Entangle

Survival. Entangle foes around you with vines. Entangled foes bleed and are immobilized until the vines are destroyed. — In-game description

Entangle

 

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Type

Survival

Training cost

9 Hero points

Game link

API

12580

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0.75¾  

60

48

 

Entangle

Survival. Entangle foes around you with vines. Entangled foes bleed and are immobilized until the vines are destroyed.

 Damage (4x): 508 (0.8)^?

₅ Bleeding (8s): 880 Damage

₅ Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 600

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Predator's Onslaught — 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.

Skirmishing

• Hidden Barbs — Bleeding you inflict is more dangerous.

Wilderness Survival

• Wilderness Knowledge — Survival skills grant fury and remove conditions.

Druid

• Blood Moon — Daze enemies when you become a celestial avatar. Inflict bleeding on enemies you immobilize or disable.

Soulbeast

• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Notes

• The skill traps up to five enemies around the user with destructible roots that inflict damage, bleeding and immobilized every 1.5 seconds.
• Despite the tooltip, the initial attack of skill can be blocked, and if it is blocked, the vines won't be spawned on the blocking foe.
• Foes with breakbars will be able to move out of the roots rendering the skill useless; furthermore, enemy players can avoid the roots and secondary effects by teleporting, condition cleansing, and resistance buff and afterwards moving away from the roots.
• The direct damage does not vary or scale with power or damage modifiers, although it is increased by vulnerability. This is because the direct damage is inflicted by the roots themselves rather than the caster.

Bug:

The tooltip says the skill deals damage 4 times, but it actually hits 5 times for a total of 635 damage.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 60 seconds to 48 seconds in PvP and WvW.
August 13, 2019	Fixed a bug that inflicted damage to the ranger when using this skill.
May 28, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to inflict vulnerability and display a lower immobilization than intended. Entangle will correctly display its 2 seconds per pulse immobilization duration, and it will no longer inflict vulnerability.
February 06, 2018	Fixed a bug in which this skill could tick 4 times instead of 5.
August 16, 2017	Fixed a bug that listed damage from this skill as Jacaranda's Embrace.
September 09, 2014	Reduced recharge of this skill from 150 seconds to 60 seconds. Decreased the active duration of the roots from 20 seconds to 5.
July 01, 2014	Updated the description to better match its functionality.
June 03, 2014	Updated the skill fact to specify radius instead of range.
May 20, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from working with Survival of the Fittest.
April 15, 2014	Updated the hit box of the vines to better reflect their appearance.
August 06, 2013	Updated the damage and immobilize skill facts to reflect the actual amount of pulses.
July 23, 2013	Updated the damage and bleeding skill facts to properly display their actual effects.
January 28, 2013	This skill's bleed effects now properly scale with condition damage and duration.
October 01, 2012	This skill is now properly affected by the Wilderness Survival trait Wilderness Knowledge.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Entangle has been added to the game.

See also

•   Grasping Vines
•   Binding Roots