Daze

Unable to activate skills. — In-game description

Daze

Effect type

Control effect

Stacking

No

Game link

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Unable to activate skills.

— In-game description

A dazed human.

Daze is a control effect that disables all skills and interrupts any current action. Daze does not prevent player movement or dodge rolling. NPCs who become dazed are forced to remain still for its duration.

Related skills

Weapon skills that daze

•   Pommel Bash — Mace
•   Smoldering Arrow — Longbow
•   Disrupting Throw — Spear
•   Disrupting Stab — Dagger
•   Throw Shield — Shield
•   Essence of Borrowed Time — Short bow
•   Wild Strikes — Mace
•   Call of the Wild — Warhorn
•   Hilt Bash — Greatsword
•   Concussion Shot — Short bow
•   Predator's Ambush — Spear
•   Deft Strike — Sword
•   Overbearing Smash — Hammer
•   Head Shot — Pistol
•   Tactical Strike — Sword
•   Choking Gas — Short bow
•   Distracting Throw — Spear
•   Helmet Breaker — Staff
•   Malicious Tactical Strike — Sword
•   Dazing Discharge — Pistol, when attuned to air
•   Comet — Focus, when attuned to water
•   Derecho — Spear, when attuned to air
•   Harden — Spear, when attuned to earth
•   Lesser Derecho — Spear, when attuned to air
•   Electrocute — Trident, when attuned to air
•   Katabatic Wind — Dagger, when attuned to water and air
•   Enervating Earth — Pistol, when attuned to air and earth
•   Polaric Leap — Sword, when attuned to air
•   Pile Driver — Staff, when attuned to air and earth
•   Magic Bullet — Pistol
•   Counter Blade — Sword
•   Phantasmal Mage — Torch
•   Chaos Storm — Staff
•   Mirage Thrust — Sword
•   Addle — Spear

Bundle skills that daze

•   Artillery Slash — Unsheathe Gunsaber
•   Magnetic Surge — Magnetic Shield (bundle)

Transform skills that daze

•   Uppercut — Rampage
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Voracious Arc — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Dive — Harbinger Shroud

Utility skills that daze

•   Light's Judgment — Trap
•   Quick Retribution — Physical
•   Darkrazor's Daring — Legendary Renegade Stance
•   Reaver's Rage — Legendary Alliance Stance, Luxon
•   Banner of Strength — Banner
•   Wild Blow — Rage
•   Call Lightning — Spirit
•   Glyph of Equality — Glyph
•   Distracting Daggers — Physical
•   Well of Silence — Well
•   Arcane Wave — Arcane
•   Power Lock
•   Well of Senility — Well
•   Mirage Advance — Deception

Elite skills that daze

•   Impact Strike — Physical

Profession mechanic skills that daze

•   Gun Flame — Primal Burst, Rifle
•   Rupturing Smash — Primal Burst, Hammer
•   Skull Grinder — Primal Burst, Mace
•   Full Counter — Burst
•   Launch Personal Battering Ram — Tool belt, Personal Battering Ram
•   Spare Capacitor — Tool belt, Shredder Gyro
•   Jade Mortar — Mech Command, Tool belt
•   Charge
•   Heavy Shot
•   Mace Head Crack — Stolen skill
•   Throw Rock — Stolen skill
•   Diversion — Shatter
•   Time Sink — Shatter
•   Bladesong Dissonance — Bladesong

Pet skills that daze

•   Charge — Rock Gazelle
•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Black Moa
•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Pink Moa
•   Heavy Shot — Turtle
•   Ley Energy Pulse — Juvenile Sky-Chak Striker

Downed skills that daze

•   Thunderclap

Drowning skills that daze

•   Thunderclap

Combos that daze

•  Combo Field: Lightning ×  Combo Finisher: Leap

Racial skills that daze

•   Technobabble
•   Shriek — Become the Raven

Common skills that daze

•   Bash — Rusty Mace
•   Become the Wolf
•   Detonate — Inquest Golem Arm (bundle)
•   Detonate — Inquest Golem Arm, Inquest Golem Arm (bundle)
•   Detonate — Power Matrix, Power Matrix (bundle)
•   Detonate E.M.P. — E.M.P.
•   Distraction
•   Dragon Kick
•   Drink — Bottle of Rum
•   Electromagnetic Pulse
•   Gift Smash — Presents
•   Hammer Crush — Koda's Hammer (bundle), Kodan Icehammer
•   Headbutt
•   Hilt Bash — Jotun Greatsword (bundle)
•   Jumpkick — Drysdan Transformation (Rabbit)
•   Lunging Wolf Slam
•   Mace Head Crack — Mace (bundle)
•   Pommel Bash — "The Fixer" Wrench
•   Pumpkin Smash — Pumpkin (Lunatic Inquisition)
•   Punch
•   Screech — Moa Form (My Parrot)
•   Sonic Blast — Overminer's Boomstick
•   Sonic Blast — Dredge Sonic Rifle
•   Sonic Shout — Dredge Suit
•   Throw — Empty Bottle, Ascalonian Wine Bottle, Bottle, Elixir Bottle, Bottles, Captain's Elixir, Bottle of Dwayna's Draft
•   Throw Gear — Steam Creature Transformation
•   Throw Rock — Loose Ore, Rock (bundle), Slimy Rock
•   Throw Rock — Rock (bundle)
•   Thrown Dagger — Old Ascalonian Dagger

Related traits

See also: Traits related to disable (Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.)

Traits that daze

• Unrelenting Criticism (Firebrand) — Axe skills gain a chance to inflict bleeding. Symbol of Vengeance now dazes on its initial strike.
• Flashbang (Explosives) — Explosive Entrance inflicts blindness when it hits. Additionally it dazes foes above the health threshold.
• System Shocker (Scrapper) — Disabling a foe grants barrier to nearby allies. Your function gyro dazes foes when cast. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Blood Moon (Druid) — Daze enemies when you become a celestial avatar. Inflict bleeding on enemies you immobilize or disable.
• Sleight of Hand (Trickery) — Stealing also dazes the target. Reduces the recharge of Steal.
• Chronophantasma (Chronomancer) — The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Trait skills that daze

•   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.

Traits that improve daze

• No Escape (Spellbreaker) — Dazes and stuns inflict immobilize.
• Dispelling Force (Spellbreaker) — Dazes, stuns, pulls, knockdowns, knockbacks, and launches remove boons.
• Moment of Clarity (Marksmanship) — Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• 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.
• Dazzling (Domination) — Dazing or stunning a foe also applies vulnerability.

Related equipment

Relics that grant daze

• 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.

Upgrade components that improve daze

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Daze.

Runes

• Superior Rune of the Mesmer (rank 6 – +33% duration increase)

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Paralyzation (+30% increased duration)
  • Major Sigil of Paralyzation (+20% increased duration)
  • Minor Sigil of Paralyzation (+10% increased duration)

Version history

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
April 14, 2020	Removed incorrect text from the tooltip that indicated this effect stacks duration.
September 02, 2015	Fixed an issue that caused dodging to break the player out of daze.
October 15, 2013	The stun and dazed debuffs are now properly removed after using a stun break skill.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Daze has been added to the game.

Notes

• In MMO/RPG terms, daze is akin to silence; it prevents skill use (except stun breaks and instant casts) but not movement or dodge rolling.

Trivia

• The July 7, 2020 game update changed the daze icon in skill and trait tooltips from gray to purple.

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