Immobile

Unable to move; stacks duration. — In-game description

Immobile

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Duration

Max. duration

10 seconds

Game link

Effect ID

727

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Unable to move; stacks duration.

— In-game description

Immobile is a condition that prevents movement, turning, and dodging. When immobilized, characters will stop any current movement animation and be shown as bound by purple-tinted ethereal chains.

Victims can still attack targets in range, but any associated movement will be cancelled (e.g. an immobilized guardian can still activate Leap of Faith but will not move any distance using it). However, most teleportation and shadowstepping skills can still relocate the user if successfully activated. Immobilized deals Defiance bar damage at a rate of 50 per second. Immobile has a maximum duration of 10 seconds.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Skills that immobilize

Weapon skills that immobilize

•   Chains of Light — Scepter
•   Zealot's Embrace — Hammer
•   Advancing Strike — Sword
•   Shackling Wave — Sword
•   Pin Down — Longbow
•   Brutal Shot — Rifle
•   Disrupting Throw — Spear
•   Knot Shot — Harpoon gun
•   Glue Shot — Pistol
•   Net Shot — Rifle
•   Electric Artillery — Spear
•   Net Wall — Harpoon gun
•   Serpent's Strike — Sword
•   Crippling Shot — Short bow
•   Man O' War — Spear
•   Spider's Web — Spear
•   Vine Surge — Staff
•   Sundering Volley — Axe
•   Rampant Growth — Mace
•   Savage Shock Wave — Hammer
•   Harrowing Storm — Axe
•   Orchestrated Assault — Axe
•   Recall Axes — Axe
•   Bola Shot — Pistol
•   Infiltrator's Strike — Sword
•   Surprise Shot — Short bow
•   Entangling Asp — Spear
•   Spotter's Shot — Rifle
•   Malicious Surprise Shot — Short bow
•   Measured Shot — Scepter
•   Earthen Rush — Dagger, when attuned to earth
•   Boulder Blast — Pistol, when attuned to earth
•   Shock Wave — Staff, when attuned to earth
•   Ground Pound — Hammer, when attuned to earth
•   Swap — Sword
•   Phantasmal Lancer — Spear
•   Slipstream — Spear
•   Dark Pact — Dagger
•   Addle — Spear

Bundle skills that immobilize

•   Glob Shot — Elixir Gun
•   Box of Nails — Tool Kit
•   Box of Piranhas — Tool Kit

Transform skills that immobilize

•   Natural Convergence — Celestial Avatar
•   Natural Convergence — Celestial Avatar
•   Tainted Shackles — Death Shroud

Utility skills that immobilize

•   Signet of Wrath — Signet
•   Voice of Truth — Final Charge
•   Icerazor's Ire — Legendary Renegade Stance
•   Throw Bolas — Physical
•   Electric Fence — Armament
•   Electrified Net
•   Net Turret — Turret
•   Signet of the Wild — Signet
•   Muddy Terrain — Survival
•   Glyph of Alignment — Glyph
•   Thousand Needles
•   Devourer Venom — Venom
•   Impairing Daggers — Physical
•   Binding Shadow — Cantrip
•   Signet of Earth — Signet
•   "Aftershock!" — Shout
•   Sword of Decimation — Psionic
•   Rigor Mortis

Elite skills that immobilize

•   Entangle — Survival
•   Stomp

Profession mechanic skills that immobilize

•   Flurry — Burst, Sword
•   Burning Shackles — Primal Burst, Harpoon gun
•   Rampart Splitter — Primal Burst, Staff
•   Rupturing Smash — Primal Burst, Hammer
•   Net Attack — Tool belt, Net Turret
•   Entangling Web
•   Prelude Lash — Beast
•   Throw Chain — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Throw Net — Stolen skill
•   Throw Vine — Stolen skill
•   Unstable Artifact — Stolen skill
•   Steal Mobility — Stolen skill
•   Overload Earth — Overload, when attuned to earth

Pet skills that immobilize

•   Entangling Web — Spider
•   Fang Grapple — Juvenile Fanged Iboga
•   Immobilizing Whirl — Juvenile Red Jellyfish
•   Intimidating Howl — Juvenile Krytan Drakehound
•   Jacaranda's Embrace — Juvenile Jacaranda
•   Paralyzing Venom — Juvenile Black Widow Spider, Juvenile Jungle Spider

Racial skills that immobilize

•   Binding Roots — Avatar of Melandru
•   Grasping Vines
•   Thump

Skills that remove immobilized

Weapon skills that remove immobilized

•   Charge — Warhorn
•   Brutal Shot — Rifle
•   Knot Shot — Harpoon gun
•   Overcharged Shot — Rifle
•   Vine Surge — Staff
•   Debilitating Arc — Staff
•   Aerial Agility — Pistol, when attuned to air
•   Windborne Speed — Staff, when attuned to air

Healing skills that remove immobilized

•   Withdraw — Trick

Utility skills that remove immobilized

•   Riposting Shadows — Legendary Assassin Stance
•   Elixir R — Elixir
•   Rocket Boots — Gadget
•   Rocket Boots — Gadget
•   Lightning Reflexes — Survival
•   Dolyak Stance — Stance
•   Roll for Initiative — Trick
•   Sand through Glass — Deception

Elite skills that remove immobilized

•   Charge

Profession mechanic skills that remove immobilized

•   Wings of Resolve — Virtue
•   Flowing Resolve — Virtue
•   Quickening Screech
•   Unflinching Fortitude — Beast

Pet skills that remove immobilized

•   Quickening Screech — Bird

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that immobilize

• Soaring Devastation (Dragonhunter) — Wings of Resolve delivers an attack upon landing. Movement speed is increased.
• Leg Specialist (Tactics) — Immobilize a target when you cripple them with a skill. Deal increased strike damage to foes affected with movement-impairing conditions.
• No Escape (Spellbreaker) — Dazes and stuns inflict immobilize.
• Eclipse (Druid) — Your Celestial Avatar skills are offensively augmented. Striking enemies grants additional astral force.
• Panic Strike (Deadly Arts) — Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them.
• Arcane Lightning (Arcane) — Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects.

Trait skills that immobilize

•   Lesser Signet of Wrath (Wrath of Justice) — Signet. Immobilize your target.
•   Drop Gunk (Streamlined Kits) — Drop gunk at your location to inflict a random condition.
•   Glue Trail (Streamlined Kits) — Leave a trail of glue behind you that hampers enemy movement.
•   Lesser Muddy Terrain (Child of Earth) — Survival. Use mud to cripple, slow, and immobilize foes.

Traits that improve immobile

• Glacial Heart (Virtues) — Mighty Blow becomes Glacial Blow. Heal when you disable, immobilize, or chill a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Stoic Demeanor (Firebrand) — Retain Courage passive while it is on cooldown. Grant boons to nearby allies when you disable, immobilize, or slow an enemy. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• 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.
• Opportunist (Arms) — Gain fury and adrenaline when you immobilize or disable a foe.
• Leg Specialist (Tactics) — Immobilize a target when you cripple them with a skill. Deal increased strike damage to foes affected with movement-impairing conditions.
• 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.
• Blood Moon (Druid) — Daze enemies when you become a celestial avatar. Inflict bleeding on enemies you immobilize or disable.
• Panic Strike (Deadly Arts) — Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them.
• Strength of Stone (Earth) — Gain condition damage based on your toughness. Inflict bleeding when you immobilize a foe. Bleeding can only occur on the same target once per interval.
• Elemental Pursuit (Weaver) — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.
• Vicious Empowerment (Catalyst) — Gain Elemental Empowerment and might when you disable or immobilize a foe.
• Time Catches Up (Chronomancer) — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.

Traits that remove immobilized

• Warrior's Sprint (Discipline) — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased strike damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.
• Crystal Configuration: Zephyr (Holosmith) — Holo Leap removes movement-impairing conditions, grants superspeed instead of swiftness, and inflicts cripple.
• Unhindered Combatant (Daredevil) — Your dodge ability is replaced by a long-range dash that removes inhibiting conditions and grants swiftness and damage reduction. Removing conditions in this way temporarily reduces endurance gain.
• Speed of Shadows (Soul Reaping) — Entering shroud grants swiftness and removes movement-impairing conditions.

Trait skills that remove immobilized

•   Dash (Unhindered Combatant) — Remove conditions and gain swiftness, then rush forward and evade attacks.

Traits that reduce the effects of immobilized

• Dogged March (Defense) — Reduce the duration of movement-impeding conditions and gain regeneration when you are affected by one of these conditions.
• Don't Stop (Acrobatics) — While you have swiftness, movement-impairing conditions have reduced duration. When you gain swiftness, lose a movement-impairing condition.
• Earthen Blessing (Earth) — Decrease the duration of movement-impairing conditions applied to you. Restore endurance when you receive one of these conditions.
• Time Marches On (Chronomancer) — You move 25% faster. The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%.
• Relentless Pursuit (Reaper) — Reduces duration of movement-impairing conditions. Additional reduction while in reaper's shroud.

Traits that benefit from immobilized on self

• Dogged March (Defense) — Reduce the duration of movement-impeding conditions and gain regeneration when you are affected by one of these conditions.

Related equipment

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Relics that improve immobilize

• Relic of the Sorcerer — When you inflict crippled, chilled, or immobile, you also inflict vulnerability.

Relics that remove immobilize

• Relic of Febe — When you use a healing skill, grant nearby allies swiftness and remove movement-impairing conditions from them.

Notes

Bugs:

• It is possible to become immobilized in mid-air, during this time, the player might constantly glitch up and down. This will also make most skills that can be used while immobile, unusable. Skills without activation time can still be used.
• While the Immobile is supposed to prevent turning, if immobilize dealt to an NPC or a player that was not moving, it will not prevent them from automatically turning to face the target when a skill is used. But when used on a moving player, skills will fail to activate without automatically facing the target.

Player chatter

• When the immobilized condition 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 been immobilized!	I can't move!
Charr	I'm stuck!	I can't move!
Human	I'm stuck!	I can't move!
Norn	Why can't I move?	I can't move.
Sylvari	I feel petrified!

Version history

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Mirage can no longer dodge while immobilized or under the effects of crowd control.
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.
May 08, 2018	Immobilize removed from the boon corrupt conversion table.
February 06, 2018	Immobilize now converts to 2 seconds of resistance.
December 10, 2013	Immobilize can now only stack 3 times.
October 15, 2013	Immobilize now stacks in duration to a maximum of five times.
May 17, 2013	Fixed a bug with Dodge roll where it could get stuck in the queue and unintentionally execute after a stun or immobilize.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Immobile has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This condition did not stack in duration until the October 13, 2013 game update, although the description stated it did long before.

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