Diamond Dust (ability)

Diamond Dust in . — Diamond Dust in *Final Fantasy VIII*.

Embrace the serenity... Renounce the hatreds that consume you...
And scatter them like dust in the wind...

Shiva

Diamond Dust (ダイヤモンドダスト or ダイアモンドダスト, Daiyamondo Dasuto?), also known as Gem Dust, is a recurring ice-elemental attack in the Final Fantasy series. It is commonly used by Shiva.

Diamond Dust is also known in PAL versions as "Polvo de diamante" (Spanish), "Polvere di Diamante/Diamanpolvere" (Italian), "Pó de Diamante" (Brazilian Portuguese), "Diamantenstaub" (German) and "Poussière de Diamant" or "Transcendantale" in (French).

Appearances[]

Final Fantasy III[]

Diamond Dust is one of Shiva's abilities. It is similar to her Icy Stare but deals ice-elemental damage to the entire enemy party.

Final Fantasy IV[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's summon attack in the 3D remakes of Final Fantasy IV. Dealing moderate ice-elemental damage to the entire enemy party, ignoring multi-targetting damage reduction. The ability costs 30 MP to cast.

In all Japanese language releases of the 2D versions of Final Fantasy IV, Shiva's attack is known as Icestorm (吹雪, Fubuki?), being a player version of the enemy ability of the same name used by Blue Dragons. This is retconned in all English localizations starting from the Game Boy Advance release, having Shiva's attack localized as Diamond Dust.

Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's attack when summoned and inflicts ice-elemental damage to all enemies.

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's signature attack. It is also an attack used by Nova Dragon.

Final Fantasy V[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's summon attack. It inflicts ice-elemental damage to all enemy targets for the cost of 10 MP. During the battle against Shiva she will only use Blizzara, and not her signature attack.

Final Fantasy VI[]

Envelops all enemies in an arctic chill.

Description

Diamond Dust (also called Gem Dust) is Shiva's attack. It inflicts Ice-elemental damage to all enemy targets for the cost of 27 MP.

Final Fantasy VII[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's summon attack which hits all enemies with ice-elemental damage for 1.5 times magic damage for the cost of 32 MP.

Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-[]

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Final Fantasy VII remake project[]

The summon Shiva uses Diamond Dust as a final move either when the timer expires, or when the summoner is KO'd. Shiva encases enemies in ice and then shatters them. When fought as a boss in Final Fantasy VII Remake, Shiva also uses it against the player party. Shiva returns in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth where her special attack is still Diamond Dust.

Final Fantasy VIII[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's ice-elemental attack that strikes all enemies. Shiva's summon time is 12.9s, which, according to the Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania, allows the player to boost its damage to around 180% of normal damage using a regular PlayStation controller.

Its damage is calculated as follows:^[1]

Damage=62\times Level/10+43

Damage = Damage \times (265 - TargetSpr) / 8

Damage=Damage\times 43/256

Damage = Damage \times Boost / 100

Damage = Damage \times (100 + SummonMagBonus) / 100

Damage = Damage \times (900 - ElemDef) / 100:

Elemental Defense starts at 800 (0%), 900 nullifies damage and 1000 absorbs it. If an enemy is shown to be weak against an element, its Elemental Defense is below 800. If damage becomes negative (due to high Elemental Defense), the target is healed by that amount.

Final Fantasy IX[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's ice-elemental summon attack that targets all members of the enemy party for the cost of 24 MP, (originally 96 MP until Dagger loses her summons). The spell power for Diamond Dust can be boosted by accumulating Opals in the inventory. It can have either a short or long summon animation. With the support ability Boost, the player can always summon the long animation.

Final Fantasy X[]

Deals ice elemental damage to all enemies.

Description

Diamond Dust is Shiva's Overdrive, inflicting ice-elemental damage to all enemies. Diamond Dust is also used in the battles against Shiva and Dark Shiva, where the attack is non-elemental. Dark Shiva's Diamond Dust deals 79,802 to 90,110 damage that cannot be reduced by anything but another aeon's Shield.

Final Fantasy X-2[]

Diamond Dust is an enemy ability that deals major non-elemental damage to the party. It is used by Shiva.

Final Fantasy XI[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's Astral Flow Blood Pact. It costs twice the user's level in MP to active the command, and using it reduces MP to 0. Diamond Dust deals massive ice-elemental damage to all enemies within its area of effect.

Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings[]

Diamond Dust is an ice-elemental ability used by Shiva that inflicts Stop and deal heavy water damage to all foes in range. She will also use Diamond Dust when fought.

The Judge of Wings also summons Shiva who uses Diamond Dust to knock Balthier out during the storyline.

Final Fantasy XIII[]

Snow unleashing Diamond Dust in Final Fantasy XIII.

Diamond Dust is Shiva's finishing move in Gestalt Mode. It greatly increases all enemies' chain gauges and inflicts heavy non-elemental damage. How much the chain gauges increase is dependent on the ability's level. Diamond Dust can reach a maximum level of three by initiating Gestalt Mode with a full Gestalt gauge.

Diamond Dust raises the chain gauge by an amount based on the attack's level prior:

Level 1: 6.0 * 3 + 17.00 * 5 = 103.00^[2]

Level 2: 6.0 * 7 + 17.00 * 6 = 144.00

Level 3: 6.0 * 9 + 17.00 * 8 = 200.00

Final Fantasy XIV[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's ultimate attack used in both the hard and extreme difficulty versions of Akh Afah Amphitheatre trial. The player party is required to defeat additional enemies to prevent an automatic defeat. Should the party defeat the Ice Solder enemies, Diamond Dust will only deal moderate damage to the entire party. However, should the player party fail to defeat all the Ice Soldiers, Diamond Dust will instantly kill the party.

Shiva also attempts to use the attack to fight Ravana during the Heavensward main story, but the attack fails due to a lack of crystal used in the initial summoning.

Shinryu also has access to Diamond Dust as a special attack when his Corrupted Aether bar reaches its maximum. When used, the attack will deal heavy damage to all party members and cause the battle arena floor to turn into ice.

Diamond Dust also appears in Futures Rewritten (raid) as a mechanic used by the Usurper of Frost in phase 2.

Final Fantasy XV[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's summon ability. The chance to summon will appear randomly while in battle, and the player can summon once per battle. Each Astral has its own requirements to be considered during the "summon roll", which happens every 10 seconds. While possible to summon during the first roll, it is rare. Shiva's summon chance increases for each party member in Down/Danger, and the time the player has spent in battle. Shiva needs some space to be summoned, but can be summoned nearly anywhere.

When summoned, Shiva enters the battle, with her presence freezing the surrounding landscape, and appears alongside several copies of herself who surround a shivering Noctis. Her Diamond Dust envelops the party's foes in a constant vacuum of super-chilled air. Shiva is the most powerful summon, as her attacks hit foes the most amount of times.

Shiva is summoned at the end of the boss battle fought outside the Citadel main entrance. Diamond Dust has a unique summon animation at this time.

Final Fantasy XVI[]

Clive using Diamond Dust in Final Fantasy XVI.

Main article: Diamond Dust (Final Fantasy XVI)

Diamond Dust is an ability for Clive from the Eikon Shiva, being the strongest attack unlocked from its grid. When used, Clive surrounds the enemies within a mighty blizzard, followed by unleashing waves of ice throughout the battlefield, dealing massive damage and drastically decreasing the target's stagger gauge or instantly maximizing the stagger multiplier when used on an already-staggered foe. The number of hits can be increased by upgrading the ability. It has a natural cooldown of 75 seconds.

Diamond is also used by Shiva during Clive's encounter with the Liquid Flame at Drake's Breath.

Final Fantasy Tactics[]

The summon Shiva casts Glacial Shards, an ice-elemental attack similar to Diamond Dust.

Final Fantasy Type-0[]

Diamond Dust is an ice-type magic attack of the Eidolon Shiva. Its strength depends on how well its combo is performed. The Eidolons Shankara and Petite Shiva use an upgraded version, called Crystal Dust.

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Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light[]

Diamond Dust is an enemy ability used by Mammon. It inflicts moderate Water-elemental damage to all enemies.

Final Fantasy Dimensions[]

Diamond Dust is the ability used by Shiva. It costs 34 MP and inflicts Ice damage to all enemies. Shiva also uses Diamond Dust as her signature attack during the battle to obtain her.

Final Fantasy Dimensions II[]

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Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008)[]

When summoned, Shiva uses Diamond Dust to prevent the opponent's Bravery from increasing during a certain period of time.

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy[]

Please! Freeze them now!"
"Hailstorm!

Yuna

Yuna can summon Shiva to perform Diamond Dust as an HP attack. It requires 30 CP to equip and 150 AP for mastery. Yuna also summons Shiva to perform a chase and assist HP Attack.

Shiva is also a summon, purchasable from certain Moogle Shops.

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT[]

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Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia[]

As various instances of Shiva are available, so also is Diamond Dust, as follows:

Based on her Dissidia NT incarnation, Shiva deals heavy ice elemental BRV damage, and converts all Melee attacks into magic Ice attacks. As it grows, it may disable enemies with 1 turn BRV Freeze. At summon level 30 and above, it also deals HP damage in conjunction with BRV damage.
Lunafreya uses her world's Diamond Dust as her EX.

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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy / Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call[]

Diamond Dust is Shiva's signature attack and is used when she is summoned in Battle Music Sequences.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy All-Star Carnival[]

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Theatrhythm Final Bar Line[]

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Pictlogica Final Fantasy[]

Diamond Dust is the Summon ability of Shiva, which deals Ice-elemental magic damage to all enemies.

Diamond Dust is the Premium Skill for Ysayle. It deals small Ice magic damage to all enemies and increases the power of the party's Ice attacks by 50% for 2 turns. It has a slow charge speed and is usable during Wisdom Memento.

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade[]

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Final Fantasy Record Keeper[]

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Final Fantasy Explorers[]

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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius[]

Diamond Dust is the summon ability of Shiva. It deals Ice-elemental magic damage to all enemies, starting with a multiplier of 70x at 1★ and ending at 190x at 3★.

Diamond Dust (VI) is an ability learned by Esper's Hidden Power Terra. It costs 1 summon orb to use and deals 9 hit of Ice-elemental EVO damage with a modifier of 140/0x to all enemies. It uses the Bolting Strike chaining family.

Diamond Dust is the Limit Burst for Indomitable Hero Snow. When at max rarity and fully powered up, it deals 27 hits of Ice physical damage with a multiplier of 1030x, reduces Ice resistance by 130% for 3 turns, and reduces DEF by 80% for 3 turns to one enemy. In addition, it increases ATK by 200% and LB damage by 150% for 3 turns that cannot be dispelled to the caster. It uses the Bolting Strike (walk) chaining family.

Diamond Dust is the Limit Burst for Gentiana. When at max rarity and fully powered, it deals 17 hits of Ice magic damage with a modifier of 30x to all enemies, and enables usage of the ability Quadruple Frozen for 4 turns to the caster.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius[]

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Mobius Final Fantasy[]

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World of Final Fantasy[]

Diamond Dust is an active ice-elemental magic ability that inflicts magical ice damage on all targets for 11 AP. It can be used by Shiva, Shiva★ and Shivver.

It is also an enemy ability used by Shivver and Shiva.

Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon[]

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Chocobo's Dungeon 2[]

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Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales[]

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Non-Final Fantasy guest appearances[]

Dragon Quest series[]

In Dragon Quest Tact, Diamond Dust appears as a spell that can be learned by Shiva at level 44. It deals major ice damage to all enemies in a plus sign-shaped area of effect in front of her and has a chance to lower their ice resistance, as well. Upgrading the spell increases its potency and reduces its MP cost.

Kingdom Hearts series[]

Diamond Dust is a Keyblade in Kingdom Hearts Final Mix and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and their respective remakes Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMix. In Kingdom Hearts Final Mix and HD 1.5 ReMix it is obtained after defeating the Ice Titan in the Gold Match.

In Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories Diamond Dust is a Sleight used by Vexen (only against Riku). Vexen creates a swirling blizzard around the area, damaging Riku. In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Diamond Dust is Vexen's Limit Break. He summons ice from the ground to strike enemies from beneath, dealing Ice-elemental damage and inflicting the Frozen status.

In Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Diamond Dust appears as a Command Style usable by Terra, Aqua, and Ventus. It is an ice-based style that specializes in crowd control and dealing with multiple enemies.

Blood of Bahamut[]

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Etymology[]

[view · edit · purge]Diamond dust refers to a meteorological phenomenon which occurs at below 0 °C temperatures. When ground temperature is colder than air temperature, the result is a ground-level cloud composed of ice crystals, somewhat similar to fog.

The attack is called Transcendental in the French versions. Transcendental is a philosophical term. For Kant, it is what constitutes a prior condition of experience.