Hexer

"Their forbidden arts use curses to control minds. As so few are fit to master the practice, they are quite rare."

—Hexer description, Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight

Shrouded in mystery, only their bells reveal their true power.

The Hexer (カースメーカー Curse Maker in the Japanese version, Hexcaster in the European versions) are masters of potent curses and hexes designed to debilitate their enemies until they waste away to nothing. The source of their mysterious prowess comes from the bell attached to their person. Unlike their brethren the Dark Hunter and the Troubadour, they're ill-suited for the front lines and are best kept in the back in almost any circumstance.

Profile

• EO1
• EOU
• EO2
• EO2U
• EMD

Description	Like their melee counterpart, the Dark Hunter, the Hexer is capable of debilitating enemies with status ailments. Unlike their brethren, however, the Hexer is capable of far more potent debilitation via curses, ranging from strength and defense weakening to powerful curses to make enemies kill each other or even simply lay down and die.
Strengths	Powerful disabling hexes that deteriorate enemies' health, strength, defenses, and more to nothing.
Weaknesses	Low defenses barring them from the front row, tagged along by mediocre melee capabilities.

Description	Similar to their capabilities in Etrian Odyssey, the Hexer remains a powerful ally. With their new arsenal of skills, they gain the ability to take the lives of their enemies in brand new ways, either by protecting their allies by lowering the enemy's accuracy, or by petrifying the enemy, killing it instantly. Although their potency has increased, they're still ill-suited for the front lines, making them ideal to be placed in the back row, unless grimoire stones are used to rectify their meager melee capabilities.
Strengths	Powerful debilitation capabilities, including the ability to instantly eradicate enemies unlucky enough to fall victim to the Hexer's curses.
Weaknesses	Low defenses, low health, and mediocre melee capabilities that can only be improved through the use of grimoire stones.

Description	Stronger than ever before, the Hexers return with a wider arsenal of debilitating curses to hex their enemies with. With their new debilitating prowess, the Hexer can condemn their enemies to being poisoned, paralyzed, blinded, and more. With this new power comes the capability to control enemies - demanding they take the lives of their comrades, or even themselves. As with Etrian Odyssey, they're ill-suited for the front lines due to their meager melee capabilities.
Strengths	With heightened mastery of debilitation, their hexes are even more potent than before. Coupled with their high TP cost, they're easily one of the strongest party-mates to keep on-hand.
Weaknesses	Low defenses, low health, and mediocre melee capabilities confine the Hexer to the back row, lest have them die frequently.
Force	Caprice: When the hexer cannot decide which of its many curses to cast, Caprice will doom the enemy party to a cornucopia of random status ailments.

Description	Returning with even further mastery of debilitating curses, the Hexer gains new powers to compliment their old talents from Etrian Odyssey. Gaining the ability to trade the lives of the enemy for their allies' and even restore the lives of fallen comrades, the Hexer gains new grounds into the world of dark magic, allowing them to be far more useful than ever before. With the ability to sacrifice use of their own limbs for the sake of heightened cursing prowess, the Hexer is an ally to fear, as long as they stay standing. However, even with their highly destructive curses, the Hexer is ill-suited for the front lines due to their meager melee capabilities, unless rectified through grimoire stones.
Strengths	Potent debilitation capabilities, including the ability to instantly eradicate enemies unlucky enough to fall victim to the Hexer's curses. Incredible Luck growth raises the ease with which the Hexer lands ailments and binds.
Weaknesses	Low defenses, low health, and mediocre melee and offensive magic capabilities that can only be improved through the use of grimoire stones.
Force Boost	Creeping Curse: For 3 turns, bind/ailment success rate is increased, and enemy debuff counter will not decrease.
Force Break	Black Mist: Extends duration of all binds and ailments on enemies. Unusable if the Hexer's head has been bound.

Description	Pending!
Strengths	Pending!
Weaknesses	Pending!

Stat Progression

• EOU
• EO2U

Level	HP	TP	STR	TEC	VIT	AGI	LUC
1	23	37	6	9	5	6	9
30	96	111	12	24	14	18	25
70	248	237	22	50	27	37	52
99	395	346	30	70	38	53	74

Level	HP	TP	STR	TEC	VIT	AGI	LUC
1	26	48	4	8	5	6	10
30	110	210	11	22	13	19	26
70	281	462	22	45	26	40	53
99	445	623	30	62	36	57	74

Grimoire Stones

EOU

Skills to generate and pass:

• Sapping/Frailty/Leaden/Deceit/Relapse Curse: Can be used by any party member and is handy in a boss fight.
• Curse Mastery: Actually capable of increasing the success rates of all skills that inflict ailments or binds, contrary to the skill description.

Skills best used on a Hexer:

• Triple Charge (Landsknecht): Raise ailment/bind chance to shut down a resistant boss or enemy.
• Formulas (Alchemist): Make use of the Hexer's good TEC stat to do damage.

EO2U

Skills to generate and pass:

• Sapping & Frailty Curses: Due to not requiring any stats, the debuffs can be utilized by anyone and will be handy in a boss fight.
• All Ailment Curses: To be given to high-luck characters like Survivalists to facilitate hunting of conditional drops.

Skills best used on a Hexer:

• Perseverance (Dark Hunter): As if the Hexer's ailment accuracy is not good enough, Perseverance will raise the odds of hitting enemies with ailments they resist on repeat attempts.
• Displace (War Magus): To be used with the Chained Benefit skill, allowing the Hexer to simultaneously bind a target's arms and legs. Note that the binds from Chained Benefit also result in lower turn speed for this combo to work.
• All Formulas (Alchemist): When the Hexer doesn't need to use ailments or debuffs, an attacking option always helps.
• Petrifying Gaze (Enemy: Cockatrice): The best means for a Hexer to petrify enemies and eliminate priority targets.
• Stigmata (Highlander) : This works similarly to Displace, excepts that it first binds your character entirely. That mean that the Hexer will attempt to completely bind itself, and every bind will be given to the target. This stacks with Chained Benefit, and does not use a body part. Excellent against bosses, especially when coupled with a whip Dark Hunter for Ecstasy.

Skills

• EO1
• EOU
• EO2
• EO2U

Skill	Description	Type	Prerequisite
HP Up	Increases maximum HP.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
TP Up	Increases maximum TP.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
Curses	Needed to learn Curses.	Mastery	Available at Start
Stagger	Chance of stunning enemies at the beginning of the battle.	Passive	Torpor Lv.5 Corrupt Lv.5
Sapping	Curse that decreases all enemies' strength.	Weakening Curse	Curses Lv.1
Fraility	Curse that decreases all enemies' defense.
Leaden	Curse that decreases all enemies' speed.
Blinding	Curse that has a chance to blind all enemies.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.2
Relapse	Curse that decreases enemy recovery time from status aiments.	Weakening Curse	Curses Lv.3
Cranial	Curse that has a chance to bind an enemy's head.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.5
Abdomen	Curse that has a chance to bind an enemy's arms.
Immobile	Curse that has a chance of binding an enemy's legs.
Torpor	Curse that has a chance to put all enemies asleep.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.6
Corrupt	Curse that has a chance to give all enemies cursed status.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.7
Revenge	Curse that deals damage to an enemy when struck.	Offensive Curse	Corrupt Lv.10
Evil Eye	Evil gaze that has a chance of terrifying the enemy.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.10
Paralyze	Commands a terrified monster to remain motionless.	Fear Curse	Evil Eye Lv.3
Betrayal	Commands a terrified monster to attack its own comrades	Fear Curse	Evil Eye Lv.5
Suicide	Commands a terrified enemy to take its own life	Fear Curse	Evil Eye Lv.10
Lure	Curses the party to encounter more enemies	Field Curse	Evil Eye Lv.1
Mine	Mine for materials at item points	Gather	Available at Start

Skill	Description	Type	Prerequisite
Curse Mastery	Enables Curse skills and increases the success rate of ailments.	Mastery	Available at Start
Sapping Curse	Lowers all enemies' offenses for 3 turns.	Curse	Curse Mastery Lv1
Frailty Curse	Lowers all enemies' defenses for 3 turns.
Leaden Curse	Lowers all enemies' turn speed for 3 turns.	Curse	Sapping Curse Lv2
Deceit Curse	Lowers all enemies' accuracy for 3 turns.		Frailty Curse Lv2
Revenge Curse	Ranged untyped attack to 1 enemy that grows stronger as HP falls.	Battle	Leaden Curse Lv5 Deceit Curse Lv5
Blinding Curse	May blind a line of enemies.	Curse	Curse Mastery Lv3
Madness Curse	May panic a line of enemies.
Torpor Curse	May put a line of enemies to sleep.
Corrupt Curse	May curse an enemy.	Curse	Blinding Curse Lv2 Madness Curse Lv3
Stoning Curse	May petrify an enemy.		Madness Curse Lv3 Torpor Curse Lv2
Relapse Curse	Lowers all enemy's recovery rate from ailments for 3 turns.	Curse	Corrupt Curse Lv3 Stoning Curse Lv3
Cranial Curse	May bind an enemy's head.	Curse	Curse Mastery Lv5
Abdomen Curse	May bind an enemy's arms.
Immobile Curse	May bind an enemy's legs.
Evil Eye	May induce fear in a line of enemies.	Curse	Curse Mastery Lv10
Luring Whisper	Raises encounter rate for 20 steps.	Field	Evil Eye Lv1
Muting Word	Afraid enemies cannot act and take more damage this turn. Maximum priority.	Curse	Evil Eye Lv3
Conflict Word	Afraid enemies will attack each other this turn. Maximum priority.		Evil Eye Lv5
Suicide Word	Causes 1 afraid enemy to attack itself this turn. Maximum priority.		Evil Eye Lv10
TP Up	Raises maximum TP.	Stat Up	Available at Start
Staggering Word	May stun all enemies at the start of a battle.	Passive	TP Up Lv3
HP Up	Raises maximum HP.	Stat Up	Available at Start
Chop	Allows the user to find more resources while chopping.	Gather	Available at Start

Skill	Description	Type	Prerequisite
HP Up	Increase maximum HP.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
TP Up	Increase maximum TP.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
STR Up	Increase strength.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
TEC Up	Increase technique.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
VIT Up	Increase vitality.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
AGI Up	Increase agility.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
LUC Up	Increase luck.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
Esc Up	Increase chances of successfully escaping from battle.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
Curses	Needed to learn curse skills.	Mastery	Available at Start
Scavenge	Increase the chance of finding items after battle.	Passive	TP Up Lv.5 TEC Up Lv.5
Sapping	Curse that decreases all enemies strength.	Weakening Curse	Curses Lv.1
Fraility	Curse that decreases all enemies' defense.
Leaden	Curse that decreases all enemies' speed.
Dampen	Curse that decreases an enemy's special resistances.	Weakening Curse	Curses Lv.10 Scavenge Lv.5
Cranial	Curse with a chance of binding an enemy's head.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.3
Abdomen	Curse with a chance of binding an enemy's arms.
Immobile	Curse with a chance of binding an enemy's legs.
Blinding	Curse with a chance of blinding all enemies.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.1
Poison	Curse with a chance of poisoning all enemies.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.2
Torpor	Curse with a chance of putting all enemies to sleep.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.3
Evil Eye	Curse with a chance of terrifying all enemies.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.4
Paralysis	Curse with a chance of paralyzing all enemies.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.5
Corrupt	Curse with a chance of giving all enemies cursed status.	Debilitation Curse	Curses Lv.6
Suicide	Commands a terrified enemy to take its own life.	Fear Curse	Evil Eye Lv.1
Betrayal	Commands a terrified enemy to attack its own comrades.
Paralyze	Commands a terrified enemy to remain motionless.
Revenge	Uses the amount of HP lost as the basis for a single-enemy attack.	Offensive Curse	Curses Lv.7
Take	Gather plants for materials at item points.	Gather	Available at Start

Skill	Description	Type	Prerequisite	Uses
Curse Mastery	Enables Curse skills and increases the success rates of binds/ailments from Curse skills.	Mastery	Available at Start
Sapping Curse	Lowers all enemies' offenses for 3 turns.	Debuff	Curse Mastery Lv1	Head
Frailty Curse	Lowers all enemies' defenses for 3 turns.
Weakening Curse	Lowers all enemies' resistance to binds/ailments for 3 turns.	Debuff	Sapping Curse Lv3 Frailty Curse Lv3	Head
Blinding Curse	May blind 1 line of enemies.	Curse	Curse Mastery Lv3	Head, LUC
Venom Curse	May poison 1 line of enemies.
Madness Curse	May cause panic on 1 line of enemies.
Torpor Curse	May cause sleep on 1 line of enemies.	Curse	Blinding Curse Lv2 Venom Curse Lv2	Head, LUC
Corrupt Curse	May curse 1 line of enemies.		Venom Curse Lv2 Madness Curse Lv2
Cranial Curse	May bind 1 enemy's head.	Curse	Curse Mastery Lv5	Head, LUC
Abdomen Curse	May bind 1 enemy's arms.
Immobile Curse	May bind 1 enemy's legs.
Evil Eye	May cause fear on 1 line of enemies.	Curse	Curse Mastery Lv10	Head, LUC
Shielding Word	Cause an afraid enemy to take damage for the party this turn.	Curse	Evil Eye Lv1	Head
Conflict Word	Afraid enemies will attack other enemies this turn.		Evil Eye Lv5
Suicide Word	Afraid enemies will attack themselves this turn.		Evil Eye Lv10
HP Up	Increases max HP.	Stat Up	Available at Start
Sacrifice	KO 1 ally for an almighty attack to all enemies and transfers binds/ailments. Damage increases with that ally's HP.	Attack	HP Up Lv5	Head, TEC/LUC
Reincarnate	Revives all fallen allies, but may cause fear to them.	Healing	Sacrifice Lv5	Head, TEC/VIT
Life Trade	Almighty attack to all enemies, party recovers HP for damage dealt. Power increases as party HP decreases.	Attack	HP Up Lv10	Head, TEC
Curb ATK Up	Increases bind/ailment success rate.	Stat Up	Available at Start
Chained Benefit	Binds user's arms and legs, and raises bind/ailment rate next turn.	Charge	Curb ATK Up Lv10
TP Up	Increases max TP.	Stat Up	Available at Start
Curb DEF Up	Increases resistance to binds/ailments.	Stat Up	Available at Start
Chop	Allows the user to gather more resources while chopping.	Gather	Available at Start

Gallery

A party of a Ronin, Dark Hunter, Medic, Hexer and Troubadour battling what appears to be the Wyrm.

Featured in Sekaiju no Omocha Bako's cover.

Hexer Skill Tree

I don't get it... The man at the Guild hasn't hired me. I cursed him so he can't do anything but find me a party, so where's my party already!? I thought not letting him eat or sleep until he finds me one would do the trick... Hmm... It has been a week, I guess. I wonder if the man is still alive? Maybe I should have fed him, at least...

Trivia

• Even though their arms are already bound with chains, they can still be arm bound by enemies.
  • Funnily enough, in Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold, they gain an ability that inflicts Arm and Leg bind to themselves in order to boost their ailment and bind infliction rate.