Blind

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Condition. While suffering from this ailment, your melee and missile attacks have 90% chance to "miss." Your projectiles also have a greater chance to stray from their intended target.

— In-game description

Contents 1 Related skills 1.1 Skills that cause blindness 1.2 Skills that benefit from blindness 1.3 Skills that prevent blindness 2 Notes 3 See also

[edit] Related skills

[edit] Skills that cause blindness

• Belly Smash - if target is knocked down
• Dust Trap
• Smoke Trap (elite)
• Throw Dirt
• Ineptitude (elite)
• Signet of Midnight (elite) - on you and target
• Ash Blast - if target is knocked down
• Blinding Flash
• Blinding Surge (elite)
• Eruption
• Lightning Touch - if target is suffering from a water hex
• Steam - if target is on fire
• Blinding Powder
• Smoke Powder Defense
• Temple Strike (elite)
• Shadow Sanctuary (PvE only) - on yourself
• Unseen Fury (PvE version only)
• Blind Was Mingson
• Rupture Soul
• Shadowsong
• Weapon of Shadow - when ally is struck that foe is blinded
• Dust Cloak
• Ebon Dust Aura (elite)
• Sneak Attack (PvE only)
• Black Powder Mine (Pve only) - trap
• Raven Shriek (PvE only, under Raven Blessing (elite))

[edit] Skills that benefit from blindness

• Slippery Ground
• Signet of Shadows
• Unseen Fury

[edit] Skills that prevent blindness

• Sight Beyond Sight

[edit] Notes

• Blind can almost neutralize an attacker since they will only hit one attack out of ten. Blind is very useful in both PvP and PvE, and can significantly reduce damage output from melee or ranged foes.
• It is not uncommon for melee or ranged attackers to carry a Condition removal skill with them, such as Mending Touch just in order to get rid of Blind.
• A Rune of Clarity and the Inscription "I Can See Clearly Now" can be used to reduce Blind duration by 20% each.
• Your projectiles may stray slightly off course while blinded. This can be seen while blinded and using a projectile weapon (bow, staff) or projectile spell (Flare, Crippling Dagger) on a target. They sometimes lean to the left or right side of a target, if the target moves or stop moving this can cause "stray" or "dodge". This applies to magical projectiles (e.g. Lightning Orb). Other misses will simply display as the word "miss".
• The visual indication of Blind is a swarm of black dots originating from the affected character's eyes.

[edit] See also

• List of condition removal skills

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