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Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4)

What is Control Impaired?

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Diablo 4 - What Is Control Impaired

Control Impaired refers to the duration of certain crowd control effects in Diablo 4 (D4). Check out all relevant effects that are related to being control impaired!

What is Control Impaired?

Enemy Inflicted Crowd Control

A player is Control Impaired whenever they are affected by the following statuses:

Control Impairing Effects
Chill Daze Fear Freeze Immobilize
Knockdown Slow Stun Taunt Tether

What is Crowd Control?

How to Reduce Crowd Control

Wear Gear with Control Impaired Duration Reduction

Diablo 4 - Wear Gear with Control Impaired Duration Reduction
You can reduce the time you are affected by Crowd Control and Control Impairing effects by wearing items with the Control Impaired Duration Reduction affix.

Crowd Control Related Skills

Select a Class
Barbarian Druid Necromancer
Rogue Sorceror

Barbarian Skills

Skill Effect
Walking ArsenalWalking Arsenal Casting a Skill with a Two-Handed Bludgeoning, Two-Handed Slashing, or Dual Wielded weapon grants 15% increased damage for 10 seconds. While all three bonuses are active, you gain 25% Crowd Control Duration and Attack Speed.
Quick ImpulsesQuick Impulses Reduce the duration of Control Impairing Effects by XX%.

Druid Skills

Skill Effect
UnrestrainedUnrestrained Reduce the duration of Control Impairing Effects by XX%. Double this effect while you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life.

Necromancer Skills

Skill Effect
AfflictionAffliction Enemies affected by Vulnerable, Crowd Control, or Shadow Damage over Time are Afflicted, taking 15% increased damage from you and your Minions. Your Curse Skills deal 100% Shadow damage when applied to Afflicted enemies. This amount increases by 30% of your Damage to Crowd Controlled, Vulnerable Damage, and Shadow Damage over Time bonuses combined.

Rogue Skills

Skill Effect
Trap MasteryTrap Mastery When Poison Trap or Death Trap activates, you gain XX% increased Critical Strike Chance against Vulnerable and Crowd Controlled enemies for 4 seconds.
Reactive DefenseReactive Defense Gain XX% Damage Reduction while inflicted with Control Impairing Effects.

Sorcerer Skills

No known Skills of this type.

Crowd Control Related Aspects

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Barbarian Druid Necromancer
Rogue Sorceror Generic

Barbarian Aspects

Currently No Aspects with This Ability or Status

Druid Aspects

Currently No Aspects with This Ability or Status

Necromancer Aspects

Currently No Aspects with This Ability or Status

Rogue Aspects

Currently No Aspects with This Ability or Status

Sorcerer Aspects

Skill Effect
Everliving Aspect ImageEverliving Aspect You take (20-25)% less damage from Crowd Controlled or Vulnerable enemies.
Lightning Rod Aspect ImageLightning Rod Aspect Chain Lightning has a 25% chance to deal 50-80% increased damage.;This chance is doubled against Bosses or Crowd Controlled enemies and prefers them as targets.

Generic Aspects

Skill Effect
Aspect of Shared Misery ImageAspect of Shared Misery Lucky Hit: When you hit a Crowd Controlled enemy, there is up to a (30-50)% chance for that Crowd Control effect to spread to another unaffected enemy.
Aspect of the Umbral ImageAspect of the Umbral Restore (XX) of your Primary Resource when you Crowd Control an enemy.
Eluding Aspect ImageEluding Aspect Becoming Injured while Crowd Controlled grants you Unstoppable for 4 seconds.;This effect has a (XX) second Cooldown.
ExploiterExploiter's Aspect You have 20% increased Crowd Control Duration.;While enemies are Unstoppable, you deal (20-40)% increased damage to them.
Smiting Aspect ImageSmiting Aspect You have (10-20%) increased Critical Strike Chance against Injured enemies.;While you are Healthy, you gain (20-40)% increased Crowd Control Duration.

Diablo 4 Related Guides

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Glossary: List of Diablo Terms

Glossary Term Guides

All Glossary Term Guides
Item Power and Breakpoints What is Critical Strike?
What is Crowd Control? What is Overpower Damage?
What is Lucky Hit Chance? What is Unstoppable?
How to Go Berserk What Does Vulnerable Do?
What are Thorns? What is Crackling Energy?
What Does Fortify Do? Is There Magic Find?
What is Barrier and Barrier Generation? What is Stun?
What is Chilled? What is Bleed?
What is Control Impaired? What is Darkness?
What is Dazed? What is Fear?
What is Frozen? What is Immobilized?
What is Immune? What is Knocked Back?
What is Knocked Down? What is Poisoned?
What is Stealth? What is Slowed?
What is Taunted? What is Tethered?
What is Non-Physical Damage? What is Attack Speed?
What Are Blood Orbs: How to Spawn and Effects Armor Guide: What is the Armor Cap?
What is Unhindered? Ferocity and Jaguar Spirit Explained
Resolve and Gorilla Spirit Explained Pestilent Swarm and Centipede Spirit Explained
What Is the Codex of Power? Storm Feathers and Eagle Spirit Explained
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