Silence

Overview
Silence is an effect that is gained when the recipient gains less than -100% casting speed increases from buffs, debuffs or other methods.

Silence prevents the recipient from using abilities or casting.

Gaining Silence
When the recipient gains less than -100% casting speed increases from buffs, debuffs or other methods. Silence will be immediately lost if the user goes above -100% casting speed.

Certain abilities that grant Silence grant at least -100% casting speed. Silence overrides Fast Casting and will always stop a user from casting.

See the Fast Casting page for more information on fast casting.

Silence During Casts
During normal casts, Silence will interrupt the cast and prevent any new casts from starting for the duration of the silence.

Silence During Instant Casts
Silence will prevent instant casts from being activated.

Silence During Channels
During Channeled casts, Silence will interrupt the cast and prevent any new channels from starting for the duration of the silence.

Silence and Global Cooldowns
Silence does not directly affect global cooldowns, instead the passive casting speed decrease increases the global cooldown to its cap of 2 seconds. As most abilities cannot be activated during silences, experiencing a massive global cooldown increase is uncommon.

Using Abilities While Silenced
If specified some abilities may be usable while silenced; however, the casting speed reduction will apply as normal.