Polymorph
Category: Crowd control
A Mental-type status effect that causes immobilization and incapacitation.
If it hits you
Cleansing skills remove it. Defiance doesn't. A hit has a fixed chance to end it.
Applied by
A tag names what must come first, such as a skill level.
Sorcerer
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Active skills (1)
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- Skill level 8, chain skill Curse: Old Tree: Adds [Curse: Old Tree] Chain Skill
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Stigma skills (1)
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- Polymorphs a target within 20m into a tree for 10s
- Skill level 5: Increases number of hits required to remove Polymorph
- Skill level 25 (not on Global yet): +50% Polymorph Chance
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Used by
Skills that get a bonus from it, or need it. A tag names what must come first, such as a skill level.
Questions about Polymorph
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Does Defiance remove Polymorph?
No. Defiance's tooltip lists the effects it removes, and Polymorph is not one of them. Cleansing skills do remove Polymorph. A few of them also reach party members, which lets a teammate remove it from you.
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Which stat lowers the chance of getting Polymorphed?
Polymorph Resist. The more you have, the less often an enemy's Polymorph takes hold. Status Effect Resist works against it as well, since Polymorph is a status effect. Status Effect Resist grows with Willpower. On the caster's side, Polymorph Chance and Status Effect Chance make it land more often.
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Does one hit always end Polymorph?
Not always. A hit can end it right away. But a target can also stay a tree through a hit. Some Polymorphs need several hits to end, and the game gives an attack only a fixed chance to remove it.
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Can Polymorph land on a target who has Tenacity?
No. Defiance's Tenacity makes its owner immune to status effects, and Polymorph counts as one. So a target who just used Defiance can't be turned into a tree until Tenacity runs out. Raising your Polymorph Chance does not get around this.