Final Fantasy V - Black Magic

Use Black Magic with the Black Mage's !Black Magic command. All Black Magic except Drain and Aspir can be reflected.

For brevity's sake, on this page I'm shortening magic defense to MDef, evade rate to evade, magic evade rate to MEvd, and magic power to magic.

The basic damage formula for pretty much everything is Damage = (A - D) * M. It's what goes into A, D, and M that makes things interesting.

Since M acts as a damage multiplier, anything that modifies M modifies final damage. Modifiers to A and D have more complicated effects on final damage because A and D are compared to each other on the way to computing final damage.

Black Magic
ファイア	Fire	MP: 4	Price: 150
Fire element damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(15, 16.875), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ブリザド	Blizzard	MP: 4	Price: 150
Ice element damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(15, 16.875), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
サンダー	Thunder	MP: 4	Price: 150
Thunder element damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(15, 16.875), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ポイズン	Poison	MP: 2	Price: 290
Adds Poison status to one enemy or ally. Success rate is (99 + user's level - target's level)%. The target has an additional MEvd% chance to avoid it even if a success is determined.
スリプル	Sleepel	MP: 3	Price: 300
Adds Sleep status to one or all enemies or allies. Success rate is (90 + user's level - target's level)%. Each target has an additional MEvd% chance to avoid it even if a success is determined.
トード	Toad	MP: 8	Price: 600
Toggles Toad status on one or all enemies or allies. Success rate is (80 + user's level - target's level)%. Each target has an additional MEvd% chance to avoid it even if a success is determined. Toad can be found in the Village of Istory long before it's available in stores.
The -ra spells are more than three times as powerful as their basic counterparts, but consume less than three times as much MP.
ファイラ	Fira	MP: 10	Price: 600
Fire element damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(50, 56.25), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ブリザラ	Blizzara	MP: 10	Price: 600
Ice element damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(50, 56.25), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
サンダラ	Thundara	MP: 10	Price: 600
Thunder element damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(50, 56.25), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ドレイン	Drain	MP: 13	Price: 3000
Drains HP from a single enemy or ally, healing the caster by the amount the target is damaged (reversed on the undead). A = Random(45, 50.625). D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4. Success rate is (75 + user's level - target's level)%. The target has an additional MEvd% chance to avoid it even if a success is determined.
ブレイク	Break	MP: 15	Price: 3000
Adds Stone status to one enemy or ally. Success rate is (75 + user's level - target's level)%. The target has an additional MEvd% chance to avoid it even if a success is determined.
バイオ	Bio	MP: 16	Price: 3000
Poison element damage and HP Leak status to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(105, 108.28125), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef / 32. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
The -ga spells are more than three times as powerful as their -ra level counterparts, but consume less than three times as much MP.
ファイガ	Figa	MP: 25	Price: 6000
Fire element damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(185, 208.125), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ブリザガ	Blizzaga	MP: 25	Price: 6000
Ice element damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(185, 208.125), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
サンダガ	Thundaga	MP: 25	Price: 6000
Thunder element damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits (but the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(185, 208.125), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
フレア	Flare	MP: 39	Price: n/a
Damages one enemy or ally. Always hits (not even the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(254, 261.9375). D = MDef / 32. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4. Note that while Flare, having high power and mostly ignoring magic defense, is the most damaging Black Magic spell against enemies not weak to Fire, Ice, or Thunder, the -ga spells are more effective when a target is weak to them—when striking a weakness, A is doubled and D is 0. Bio also works quite nicely against Poison-weak foes, hitting at a base 210 power for a fraction of Flare's cost, and inflicting HP Leak status too. Flare can't be bought. It must be won in the {Fork Tower}.
デス	Death	MP: 29	Price: 10,000
Kills one enemy or ally (adds Dead status). Undead targets are immune and instead recover to full HP. Success rate is (80 + user's level - target's level)%. The target has an additional MEvd% chance to avoid it even if a success is determined. Death is one of the few ways to heal a character wearing Bonemail. It's like Curega for the undead.
アスピル	Aspir	MP: 1	Price: 10,000
As noted on numerous Japanese sites, アスピル appears to be short for "aspirate", to remove something by suction. Drains MP from a single enemy or ally, restoring to the caster the amount removed from the target (reversed on the undead). A = Random(8, 9). D = MDef / 32. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4. Success rate is (75 + user's level - target's level)%. The target has an additional MEvd% chance to avoid it even if a success is determined.

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