Environmental effects and combinations in Divinity Original Sin 2 Divinity Original Sin 2 Guide, walkthrough

Last update: 09 March 2020

Environmental effects in Divinity Original Sin 2 are created when you use a given element or a combination of them on a certain type of surface. In our guide, you can find all possible combinations with ways of creating and removing them.

Basic environmental effects
Environmental effects with Bless effect
Environmental effects with Curse effect

Basic environmental effects

One of the environmental effects, Oil.

Effect	How to create	Description + how to remove
Fire	Use spells from Pyrokinetic school, Dragon's Blaze ability, grenades or fire arrows.	Inflicts Burning status, which deals fire damage each turn - this effect is blocked by magic armor. Removes Wet status. This effect can be removed by Ice and Water - it creates a Smoke Cloud. Explodes when combined with Poison. Ignites when combined with Oil.
Water	Use a spell from Hydrosophist school, grenades or water arrows.	Inflicts Wet status and removes Burning. Can be changed into Steam by using Fire, frozen by Ice and Shocked by Air.
Blood	By dealing damage and using abilities from Necromancer school.	Can be frozen thanks to Ice and electrified thanks to Air.
Oil	Abilities from Geomancer school and Oil Flask item.	Inflicts Slowed effect, reduces speed of movement - this effect ignores character's armor (blocking it is impossible). Gets ignited when combined with Fire.
Poison	Abilities from Geomancer school, arrows and grenades.	Inflicts Poisoned status that deals damage each turn - this effect is blocked by magic armor. Explodes when combined with Fire.
Electrified Water	Inflicting Shock effect on a surface covered in Water.	Deals Air damage, inflicts Shocked and then Stunned effect. Can be removed with Fire - it creates an Electrified Steam Cloud.
Electrified Blood	Inflicting Shock effect on a surface covered in Blood.	Deals Air damage, inflicts Shocked and then Stunned effect. Can be removed with Fire - it creates an Electrified Blood Cloud.
Frozen	Inflicting Ice effect on a surface covered in Water.	Chance for inflicting Knocked Down effect. Can be changed into water by using Fire.
Frozen Blood	Inflicting Ice effect on a surface covered in Blood.	Chance for inflicting Knocked Down effect. Can be changed into bloody surface by using Fire or removed by Tornado spell.
Web	Inflicted by some enemies and Spider Legs ability (Polymorph).	Chance for inflicting Web effect that immobilizes a character. This effect ignores armor - it can be blocked. Can be removed by Tornado spell.
Source	Can't be created - it can only be found on a map.	Allows a character to receive Source Points.

Environmental effects with Bless effect

Bless effect can be inflicted on the previously described environmental effects - it blesses a given surface and completely changes its effects.

Blessed Oil is one of the best ways of using Bless effect.

Effect	How to create	Description + how to remove
Blessed Fire	Inflicting Bless effect on a surface covered in Fire.	Grants invulnerability to Frozen effect and heals a character. Deals damage to Undead. Can be removed by Ice and Water - it creates a Blessed Smoke Cloud. Can be removed by using Curse effect and Tornado spell.
Blessed Water	Inflicting Bless effect on a surface covered in Water.	Heals a character and deals damage to Undead. Can be changed into Blessed Steam Cloud by using Fire or into Blessed Ice by using Ice. Can be removed by using Curse effect and Tornado spell.
Blessed Blood	Inflicting Bless effect on a surface covered in Blood.	Heals a character. Can be changed into Blessed Blood Cloud by using Fire. Can be removed by using Curse effect and Tornado spell.
Blessed Poison	Inflicting Bless effect on surface covered in Poison.	Inflicts regeneration effect on a character. Can be removed by using Curse effect and Tornado spell.
Blessed Oil	Inflicting Bless effect on a surface covered in Oil.	Inflicts Fortified effect that increases physical armor. Removes Stun and Petrified effects. Can be removed by using Curse effect and Tornado spell.
Blessed Ice	Inflicting Bless effect on a Frozen surface.	Inflicts Magic Shell effect which increases magic armor. Can be removed by using Curse effect and Tornado spell.
Blessed Electrified Water	Inflicting Shock on Blessed Water.	Inflicts Haste effect which increase character's speed of movement and grants 1 additional AP per turn. Can be removed by using Curse effect and Tornado spell.
Blessed Electrified Blood	Inflicting Shock on Blessed Blood.	Inflicts Haste effect which increase character's speed of movement and grants 1 additional AP per turn. Can be removed by using Curse effect and Tornado spell.
Blessed Web	Inflicting Bless on Web effect.	Inflicts Haste effect which increase character's speed of movement and grants 1 additional AP per turn. Can be removed by using Curse effect and Tornado spell.

Environmental effects with Curse effect

You can also inflict Curse on various effects - it curses a given surface and changes its effects to negative only. This effect is inflicted by many enemies.

Cursed Poison poisons a character and destroys their physical armor.

Effect	How to create	Description + how to remove
Cursed Fire	Inflicting Curse on a surface covered in Fire.	Creates Necrofire effect that resembles a regular fire, however, this one can't be put out with water. Effects are blocked by magic armor. Can be removed with Ice and Water - it creates a Cursed Smoke Cloud. Can be removed by using Bless effect and Tornado spell.
Cursed Water	Inflicting Curse on a surface covered in Water.	Inflicts Decaying effect on characters - healing effects deal them damage. This effect is blocked by physical armor. Can be changed into Cursed Steam Cloud by using Fire or into Cursed Ice by using Ice. Can be removed by using Bless effect and Tornado spell.
Cursed Blood	Inflicting Curse on a surface covered in Blood.	Inflicts Decaying effect on characters - healing effects deal them damage. This effect is blocked by physical armor. Can be changed into Cursed Steam Cloud by using Fire or into Cursed Ice by using Ice. Can be removed by using Bless effect and Tornado spell.
Cursed Poison	Inflicting Curse on a surface covered in Poison.	Inflicts Acid effect which removes a little bit of physical armor each turn and inflicts Poisoned which deals damage each turn. Can be removed by using Bless effect and Tornado spell.
Cursed Oil	Inflicting Curse on a surface covered in Oil.	Inflicts Slowed effect which reduces speed of movement. This effect ignores armor - it can't be blocked. Each step can cause an explosion. Can be removed by using Bless effect and Tornado spell.
Cursed Electrified Water	Inflicting Shock on Cursed Water.	Inflicts Stunned which stuns a character for one turn and deals Air damage. Effects can be blocked by magic armor. Can be removed by using Bless effect and Tornado spell.
Cursed Electrified Blood	Inflicting Shock on Cursed Blood.	Inflicts Stunned which stuns a character for one turn and deals Air damage. Effects can be blocked by magic armor. Can be removed by using Bless effect and Tornado spell.
Cursed Web	Inflicting Curse on Web effect.	Inflicts Web effect which immobilizes a character. This effect ignores armor - it can't be blocked. Can be removed by using Bless effect and Tornado spell.

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