Forced Engagement

Legendary Dwarf. Launch a chain at your target. When the chain connects with a foe, it slows and taunts them. You take less damage from taunted foes. — In-game description

Forced Engagement

Profession

Revenant (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Legendary Dwarf

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

26679, 56662

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0.5½  10  15  

Forced Engagement

Legendary Dwarf. Launch a chain at your target. When the chain connects with a foe, it slows and taunts them. You take less damage from taunted foes.

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Damage Reduced: 33%

 Forced Engagement (4s): Take less damage from taunted foes.

 Taunt (4s): Involuntarily attack foes.

 Taunt (2s): Involuntarily attack foes.

 Slow (4s): Skills and actions are slower.

 Slow (2s): Skills and actions are slower.

 Number of Targets: 1

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Corruption

• Pact of Pain — Conditions you apply to foes last longer, but conditions applied to you also last longer.

Retribution

• Dwarven Battle Training — 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.

Salvation

• Words of Censure — Blinding, immobilizing, or affecting a foe with crowd control heals nearby allies. Skills that strike many foes at the same time can heal multiple times.
• Generous Abundance — Heal allies around yourself when using a Legend skill. Heal allies around Ventari's Tablet when using a Legendary Centaur skill. Dragon Facet skills and Ventari's Will cannot activate this trait.

Devastation

• Notoriety — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when using a legendary stance skill.

Renegade

• Ashen Demeanor — Disabling a foe cripples your enemy, which leaves them vulnerable and inspires you with Kalla's Fervor.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced number of targets from 5 to 1. Increased range from 600 to 900.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: This skill now requires the revenant to face their initial target. The radius for attacking extra targets has been reduced from 360 to 180 and its range reduced from 1,200 to 600.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.5 to 0.01.
October 01, 2019	Increased damage reduction from taunted targets from 20% to 33%. This skill now also throws chains at up to 4 additional targets within a range of 360 of the selected target.
December 11, 2018	This skill's taunt and slow durations have been increased from 2 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only. It now causes the revenant to take 20% less damage from their taunted foes.
May 08, 2018	The energy and cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 10-energy cost and higher 15-second cooldown in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the energy cost from 25 to 10. Increased the cooldown from 10 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 22, 2017	The cost of this skill has been reduced from 35 energy to 25 energy. The recharge for this skill has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Forced Engagement has been added to the game.