Immobile

Immobile

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Duration

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.

The duration for the condition will only be increased by the first 3 sources that apply it. Once the duration from the first application of immobile has run out, the duration can once again be increased.

Immobilized deals Defiance bar damage at a rate of 50 per second.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Skills that immobilize

Weapon skills that immobilize

• Scepter
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     Chains of Light
• Hammer
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     Zealot's Embrace
• Sword
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     Shackling Wave
• Rifle
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     Brutal Shot
• Longbow
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     Pin Down
• Pistol
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     Glue Shot
• Rifle
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     Net Shot
• Engineering Kit
  • Bomb Kit
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       Glue Bomb
• Shortbow
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     Crippling Shot (when flanking)
• Staff
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     Vine Surge
• Celestial Avatar
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     Natural Convergence
• Pistol
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     Body Shot
• Sword
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     Infiltrator's Strike
• Shortbow
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     Surprise Shot (Stealth Attack)
• Rifle
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     Spotter's Shot
• Dagger
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     Earthen Rush
• Staff
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     Shock Wave
• Sword
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     Swap (with Illusionary Leap)
• Dagger
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     Dark Pact
• Death Shroud
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     Tainted Shackles
• Avatar of Melandru
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     Binding Roots

Underwater weapon skills that immobilize

• Harpoon gun
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     Knot Shot
• Harpoon gun
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     Net Wall
• Spear
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     Man O' War

Utility skills that immobilize

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   Signet of Wrath
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   Voice of Truth
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   Throw Bolas
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   Net Turret
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   Electrified Net (with Net Turret)
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   Elixir Gun (with Streamlined Kits trait)
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   Muddy Terrain
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   Quicksand (with Stone Spirit)
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   Glyph of Alignment
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   Devourer Venom
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   Thousand Needles
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   Impairing Daggers
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   Binding Shadow
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   "Aftershock!"
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   Signet of Earth
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   Rigor Mortis (with Bone Fiend)
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   Grasping Vines

Elite skills that immobilize

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   Entangle
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   Summon Druid Spirit (from Druid Spirit)

Profession mechanics that immobilize

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   Wings of Resolve (withSoaring Devastation trait)
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   Flurry (burst skill for sword)
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   Burning Shackles (primal burst skill for harpoon gun)
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   Rupturing Smash (primal burst skill for hammer)
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   Net Attack (tool belt skill, with Net Turret)
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   Entangling Web (Spider family common skill)
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   Intimidating Howl (Juvenile Krytan Drakehound unique skill)
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   Immobilizing Whirl (Juvenile Red Jellyfish unique skill)
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   Paralyzing Venom (Juvenile Jungle Spider's and Juvenile Black Widow Spider's unique skill)
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   Throw Gunk (foraged with Juvenile Warthog; random)
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   Throw Net (stolen)
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   Overload Earth

Downed skills that immobilize

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   Grasping Earth

Bundle skills that immobilize

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   Spike Barricade (with Centaur Banner)
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   Throw Net (with Underwater Net)

Skills that remove immobilized

Weapon skills that remove immobilized

• Warhorn
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     Charge
• Rifle
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     Overcharged Shot
• Staff
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     Vine Surge
• Staff
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     Windborne Speed
• Staff
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     Debilitating Arc

Healing skills that remove immobilized

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   Withdraw

Utility skills that remove immobilized

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   Riposting Shadows
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   Elixir R
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   Rocket Boots
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   Lightning Reflexes
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   Dolyak Stance
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   Roll for Initiative

Elite skills that remove immobilized

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   Charge (with Summon Flesh Golem; only removes the condition from the Flesh Golem)

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that apply immobilized

•  Radiance
  •  Wrath of Justice — Striking an enemy with Virtue of Justice's damaging effect casts Lesser Signet of Wrath.
•  Firebrand
  •  Weighty Terms — The final charge of your Mantra skills inflict immobilize. Mantras gain reduced charge-recovery time.
•  Tactics
  •  Leg Specialist — Immobilize a target when you cripple them with a skill.
•  Spellbreaker
  •  No Escape — Dazes and stuns inflict immobilize.
•  Druid
  •  Ancient Seeds — Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, or launched foe summons roots to entangle them.
•  Deadly Arts
  •  Panic Strike — Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe that is below the health threshold immobilizes them.
•  Arcane
  •  Elemental Surge — Arcane skills gain reduced recharge, grant increased ferocity, and inflict a condition based on your attunement.
•  Chaos
  •  Chaotic Interruption — When you interrupt a foe, you immobilize them and gain might, then gain a random boon and inflict your target with a random condition. This trait can only activate on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Traits that benefit from immobilized on self

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

Traits that benefit from immobilized on foes

•  Zeal
  •  Binding Jeopardy — Immobilizing or blinding a foe also applies vulnerability to them.
•  Dragonhunter
  •  Soaring Devastation — Wings of Resolve delivers an attack upon landing. Movement speed is increased when Wings of Resolve is not on cooldown.
•  Firebrand
  •  Stoic Demeanor — Inflict slow on foes you disable or immobilize. Disables includes: stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt and fear
•  Salvation
  •  Words of Censure — 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.
•  Arms
  •  Opportunist — Gain fury and adrenaline when you immobilize a target.
•  Marksmanship
  •  Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased damage to disabled or movement-impaired foes.  Affected conditions are: Stun, Taunt, Daze, Cripple, Fear, Immobilize and Chilled.
•  Deadly Arts
  •  Panic Strike - Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe that is below the health threshold immobilizes them.
•  Earth
  •  Strength of Stone - 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.

Traits that reduce the effects of immobilized

•  Defense
  •  Dogged March — Reduce the duration of movement-impeding conditions and gain regeneration when you are affected by one of these conditions.
•  Inventions
  •  Mecha Legs — Movement speed is increased. Cripple, chill, and immobilize durations are reduced.
•  Druid
  •  Natural Stride - Reduces the duration of movement-impairing conditions. Your movement speed is increased as long as you have none of these conditions.
•  Acrobatics
  •  Don't Stop — While you have swiftness, movement-impairing conditions have reduced duration. When you gain swiftness, lose a movement-impairing condition.
•  Earth
  •  Earthen Blessing — Decrease the duration of movement-impairing conditions applied to you. Restore endurance when you receive one of these conditions.
•  Tempest
  •  Lucid Singularity — Overloads remove movement-impairing conditions and reduce the duration of incoming ones.
•  Chronomancer
  •  Time Marches On — You move 25% faster. The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%.
•  Reaper
  •  Relentless Pursuit — Reduces duration of movement-impairing conditions. Additional reduction while in reaper's shroud.

Traits that remove immobilized

•  Discipline
  •  Warrior's Sprint — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.
•  Holosmith
  •  Crystal Configuration: Zephyr — Holo Leap removes movement-impairing conditions and grants superspeed instead of swiftness, and inflicts cripple.
•  Acrobatics
  •  Don't Stop — While you have swiftness, movement-impairing conditions have reduced duration. When you gain swiftness, lose a movement-impairing condition.
•  Daredevil
  •  Unhindered Combatant — 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.
•  Soul Reaping
  •  Speed of Shadows — Entering shroud grants swiftness and removes movement-impairing 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 08, 2018	Immobilize removed from the 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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Effects (stacking)