Help for effects (alias: ef)

Everything that temporarily changes your character - helpful or harmful - is an effect. Type effects to see every effect on you and how long each has left.

Harmful effects are afflictions. Helpful effects are enhancements. Every effect below has its own help page - type help poisoned, help hastened, and so on.

Afflictions that control you:

  STUNNED           -  Cannot act at all
  STAGGERED         -  Cannot attack or use skills
  SILENCED          -  Voice taken - no shouts or calls
  FEARED            -  Cannot bring yourself to attack
  DAZED             -  A moment of stun, then -30% accuracy

Afflictions that hold you in place:

  PINNED            -  Cannot retreat, attacks 30% slower
  ROOTED            -  Cannot retreat or advance
  WEIGHTED          -  Cannot retreat, -25% evasion

Afflictions that weaken you:

  EXPOSED           -  +20% damage taken, armor halved, no block or parry
  CHILLED           -  Attacks 30% slower
  BUFFETED          -  -25% accuracy
  DISRUPTED         -  Skills cost +25% aether, -15% accuracy, slower recovery
  IMPERILED         -  Warding protects only half as well
  REMEMBERED PAIN   -  Extra echo damage whenever you are hurt

Afflictions that wound you over time:

  POISONED          -  Nature damage every second
  BLEEDING          -  Physical damage every second, cannot sneak
  BURNING           -  Fire damage every second
  SWARMED           -  Damage plus -25% accuracy, cannot sneak
  LACERATED         -  Stacking cuts that detonate for burst
  PLAGUE            -  Spreading rot that grows and jumps to others

Enhancements:

  HASTENED          -  Everything recovers 15% faster
  PROTECTED         -  -25% physical damage taken
  WARDED            -  -25% elemental damage taken
  REGENERATING      -  Recover 3% max health every second

Skill windows like GUARDING and EVADING belong to their skills - see help guard and help evade.

Resisting and curing:

Your Spirit Resilience (built from Mind and Spirit) shortens every affliction an enemy puts on you. Some afflictions have cures - bandages for bleeding, antidotes for poison, salves for burns, restoratives for chills, or the remedy skill for any of them. The rest simply run out.

See also: combat, resilience, remedy