[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


Skill Information

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


Skill Traits

Stage Regenerating (1) Binding Circle Regenerating (2) Binding Circle
Attribute Effect MP Recovery Attribute Effect Cooldown
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] 65 MP 12 Seconds


Tips and Details

  • 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.


Trivia

 
Noted Binding Circle's Fracture icon
  • 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.





Updates

 
Old Icon of Binding Circle.
Date Changes
KR NA PvE PvP
12/27/2007 05/04/2011
  • Binding Circle added.
07/04/2013 -
  • Changed so leveling doesn't decrease the MP consumption.
11/07/2013 -
  • 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
  • [Enhanced] effect change from "Can be used while in midair." to "Can be used while in midair but have an extra 5 seconds cooldown."
  • Light attribute changed to be Regenerating (1).
  • Persistent attribute changed to be Regenerating (2).
12/29/2016 -
  • Fixed issue where cooldown increase effect not work when using the skill in mid-air in [Enhanced] level.


Alternative Names

Server Name Translation
  South Korea 바인딩 서클 Binding Circle
  Japan バインディングサークル Binding Circle
  China (Simplified Chinese) 约束之环 Constraint Circle
  Germany Bannkreis Spell Circle
  Spain Círculo de hechizos Spell Circle
  France Cercle d'enchantement Spell Circle
  Italy Sfera di Influenza Influence Sphere
  Poland Krąg Uroku Spell Circle
  United Kingdom Spell Circle
  Brazil Anel do Tempo Time Ring



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