Defiance bar

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Example of a defiance bar, found on a Legendary Wyvern

Defiance Bar, also known as break bar, is a mechanic used by some enemies that restrict the use of control effects against them. Throughout Central Tyria, it is most often (though not exclusively) found on champion or higher ranked enemies, but is commonly found on creatures of all ranks throughout Magus Falls.

Different enemies have different defiance bars.

Appearance

The defiance bars appears directly below the enemy's health bar when targeted. The appearance of the defiance bar corresponds to its behavior:

A gray, segmented bar indicates that the enemy is immune to any crowd control at that time. When some bosses are about to launch a strong attack or perform an action that highly empowers them this segmented bar will turn to blue for a short time (commonly known as "window time"), becoming segmented again once the attack is finished.

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A teal bar indicates that the enemy is immune to any crowd control, but any control effect, including soft control conditions such as blind or chilled, depletes part of the bar. The amount depleted depends on the effect applied to the enemy. The defiance bar slowly regenerates, but if the whole bar is depleted, a strong special effect, most commonly 5 seconds of stun and 50% increased damage, will occur; hovering over the defiance bar with your mouse will display the effect that happens when the bar is depleted. However, if the defiance bar is not broken through by the end of the time for which it is blue, the enemy can subsequently use a powerful attack or ability.

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A brown bar indicates that the enemy was recently broken; they are immune to any crowd control and the defiance bar is recharging.

Control effects

Soft control effects

Soft control effects deal damage over time to the defiance bar. Additionally, these effects will apply to the foe for the purposes of triggering traits but not apply their debuff effect.

Condition	Defiance Bar Damage
Страх	100 per second
Провокация	75 per second
Обездвиживание	50 per second
Замедление	50 per second
Заморозка	33 per second
Слепота	20 per second
Слабость	20 per second
Хромота	15 per second

Hard control effects

Hard control effects deal direct damage to the defiance bar. Damage inflicted is based on the multiplier and the duration of the effect. Duration below one second is rounded up to one second for calculation. As with conditions, these effects still apply to the foe for the purposes of triggering traits (such as Lightning Rod), but will not apply their control effect.

Effect	Defiance Bar Damage
Ice	60 * duration
Ошеломление,  Отталкивание,  Нокдаун,  Отбрасывание,  Притягивание,  Оглушение, Transform	100 * duration
Stone	150 * duration
Ward	150 per pass

Skill details

Effect	Defiance Bar Damage	Skills
Ошеломление 0.25 s	100	Gun Flame, Headshot
Притягивание 1.5 s	150	Grappling Line, Grasping Shadow, Into the Void
Притягивание 1.5 s	150	Scorpion Wire, Spectral Grasp, Temporal Rift
Отталкивание 1.5 s	150	Forceful Displacement, Gust, Kick, Point Blank Shot
Отталкивание 1.5 s	150	Repeating Shot (4 hits), Surge of the Mists (3-5 hits)
Нокдаун 2 x 2 s (bug)	400	Gale
Отбрасывание 2.32 s	232	Banish, Big Ol' Bomb, Booby Trap, Chaotic Release, Stomp
Отбрасывание 3.32 s	332	Charge, Updraft, Overcharged Shot, Wild Blow
Transform 3 s	300	Toss Elixir X
Transform 10 s	1000	Signet of Humility
Оглушение 3 s	300	Jade Winds, Signet of Domination
Stone 1 s	150	Basilisk Venom
Ice 5 s	300	Deep Freeze
Ward	150	Line of Warding, Ring of Warding

Creature-specific defiance bars

Creature	Bar strength	Scaling	Regeneration per second	Breaking effect	Recharge per second	Window time
Most fractal and dungeon bosses, Adolescent Fire Wyvern, Toxx Veteran Arrowhead, Veteran Chak Lobber, Veteran Mordrem Stonehead, Veteran Stonehead	600	None	30	5 seconds of stun with 50% increased damage	40	Permanent
Mordrem Guard Punisher	100	None	0	5 seconds of stun with 50% increased damage	Next special attack	2.4 seconds
Arrowhead Hatchling	200	None	20	5 seconds of stun with 50% increased damage	20	Permanent
Champion Chak Lobber, Champion Mordrem Guard Cavalier, Champion Mordrem Teragriff, Champion Mordrem Troll, Champion Overgrown Husk, Champion Coztic Bladedancer	600	180 (30%) per player after 5 players	30	5 seconds of stun with 50% increased damage	40	Permanent
Mushroom Stomper	300	None	3	Jumps to a random location after 1.3 seconds. Loses his buff and is disabled for 4.5 seconds.	37.5	Permanent
Veteran Mushroom King	600	?	?	5 seconds of stun with 50% increased damage	Next special attack	3.75 seconds
Champion Mushroom Emperor	600	?	6	3.75 seconds of stun	40	Permanent
Veteran Converted Nuhoch, Veteran Xocotls Crusher	600	?	60	8.5 seconds of stun with 50% increased damage	60	Permanent
Veteran Zintl Cavalier	500	?	50	5 seconds of knockdown	50	Permanent
Chak Sapper	300	None	3	Death	0	Permanent
Veteran Chak Blitzer	600	?	0	3 seconds of stun and removes the shield	Next special attack	11.5 seconds
Veteran Mordrem Bonebreaker	200	None	2	7 seconds of knockdown	28.6	Permanent
Faolain	300	None	7.5	5 seconds of stun with 50% increased damage	30	Permanent
Blighted Garm	300	None	0	5 seconds of stun	20	Permanent
Blighted Eir	100	None	20	15 seconds of stun	Next special attack	?
Blighted Canach	15	None	0	5 seconds of stun	Next special attack	?
Blue Guardian, Green Guardian, Red Guardian	1000	None	0	Death	0	When at 0% health
Vale Guardian	2000	None	0	Stops the attack	Next special attack	?
Gorseval the Multifarious	4500	None	0	4.5 seconds of knockdown	Next special attack	~25 seconds
"Knuckles"	1000	None	0	5 seconds of stun with 50% increased damage	Next special attack	?

Dynamic scaling

Player count	Bar strength	Bar per player	Time to regenerate (seconds)	Time to recharge (seconds)
1	600	600	20	15
2	600	300	20	15
3	600	200	20	15
4	600	150	20	15
5	600	120	20	15
6	780	130	26	19.5
7	960	137	32	24
8	1140	143	38	28.5
9	1320	147	44	33
10	1500	150	50	37.5

Player count	Bar strength	Bar per player	Time to regenerate (seconds)	Time to recharge (seconds)
15	2400	160	80	60
20	3300	165	110	82.5
25	4200	168	140	105
30	5100	170	170	127.5
35	6000	171	200	150
40	6900	173	230	172.5
45	7800	173	260	195
50	8700	174	290	217.5
100	17700	177	590	442.5
200	35700	179	1190	829.5

Notes

• Defiance Bar replaced the Unshakable effect on October 23, 2015 when Heart of Thorns was released.
• Initially, some skills and traits were designed to grant a Defiance Bar to players. This was removed between the second and third beta weekend events of Heart of Thorns.
• The Defiance Bar recharges and applies condition damage every 0.24 seconds. This slightly affects the actual effect of conditions. For example a 1 second fear may tick a total of 4 or 5 times causing 96 or 120 defiance bar damage.
• Event scaling affects the defiance bar strength. This effectively makes the bar harder to break and slower to recharge which means it takes more time until the defiance bar becomes vulnerable again.