Weakness

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The visual effect of a weakened character : white shroud circling around the calfs

Condition. While suffering from this Condition, you deal less damage with attacks and all of your attributes are reduced by 1.

Concise description: You deal 66% less damage with attacks and your attributes are reduced by 1.

— In-game description

[edit] Related skills

[edit] Skills that cause weakness

• "You're All Alone!" — if target is not near an ally.
• Axe Twist — if target is suffering from Deep Wound.
• Desperation Blow/Drunken Blow — 25% chance on hit.
• Devastating Hammer
• Forceful Blow
• Pulverizing Smash — if target is knocked down.
• Staggering Blow
• Blood of the Aggressor — if target is attacking.
• Enfeeble
• Enfeebling Blood
• Enfeebling Touch
• Oppressive Gaze — if target is already suffering from a condition.
• Virulence (elite) — if target is already suffering from a condition.
• Withering Aura
• Signet of Weariness
• Ebon Hawk
• Enervating Charge
• Shockwave (elite) — to foes in the area only.
• Stone Sheath (elite) — nearby foes.
• Thunderclap (elite)
• Ward of Weakness — when foes inside the ward take elemental damage.
• Anthem of Weariness
• Wearying Spear — on yourself.
• Armor of Sanctity
• Attacker's Insight — when enchantment ends.
• Shield of Force — blocks next attack skill and inflicts weakness on adjacent attacking foes.
• Wearying Strike — on yourself.
• "You Are All Weaklings!" (PvE-only)
• Ursan Roar (PvE-only; elite) — while using Ursan Blessing.
• Weakness Trap (PvE-only)

[edit] Skills that benefit from weakness

• Auspicious Blow
• Fierce Blow
• Stoning
• Glowstone

[edit] Skills with weakness-dependent effects

• Heavy Blow

[edit] Notes

• Weakness is a condition that reduces a weapon's base damage (attack) by 66% and also reduces all non-zero attribute ranks by 1.
  • Attributes can be reduced to 0. However, those already at rank 0 are not affected, even if they are boosted by runes.
  • Weakness can reduce one or more attributes so that a character no longer meets the minimum requirements of their weapon (or skill), reducing the effectiveness of certain builds, especially those that set attributes based on breakpoints.
• Title ranks are not affected, so almost all title skills are unaffected by the condition.
• The 66% damage reduction does not apply to additive damage bonuses (e.g. from attack skills or "I Am The Strongest!").
• Heavy weapon upgrades extend the duration of weakness by 33%.
• A Rune of Clarity and the inscription "Only the Strong Survive" can be used to reduce the duration of weakness by 20% each.

Anomaly.Weakness has the same animation as Cracked Armor: a white cloud around the feet of the character.

[edit] See also

The Guild Wars 2 Wiki also has an article on Weakness.

• List of condition removal skills

Conditions
Bleeding • Blind • Burning • Cracked Armor • Crippled • Dazed • Deep Wound • Disease • Poison • Weakness