Weakness/Vulnerability
Guide

by Zinn

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style="font-weight: bold;">What is a weakness?



It is a player created vulnerability in your enemy that remains for a
short period of time. Some weaknesses can be exploited by
using certain skills.



What does the C and E
mean on the chart below?



C
means you can Create the weakness by successfully attacking your enemy
with this skill and E means you can Exploit the weakness by
successfully using the appropriate skill.



How is a
weakness/vulnerability created?



Players can create vulnerabilities in their enemies by using certain
skills. The tool tip for a player’s combat skills and spells
will show if ability can create a weakness.



How do I know if there is
a weakness created?



You'll see tiny icons below the target's buffs and
debuffs indicating weakness. Holding the mouse over these
icons will give you a tool tip indicating the name of the weakness. As
you pay more attention to these icons you should begin to recognize
which icons are relevant to your class.



How long does a weakness
remain?



Roughly 10 seconds before it fades.



What happens when I
exploit a weakness?



You get an additional benefit. Often your damage is greatly
increased, or the MOB is defuffed with a snare, an armor mitigation
effect, or some other effect. When you exploit a weakness you
also create a new weakness as most weakness abilities have the ability
to create a weakness and exploit one at the same time.



Do weaknesses stack?



No. Although more than one weakness can and will show on the
MOB I have not seen any added benefit to exploiting more than
weakness. However, all vulnerabilities of that type are essentially
used up when you exploit the vulnerability. 



How should my group plan
to use weaknesses?



Look at the chart below and see which weaknesses can be created and
exploited by classes in your group. Ideally you will be able to chain
weakness where one person creates a weakness then another player
exploits it and creates a new weakness that can then be exploited by
another class.



Do I have to use
weaknesses?



No, but it is an option that can
sometimes make your group more efficient. I am no
expert with weaknesses and vulnerabilities but they are often fun to
play with and give you something additional to do in combat. I
try to incorporate exploiting weaknesses into the abilities I normally
use during a fight.

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style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Dread

Knight style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Paladin style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Warrior style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Bard style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Monk style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Ranger style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Rogue style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Blood

Mage style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Cleric style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Disciple style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Shaman style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Druid style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Necro style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Psionicist style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Sorcerer style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Afflicted style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Savage

Cut style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Deadly

Adder Hand (E)
Deadly

Shot style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Bursting

Cyst style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Knife

Hand style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)

Venomous

Thorns style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Plague

of Infestation

(C) Plague

Bearer's

Horrid Aff;liction style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Armor

Chink style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Guardian's

Assualt style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Rend

Armor (C)
Razor

Parts Silk

(E) Striking

the Mountain style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Sundering Claw (Tuugin)

(E) Cruel Bite (Tuurgin pet ability) style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Bitten style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Vicous Bite (Rakuur) style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Bleeding style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Harrow style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Savage

Cut style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Blade

of Summer style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Lacerate

(C) Hemmorage (C)
Bursting

Cyst style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Strike

of Skamadiz style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Plague

Bearer's

Horrid Affliction style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Blinded style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Ravaging

Darkness (E)
Sunburst

(C) Holy Strike

(C) Judgment of

Envious style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Hand

of Censure style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Sunburst style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Shocking Grasp style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Burning style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Blade

of Summer style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Wicked

Strike style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Winter's Roar (C)Solar


Fire style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Grasp of theGrave style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Char style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Chilled style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Malice style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Blade

of Winter style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Spirit

Strike style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Grasp of theGrave style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Freeze style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Dazed style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Hammer of

Judgment style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Sever

the Tie style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Boundless

Fist

(E) Staggered

Punch (C)
Deadly

Shot style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Wicked

Strike style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Cyclone

Kick style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Enraged style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Harrow style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)Shout
of

Defiance

(C) Taunting

Strike style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Boundless

Fist

(E) Six

Dragon Strike style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Backstab style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Knife

Hand

(E) Void Hand style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Thought Pulse style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Flesh

Rend style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Tearing

Claw (Rakuur)

(E) Maim (Rakuur pet ability) style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Inflamed style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Breath

of immolation (Hayatet) style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Lethargic style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Theard

the Needle style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Blade

of Winter style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Lacerate

(E) Ravage (C)
Entwining Vein style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Winter's

Roar (E)

Venomous

Thorns style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)Devouring

Shadows

(E) Plague

of Infestation (C)Thought
Pulse style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Mental

Lapse style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Bite

of the Stirge style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Mesmerized style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Ravage style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Shaken style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Holy Strike style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Crescent

Kick

(C) Six

Dragon Strike style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Smiting

Blow style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Spirit

Strike

(C) Strike

of Skamadiz style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Mental

Blast style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Soul

Wracked style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Malice

(C) Ravaging

Darkness (E)
Hammer of

Judgment style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Ashen

Hand style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Smiting

Blow (C)
Void

Hand style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Devouring

Shadows style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Staggered style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Devasting

Blow

(E) Brutal

Strike (E)
Thread

the Needle



style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Staggered

Punch

(E) Cresecent

Kick

(E) Deadly

Adder Hand style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Backstab style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Hand

of Censure style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Call

Lightening



(C) Lightening

Strike style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Shocking Grasp style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Stunned style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Blackjack

(C) Blinding

Flash

(C) Clout style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Time Stop

(C) Time Trick style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Vulnerable style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Hammer of

Judgment style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Devasting

Blow

(E) Taunting

Strike (C)
Sever

the Tie style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Ashen

Hand style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(C)
Ploy (E)
Entwining

Vein style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Cyclone

Kick style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (E)
Solar

Flare

(E) Call

Lightning

(E)Lightning


Strike style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> (C)
Mental Blast style="background-color: rgb(160, 184, 216); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">(E)
Char

(E) Freeze

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