Weakness

Endurance regeneration decreased by 50%. 50% of hits are Glancing Blows (50% damage). Stacks duration. — In-game description

Weakness

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Duration

Max. duration

10 seconds

Game link

Effect ID

742

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Endurance regeneration decreased by 50%. 50% of hits are Glancing Blows (50% damage). Stacks duration.

— In-game description

Weakness is a condition that decreases the rate of endurance regeneration and turns half of all hits into glancing blows (that deal 50% less damage that cannot be critical). Stacks of weakness increase the duration of the condition up to 10 seconds. Weakness deals defiance bar damage at a rate of 20 per second.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Weapon skills that weaken

•   Helio Rush — Spear (on land)
•   Symbol of Luminance — Spear (on land)
•   Blitz Mines — Spear (on land)
•   Blossoming Aura — Scepter
•   Echoing Eruption — Mace
•   Mender's Rebuke — Staff
•   Mistsfire — Trident
•   Portal Fire — Trident
•   Reckoning Blast — Trident
•   Torrential Mists — Trident
•   Fierce Blow — Hammer
•   Line Breaker — Staff
•   Pulverize — Mace
•   Call of the Wild — Warhorn
•   Winter's Bite — Axe
•   Savage Shock Wave — Hammer
•   Toxic Shot — Short bow
•   Crippling Strike — Sword
•   Deadly Strike — Spear (underwater)
•   Orchestrated Assault — Axe
•   Recall Axes — Axe
•   Vampiric Slash — Spear (on land)
•   Weakening Whirl — Staff
•   Malicious Deadly Strike — Spear (underwater)
•   Aerial Agility — Pistol, when attuned to air
•   Aerial Agility — Pistol, when attuned to air
•   Blinding Flash — Scepter, when attuned to air
•   Convergence — Dagger, when attuned to air
•   Fissure — Spear (on land), when attuned to earth
•   Haboob — Spear (on land), when attuned to earth
•   Stoning — Staff, when attuned to earth
•   Dual Orbits: Air and Earth — Hammer, when attuned to air and earth
•   Dual Orbits: Fire and Air — Hammer, when attuned to fire and air
•   Dual Orbits: Water and Air — Hammer, when attuned to air and water
•   Enervating Earth — Pistol, when attuned to air and earth
•   Crescent Wind — Hammer, when attuned to air
•   Grand Finale — Hammer
•   Abstraction — Rifle
•   Chaos Armor — Staff
•   Chaos Storm — Staff
•   Mind Pierce — Spear (on land)
•   Consume — Sword
•   Enfeebling Blood — Dagger
•   Feast — Trident
•   Vile Blast — Pistol

Bundle skills that weaken

•   Chapter 2: Igniting Burst — Tome of Justice
•   Tranquilizer Dart — Elixir Gun

Transform skills that weaken

•   Plague of Pestilence — Elixir X (underwater)
•   Eternal Night — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Gathering Plague — Death Shroud
•   Wanderlust — Ritualist's Shroud

Utility skills that weaken

•   Shield of the Avenger — Spirit Weapon
•   Signet of Judgment — Signet
•   Echo of Truth — Mantra
•   Voice of Truth — Final Charge
•   Whirling Light — Physical
•   Inspiring Reinforcement — Legendary Dwarf Stance
•   Inspiring Reinforcement — Legendary Dwarf Stance
•   Elemental Blast — Legendary Dragon Stance, Consume
•   Gladiator's Defense — Legendary Entity Stance
•   "Fear Me!" — Shout
•   "On Your Knees!" — Command
•   Quake — Spirit
•   Glyph of Alignment — Glyph
•   Shadow Portal —
•   Signet of Shadows — Signet
•   Well of Calamity — Well
•   Tale of the Tortured Mastermind — Tale
•   Corrosive Poison Cloud — Corruption
•   Haunt —
•   Signet of Spite — Signet
•   "You Are All Weaklings!" — Shout
•   Elixir of Risk — Elixir

Elite skills that weaken

•   Plaguelands — Corruption

Profession mechanic skills that weaken

•   Explosive Knuckle — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Tail Swipe —
•   Rusty Scrap Strike — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Throw Scale — Stolen skill
•   Steal Strength — Stolen skill
•   Lightning Blitz — Familiar

Pet skills that weaken

•   Brash Slash — Juvenile Eagle
•   Enfeebling Maul — Juvenile Black Bear
•   Enfeebling Roar — Juvenile Black Bear
•   Tail Swipe — Drake
•   Weakening Venom — Juvenile Cave Spider

Skills that convert might into weakness

Primary article: Condition#Skills that convert boons into conditions

Combos that apply weakness

•  Combo Field: Poison ×  Combo Finisher: Blast
•  Combo Field: Poison ×  Combo Finisher: Leap

Racial skills that weaken

•   Radiation Field —
•   Growl — Become the Snow Leopard

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that weaken

• Dwarven Battle Training (Retribution) — Deal increased strike damage to weakened foes. Disabling a foe applies weakness. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, and launch.
• Body Blow (Strength) — Stuns, dazes, knockbacks, pulls, pushes, and launches inflict vulnerability and weakness.
• Cull the Weak (Defense) — Deal increased strike damage to weakened foes. Burst skills inflict weakness. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
• Wilting Strike (Beastmastery) — Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
• Debilitating Blows (Untamed) — Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Hidden Thief (Shadow Arts) — Stealing inflicts blindness. Stealth Attacks inflict weakness. Cannot affect the same target more than once per interval.
• Lotus Poison (Deadly Arts) — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Weakening Strikes (Daredevil) — Your next attack after dodging causes weakness to foes struck. Weakened enemies deal less damage to you, and you deal increased strike damage to them.
• Arcane Precision (Arcane) — Your critical strikes have a chance to inflict a condition based on your attunement.
• Superior Elements (Weaver) — Dual Attack skills weaken enemies. Attacks against weakened foes have increased critical chance.
• Power Block (Domination) — Interrupts deal damage and inflict weakness while granting you a damage increase This trait can only damage enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Master of Corruption (Curses) — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.
• Weakening Shroud (Curses) — Cast Lesser Enfeeble when entering shroud. Critical hits inflict weakness.

Trait skills that weaken

•   Call of the Dwarf (Song of the Mists) — Strike enemies around you, inflicting weakness, gaining barrier, and gaining additional barrier per target hit.
•   Dome of the Mists (Planar Protection) — Create an area that blocks projectiles and weakens foes.
•   Drop Gunk (Streamlined Kits) — Drop gunk at your location to inflict a random condition.
•   Lesser Call of the Wild (Clarion Bond) — Weaken nearby enemies. Grant fury, might, and swiftness to yourself and nearby allies.
•   Lightning Rod (Lightning Rod) — Call down lightning on a disabled foe.
•   Lesser Chaos Storm (Method of Madness) — Create a magical storm at the target location that applies random conditions to foes and boons to allies. The first strike of the storm dazes foes.
•   Reformed Mirage Mirror (Desert Distortion) — Your shattered illusion reforms into a mirror. Touching the mirror shatters it, granting mirage cloak to you and weakening foes.
•   Lesser Enfeeble (Weakening Shroud) — Bleed and weaken nearby foes.
•   Approaching Doom (Doom Approaches) — Nearby foes are tormented and weakened.

Traits that improve weakness

• Dwarven Battle Training (Retribution) — Deal increased strike damage to weakened foes. Disabling a foe applies weakness. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, and launch.
• Cull the Weak (Defense) — Deal increased strike damage to weakened foes. Burst skills inflict weakness. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
• Weakening Strikes (Daredevil) — Your next attack after dodging causes weakness to foes struck. Weakened enemies deal less damage to you, and you deal increased strike damage to them.
• Superior Elements (Weaver) — Dual Attack skills weaken enemies. Attacks against weakened foes have increased critical chance.

Traits that convert might into weakness

Primary article: Condition#Traits that convert boons into conditions

Related equipment

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Relics that apply weakness

• Relic of the Blightbringer — Gain stacks of Greer's Virulence when you inflict poison on a foe. After reaching the maximum number of stacks, the next time you inflict poison also inflicts additional conditions on nearby enemies.
• Relic of Dagda — After using an elite skill, fire a projectile at the target or nearest enemy that damages and inflicts conditions. Damage scales with the recharge of the elite skill.
• Relic of the Twin Generals — Gain might and weaken nearby enemies when you use a healing skill. Gain additional might for each enemy struck.

Relics that benefit from weakness on foes

• Relic of the Aristocracy — Gain increased condition duration when inflicting weakness or vulnerability on a foe.
• Relic of the Scoundrel — Gain increased critical-hit chance for a duration after inflicting blindness or weakness.

Upgrade components that improve weakness

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Debility: +20% weakness duration
  • Major Sigil of Debility: +15% weakness duration
  • Minor Sigil of Debility: +10% weakness duration

Runes

• Superior Rune of Rata Sum
  • (rank 4): +20% weakness duration
• Major Rune of Rata Sum
  • (rank 4): +9% weakness duration

Upgrade components that affect weakness on self

• Superior Rune of the Stars
  • (rank 2): -30% Incoming weakness duration
  • (rank 6): -10% Incoming condition duration

Player chatter

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Weakness.

• When weakness 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'm enfeebled...	I'm weakened? Preposterous!
Charr	My strength fails me...	Strength fading...
Human	My strength fails me!	Strength... failing me...
Norn	Strength fading...	Strength failing...
Sylvari	What is this weakness?	I feel weak!

Version history

Patch	Changes
October 26, 2021	Positive percentage-based enhancements now display with a "+." For example, swiftness now displays "+33% Movement Speed" instead of "33% Movement Speed."
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.
June 25, 2013	Changed from 50% fumble on regular attacks to 50% fumble on all attacks. Now only stacks up to 5 times (still stacks duration).
August 28, 2012	Game release: Weakness has been added to the game.

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