Fear

Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration. — In-game description

Fear

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Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.

— In-game description

Fear is a condition that causes an enemy to be interrupted and run directly away from the player for a short period of time. It is primarily, but not exclusively, used by the necromancer profession. Characters suffering from fear will run directly away from the source of fear and have a dark green tinted skull appear over their heads. Fear counts as a control effect, meaning it can be cleared by both condition removal as well as stun breaks. Fear deals defiance bar damage at a rate of 100 per second.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Weapon skills that fear

•   Devouring Visage — Sword
•   Wail of Doom — Warhorn
•   Reaper's Mark — Staff

Transform skills that fear

•   Dawn's Repose — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Dawn's Repose — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Doom — Death Shroud
•   Ripple of Horror — Lich Form
•   Wave of Fear — Death Shroud
•   Terrify — Reaper's Shroud

Utility skills that fear

•   "Fear Me!" — Shout
•   Spectral Ring — Spectral

Profession mechanic skills that fear

•   Fear
•   Skull Fear — Stolen skill
•   Garish Pillar — Shade

Pet skills that fear

•   Fear — Juvenile Shark, Shark
•   Terrifying Howl — Juvenile Wolf

Downed skills that fear

•   Fear

Drowning skills that fear

•   Death Curse

Skills that convert stability into fear

Primary article: Condition#Skills that convert boons into conditions

Racial skills that fear

•   Snarl — Become the Wolf

Common skills that fear

•   Dog's Howl
•   Eerie Whisper
•   Fear Grenade — Lyan's Grenade Kit
•   Flame Blast — Flame Ram
•   Howl — Member of the Kennel
•   Intense Flame Blast — Flame Ram
•   Plant Scarecrow
•   Skull Fear — Ancient Cursed Skull, Grawl Focus, Grawl Ritual Totem, Skull (bundle)
•   Taunt — Cow Disguises
•   Terrifying Screech
•   Throw Overheated Scrap Cannon
•   Torch Strike — Torch of Divine Fire
•   Weakening Flame Blast — Flame Ram

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 apply fear

• Rending Shade (Shadow Arts) — Steal boons from enemies you strike with stealth attacks. Striking a boonless foe with a stealth attack inflicts fear on nearby foes.

Traits that improve fear

• Dread (Spite) — Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.
• Terror (Curses) — Fear you inflict deals damage each second.
• Fear of Death (Soul Reaping) — Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force.
• Shivers of Dread (Reaper) — Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill.

Traits that convert stability into fear

Primary article: Condition#Traits that convert boons into conditions

Related equipment

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Relics that apply fear

• Relic of the Nightmare — After using an elite skill, send forth a nightmare pulse that inflicts fear and poison on nearby enemies.

Relics that improve fear

• Relic of the Necromancer — Fear you inflict causes foes to move slower.

Upgrade components that increase fear duration

Runes

• Superior Rune of the Nightmare (rank 2)
  • Major Rune of the Nightmare (rank 2)
  • Minor Rune of the Nightmare (rank 2)

Notes

• Reduction in duration of stun effects (such as that provided by Rune of Melandru) does not affect duration of fear; its duration is only affected by reduction or increase in Condition Duration.
• A player who has toggled Walk speed will travel less distance when Feared. Walk has no default key, but can be set in the keybinding options and toggled on when required.

Player Chatter

• When fear 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	Executing escape plan!	Flee, egress!
Charr	Fall back!	Retreat!
Human	Run away!	Flee!
Norn	I must run!	What is possessing me?
Sylvari	Flee, and take shelter!	Nightmare!

Version history

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused skills that convert boons to conditions to not properly convert stability to fear.
April 02, 2015	Fixed an issue with the fear condition in which the interrupt functionality would not trigger.
March 19, 2015	Updated condition damage. Previously, a condition that had a fractional remainder of time after it dealt damage would not inflict the rest of its damage. For example, a 1.5-second burn would deal 1 second of burning damage, then fail to inflict the remaining 0.5 seconds of burning. Conditions will now deal this fractional damage either at the beginning or end of their duration, depending on when the next damage pulse would occur and their remaining duration.
December 14, 2012	Fear is now properly affected by Defiant.
October 22, 2012	Reduced fear's maximum stacks to 5 to prevent excessively long periods of time where players don't have control of their character.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Fear has been added to the game.

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