Balogar's Blade

**Balogar's Blade** is the Runelord divine skill in *Octopath Traveler*.

## Effect

Attacks a single target with the power of every element, hitting 6 times (once for each element). Attacks will hit in the following order:

This is relevant for damage when used against unbroken targets, as enemies weak to elements earlier in the list will be broken sooner, boosting the damage of hits from elements later in the list. Each hit can also be individually boosted by certain pieces of equipment that boost the damage of a given element, such as the  which increases all Light Damage by +30%.

Divine Skill: Can only be executed while at Boost level MAX, which requires the expenditure of **3 BP**.

## Formula

Damage = **6 hits** x **4** x [*Attacker E.Atk* - (*TargetE.Def* x **0.5**)]

### Other Multipliers

* All Damage scales with the level of the attacker (see **Level Multiplier**)
* All Damage has a random multiplier (from x0.98 to x1.02) applied to it for each hit
* Hitting an enemy with a damage type it is weak to deals x1.3 damage (or x1.5 with ); hitting a Broken enemy instead deals x2.0 damage
* The  **Increased Elemental Attack** buff on the attacker or the  **Decreased Elemental Defense** on the target increases damage by x1.5; with both, the total multiplier is x2.25
* The damage of each hit can also be boosted by weapons which increase the damage you deal with a given element:
	+ **First Hit:** Having a  or  equipped increases damage by x1.3; with both, the multiplier is x1.6
	+ **Second Hit:** Having an  or  equipped increases damage by x1.3; with both, the multiplier is x1.6
	+ **Third Hit:** Having either a  or  equipped increases damage by x1.3
	+ **Fourth Hit:** Having a  or  equipped increases damage by x1.3; with both, the multiplier is x1.6
	+ **Fifth Hit:** Having a  equipped increases damage by x1.3
	+ **Final Hit:** Having a  equipped increases damage by x1.3

## Synergies

### Skills

* provides BP to an ally (except the user), setting up for this divine skill
* applies the  **Increased Elemental Attack** buff
* applies the  **BP Boost** buff, setting up for this divine skill
* attacks **one foe** with a  Staff and applies the  **Decreased Elemental Defense** debuff to them
* applies the  **Dreisang's Spell** buff for 3 turns, causing this skill to critically hit for ×1.25 damage

### Support Skills

* increases the Elem. Atk. stat by +50
* halves and rounds down the SP Cost of this skill
* increases the damage cap of each attack to 99,999
* on the equipping character causes them to start battles with 2 BP instead of 1, setting up for this divine skill
* multiplies the damage output of boosted skills by an additional ×1.5
* multiplies the damage of attacks targeting an unbroken foe's weakness by ×1.5, instead of ×1.3
* multiplies the damage of elemental skills by ×1.5 while multiplying their SP cost by ×2
* multiplies the damage of elemental skills by ×1.2
* applies the  **Increased Elemental Attack** and  **Increased Elemental Defense** buffs indefinitely

## Trivia

* **Balogar's Blade** is the elemental counterpart to the Warmaster divine skill, **Winnehild's Battle Cry**, albeit targeting a single foe instead of all foes. This is probably because the Scholar, Sorcerer and Starseer jobs already have skills that deal elemental damage to all foes.