Dragon Warrior III/Spells

Defensive spells

These spells raise your stats or protect you against attacks. Generally these spells are not necessary for common fights, but are absolutely necessary for boss fights. Cast these spells in the first couple of rounds so you can then devote your magic casters to healing or attacking.

Spell	MP	Target	Effect
Barrier	6	All Allies	Protects against fire attacks (magic & physical)
BeDragon	24	Caster	Turn the caster into a dragon that always attacks all enemies with a strong flame attack. The attack ignores defense, meaning that a Dragon can kill an entire team of Metal Slimes and Metal Babbles in a single round.
Bikill	6	One Ally	Doubles target's attack power
Bounce	8	Chanter	Reflects offensive magic back to the caster
Increase	4	All Allies	Increase defense power
Ironize	6	All Allies	Makes everyone invulnerable but also immobile
Speedup	3	All Allies	Raises agility
Upper	3	One Ally	Increases defense power significantly

Healing spells

Restores HP (and possibly your life). With the exception of Healusall, the more powerful the spell, the more cost-effective it is (in terms of HP restored for MP used). The revival spells are almost always preferable to paying to have an allied revived at a House of Healing. If your caster(s) are dead, pay to revive one and then have them cast Vivify or Revive on the other dead.

Spell	MP	Target	Effect
Heal	3	One Ally	Restores 20 - 30 HP
Healmore	5	One Ally	Restores 40 - 90 HP
Healall	7	One Ally	Restores all HP
Healus	18	All Allies	Healmore cast on everyone simultaneously
Healusall	62	All Allies	Healall cast on everyone simultaneously; less cost-efficient than 4 Healalls, so only use in emergencies
Vivify	10	One Ally	50% chance of reviving ally, and only to half of max HP
Revive	20	One Ally	Revives a dead party member to full; always works

Status spells

These spells add or remove status aliments to the target. Most have an equivalent item, but it is almost always better to use a spell than an item. While the defensive ones are an absolute necessity, the offensive ones are generally not worth bothering with, as the enemies will usually either be too strong to be inflicted or too weak to bother inflicting. The exception to this is the RobMagic spell, which is always useful when a spellcaster is low on MP.

Offensive

Spell	MP	Target	Effect
Chaos	5	One Enemy	Enemy attacks random target
Defense	4	All Enemies	Lowers defense points, more effective against enemies wearing armor (as opposed to those with high vitality)
Robmagic	0	One Enemy	Steals MP from enemies
Sap	3	One Enemy	Lowers defense power of enemy
Sleep	3	Enemy Group	Puts enemies to sleep
Slow	3	Enemy Group	Lowers agility
Stopspell	3	Enemy Group	Prevents afflicted from casting spells
Surround	4	Enemy Group	Greatly reduces hit accuracy (doesn't affect spells)

Defensive

Spell	MP	Target	Effect
Antidote	3	One Ally	Removes poison
Awake	3	All Allies	Wakes up sleeping allies
Curseoff	18	One Ally	Removes a curse (cursed item is destroyed)
Numboff	6	One Ally	Removes numbness

Offensive spells

These are the Wizard's specialty, and pretty much the only reason to bring one along. Not only can they sometimes do more damage than physical attacks, but you can often attack more than one enemy at a time. The sooner you kill all of the enemies, the less damage they can do to you. Be aware that the game considers your party to be a single group, so spells (such as Fireball) that target a group will hit all four members.

Spell	MP	Target	Effect
Expel	2	Enemy Group	Instant kill, but party receives no gold or experience
Limbo	7	One Enemy	Instant kill, but party receives no gold or experience
Beat	7	One Enemy	Kills instantly, low chance of success
Defeat	7	Enemy Group	Kills instantly, low chance of success
Bang	5	All Enemies	Small explosion, 20 - 30 damage
Boom	9	All Enemies	Larger explosion, 50 - 70 damage
Explodet	18	All Enemies	Massive explosion, over 150 damage
Blaze	2	One Enemy	Small fire attack, 10 - 30 damage
Blazemore	6	One Enemy	Large fire attack, 60 - 80 damage
Blazemost	12	One Enemy	Gigantic fireball attack, 150 - 180 damage
Fireball	4	Enemy Group	Small fireball, 10 - 20 damage
Firebane	6	Enemy Group	Large fire, 30 - 50 damage
Firevolt	12	Enemy Group	Large fire, 80 - 100 damage
Icebolt	3	One Enemy	Ice attack, 20 - 30 damage
Snowblast	6	Enemy Group	Ice attack, 40 - 50 damage
Icespears	9	All Enemies	Massive ice attack, 60 - 70 damage
Snowstorm	12	Enemy Group	Strongest ice attack, 80 - 100 damage
Infernos	4	Enemy Group	Wind attack, 15 - 25 damage
Infermore	6	Enemy Group	Wind attack, 20 - 40 damage
Infermost	9	Enemy Group	Strongest wind attack, 80 - 100 damage
Zap	8	One Enemy	Lightning attack, around 80 damage
Lightning	30	All Enemies	Lightning, around 200 damage
Sacrifice	1	All Enemies	Defeats all enemies, but kills the caster

Misc. spells

These spells work more as tools than anything else, and will not help you win battles. Some are more useful than others. The Return spell can be used to escape from battle (assuming you are outside at the time), Outside is useful for escaping caves once you find whatever you're looking for, X-Ray can tell you if there is a Mimic or Man-Eater Chest before you open it, and Stepguard protects you from poisonous marsh and energy fields. Chance does something at random, but due to the fact that it can give you an instant game-over, it is rarely worth the risk.

Return cannot take you back to Elfville, House of the Pirates, Luzami, Muor, New Town, or Tedanki. If you cast it during a battle you will always return to Aliahan.

Spell	MP	Target	Effect
Chance	20	Random	Random effect
Day-Night	12	N/A	Switches between day and night
Invisible	15	All Allies	Makes group invisible; same as Invisibility Herb
Open	0	Door	Open doors without needing a key.
Outside	8	All Allies	Transport back to overworld from inside a dungeon
Repel	4	All Allies	Prevents random encounters from weak enemies on the overworld
Return	8	All Allies	Go back to any castle or town you have already visited (some exceptions)
Stepguard	12	All Allies	Prevents damage from barriers and swamps
Transform	12	Chanter	Takes form of an ally in battle
X-Ray	3	Chest	Tells you if a chest has an enemy (glows red) or an item (glows blue)

Chance

All effects have the same probability of occurring.

1. Enemies lose next turn
2. Every attack by allies is a "tremendous blow"
3. Heal is cast on one character
4. Enemies flee, party gains gold by no experience
5. Healus is cast on party
6. Steal MP from enemies
7. Instant death to all enemies
8. Allies faint and monsters flee; no experience or gold gained
9. Chanter gets two free attacks, then enemies and chanter alone for the next round
10. Chaos is cast on all enemies and allies
11. All magic is neutralized
12. Party changes formation to random positions
13. The chanter's voice echoes throughout the area (no effect)
14. Sleep is cast on all enemies and allies
15. Defeat is cast on party

Casters

Sages will learn both the Pilgrim's and Wizard's spells. The Hero has a handful of exclusive spells, but most are ones that either the Pilgrim or Wizard will learn (though the Hero often learns at a much higher level).

The level listed is the one that the character should learn it at, however there is a slight chance that they will learn it one higher than normal. If you have to have the spell at the earliest possible time, save your game right before you level up, then reset if you don't get it.

Hero

Spell	Level
Blaze	2
Heal	4
Expel	6
Fireball	10
Bang	11
Return	12
Ironize	12
Outside	14
Sleep	16
Stopspell	18
Repel	19
Firebane	23
Zap	26
Healmore	29
Healall	33
Vivify	35
Healusall	38
Lightning	41

Pilgrim

Spell	Level
Heal	1
Expel	2
Upper	4
Speedup	5
Surround	7
Sap	8
Sleep	9
Antidote	11
Infernos	12
Stopspell	13
Healmore	14
Numboff	15
Awake	16
Defense	18
Limbo	20
Beat	22
Vivify	24
Infermore	26
Defeat	28
Healall	30
Barrier	32
Healus	34
Revive	38
Infermost	39
Sacrifice	41

Wizard

Spell	Level
Blaze	1
Icebolt	5
Fireball	7
Return	7
Outside	9
Increase	10
Slow	12
Bang	13
Firebane	14
Robmagic	15
Blazemore	17
X-Ray	18
Stepguard	19
Snowblast	20
Bikill	21
Boom	23
Bounce	24
Day-Night	25
Snowstorm	26
Chaos	27
Firevolt	29
Curseoff	30
Transform	31
Icespears	32
Invisible	33
BeDragon	34
Open	35
Blazemost	36
Explodet	38
Chance	40