a purple tinted menu screen with a slightly anime image of a young woman with long hair in the middle. she's surrounded by nine seals that each indicate a different ability. some are colored in while most are still gray. the selected ability is titled Skill Damage Boost. In the top right corner is the word Abilities

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The DioField Chronicle: How To Play As Waltaquin

If you want to inflict debilitating status effects on large groups of enemies, Waltaquin is just the magicker for you.

Hayden Epstein

Published: Oct 4, 2022 09:51 am

As with any good RPG, The DioField Chronicle features a variety of debuffs you can inflict on your enemies. You can stun, poison, burn, and even freeze enemies in their tracks, and many characters even get a damage boost when attacking the afflicted. If status ailments are your cup of tea, then Waltaquin is one character you should always have in your lineup.

How To Play As Waltaquin

Waltaquin is the first Magicker-class unit you’ll have access to, and she’s a pretty potent addition to the team right away. For starters, she’s the first unit you’ll have that has healing abilities, which makes her very handy in a pinch. Hurried Heal may only restore 30% of a unit’s max health, but it’s more than enough when you’d been scrounging for HP Fragments up till then.

Where Waltaquin really comes into her own is with her status-afflicting abilities. She has a whole host of spells at her disposal that can undercut a group of enemies while also dishing out damage. Meteor Fall is one of her staples, raining fire down on a set area of the battlefield. Pair it with a skill like Andrias’ Leaping Attack to immobilize enemies in the burning area, damaging them further.

Waltaquin’s abilities further enhance her debuffs while also keeping her energy points topped off. Extend Effect adds additional time to her continuous effects, making it much easier for her to utilize her Pandemic skill to its fullest extent. She can even inflict the Weakness debuff without the need for a skill thanks to the Enhanced Auto-Attack & Weakness ability.

Waltaquin makes a great partner for Andrias and Fredret, as her debuffs suit their abilities beautifully. Both gain bonus damage against enemies afflicted with status ailments, and Andrias’ Shadow Step ability deals additional damage to status-afflicted enemies as well. They’ll also help keep enemies away from Waltaquin herself, as she doesn’t boast the best defensive or health stats.

Skills

battle menu with a young woman with white hair in the middle of the screen in miniature form. a list of available attacks are on the right next to a larger portrait of the young woman. on the left is a video demonstration of the selected skill, Meteor Fall. Along the bottom of the screen are four smaller portraits with green health bars below them — 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.
Meteor Fall	Deal regular damage to enemies in the target area.
Hurried Heal	Restore 30% of the target’s max HP.
Ignition	Create an effect area that bestows rapidity to allies within it.
Frostbind	Inflict freeze on enemies in the target area.
Pandemic	Deal damage to enemies in the target area. If any of the targets have a status effect, it is passed to all enemies in the target area.
Magical Force	Deal damage to a target. Soldiers take extra damage.

Abilities

Skill Damage Boost	Increases skill damage.
Extend Effect	Extends duration of continuous effects by 50%.
Enhanced Auto-Attack & Weakness	5% chance of giving Weakness when auto-attacking.
Soldier Killer	Deal 1.2x damage to Soldier unit type.
Magical Protection	100% chance that EP Healing Fragments are dropped when an enemy is defeated.
EP Saver	Reduces EP cost by 30%.
Aggressive EP Recovery	Recovers 3 EP after dealing damage.
EP Boost	Increases EP by 40.
Magic Surge	30% chance of inflicting burn, delay, or poison to the target when giving them a status effect.

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.