Daze

Unable to activate skills. — In-game description

Daze

Effect type

Control effect

Stacking

No

Game link

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Unable to activate skills.

— In-game description

A dazed human.

Daze is an effect caused by some skills which interrupts and prevents the target from using skills for a period of time. NPCs who become dazed are forced to remain still for its duration.

Related skills

Weapon skills that daze

•   Pommel Bash — Mace
•   Smoldering Arrow — Longbow
•   Disrupting Stab — Dagger
•   Throw Shield — Shield
•   Call of the Wild — Warhorn
•   Hilt Bash — Greatsword
•   Concussion Shot — Short bow
•   Deft Strike — Sword
•   Overbearing Smash — Hammer
•   Head Shot — Pistol
•   Tactical Strike — Sword
•   Choking Gas — Short bow
•   Malicious Tactical Strike — Sword
•   Comet — Focus, when attuned to water
•   Electrocute — Trident, when attuned to air
•   Katabatic Wind — Dagger, when attuned to air and water
•   Polaric Leap — Sword, when attuned to air
•   Pile Driver — Staff, when attuned to air and earth
•   Magic Bullet — Pistol
•   Counter Blade — Sword
•   Phantasmal Mage — Torch
•   Chaos Storm — Staff
•   Mirage Thrust — Sword

Bundle skills that daze

•   Magnetic Surge — Magnetic Shield (bundle)

Transform skills that daze

•   Uppercut — Rampage
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Voracious Arc — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Dive — Harbinger Shroud

Utility skills that daze

•   Quick Retribution — Physical
•   Darkrazor's Daring — Legendary Renegade Stance
•   Reaver's Rage — Legendary Alliance Stance, Luxon
•   Banner of Strength — Banner
•   Call Lightning — Spirit
•   Glyph of Equality — Glyph
•   Distracting Daggers — Physical
•   Well of Silence — Well
•   Mantra of Distraction — Mantra

Elite skills that daze

•   Impact Strike — Physical

Profession mechanic skills that daze

•   Gun Flame — Primal Burst, Rifle
•   Rupturing Smash — Primal Burst, Hammer
•   Skull Grinder — Primal Burst, Mace
•   Full Counter — Burst
•   Launch Personal Battering Ram — Tool belt, Personal Battering Ram
•   Spare Capacitor — Tool belt, Shredder Gyro
•   Jade Mortar — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Charge
•   Mace Head Crack — Stolen skill
•   Throw Rock — Stolen skill
•   Diversion — Shatter
•   Time Sink — Shatter
•   Bladesong Dissonance — Bladesong

Pet skills that daze

•   Charge — Rock Gazelle
•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Pink Moa
•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Black Moa

Downed skills that daze

•   Thunderclap

Drowning skills that daze

•   Thunderclap

Combos that daze

•  Combo Field: Lightning ×  Combo Finisher: Leap

Racial skills that daze

•   Technobabble
•   Shriek — Become the Raven

Common skills that daze

•   Bash — Rusty Mace
•   Become the Wolf
•   Detonate — Inquest Golem Arm (bundle)
•   Detonate — Inquest Golem Arm, Inquest Golem Arm (bundle)
•   Detonate — Power Matrix, Power Matrix (bundle)
•   Detonate E.M.P. — E.M.P.
•   Distraction
•   Dragon Kick
•   Drink — Bottle of Rum
•   Electromagnetic Pulse
•   Gift Smash — Presents
•   Hammer Crush — Kodan Icehammer, Koda's Hammer (bundle)
•   Headbutt
•   Hilt Bash — Jotun Greatsword (bundle)
•   Jumpkick — Drysdan Transformation (Rabbit)
•   Lunging Wolf Slam
•   Mace Head Crack — Mace (bundle)
•   Pommel Bash — "The Fixer" Wrench
•   Pumpkin Smash — Pumpkin (Lunatic Inquisition)
•   Punch
•   Screech — Drysdan Transformation (Moa)
•   Screech — Moa Form (My Parrot)
•   Sonic Blast — Overminer's Boomstick
•   Sonic Blast — Dredge Sonic Rifle
•   Sonic Shout — Dredge Suit
•   Throw — Empty Bottle, Ascalonian Wine Bottle, Bottle, Elixir Bottle, Bottles, Captain's Elixir, Bottle of Dwayna's Draft
•   Throw Gear — Steam Creature Transformation
•   Throw Rock — Loose Ore, Rock (bundle), Slimy Rock
•   Throw Rock — Rock (bundle)
•   Thrown Dagger — Old Ascalonian Dagger

Related traits

See also: Traits related to disable (Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.)

Traits that daze

• Unrelenting Criticism (Firebrand) — Axe skills gain a chance to inflict bleeding. Symbol of Vengeance now dazes on its initial strike.
• Flashbang (Explosives) — Explosive Entrance inflicts blindness when it hits. Additionally it dazes foes above the health threshold.
• System Shocker (Scrapper) — Disabling a foe grants you barrier. Your function gyro dazes foes when cast. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Primal Echoes (Druid) — Reduces recharge of staff skills. Daze nearby foes when you swap to staff.
• Sleight of Hand (Trickery) — Stealing also dazes the target. Reduces the recharge of Steal.
• Chronophantasma (Chronomancer) — The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Trait skills that daze

•   Lesser Chaos Storm (Method of Madness) — Create a magical storm at the target location that applies random conditions to foes and boons to allies. The first strike of the storm dazes foes.

Traits that improve daze

• No Escape (Spellbreaker) — Dazes and stuns inflict immobilize.
• Dispelling Force (Spellbreaker) — Dazes, stuns, pulls, knockdowns, knockbacks, and launches remove boons.
• Expert Examination (Scrapper) — Stunning or dazing a foe applies vulnerability and weakness to them.
• Moment of Clarity (Marksmanship) — Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Predator's Onslaught (Marksmanship) — You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.
• Ancient Seeds (Druid) — Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, launched, or defiant foe summons roots to entangle them.
• Dazzling (Domination) — Dazing or stunning a foe also applies vulnerability.

Related equipment

Upgrade components that improve daze

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Daze.

Runes

•   Superior Rune of the Mesmer (rank 6 – +33% duration increase)

Sigils

•   Superior Sigil of Paralyzation (+30% increased duration)
  •   Major Sigil of Paralyzation (+20% increased duration)
  •   Minor Sigil of Paralyzation (+10% increased duration)

Version history

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
April 14, 2020	Removed incorrect text from the tooltip that indicated this effect stacks duration.
September 02, 2015	Fixed an issue that caused dodging to break the player out of daze.
October 15, 2013	The stun and dazed debuffs are now properly removed after using a stun break skill.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Daze has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The July 7, 2020 game update changed the daze icon in skill and trait tooltips from gray to purple.

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