Mana Burn is a benefitial status or additional effect, as well as the basic skill causing the status or having the additional effect. On actors with this status effect, all normal attacks gain the additional effect. On attacks, the additional effect directs a portion (or all of) of the damage to the target's MP pool, taking away MP instead of HP. If Mana Burn is an attack skill itself, it will solely damage the enemy's MP pool. Mana Burn is also a damage-over-time status effect that reduced the victim's MP by a certain amount each turn while in effect.