Stability

This article is about the boon. For other uses, see Stability (disambiguation).

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Stability

Effect type

Boon

Stacking

Intensity

Game link

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Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared or taunted.

— In-game description

Stability is a boon that protects against control effects, including those that would otherwise interrupt, prevent movement and dodging, and disable use of most skills. Unlike a stun breaker, it does not remove effects that are already in place, although many skills granting stability will also remove stuns. Stability stacks in intensity up to 25 times and each incoming control effect removes a stack.

Related skills

See also: Boon#Related skills

Profession Skills that grant stability

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   Overload Earth

Utility skills that grant stability

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   Fragments of Faith
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   Balanced Stance
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   Dolyak Signet
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   Stomp
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   Shattering Blow
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   Armor of Earth
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   Well of Precognition
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   Well of Power
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   Dolyak Stance

Utility skills that grant stability to allies

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   "Stand Your Ground!"
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   Hallowed Ground
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   Power Break (with Mantra of Concentration)
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   Inspiring Reinforcement
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   Dolyak Stance (with Leader of the Pack)

Elite skills that grant stability

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   Rampage
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   "Strength of the Pack!"
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   Elixir X
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   Dagger Storm
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   Tornado
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   Lich Form
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   "Chilled to the Bone!"
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   Avatar of Melandru

Underwater skills that grant stability

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   Whirlpool

Skills with special conditions that grant stability

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   Rumble (tool belt skill for Thumper Turret)
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   Infusing Terror (with Reaper's Shroud)
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   Charge (sequence skill for Summon Flesh Golem, only grants stability to the Flesh Golem)
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   Consume Plasma (Thief Steal skill, stolen from mesmers)
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   Consume Plasma (From Plasma found by Forage (siamoth))
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   Force Dome (Using a Shield Generator)

Skills with special conditions that grant stability to allies

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   Whirlwind Banner (with Battle Standard)
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   Toss Elixir B (tool belt skill for Elixir B)
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   Bomb Shell (with Turtle Banner)
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   Spirit Centaur (with Centaur Banner)

Skills that randomly grant stability

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   Signet of Inspiration

Skills that convert fear into stability

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   Elixir C
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   Toss Elixir C (tool belt skill for Elixir C)
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   Well of Power

Related traits

See also: Boon#Related traits

Traits that grant stability

•  Heavy Light — Deflecting Shot knocks back enemies on each hit. Gain stability when knocking back, launching, or pulling an enemy.
•  Last Stand — Activates balanced stance when you are dazed, knocked down, launched, pushed back, pulled, or stunned. Increase stance durations and gain vigor when using a stance.
•  Eternal Champion — Gain stability while in berserk mode. Gain stability and might when you break out of stun.
•  Fortifying Bond - Any boon you get is shared with your pet.
•  Fresh Reinforcement - Entering beastmode grants you the boons affecting your pet.
•  Juggernaut — Gain might and stability while wielding a flamethrower.
•  Perfectly Weighted — Hammer skills deal increased damage. Evading an attack grants stability.
•  Final Salvo — Activating a gyro grants stability to you and the gyro. Gyros grant superspeed and create a lightning field when destroyed.
•  Earth's Embrace — Gain Armor of Earth whenever your health drops below the threshold.
•  Harmonious Conduit — Gain stability when beginning an overload. Upon successfully completing an overload, gain increased damage for a period of time.
•  Bolstered Elements — Gain stability when activating a stance. Activate Lesser Stone Resonance when struck while below the health threshold.
•  Bountiful Disillusionment — When you use a shatter, you will gain stability. You and nearby allies gain boons based on which shatter was used.
•  Foot in the Grave — Gain stability and break stuns when you enter shroud.
•  Unwavering Avoidance — Gain stability when successfully evading an attack.
•  Enhanced Bulwark — When stability is applied to you, gain an extra stack.

Traits that grant stability to allies

•  Indomitable Courage — Activating virtue of courage breaks stun and grants stability to nearby allies. Virtue of courage's passive effect triggers more frequently.
•  Nature's Vengeance — Your spirits have increased health and grant a boon to allies around them. Spirit-activated skills affect a larger area.
•  Rock Solid — Grant stability to nearby allies when attuning to earth.

Traits that convert fear into stability

•  Pure of Voice - Allies affected by shouts have conditions converted to boons. Shout abilities have their recharge reduced.
•  Transmute — Incoming conditions have a chance to convert into boons.
•  Inversion Enzyme — Elixir gun abilities that remove conditions now convert them into boons instead.

Traits that improve stability

•  Enhanced Bulwark — When stability is applied to you, gain an extra stack.
•  Mass Momentum — Gain power based upon your toughness. Gain might while you have stability.

Related equipment

See also: Boon#Related equipment

Upgrade components that grant stability

Runes

•  Superior Rune of Sanctuary (rank 6) When struck below 20% health.

See also

•  Defiance
•  Indomitable

Notes

• Only one stack of Stability can be removed every .75 seconds.
• The final stack removed does not provide a .75 second window of immunity to control skills and the target will still be affected by all incoming control attacks.
• Stability does not prevent the activation of traits that trigger when disabled, such as Autodefense Bomb Dispenser, even though the character is not disabled. This may not be true for all traits of this kind^{[verification requested]}.

Version history

Patch	Changes
April 19, 2016	The frequency at which stability can be removed by control effects has been increased from 0.05 seconds to 0.75 seconds. A brief effect will now play on the character when stability is removed via control.
July 07, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused skills that convert boons to conditions to not properly convert stability to fear.
March 16, 2015	This boon has been changed from a duration stack type to an intensity stack type. Crowd-control effects will remove one instance of stability apiece each time they are applied.
May 20, 2014	Updated the description to include "pull" in the list of things that are ignored.
October 22, 2012	Updated the stability boon to stack duration up to 3 times. The icon for stability has changed.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Stability has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to the October 22 2012 update, stability had effect monitor icon of retaliation, while retaliation had its own icon.
• Stability has changed from duration to intensity stacking with March 16 2015 update, while many skills have been updated to reflect this change.

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