Immobile

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

Immobile

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Duration

Max. duration

10 seconds

Game link

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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 use Leap of Faith but cannot move any distance using it). 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
•   Shackling Wave — Sword
•   Pin Down — Longbow
•   Brutal Shot — Rifle
•   Knot Shot — Harpoon gun
•   Glue Shot — Pistol
•   Net Shot — Rifle
•   Net Wall — Harpoon gun
•   Crippling Shot — Short bow
•   Man O' War — Spear
•   Vine Surge — Staff
•   Bola Shot — Pistol
•   Infiltrator's Strike — Sword
•   Surprise Shot — Short bow
•   Spotter's Shot — Rifle
•   Malicious Surprise Shot — Short bow
•   Earthen Rush — Dagger, when attuned to earth
•   Shock Wave — Staff, when attuned to earth
•   Swap — Sword
•   Slipstream — Spear
•   Dark Pact — Dagger

Bundle skills that immobilize

•   Glue Bomb — Bomb 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
•   Throw Bolas — Physical
•   Electrified Net
•   Net Turret — Turret
•   Signet of the Wild — Signet
•   Quicksand — Spirit
•   Muddy Terrain — Survival
•   Glyph of Alignment — Glyph
•   Thousand Needles
•   Devourer Venom — Venom
•   Impairing Daggers — Physical
•   Binding Shadow — Cantrip
•   Signet of Earth — Signet
•   "Aftershock!" — Shout
•   Rigor Mortis

Elite skills that immobilize

•   Entangle — Survival
•   Stomp — when attuned to earth

Profession mechanic skills that immobilize

•   Flurry — Burst, Sword
•   Burning Shackles — Primal Burst, Harpoon gun
•   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
•   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

Downed skills that immobilize

•   Grasping Earth

Racial skills that immobilize

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

Common skills that immobilize

•   Antiair Bolt — Ballista
•   Debilitating Trap — Debilitating Trap
•   Dragonsblood Spear
•   Entangling Web — Spider Web
•   Glue Grenade — Lyan's Grenade Kit
•   Antiair Bolt — Ballista
•   Net Shot — Cruelty-free Rifle
•   Net Shot — Hand Cannon
•   Paralytic Dagger
•   Resonance Gravitational Shot — Ballista (Thunderhead Keep)
•   Return to Sender
•   Shockwave — Malfunctioning Staff
•   Skewer — Tengu Longbow (bundle)
•   Spike Barricade — Centaur Banner
•   Swift Antiair Bolt — Ballista
•   Throw Chain — Chain (bundle)
•   Throw Gunk — Gunk (consumable), Ettin Gunk, Ball of Gunk, Gunk, Swamp Gunk
•   Throw Net — Net, Underwater Net, Net (bundle)
•   Throw Unstable Bloodstone Fragment — Unstable Bloodstone Fragment
•   Throw Vine — Vine Whip (A Sly Trick)
•   Throw Vine — Plant Food, Vine
•   Throw Web — Spider Web (Lunatic Inquisition)
•   Thrown Hammer — Old Ascalonian Warhammer
•   Thrown Mace — Old Ascalonian Mace
•   Thrown Sword — Old Ascalonian Sword
•   Thrown Torch — Old Ascalonian Torch
•   Unstable Magic Volley — Gliding
•   Whirling Anchor — Dimensional Anchor

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
•   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

Elite skills that remove immobilized

•   Charge

Profession mechanic skills that remove immobilized

•   Wings of Resolve — Virtue
•   Unflinching Fortitude — Beast

Common skills that remove immobilized

•   Burst of Speed — Dune Roller
•   Burst of Speed — Unoccupied Dune Roller
•   Explosive Disengagement

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 when Wings of Resolve is not on cooldown.
• 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.
• Ancient Seeds (Druid) — Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, or launched foe summons roots to entangle them.
• Panic Strike (Deadly Arts) — Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them.
• Elemental Surge (Arcane) — Arcane skills gain reduced recharge, grant increased ferocity, and inflict a condition based on your attunement.

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

• Stoic Demeanor (Firebrand) — Inflict burning and slowness on foes you disable, immobilize, or slow. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. This trait can only affect the same target once per interval.
• Words of Censure (Salvation) — Blinding, immobilizing, or affecting a foe with crowd control spawns a healing orb. Skills that strike many foes at the same time can spawn multiple orbs.
• Opportunist (Arms) — Gain fury and adrenaline when you immobilize a target.
• 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 or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.
• 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.
• Time Catches Up (Chronomancer) — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.

Traits that remove immobilized

• Aggressive Agility (Devastation) — Movement skills remove immobilizing conditions.
• 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.
• Unstoppable Union (Soulbeast) — Entering beastmode grants boons and removes movement-impairing conditions.
• 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.
• Lucid Singularity (Tempest) — Overloads remove movement-impairing conditions and reduce the duration of incoming ones.
• 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.
• Mecha Legs (Inventions) — Movement speed is increased. Cripple, chill, and immobilize durations are reduced.
• Natural Stride (Druid) — Reduces duration of movement-impairing conditions. Your movement speed is increased as long as you have none 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.
• Lucid Singularity (Tempest) — Overloads remove movement-impairing conditions and reduce the duration of incoming ones.
• 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.

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.

• A Mesmer using the Mirage elite specialization is still able to enter Mirage Cloak using their dodge key while immobilized.

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!
Norn	Why can't I move?	I can't move.
Sylvari	I feel petrified!

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.
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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