Binding Circle

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	[Special Active: Tenacity] Controls the flow of magical energy around you to stop surrounding enemies' movement. Stop all enemy movements within 600 radius.
	Final Enhanced Skill MP Usage is decreased by 10. Can be used while in midair but has an extra 5 seconds added to its cooldown.

Requirements

Class	Level Required	Skill Requirement
Magician	20	Basic Training Skill Quest

Binding Radius	Time Stop Duration	MP Usage	Cooldown
Binding Radius	Time Stop Duration	MP Usage	Ground	Air
Normal
600	2 Seconds	140 MP	15 Seconds	N/A
[Enhanced]
600	2 Seconds	130 MP	15 Seconds	20 Seconds

Stage	Regenerating (1) Binding Circle		Regenerating (2) Binding Circle
	Attribute Effect	MP Recovery	Attribute Effect	Cooldown
	Attribute Effect	MP Recovery	Attribute Effect	Ground	Air
Normal	33% chance of regaining 50% of the MP Usage	70 MP	50% chance of lowering cooldown to 60%	9 Seconds	N/A
[Enhanced]	33% chance of regaining 50% of the MP Usage	65 MP	50% chance of lowering cooldown to 60%	9 Seconds	12 Seconds

Binding Circle deals no damage and does not inflict any hitstun. Targets in range will be locked into the animation they were currently in and simply continue when the debuff runs out.
- Bound enemies that were swinging their weapon will have them still do damage to anything in their attack's hitbox, sometimes multiple times even if the attack is normally just a single hit, so approach enemies from their back if possible.
The Time Stop debuff that keeps enemies from moving will be immediately removed if the enemy is hit.

Binding Circle's animation looks identical to the first part of Dimension Witch's Fate Space, as both are Time-element spells.
In the past, the Binding effect of this skill had its own status icon when equipped with the Skill Note.

Date		Changes
KR	NA	PvE	PvP
12/27/2007	05/04/2011	Binding Circle added.
07/04/2013	07/04/2013	▼ Changed so leveling doesn't decrease the MP consumption.
11/07/2013	02/12/2014	▲ Radius increased greatly. Radius increase per level increased and becomes the current radius at max level.
07/23/2015	12/16/2015	Fixed problem where Binding Circle skill note debuff effect was not being removed by Ancient Guardian Set's "Remove debuff upon awakening".
08/06/2015	01/13/2016	▲ Changed so that it can be used in mid-air in [Enhanced] level.
01/21/2016	-	Fixed issue where can be used in air without being in [Enhanced] state.
02/04/2016	03/16/2016	▼ MP Usage increased. ▼ Range decreased.
06/30/2016	07/13/2016	▼ Can no longer be memorized. ▼ [Enhanced] effect change from "Can be used while in midair." to "Can be used while in midair but have an extra 5 seconds cooldown." Haste attribute changed to be Regenerating (1). Persistent attribute changed to be Regenerating (2).
12/29/2016	01/11/2017	Fixed issue where cooldown increase effect not work when using the skill in mid-air in [Enhanced] level.