Taunt

This article is about the condition. For the NPC effect, see Taunt (Ebon Knight Cariaddar).

Involuntarily attack foes. — In-game description

Taunt

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Involuntarily attack foes.

— In-game description

Taunt is a condition that forces the affected target to run towards and auto-attack the source of the taunt, with all other skills disabled except stun breakers. Taunt is like Fear in that it also counts as a control effect, meaning it can be cleared by both condition removal as well as stun breaks. Taunt deals Defiance bar damage at a rate of 100 per second.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Bundle skills that taunt

•   Chapter 2: Daring Challenge — Tome of Courage

Utility skills that taunt

•   Forced Engagement — Legendary Dwarf Stance
•   Imminent Threat — Meditation
•   Phantasmal Defender — Phantasm

Common skills that taunt

•   Hammer Bash — Experimental Hammer
•   Hammer Swing — Experimental Hammer
•   Taunt
•   Waft Emotions — Scruffy 2.0, Recollector

Related traits

See also:

• Traits related to disables (Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.)
• Traits related to conditions

Traits that taunt

• Beastly Warden (Beastmastery) — Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.

Traits that improve taunt

• 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.

Notes

Bugs:

• Taunt does not interrupt NPCs, thus they might continue to use skills while taunted.
• Condition removal sometimes does not return control to the character upon removing Taunt.
• Players with a Defiance bar from controlling an Enchanted Armor will have their target locked on to the source of Taunt (but are free to move and use skills), even though the defiance bars should disable the effect. It is unknown whether other sources of defiance bars have this same behavior, or if it affects enemies.^{[verification requested]}

Version history

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Increased the defiance damage per second from 75 to 100.
March 31, 2020	Taunt will convert to 3 seconds of stability instead of 2 seconds of resistance.
November 07, 2017	This condition now has a proper conversion and will transform into 2 seconds of resistance. Keep in mind that stun breaks take priority over condition conversion.
July 26, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused players to become permanently stuck in place when they removed the taunt condition the instant it was applied.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Taunt has been added to the game.

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