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The DioField Chronicle: How To Play As Shivat

Shivat is The DioField Chronicle's rogue magician, bringing a mix of healing and unique offensive spells to the mix.

Hayden Epstein

Published: Oct 4, 2022 12:04 pm

The DioField Chronicle is Square Enix’s latest RPG, and it features unique, tactical battles and a robust cast of characters. Each character brings something unique to the mix, but the most necessary character in any RPG is the healer. In this game, that’s Shivat: a roguish young man with a checkered past who has powerful healing spells at his disposal.

How To Play As Shivat

Shivat is a Magicker like Waltaquin, but his spells are more focused on healing than dealing direct damage. That’s not to say he can’t dish out some pain, but even his offensive skills are more indirect than others. As with most magic users, though, he’s not the sturdiest character and benefits from having someone like Izelair take the hits.

Shivat’s iconic spell is Sanctuary, a powerful healing skill that creates a healing pool within a set area. This is perfect for keeping tanks and other close-quarter fighters healthy when they’re in combat. Shivat also has access to the Heal spell, but it’s unfortunately only tied to low-tier weapons. Keep one of these weapons handy when using Shivat as an adjutant, but if he’s in combat it’s best to rely on Sanctuary.

Offensively, Shivat prefers to create opportunities for damage rather than attacking directly. Both Flame Wisp and Lightning Rod deal damage over an area, making both of them useful when enemies are grouped together. Use a Cavalier unit like Fredret to get enemies in close to get the most out of these spells. And Ice Missile is a great spell that works well with fast-hitting characters like Andrias.

Shivat’s abilities are pretty standard for a magic user, largely focused on energy preservation and improved healing. Enhanced Healing is great for keeping multiple characters alive, while Auto EP Recovery ensures that Shivat will have enough EP to stay in the fight. You can also pair Focus with Magicker’s Mettle to significantly reduce Shivat’s cooldown times.

Skills

a battle menu with a small figure in the middle wielding a staff. on the left is a portrait of a young man with white, short, wavy hair and a list of available attacks. on the right is a video demonstration of the attack selected from the list on the left. at the bottom of the screen are four smaller portraits over green health bars. — Screenshot via Square Enix

Convalescent Circle	Heal all allies in the target area while the skill is active, and fill up the rescue gauge for incapacitated allies in the target area.
Heal	Restore 50% of a target’s max HP.
Sanctuary	Create a restorative area that gradually restores HP to allies within it.
Frenzied Soul	Deal damage to enemies in the target area and restore part of that damage as HP to all allies in the target area.
Ice Missile	Conjure a block of ice on the target/ The block will fire icy arrows as the unit attacks. Has a chance to inflict freeze.
Flame Wisp	Conjure a ball of flame that circles around the target, potentially inflicting burn on those it strikes.
Lightning Rod	Deploy a lightning rod which deals damage at regular intervals to enemies in its target area, with a chance to inflict stun.

Abilities

Healing Boost	Increases recovery amount.
Evasion Boost	Increases evasion.
Extend Effect	Extends duration of continuous effects by 50%.
Enhanced Healing	Allows you to heal yourself when healing others.
Soldier Killer	Deals 1.2x damage to Soldier unit type.
Focus	Reduces cooldown time by 30%.
Auto EP Recovery	Recovers 1% EP every three seconds.
EP Boost	Increases EP by 10.
Magicker’s Mettle	Reduces cooldown time for all allies by 10%.

The DioField Chronicle is available now for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.

Author

Hayden Epstein

Hayden is an avid gamer, writer, fitness enthusiast, and fan of speaking in the third person. He dabbles in most game genres, but his heart belongs to JRPGs. When not gaming, Hayden can be found working out, reading, watching television, or getting into heated political arguments with bots on Twitter.