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Cataclysm

Staff weapon skill
Skill Level:	290 (Paladins, Warriors, Monks, White Mages and Geomancers only)
Description:	Delivers an area attack that deals darkness elemental damage. Damage varies with TP.
Equipment:	Aligned with shadow equipment (Shadow Gorget & Shadow Belt).
	Aligned with aqua equipment (Aqua Gorget & Aqua Belt).

Properties

Element:	Dark
Modifiers:	STR:30% ; INT:30%
Damage Multipliers by TP:

1000 TP	2000 TP	3000 TP
2.75	4.00	5.00

Skillchain Properties

Compression

(A)

Level 2 Skillchains Detonation → Compression = Gravitation

Level 1 Skillchains Compression → Detonation = Detonation Induration → Compression = Compression Transfixion → Compression = Compression Compression → Transfixion = Transfixion

Reverberation

(B)

Level 2 Skillchains Induration → Reverberation = Fragmentation

Level 1 Skillchains Reverberation → Impaction = Impaction Transfixion → Reverberation = Reverberation Scission → Reverberation = Reverberation Reverberation → Induration = Induration

Levels

• Cataclysm is only natively available to Paladins, Warriors, Monks, White Mages and Geomancers. While other jobs can obtain the required 290 Staff skill, they must use one of the aforementioned jobs as their support job in order to gain access to Cataclysm.
• Staff skill level 290 is obtainable by the following jobs at these corresponding levels:

Job	Rating	Level
Paladin	A-	80
Summoner	B	83
Warrior	B	83
Monk	B	83
Dragoon	B-	85
Black Mage	B-	85
White Mage	C+	86
Bard	C+	86
Scholar	C+	86
Geomancer	C+	86

Source entry: Cataclysm. Cached on this server on 4 November 2026.