Daze

Unable to activate skills. — In-game description

Daze

Effect type

Control effect

Stacking

No

Game link

Effect ID

833

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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

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

Bundle skills that daze

•   Artillery Slash — Unsheathe Gunsaber
•   Galvanic Bomb — Bomb Kit
•   Supersonic Arrow — Cyclone Bow
•   Magnetic Surge — Magnetic Shield (bundle)

Transform skills that daze

•   Brilliant Slam — Enter Radiant Forge
•   Dazzling Hammer — Enter Radiant Forge
•   Uppercut — Rampage
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Voracious Arc — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Dive — Harbinger Shroud
•   Summon Spirits — Ritualist's Shroud

Utility skills that daze

•   Light's Judgment — Trap
•   Quick Retribution — Physical
•   Effulgent Stance — Stance
•   Piercing Stance — Stance
•   Darkrazor's Daring — Legendary Renegade Stance
•   Reaver's Rage — Legendary Alliance Stance, Luxon
•   Banner of Strength — Banner
•   Banner of Strength — Banner
•   Wild Blow — Rage
•   Call Lightning — Spirit
•   Glyph of Equality — Glyph
•   Distracting Daggers — Physical
•   Well of Silence — Well
•   Arcane Wave — Arcane
•   Glyph of Elemental Power — Glyph, when attuned to air
•   Power Lock
•   Well of Senility — Well
•   Mirage Advance — Deception
•   Tale of the Tortured Mastermind — Tale

Elite skills that daze

•   Impact Strike — Physical

Profession mechanic skills that daze

•   Release Potential: Mesmer
•   Gun Flame — Primal Burst, Rifle
•   Rupturing Smash — Primal Burst, Hammer
•   Skull Grinder — Primal Burst, Mace
•   Full Counter — Burst
•   Flashbang — Tool belt, Utility Goggles
•   Launch Personal Battering Ram — Tool belt, Personal Battering Ram
•   Spare Capacitor — Tool belt, Shredder Gyro
•   Jade Mortar — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Charge
•   Heavy Shot
•   Mace Head Crack — Stolen skill
•   Throw Rock — Stolen skill
•   Calcify — Familiar
•   Diversion — Shatter
•   Time Sink — Shatter
•   Bladesong Dissonance — Bladesong
•   Deafening Drum — Instrument
•   Flustering Flute — Instrument

Pet skills that daze

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

Combos that daze

•  Combo Field: Lightning ×  Combo Finisher: Leap

Racial skills that daze

•   Technobabble —
•   Shriek — Become the Raven

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.
• 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.)
• Altered Chord (Troubadour) — Crescendo prompts your last-played instrument to take the spotlight, augmenting Crescendo's effects. Playing an instrument recharges Crescendo if a note was consumed.

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.
•   Syncopate (Syncopate) — Deafening Drum releases an additional quick wave after a delay.

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.

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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