Crippled

Movement speed decreased by 50%; stacks duration. — In-game description

Crippled

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Duration

Max. duration

10 seconds

Game link

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Movement speed decreased by 50%; stacks duration.

— In-game description

Crippled is a condition that makes character visibly limp and move slower. Cripple also deals defiance bar damage at a rate of 15 per second. Cripple has a maximum duration of 10 seconds.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Skills that cripple

Weapon skills that cripple

•   Hail of Justice — Pistol
•   Hunter's Ward — Longbow
•   Puncture Shot — Longbow
•   Symbol of Vengeance — Axe
•   Otherworldly Bond — Scepter
•   Throw Axe — Axe
•   Hamstring — Sword
•   Impale — Sword
•   Savage Leap — Sword
•   Bladetrail — Greatsword
•   Hammer Shock — Hammer
•   Explosive Shell — Rifle
•   Impale — Spear
•   Maiming Spear — Spear
•   Blaze Breaker — Torch
•   Glue Shot — Pistol
•   Radiant Arc — Sword
•   Roiling Skies — Spear
•   Radiant Arc — Sword
•   Crippling Talon — Dagger
•   Cultivate — Mace
•   Crippling Thrust — Sword
•   Serpent's Strike — Sword
•   Barrage — Longbow
•   Crippling Shot — Short bow
•   Counter Throw — Spear
•   Falcon's Stoop — Spear
•   Owl's Flight — Spear
•   Spider's Web — Spear
•   Wyvern's Lash — Spear
•   Coral Shot — Harpoon gun
•   Ink Blast — Harpoon gun
•   Wild Swing — Hammer
•   Cunning Salvo — Axe
•   Dancing Dagger — Dagger
•   Crippling Strike — Sword
•   Disabling Shot — Short bow
•   Distracting Throw — Spear
•   Mantis Sting — Spear
•   Tow Line — Spear
•   Crippling Shot — Harpoon gun
•   Debilitating Arc — Staff
•   Malicious Cunning Salvo — Axe
•   Skirmisher's Shot — Rifle
•   Spotter's Shot — Rifle
•   Churning Earth — Dagger, when attuned to earth
•   Ring of Earth — Dagger, when attuned to earth
•   Elemental Explosion — Pistol
•   Shattering Stone — Pistol, when attuned to earth
•   Dust Devil — Scepter, when attuned to earth
•   Magnetic Wave — Focus, when attuned to earth
•   Eruption — Staff, when attuned to earth
•   Earthen Spear — Spear, when attuned to earth
•   Fissure — Spear, when attuned to earth
•   Haboob — Spear, when attuned to earth
•   Lesser Haboob — Spear, when attuned to earth
•   Lava Chains — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Magnetic Current — Trident, when attuned to earth
•   Enervating Earth — Pistol, when attuned to air and earth
•   Crystalline Sunder — Sword, when attuned to earth
•   Earthen Vortex — Sword, when attuned to earth
•   Lahar — Staff, when attuned to water and earth
•   Elemental Compression — Trident, when attuned to water and earth
•   Phantasmal Duelist — Pistol
•   Illusionary Leap — Sword
•   Temporal Curtain — Focus
•   Mind Stab — Greatsword
•   Journey — Rifle
•   Chaos Armor — Staff
•   Phantasmal Lancer — Spear
•   Lingering Thoughts — Axe
•   Phantom Razor — Dagger
•   Lingering Thoughts — Axe
•   Blade Leap — Sword
•   Returning Edge — Sword
•   Unholy Feast — Axe
•   Grasping Dead — Scepter
•   Deadly Catch — Spear
•   Nightfall — Greatsword

Bundle skills that cripple

•   Artillery Slash — Unsheathe Gunsaber
•   Glue Bomb — Bomb Kit
•   Glob Shot — Elixir Gun
•   Box of Nails — Tool Kit
•   Box of Piranhas — Tool Kit
•   Smack — Tool Kit
•   Thwack — Tool Kit
•   Whack — Tool Kit
•   Fiery Whirl — Fiery Greatsword
•   Crippling Shield — Magnetic Shield (bundle)

Transform skills that cripple

•   Smash — Rampage
•   Plague of Pestilence — Elixir X (underwater)
•   Natural Convergence — Celestial Avatar
•   Natural Convergence — Celestial Avatar
•   Grasping Shadows — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Grasping Shadows — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Elemental Requiem — Tornado
•   Lich's Gaze — Lich Form

Healing skills that cripple

•   Well of Gloom — Well

Utility skills that cripple

•   Sword of Justice — Spirit Weapon
•   Fragments of Faith — Trap
•   Test of Faith — Trap
•   Echo of Truth — Mantra
•   Banner of Discipline — Banner
•   Sundering Leap — Rage
•   Dragonspike Mine — Armament
•   Electric Fence — Armament
•   Thumper Turret — Turret
•   Force Signet — Signet
•   Quake — Spirit
•   Muddy Terrain — Survival
•   Thousand Needles
•   Caltrops — Trick
•   "Aftershock!" — Shout
•   Well of Calamity — Well
•   Summon Bone Fiend — Minion
•   Signet of Spite — Signet
•   Elixir of Anguish — Elixir

Elite skills that cripple

•   Dagger Storm — Trick
•   Stomp
•   Plaguelands — Corruption
•   Summon Flesh Golem — Minion

Profession mechanic skills that cripple

•   Spear of Justice — Virtue
•   Skull Grinder — Primal Burst, Mace
•   Launch Personal Battering Ram — Tool belt, Personal Battering Ram
•   Mine Field — Tool belt, Throw Mine
•   Throw Wrench — Tool belt, Tool Kit
•   Particle Accelerator — Tool belt, Photon Wall
•   Battle Maul
•   Crippling Leap
•   Lunge
•   Spit Goop
•   Tail Lash
•   Takedown
•   Throw Chain — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Overload Earth — Overload, when attuned to earth

Pet skills that cripple

•   Battle Maul — Warclaw
•   Crippling Leap — Canine
•   Lunge — Aether Hunter
•   Spit Goop — Juvenile Sky-Chak Striker
•   Tail Lash — Wyvern
•   Takedown — Juvenile Smokescale, Smokescale

Downed skills that cripple

•   Trail of Knives

Drowning skills that cripple

•   Shackle
•   Kick

Skills that convert swiftness into crippled

See also: Condition#Skills that convert boons into conditions

Racial skills that cripple

•   Shrapnel Mine
•   Crippling Swipe — Become the Raven
•   Pounce — Become the Snow Leopard

Common skills that cripple

•   Aimed Shot — Discarded Rifle
•   Chain Lightning — Asura Lightning Turret, Pact Lightning Cannon, Lightning Turret
•   Chomp
•   Crippling Airstrike — Grenade Set
•   Crippling Strike — Centaur Banner
•   Crippling Throw — Greatsword (bundle)
•   Cut — Rusty Dagger
•   Dark Water — Jellyfish Battle Form
•   Dragonsblood Shrapnel Bolt — Ballista (Thunderhead Keep)
•   Exalted Slowness — Exalted Artillery
•   Fire Crippling Arrows — Arrow Cart (Silverwastes), Arrow Cart (Thunderhead Peaks)
•   Fire Crippling Arrows — Arrow Cart, Arrow Cart (Pact), Arrow Cart (United Legions)
•   Fire Improved Crippling Arrows — Arrow Cart
•   Fire Reaping Arrows — Arrow Cart
•   Fire Staggering Arrows — Arrow Cart
•   Fire Suffering Arrows — Arrow Cart
•   Gift Smash — Presents
•   Griffon Strike — Spirit Axe
•   Hammer Shock — Occam's Enchanted Hammer
•   Improved Poured Tar — Burning Oil
•   Inundate — Invigorator Rifle Prototype
•   Kick
•   Place Dragonsblood Shrapnel Mine
•   Pounce — Jackal
•   Pour Tar — Oil Pot
•   Pour Tar — Burning Oil, Burning Oil (Accusation)
•   Rusty Shrapnel
•   Skewer — Tengu Longbow (bundle)
•   Slam — Siege Turtle
•   Spirit Centaur — Centaur Banner
•   Throw — Ball of Ooze, Ball of Ooze (Researcher Tramma)
•   Throw — Furniture
•   Throw — Jewel Shard
•   Throw — Special Jug
•   Throw Chain — Chain (bundle)
•   Throw EMP Mine
•   Throw Gunk — Gunk (consumable), Ettin Gunk, Ball of Gunk, Gunk, Swamp Gunk
•   Throw Pumpkin — Pumpkin (bundle)
•   Throw Pumpkin — Pumpkin (bundle)
•   Toxic Caltrops

Skills that remove crippled

See also: Boon#Skills that convert conditions into boons, Condition#Skills that remove conditions

Weapon skills that remove crippled

•   Charge — Warhorn
•   Overcharged Shot — Rifle
•   Vine Surge — Staff
•   Aerial Agility — Pistol, when attuned to air
•   Windborne Speed — Staff, when attuned to air

Healing skills that remove crippled

•   Withdraw — Trick

Utility skills that remove crippled

•   Riposting Shadows — Legendary Assassin Stance
•   Rocket Boots — Gadget
•   Rocket Boots — Gadget
•   Dolyak Stance — Stance
•   Roll for Initiative — Trick

Profession mechanic skills that remove crippled

•   Flowing Resolve — Virtue
•   Quickening Screech
•   Unflinching Fortitude — Beast

Pet skills that remove crippled

•   Quickening Screech — Bird

Common skills that remove crippled

•   Explosive Disengagement

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that cripple

• Dulled Senses (Dragonhunter) — Cripple enemies that you disable. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Zealot's Aggression (Dragonhunter) — Deal increased strike damage to crippled foes. Justice's passive effect cripples enemies.
• Ashen Demeanor (Renegade) — Disabling a foe cripples your enemy, which leaves them vulnerable and inspires you with Kalla's Fervor.
• Slow Counter (Spellbreaker) — Full Counter applies cripple and slow.
• Shrapnel (Explosives) — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.
• Gadgeteer (Tools) — Gadget skills are more powerful.
• Crystal Configuration: Zephyr (Holosmith) — Holo Leap removes movement-impairing conditions, grants superspeed instead of swiftness, and inflicts cripple.
• Alpha Focus (Marksmanship) — Your opening strikes inflict cripple on your foes.
• Trapper's Expertise (Skirmishing) — Increase the duration of boons and conditions applied by traps. Offensive traps inflict cripple.
• Earthen Blast (Earth) — Gain barrier and cripple nearby foes when attuning to earth. Also triggers on overload skills. Barrier will not be gained when attuning to the same element.
• Mirage Mantle (Mirage) —  Ambush[sic] skills are improved.
• Master of Corruption (Curses) — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.

Trait skills that cripple

•   Drop Gunk (Streamlined Kits) — Drop gunk at your location to inflict a random condition.
•   Lesser Muddy Terrain (Child of Earth) — Survival. Use mud to cripple, slow, and immobilize foes.
•   Lesser Caltrops (Uncatchable) — Scatter caltrops that cripple and bleed foes.
•   Impaling Lotus (Lotus Training) — Evade attacks and hurl damaging daggers, dealing multiple conditions to enemies.
•   Shock Wave (Evasive Arcana, when attuned to earth) — Create a shock wave that bleeds and cripples nearby foes.
•   Spiteful Spirit (Spiteful Spirit) — Cripple nearby foes and convert their boons into conditions. Gain resolution for each foe you strike. Converts additional boons on foes below the health threshold.
•   Cascading Corruption (Cascading Corruption) — Damage and cripple nearby enemies.

Traits that benefit from crippled on foes

• Zealot's Aggression (Dragonhunter) — Deal increased strike damage to crippled foes. Justice's passive effect cripples enemies.
• 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, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.
• 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 crippled

• 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.
• Speed of Shadows (Soul Reaping) — Entering shroud grants swiftness and removes movement-impairing conditions.

Trait skills that remove crippled

•   Dash (Unhindered Combatant) — Remove conditions and gain swiftness, then rush forward and evade attacks.

Traits that reduce the effects of crippled

• Dogged March (Defense) — Reduce the duration of movement-impeding conditions and gain regeneration when you are affected by one 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.
• 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 crippled on self

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

Traits that convert swiftness into crippled

Primary article: Condition#Traits that convert boons into conditions

Related effects

Effects that cripple

•   Chaos Aura (randomly)

Related equipment

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Relics that apply crippled

• Relic of the Sunless — Using an elite skill summons a pool on the target enemy that inflicts poison and cripple. Pool duration scales with the recharge of the elite skill.
• 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.

Relics that improve crippled

• Relic of the Sorcerer — When you inflict crippled, chilled, or immobile, you also inflict vulnerability.

Relics that remove immobilize

• Relic of Febe — When you use a healing skill, grant nearby allies swiftness and remove movement-impairing conditions from them.

Upgrade components that apply crippled

• Superior Sigil of Incapacitation: After striking a foe from its flank (2 seconds)

Upgrade components that improve crippled

• Superior Sigil of Hobbling: +20% Cripple Duration

Upgrade components that affect crippled on self

• Superior Rune of the Stars:
  • (rank 4) -30% Incoming cripple duration
  • (rank 6) -10% Incoming condition duration

Notes

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Crippled.

• Cripple will also shorten your leap range.
• Story-related "wounded" NPCs are sometimes given a permanent Crippled effect to make them significantly slower. These effects can nevertheless still be drawn or removed by conventional condition-related skills.

Player chatter

• When Cripple 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 incapacitated!	My mobility is impaired!
Charr	My leg!	Can't walk right...
Human	My leg!	My leg!
Norn	Ah my leg!	Not the leg...
Sylvari	Ah, ow my leg... ah...	I can barely stand.

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.
September 29, 2015	Reduced the maximum stacks of this condition from 9 to 5.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Boon to Condition Conversion: Swiftness converts to crippled for 10 seconds. (+5 seconds).
August 28, 2012	Game release: Crippled has been added to the game.

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