threnody Ltng. Threnody Fire Threnody Earth Threnody Wind Threnody Water Threnody Dark Threnody Light Threnody
  Battlefield Elegy         Magic Finale  
  Carnage Elegy            
                 
Blue Magic Firespit Sandspin Acrid Stream Hecatomb Wave Infrasonics Temporal Shift Actinic Burst Death Ray
Heat Breath Magnetite Cloud Maelstrom Myster. Light Ice Break Mind Blast Radiant Breath Eyes on Me
Thermal Pulse Cim. Discharge Corrosive Ooze Leafstorm Cold Wave Chrgd. Whisker Blank Gaze Sandspray
Blastbomb Bad Breath Cursed Sphere Reaving Wind Frost Breath Blitzstrahl Lgt. of Penance  
Lowing