Ah, negative status effects. The bane of Final Fantasy battles. Get tripped up by status effects, possibly more than one and you could find the battle spiraling out of your hands in a hurry. But what are some of the most troublesome status effects. Personally, I've always had the most difficulty with these:

Petrify --- Petrify is bad news because it completely stops your character from doing anything and if all of your characters are petrified, it's a Game Over. The good news is, this is one of the most easily healed status effects --- generally Soft, Remedy and Esuna will all heal it. The bad news is that in some FF games, petrified characters can also be shattered. If a petrified character is shattered, they're knocked out of the battle completely, and again, it can lead to a Game Over.

Confuse --- This one is really bad too. It can be real trouble when your characters start attacking your other characters. But in some FF games, a Confused character can also access the inventory, and that can be really bad if they end up messing around with some important item you only have one of.

Stop --- This one, as the name indicates, completely stops up the character. The reason this one is so bad is because often there's no way to cure it, although it always goes away after the battle. Casting "Haste" doesn't usually work and neither does Esuna or Remedy generally.

Venom --- This one was unique to Final Fantasy IX, but it was pretty bad. It stopped up the character and put them in poison status that I believe also drained MP. At least this one could be cured with Antidote.

Confuse annoys the hell out of me. but I have a special loathing for virus. Nailed my entire friggin' party once. :mad:

Bad Breath and Confuse are the worst things for me.

hey DarkLady.. where is your avatar from?

'Confuse' for me too.

ZOMBIE FROM FFIX >8U

Having a character you use solely for magic silenced is also annoying.

HA.. yeah.. that is kinda annoying.

Actually:: Death kinda sucks too.

Confuse and berzerk are the banes of my FF existence.

I haven't really had to much trouble with a single negative status ( except for stop) but it's when I get hit by combinations, like Bad Breath that I start to struggle

Man confuse annoys me mainly if it goes onto your strongest character then you are fucked.

Confuse is pretty annoying.

But a status affect on one character is pretty easy to fix in most of the ff's.

Bad Breath

yeah that sucks, I usually call in a summon because I'm to lazy to equip my party.

Zombie status from FFVI

I hate Lv.5 Death or whatever it is. That sucks.
And Imp status in FFVI and the equivalent from FFVII. I cant remember what it was called, Frog or something.

Yeah, it is indeed called "Frog." That one never bothered me all that much though because it was usually pretty easily healed.

Confuse, easily. Many a time i've been undone by that wretched status effect. :(

Confusion can be annoying, but it a status effect that is easily dealt with. Not only will a Remedy or Esuna spell usually cure it, often all it will take is a direct physical attack on the affected character to knock some sense back into them.

Personally, the most dangerous negative status effect I've come across is Charm in FF Tactics. Simillar to confusion, except Charm makes an ally character become an enemy by making them join the enemy side. Not good at all - in fact, if you're unfortunate enough to have Cid afflicted with this, kiss your party goodbye.

Dia is another affect that is annoying. In FFXI, it not only lowers defense and deals a small amount of Light (Holy) elemental damage, it also deals Light elemental damage at regular intervals, much like a Holy version of Poison. The effect lasts for quite a while, and also prevents a character from resting too, making it even worse. Plus, the only spell that can remove it is the WHM spell Erase, which isn't gained until level 32.

Although higher level characters can usually shake this effect off without too much difficulty, to a new or low level player however, it can cause some serious havok. When I first started out in FFXI, I lost count how many times I died to this effect after having it cast on me by assorted Yagudo and Goblins.

Confuse - I hate this status ailment. It makes your character do crazy things. One time, I was fighting a Malboro, and all of my (FFX) characters was in confuse status, and... they started killing each other. And it was game over for me =(

Itch - from FFX-2. It stops your character from doing any commands, even if it was using an item. Good thing there's no monster in FFX-2 that casts Itch to all your characters. Otherwise, that would so suck.

I realized that for all my years playing FF, I never really used status effects offensively or defensively; I never really payed much attention to them in battle, really (obviously I did to some extent, like when it impeded progress, but I always felt like using a heal item that only took away the status effect was a waste of a turn). Kind of irrational.

I'm gonna say...confuse. When you have powerful characters, it's bad news bears when they start slicing each other up.

'Imp' status in FFVI is another case.

hey DarkLady.. where is your avatar from?

It's the Emperor from FFII, origins.


Having a character you use solely for magic silenced is also annoying.
Oh, god, don't remind me... Had that happen way too many times. :notgood:

Oh, and I hated Doom on FFIX. :mad:

Dual status from Final Fantasy VII

On FFX-2, there was an extremely annoying status known as Pointless. Your character could do nothing but escape, and couldn't even use items so you couldn't heal yourself.

Of the more mainstream status effects, I never did like Confuse or Petrify. Poison on FFX was a pain too.

It's the Emperor from FFII, origins.


Oh, god, don't remind me... Had that happen way too many times. :notgood:

Oh, and I hated Doom on FFIX. :mad:


Ah.. I never did get all the way through that game. cool.. thx

it has to be confuse, especially if it hits all your party members its like your just praying that it decides to hit the enemy,
come on hit the enemy, come on

confuse....usually because all my characters had just suffered a big hit...and are all on low HP...and then that one confused character kills everyone before finally dying themselves!!

Confuse for all the reasons stated above.

Virus from IX was also annoying, but after I maxed out my characters it soon became my favourite negative status affect. The exp that it stopped the afflicted getting was spread among the others.

I always found Blind to be pretty damn annoying. Simply because when fighting normal monsters I usually just attack unless they start providing a challenge then I bring out the magic. So having your main attacker blinded is also a pain in the arse.

Beserk is another one that annoyed me. Because if you were inflicted with something like blind or confuse then the enemy whacked out beserk against you. you were pretty much screwed until you removed the status in question.

Also Slow petrify. Because you know its pretty much coming. And there aint a thing you can do about it. Because as far as I know there is no cure for it. Until you are petrified then you can just hurl a soft on the character to bring them back.

I'll vote for Death/KO. Those are the worst I remember.

bad breath is extremely annoying. doom also. petrify and then been shattered.

beserk can be useful and frog/toad can be funny

Confuse on your main attacker sucks a lot.

Other than that, though, the status effects aren't too bad, unless you've been Bad Breath'D and have them all at once.

bad breath I'd say is the worst...but other than that one...confuse, beserk, frog and mini sucked pretty bad...especially in big fights.

Virus/Disease

definately the worst.

X-zone in 12 was just pure crap. There was nothing you could do but cry about it =)

That's what they invented Ribbon for, sillies;-)

Confuse has always been annoying for me....

But Zombie in FFIX was really bad for me--
I had Auto-Regen on everyone, so Zombie was like, constant damage until they died...Auto-Life didn't help either, since they still have Zombie after death, and just die like right afterwards XP....and Phoenix Downs won't work until they get a Magic Tag first.
It happened to my main Healer/Attacker during my first fight with Necron >>
It was also the first time I ever got "Zombie" status, so it caught me by surprise, and I didn't understand what was going on until it was a bit late.....

That's what they invented Ribbon for, sillies;-)
Ribbon doesn't always work though...

confuse, death obviously...
stop/paralyse is annoying and frustrating but more a handicap than an actual danger. I also HATED zombie in FFV! And who can forget bad breath...

Confuse, petrify/slow petrify, min/frog.

but I like berserk, cause I usually just attack anyway.

Petrify

Confuse

Stop

Venom
Couldn't have chosen better ones myself. Personally, I find petrification to be the worst. Frog is another truly annoying Status Effect.

I hate Frog the most I guess.

slow and darkness for me.

Darkness. Annoying when it's afflicted on you, but fun if afflicted on the enemies.

Confuse. It's ok; just have a magic caster hit the other person out.

Berserk. Better than confuse, as you'll hit the enemy, not your party members.

Confuse, Poison, AND Berserk. This is hell; You will die from this, unless you kill the enemy pretty fast, which, when going up against a Great Malboro, is impossible.

Confuse wasn't so bad - you just get a mage or someone with low attack power to whack some sense back into them.

Petrify in the first game was worst - you needed a bloody fortune in gold to buy the Gold Needles. Thankfully it didn't happen very often to me, I leveled up to counteract the hit %.

Speaking of status effect healing, I don't see why they went back to the gold needle name for FFXII. Soft was working just fine.

I guess they decided to stick to good old Japanese translations.

To tell you the truth, when I first played FF, I never thought soft was a needle. :P

I hate Confuse, Death, Stop and Silence.

I hate Stop the most. Especially when your main fighter is affllicted by it.
Confuse really makes me angry as well.

if ur hole party is confused = hell, think of all the rare items u use n stuff. being put to sleep also sux especially if ur put to sleep with a countdown - doom or stone/petrification.

I can only recall it being in FFVII though that your characters would go messing around your inventory when they were confused. In most FFs, it just causes them to attack randomly.

i hate the one where you become a monkey and fly into outer space

i think it is called um Monkey

Frasier Crane, I diagnose you with an unhealthy obsession with monkeys.

Petrify in most of them. I guess I didn't really stock up on the status effect that nothing uses until the one thing that annihilates you.

Paralyze could be pretty bad. I remember in some of the older ones, V especially, I could end up with my party paralyzed. Yeah, it wasn't KO/Death, but it was close.

V: Old. It was obnoxious and I hated it.

IX: Mustard. It was obnoxious and I hated it.

X-2: It was obnoxious and I hated it.

Silence

One little mistake and poof the whole party dies.

FFVIII's "Pain" the mixture of silence, dark, and poison. The epitome of a 'silent killer'

Accidentally casting aura on the enemy :P

I don't think ever actually happened to me. What does that do --- give them more strength? I know in FFVIII if you cast Aura on any of your own team, it greatly ups the chances of being able to perform a Limit Break, but I'm not really sure what it does if you cast it on the opposition.

I am pretty sure it raises their Magic power, I am not so sure though.

Lol i never did it ^^ I was joking. It wouldn't do anything as it all aura does is makes you able to perform limit breaks without having yellow hp.

Yeah but it was in several FF games, so it could be used against you. I just forget which one.

What annoyed me were status effects I was supposed to be immune to thanks to my character setups, but in fact wasn't. For example, in FFX, Shinryuu's Petrify status is different from a Basilisk's Petrify status. Stoneproof will stop the second one, but not the first. It's the exact same attack. I -HATE- that.

The worst status effect is Erase/X-Zone/Sneeze/Remove. Reason: you can't cure it, and you can't defend against it. Screwed up my experience totals.

While I do hate insta-death, I actually found it useful, what with the vanish-doom glitch in VI.

Took out Atma Weapon at the floating continent one action each with Terra and Strago. Never even laid a finger on me.

I love old games.

The worst was Zombie. Nothing worse than not realising someone was zombified and giving them an elixir of some sort.
Elixir count -1
Phoenix Down Count -1

Haha! I forgot about those remove ones...FF VII had that one when fighting against the red weapon, and FF XI had a few...swallow and the one where wran (I think that's what it's name was, it was all by itself on that middle island) would ram into you and knock you out of the picture...hated those.

Confuse sucked when it happened to your whole party,
Beserk when you've got at least 2 spellcasters,
Frog and mini were just pain annoying...especially at the final bosses.

i agree with the last one.

I liked Zombie while fighting Yunalesca in FFX, I forget why though.

Poison is anoying but not really a big deal. Confuse is the worst for me, it makes me want to hit my TV. And then zombie because you cant heal your party member.



Accidentally casting aura on the enemy :P

I accidentally gave elixir to a non-zombie boss :P

Mustard of ffIX was the worst status as it pretty much stopped you being able to use one of your characters. And there was one boss that was a fan of beserking you then using mustard bomb which means instant death for you.

Well, I would have to say not just one... but ALL as they happen with the Marlboro in FFX. ESPECIALLY the one in the monster battle training grounds.

Joey --- the reason you liked Zombie in that battle was because of her Mega-Death. Having a character or two in Zombie allowed them to survive that.

Silence for me. The CPU's always know which character to put it on.

Joey --- the reason you liked Zombie in that battle was because of her Mega-Death. Having a character or two in Zombie allowed them to survive that.

Haha. Oh yeah that was it.

Zombie is bad for several reasons, and at the same time good. Death and Life is reversed... I haven't tested it, but I'd imagine Death would act as a full-life spell if you're zombified.

Auto-regen becomes auto-poison in FFIX...particularly nasty when fighting certain beasties.

Too many "helpful" items in FFIX...maybe because there were too many bad things that could happen to you. Ah well.

Final Fantasy XII has a lot of bad statuses too. Fortunately, though, it also gives you unprecedented access to items to heal those statuses. Esuanaga, Smelling Salts (lets you heal confuse) and Chrono's Tear (lets you heal Stop, which has never been available before.)

Auto-regen becomes auto-poison in FFIX...particularly nasty when fighting certain beasties.



This was what I was thinking of :)

Zombie and Petrify in FFVI. Because if one character in the party gets hit by the ailment and the other members die, it's still game-over.

Edit: oh yeah, curse in FFVI. The whole time-bomb-Doom thing is freaking irritating because it forces you to rush through a battle, and if you can't think fast, you're done for.

One effect that really peeves me is Blind/Darkness. Especially if I have an all melee party. :notgood: I think it's worse than the other status effects like confuse and sleep; those two are sometimes cured if an enemy hits you.

Hmm, now that I think about it, you would take a lot of damage before confuse was cured automatically.

I think silence sucks when its put on Lulu from FFX.. Cause you waste your turn either using a Echo Screen or waste Yuna turn curing her.. cause Lulu is all about "magic" and with no magic shes usually worthless in battle.

But the most worse status effect for me is petrifection..

I'm going to have to say as far as single status effects go, Charm is my arch enemy. Not ONLY is the chatracter out of your control for the time being, but they randomly attack for the enemy which drives me up a wall. If the right character is afflicted you're entire tactic can come undone and most valuable tool working for you can destroy you. :( POO!

Confuse from FFX
Petrify
Doom
Gradual Petrify(FFIX)
Stop
Death
Venom
Silence ( on a magic person)
Darkness (on a physical person)
Virus (FFIX)

Confuse all the way!

Petrify and Sleep the others I can live with but those 2 are the most horrible status effects there are... And perhaps Doom.

I dont think sleeps that bad.. When they are physically attack there always woken up.. so i could just heal them.. But confuse sucks bad.. i dont think theres a way to heal confuse is there?

I believe that usually you must wait out the confusion, however there are a few games of the series that physical attack upon the effected target may cause them to snap out of it. FFIV I hink is one of them.

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Confuse can be a pain as it cause you to use your most treasured items unecessarily, attack (and probably kill) yourself or an ally or even kill all your party with your own magic. And you have to be quick to cure that player too. And trying to deal with it physically probably means you killing him/her because your weapon is near its strongest point about then.

Here's a strategy I've found for FFXII --- as soon as a character gets Confused, just go into the menu and switch out strong weapons! Fast-and-easy way to save yourself a lot of trouble.

Also if you switch the item while they are performing an action it can cause them to halt their action. Some of the items I noticed with this are thief's glove, and Genji Glove. Mind you this is FFXII only so far.

Here's a strategy I've found for FFXII --- as soon as a character gets Confused, just go into the menu and switch out strong weapons! Fast-and-easy way to save yourself a lot of trouble.

I'll do that. :) Haven't played it yet though as it hasn't arrived. I was referring to previous FF's really, mainly FFVII.

I HATE the great marlboro.. When he uses bad breath my characters are confused,poisoned,silenced, Ive never seen so many status effects in one turn LOL. I hate it when there confused and poisoned and blinded because you always miss your target, you dont have control over what they do, and after they each mess up there turn the poison still takes life from them.. SO Annoying, Especially in Omega Ruins, they always ambush you, So i usually equip Auron with Masamune with first strike, and use escape.. ( if he decides to escape properly that time) then I just watch the other two die, then just heal them after battle! LOL funny strategy I have.

And in FFX i dont think the characters can get into there supplys, or ive never seen it at least.

Well, you can switch weapons in battle in FFX, but that's about it. And it only works if you have control of the character. It's an awesome exploit in FFXII because you can go into the menu at anytime during battle and pretty much do whatever you want as far as equipment goes. So the moment a character gets confused, I like to equip him or her with the weakest weapon possible until I can cure the status.

In FFXII it would have to be Confuse with Disease.... Vaan is deadly when confuzzled

Like I said --- just switch out the weapon! It's so simple, it's wonderful.

Can you make them attack with fists (no weapon)?

Hmm. I've never tried it before, but there's an ability on the License board to increase attack power when fighting bare-handed, so I'm almost certain the answer is yes.

Yea you can, and I never tried it before myself too much hassle.. I just equip Confuse protection if I knew the mobs will confuse me

Confuse, like everyone else said, just sucks, especially in FFVIII. I didn't find it that bad in FFX, though, since the characters only attack. Unlike in FFVIII, where they use precious items exclusively, or use rare magics on the party.

In FFXII, Sap can be a pain in the ass. I only say this because the Cuchaillain battle was probably the craziest battle I've ever been in in an FF game, since in that battle, there's a constant Sap effect greater than anywhere else in the game.

Itchy from FFX-2 simply sucked, both because it lacked creativity and because you had to immediately focus all you're attention to removing the status from that character.

Oh yeah, what about INVERT (FFXII), which inverts HP and MP? I remember the final esper (I'm excluding the name for spoilers) consistently used Invert on my characters, and that often meant instant death.

Stop and Petrify are fun to use on enemies, not so fun when used on you. The "Undead" condition was reeeaaalllyy annoying, as it caused damage to your character whenever you tried to heal him/her. I believe that status effect was only in a few games though... namely FFTA.

Malboros are the devil... unless of course you have a Morpher that can become them... again, primarily an FFTA situation.

Oh yeah, what about INVERT (FFXII), which inverts HP and MP? I remember the final esper (I'm excluding the name for spoilers) consistently used Invert on my characters, and that often meant instant death.
A curse, but also a blessing, because it restores that characters' MP to max. I actually did find that to be helpful at times.

Same here Invert can be your friend when low on ethers.

Though by far for me BLIND is my arch rival. I got hit with it so many times in FFXII it is not funny BLIND is a gamble on a hit so you can waste a turn and sometimes depending on the game COUGHFFIVCOUGH you may not be carring that much since you have limited room or just usually don't need it.

But FFXII is by far the worst for Blind I would remove then those damn skeletons would Blind me again I went through while chasing the Vorpral Bunny all my eye drops because I accidently went into Feywood then came back Lv 40 skeletons were everywhere Leveled up like crazy but by the time I was done I was so low on supplies I had to run from everything espically the Malbros. It wasn't the fun happy place.

Yes, I remember the HP/MP switch. Yet another reminder of FFTA, lol. The blade biters and and adamantoise tortoises did that to you, but you could Learn it with a Blue Mage, and it layed waste to warriors.

A curse, but also a blessing, because it restores that characters' MP to max. I actually did find that to be helpful at times.

A godsend when fighting Cuchulainn. I fought him as soon as I could and, of course, didn't have Bubble Belts. I just made sure my Phoenix Down gambit was in place and started Quickening chains everytime someone got revived.

Remember in FFX, when you fought the Bevelle Guardian Worm (can't remember actual name) in the water portion of Via Purifico? The first time I fought the undead form of it, it used Petrify on Tidus, and since they were in water, he just dissolved. I learned that lessen fast and made sure I had Stoneproof on everyone's armor on the second play through.

He is so easy to beat Phoenix down is all you need if I rememeber right I killed him fast never even needed to do the whole open gate trick thing.

He is so easy to beat Phoenix down is all you need if I rememeber right I killed him fast never even needed to do the whole open gate trick thing.

Yeah, I learned that the second time around too. It just didn't click when I played the first time. Plus, I didn't think it'd be that ridiculously EASY to defeat something that was supposed to be a boss.

Never knew about that before, since I always just used two Phoenix Down. How curious.

The sans Pheonix Down way is for people who want a challenge. :P

I have a burning hate for Disease from FFXII.

But general, Confuse is horrible. Getting killed off by yourself is pretty painfuly annoying.

Instant Death, Confuse and Stop are among my most hated status effects.

I think confuse is probably the worst for me. Although, it does improve in XII, since there's an item to cure it.

Confuse!

Well, you pretty much hit all the worse ones in your first post but as for the most annoying status affect it would definitely be Confuse... I freaking hate that thing. -.-

disease ff12, slow is just annoying in every ff, blind ff12, berserk ff6, oh and KO'd in all of them... lol

I hate Slow and Confuse the worst. Especially when your character uses a very rare item that you were planning to save for later.

I hate Slow and Confuse the worst. Especially when your character uses a very rare item that you were planning to save for later.

Or in VIII when they use a spell you have junctioned. You're lowering your own strength, you fool!

Im gonna go out on a limb here but I'd say KO is the worst.

I guess according to the manual. KO is technically a status affect. Yeah it was a bitch.

Ive always had the worst cases of Petrify/Stone cause everytime i get the negative status affect of petrify is when Ive reached very far and havent saved yet so yes Petrify is my Worst case of Negative Status Affects

Curse those who created it! jej jk

Berserk always sucks for me, it's always my mages that get hit with it.>:O

You walk over a befuddling trap in XII, berserk and confuse on everyone. Not nice.

What's the name of the traps that take your money? Those aren't cool :mad:

Gil Bug I think. How much they take again? I remember walking over one in giza rains with 5000 hard earned gil, and after I had 0. Not brill, and that was before I realised the art of money making.

Yeah, something along those lines. It only happened to me once (I'm obsessive about having Float on at all times), but it bugged me pretty badly. Just like when a Baknamy in the Necrohol stole an unidentified piece of loot. That prompted a reset instantaneously.

I was short on money for a long time because I saved most loot for synthesizing, and I was too paranoid to just sell everything that wasn't used in multiple recipes and let the game keep track of it. So, often it was too much of a hassle to look through my synthesis list to see what I was okay to sell.

I finally synthed my Tournesol the other day and only had about 50,000 gil. Well seeing as I only have like 3 items left to synth I unloaded my haul and ended up with 800,000 gil ;)

Worst one for me takes place in FFIX. Uhh I forgot what it was called..."MUSTARD GAS"? lol i dunno. It was all yellow-ish and you couldn't take an action with your character or else your character would be KO'd.

The status was called "Heat" and could be caused by the attack "Mustard Bomb," among others. Yeah, that was an annoying one. Nice if you get you could get to work against an enemy though.

Re those traps --- Yeah, something else added in FFXII to trip you up. I too became pretty obsessive about having Float on, after a while.

Zombie from FFIX, because I hadly ever had a cure for it.

My top 3:
Confuse - have it on your strongest party member and say hello to a nice Game Over screen.
Petrify - It's like a KO, but this one can come ith enemy attacks in some games, which sucks.
Zombie (FFVI) - Confuse times two. The party member it is cast on is counted as dead, and (s)he randomly attacks anything on screen including party members. Not good at all.

Necrobump...

Confuse. Had Irvine cast Silence on Rinoa, who had all the curative magics. Had to run away :D

In FFVIII, I find Malboros harder than any boss, and I'd rather fight 4x Toramas with all chars level 100, and back attacked. Very slim chances, due to Lv5 Death.

Heck, even 4x Bahamuts would be better.

EDIT: What about a confused char casting petrify/more confuse/pain/whatever on allies? Pretty much guaranteed Game Over...

Worst negative status effect: Death/Faint

Megadeath really ticked me off.

I know this is on the first page, but I still find confuse to be the worst status effect.
Especially when they use items.

For some reason I take it upon myself to not use any item that cannot be replenished.
It's ridiculous really.

Yeah, I have that habit to some degree too, although I've let loose of it somewhat lately -- after all, if it's there, and it'll help...


Fortunately, Confuse in many of the FFs only causes your characters to do physical attacks, but yeah, it's annoying as hell when they do items or magic.

Hooker

seriously you guys stop playing bad games

Megadeath really ticked me off.

I know this is on the first page, but I still find confuse to be the worst status effect.
Especially when they use items.

For some reason I take it upon myself to not use any item that cannot be replenished.
It's ridiculous really.

I also hoard items, and magic all the time. Hardly ever using any rare/scarce items, because, well, they are rare. Or unique. Good example would be from other games, mainly Halo 2. I always saved sniper ammo, rockets and whatever in the campaign, and always ended up beating the whole level without using them.

It's annoying when your own item-conservation slaps you in the face :notgood:

XII's "Disease" hands down.

XII's Disease reminds me of the battle with the esper Cuchulain [sic], with "Sap" in constant effect for the duration of the battle. So in that battle, your health is drained quite frequently and in large amounts, and it's not curable. For me, the Sap effect used in that particular battle is one of the worst status ailments.

Confuse - Confuse is really annoying because the confused person usually kills the healer in one hit and then you're fucked. Confuse was especially annoying in FFX-2 because not only could the confused character attack, but they could use items, rare items that you were saving, like Mega Phoenix or something useful.

Itchy - FFX-2. This status made it so your character could do nothing except change her dressphere. I swear those damn bees have the smallest ATB bar in the whole game; you have to be on your toes to cure this.

Sap - This was from FFXII. This move is the oppostie of Regen. Easy to cure, but deadly if you aren't paying attention.

Death - Do I really have to elaborate on this?

Zombie - Very annoying when the enemy has curing or reviving abilities (like Seymour, FFX).

Petrify - Petrify is annoying because you have to waste a turn to use soft of the person. But the thing that scares me the most is when you are fighting underwater and you get petrified, because you have to haul ass to soften that person or they dissolve in the water. e.e;

Silence - I hate silence sooooo much. I take advantage of my White Magic priveleges, and I hate it when I have to dig up an Echo Screen (I usually don't have any) to cure it.

At least Silence is generally also curable by status-healing magic such as Esuna, that is, unless all of your characters are Silenced. Then it really gets annoying.

Petrify/Stone has always been my most hated status ailment. I also can't stand confuse but I usually get out of those easier than I do the Stone effects for some reason.

Oil...

Fucking Esuna won't remove it...

petrify.
most definetely petrify.
specially worse if the magic user is petrified

Petrify has definitely to be the most annoying status ailment.

However, my personal hatred goes to the state Blind. It's normally cast by magic, and due to the fact warriors have low magic defense, they're normally rather vulnerable to Blind spells. Now you have a blind warrior who misses with every hit and can't dodge. Great. It was very annoying in some of the boss battles.

Also, I highly dislike Slow and Stop, those are some of the worst ailments your party can obtain.

Blind sometimes didn't bother me too much because in some of the FFs it only rarely stopped attacks from going through. But yeah, it could be a pain when it actually did hamper your fighting. Of course, turnabout can be fair play -- it's quite fun sometimes to blind the monster and then watch as it tacks in the wind because its normally crushing attack is completely useless.

Bad Breath: is easily perhaps thee most annoying ailment in the series, since it has the best (worst) of all status effects.

Mmm too many confuses xD

for me confuse was one of the more weakest ailments.

I hate this ailments

Frog (in some FF's not all character have Item skills or magic)
Invite (from FF tactics) Is like "charm" or "confuse" but even worse.
Curse In some FF's = time for party dead, usually 10 seconds (not removable in battle)
Zombie in FF tactics (because if you die in Zombie you cant revive with phoenix down or revive) If 3 turns pass when died you character can die forever or revive.

Frog was annoying when I was earning Battle points in Chocobo Square.
Virus was a waste of a turn for in Memoria in FIX, when that one monster
munched on you before spitting you out. I had to stock up on the items to remove it, so my characters could level up.
Confuse, obvious reasons. I never knew how to cure it except having someone knock some sense into him (attack).
Berserk, having no control over them. Really an unwanted status when everyone is either K.O or confused/frog.

Confuse: Just remember Marlboro... When your strongest party member is confused you can at least try to throw a remedy. But when your entire party has been confused, they will kill each other off rapidly.

Confuse is the worst I think. If you have someone like Auron or Squall that does alot of physical damage that just destroys the rest of your party it can be the worst situation.

I'd say Stop, usually because I get smacked around a lot during that time...

Death or Confuse gets my vote.

Petrification is also pretty bad.