Blinded

Next outgoing attack misses; stacks duration. — In-game description

Blinded

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Duration

Max. duration

10 seconds

Game link

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Next outgoing attack misses; stacks duration.

— In-game description

Blinded is a condition that nullifies a character's next attack by giving it a 100% chance to miss. Blindness is removed after affecting a single hit or when its duration expires, though note that it will cause a single hit to miss multiple targets if they were all affected at the same time. Blinded characters appear with a dark purple cloud and white cross mark surrounding their heads. An affected player's screen will also dim. Blind deals defiance bar damage at a rate of 20 per second. Blind has a maximum duration of 10 seconds.

Skills and traits that convert conditions to boons turn Blinded into Fury with a duration of 5 seconds. Some enemies, including most dredge NPCs, are immune specifically to this condition.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Skills that apply blind

Weapon skills that blind

•   Symbol of Blades — Sword
•   Leap of Faith — Greatsword
•   Brilliance — Spear
•   Gleaming Disc — Spear
•   Deflecting Shot — Longbow
•   Warding Rift — Staff
•   Smoldering Arrow — Longbow
•   Static Shot — Pistol
•   Ink Blast — Harpoon gun
•   Unleashed Overbearing Smash — Hammer
•   Solar Brilliance — Staff
•   Shadow Shot — Dagger
•   Black Powder — Pistol
•   Infiltrator's Arrow — Short bow
•   Ink Shot — Harpoon gun
•   Dust Strike — Staff
•   Aerial Agility — Pistol, when attuned to air
•   Aerial Agility — Pistol, when attuned to air
•   Blinding Flash — Scepter, when attuned to air
•   Dust Devil — Scepter, when attuned to earth
•   Flame Burst — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Lightning Surge — Staff, when attuned to air
•   Haboob — Spear, when attuned to earth
•   Lesser Haboob — Spear, when attuned to earth
•   Murky Water — Trident, when attuned to earth
•   Steam — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Dust Storm — Warhorn, when attuned to earth
•   Ashen Blast — Dagger, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Purblinding Plasma — Pistol, when attuned to fire and air
•   Pressure Blast — Staff, when attuned to fire and water
•   Magic Bullet — Pistol
•   Counterspell — Scepter
•   The Prestige — Torch
•   Abstraction — Rifle
•   Chaos Armor — Staff
•   Blinding Tide — Trident
•   Deathly Swarm — Dagger
•   Nightfall — Greatsword

Bundle skills that blind

•   Smoke Bomb — Bomb Kit
•   Flash Shell — Elite Mortar Kit
•   Smoke Vent — Flamethrower
•   Flash Grenade — Grenade Kit
•   Flash Grenade — Grenade Kit
•   Thunderclap — Lightning Hammer

Transform skills that blind

•   Plague of Darkness — Elixir X (underwater)
•   Seed of Life — Celestial Avatar
•   Seed of Life — Celestial Avatar
•   Dust Tornado — Tornado
•   Dark Water — Death Shroud
•   Death's Charge — Reaper's Shroud

Healing skills that blind

•   Purification — Trap

Utility skills that blind

•   Echo of Truth — Mantra
•   Voice of Truth — Final Charge
•   Roiling Light — Physical
•   Gaze of Darkness — Legendary Dragon Stance, Consume
•   Slick Shoes — Gadget
•   Smoke Screen
•   Sun Spirit — Spirit
•   Blinding Powder — Deception
•   Smoke Screen — Deception
•   Signet of Shadows — Signet
•   Sandstorm — Glyph, when attuned to earth
•   Signet of Air — Signet
•   Signet of Midnight — Signet
•   Mirage Advance — Deception
•   Haunt
•   Signet of Spite — Signet
•   Well of Darkness — Well
•   Elixir of Ignorance — Elixir

Elite skills that blind

•   Plaguelands — Corruption

Profession mechanic skills that blind

•   Skull Grinder — Primal Burst, Mace
•   Flash Spark — Tool belt, Spectrum Shield
•   Dark Water
•   Staring Void
•   Blinding Tuft — Stolen skill
•   Throw Feathers — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Steal Precision — Stolen skill

Pet skills that blind

•   Blinding Roar — Juvenile Sand Lion
•   Blinding Slash — Juvenile Raven, Juvenile White Raven
•   Dark Water — Jellyfish
•   Staring Void — Juvenile Spinegazer

Skills that convert fury into blinded

Primary article: Condition#Skills that convert boons into conditions

Combos that apply blind

•  Combo Field: Dark × Combo Finisher: Blast
•  Combo Field: Smoke × Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
•  Combo Field: Smoke × Combo Finisher: Whirl

Skills that remove blind

Utility skills that remove blind

•   Wild Blow — Rage
•   Sight beyond Sight — Meditation
•   Utility Goggles — Gadget

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that blind

• Justice is Blind (Radiance) — Gain a light aura and blind nearby foes when you activate Virtue skill 1.
• Blinding Truths (Salvation) — Blind nearby foes when you use a healing skill.
• Flashbang (Explosives) — Explosive Entrance inflicts blindness when it hits. Additionally it dazes foes above the health threshold.
• Go for the Eyes (Beastmastery) — Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
• Blinding Outburst (Untamed) — Venomous Outburst deals more damage and applies blindness in addition to its other effects. Unleashed Ambush skills deal more damage.
• Cloaked in Shadow (Shadow Arts) — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.
• Hidden Thief (Shadow Arts) — Stealing inflicts blindness. Stealth Attacks inflict weakness. Cannot affect the same target more than once per interval.
• Arcane Lightning (Arcane) — Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects.
• Blinding Ashes (Fire) — Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.
• Blinding Dissipation (Dueling) — Shatter skill 2 inflicts blindness.
• Ineptitude (Dueling) — Interrupting a foe inflicts blind, and blinding a foe inflicts confusion. This trait can only activate on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Trait skills that blind

•   Drop Gunk (Streamlined Kits) — Drop gunk at your location to inflict a random condition.
•   Smoke Bomb (Autodefense Bomb Dispenser) — Set a timed charge that creates a cloud of smoke, blinding nearby foes.
•   Burst of Shadows (Collateral Damage) — Invoke an explosion of shadows at your marked target's location that blinds nearby foes.
•   Blinding Flash (Evasive Arcana, when attuned to air) — Blind nearby foes.

Traits that improve blinded

• Words of Censure (Salvation) — Blinding, immobilizing, or affecting a foe with crowd control heals nearby allies. Skills that strike many foes at the same time can heal multiple times.
• Cloaked in Shadow (Shadow Arts) — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.
• Ineptitude (Dueling) — Interrupting a foe inflicts blind, and blinding a foe inflicts confusion. This trait can only activate on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Chilling Darkness (Curses) — Blinding a target will also apply chill.

Traits that ignore blind

• Permeating Pestilence (Corruption) — Invoke Torment transfers conditions from you onto foes.
• Unyielding Dragon (Bladesworn) — Dragon Slash becomes unblockable and ignores blindness. Gain might whenever you convert flow into charges.

Traits that convert fury into blinded

Primary article: Condition#Traits that convert boons into conditions

Related equipment

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Relics that apply blinded

• Relic of Dagda — After using an elite skill, fire a projectile at the target or nearest enemy that damages and inflicts conditions. Damage scales with the recharge of the elite skill.

Upgrade components that apply blinded

Sigils

• Minor Sigil of Mischief — Launch a blinding snowball at a foe in front of you when you swap to this weapon in combat.
• Major Sigil of Mischief — Launch up to 2 blinding snowballs at a foes in front of you when you swap to this weapon in combat.
• Superior Sigil of Mischief — Launch up to 4 blinding snowballs at foes in front of you when you swap to this weapon in combat.

Player Chatter

• When blind is applied to a character they will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on their race and gender.

Race	Gender
	Male	Female
Asura	I've lost visual acuity!	Vision impaired!
Charr	I can't see anything!	I'm blind!
Human	Can't see anything!	I can't see!
Norn	Ugh... blind!	I can't see!
Sylvari	I can't see!	I'm blinded!

Version history

Patch	Changes
May 11, 2021	Duration-stacking boons and conditions now behave consistently. They directly stack durations added from all sources, do not have hidden stack limits, and generally have shorter maximum durations. With most nondamaging condition durations stacking to a maximum of 10 seconds, we aim to reduce situations in which players can become stuck in combat because of a long-duration condition, preventing them from using their mount.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Condition to Boon Conversion: Blindness converts to fury for 5 seconds (+2 seconds).
October 15, 2013	Fixed an issue that caused extra "Miss" floaters to display whenever an attack was dodged, evaded, or missed due to a blind.
June 25, 2013	Fixed an issue that caused blind to be removed when an attack was used while not in range of any targets.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Blinded has been added to the game.

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Blinded.

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