Disable
From Guild Wars Wiki
To disable a skill is to make that skill unavailable to use. A skill can be disabled permanently or temporarily based on the skill's description and your circumstances. Knowing which skills cause your other skills or themselves to be disabled will help you put together your build effectively. Also, knowing what skills disable a foe's skill(s) will help you in putting together a good Shutdown build.
All skills have very specific wording to describe exactly what they do. Disable is a specific term that differs from other similar terms (such as Fail, Interrupt, and the term cannot). Another similar term that skills refer to is recharge time. A quick note: skills that decrease recharge time do not affect disabled skills.
The following information refers to skills with the specific word disable in their description.
See Also: Fail, Interrupt, Knockdown, Recharge time, Shutdown
Contents |
[edit] Cause and Effect of Disabled skills
A skill can be disabled due to the following:
- Circumstances or location (you)
- Effects of a skill on a foe
- Effects of a skill on your other skills
- Effects of a skill on itself
[edit] Circumstances or location
- If your skill bar contains a PvE only skill and you enter a PvP arena, that skill will appear grayed out.
- If you equip a skill that requires a specific weapon and do not equip the correct weapon, that skill will be grayed out. For example: You cannot use Savage Slash (a Sword Attack) while wielding a staff.
[edit] Effects of a skill on a foe
Some skills cause a foe's skills to be disabled for a certain amount of time. If the skill specifically mentions that it will disable a foe's skill for an "additional amount of time," then that time will be added to the normal recharge time of the disabled skill.
[edit] Effects of a skill on your other skills
Some skills cause your other equipped skills to be disabled for a certain amount of time.
[edit] Effects of a skill on itself
Some skills will disable themselves for a certain amount of time after they are activated.
[edit] Skills that disable
Disabling skills either disable another skill or themselves.
[edit] Skills that disable foe's skills
-
Disarm
-
Disrupting Chop
-
Distracting Strike
-
Shield Bash
-
Disrupting Lunge
-
Distracting Shot
-
Magebane Shot
-
Arcane Larceny
-
Arcane Thievery
-
Blackout
-
Complicate
-
Power Block
-
Power Lock
-
Psychic Distraction
-
Signet of Distraction
-
Signet of Humility
-
Simple Thievery
-
Icy Prism
-
Disrupting Stab
-
Defiant Was Xinrae
-
Xinrae's Weapon
-
Smooth Criminal
[edit] Skills that disable your other skills
-
Lion's Comfort
-
Primal Rage
-
Shove
-
Focused Shot
-
Marauder's Shot
-
Oath Shot
-
Tiger's Fury
-
Gift of Health
-
Mark of Protection
-
Ray of Judgment
-
Spell Shield
-
Auspicious Incantation
-
Blackout
-
Keystone Signet
-
Psychic Distraction
-
Deadly Paradox
-
Expunge Enchantments
-
Shroud of Silence

