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'''Blind''' is a [[status effect]] which causes monsters to treat all creatures as if they were [[invisible]], ignoring [[see invisible]]. Players instead get an accuracy penalty that scales with distance.

'''Dazzled''' has identical effects to blindness, but with a shorter duration.

==Blindness==
The effects of blindness vary if the victim is a monster or player:

'''Monsters:'''
Monster behavior is the same as if the player goes [[invisible]] and the monster cannot [[see invisible]].
*Blind attackers receive a -35% penalty to [[to-hit]] rolls
*Blind enemies cannot perform [[attacks of opportunity]].
*Blind ranged attackers will often target the wrong tile, potentially hitting other targets or missing entirely.
*Anything with animal [[intelligence]] or worse will occasionally move as though confused, rather than pursuing or attacking you. Anything of human intelligence can still track you normally, however.
*Blind enemies are susceptible to low-tier [[stabbing]] attacks.

'''Players:'''
*Players suffer a <code>15 * (distance + 1)</code>% miss chance penalty to all attacks that check EV, where <code>distance</code> is how many tiles away the target is.
**The maximum miss chance from this penalty is 90%
*The screen gains a filter depending on the source.

==Immunity==
Some monsters have the [[:Category:Unblindable|unblindable flag]], which prevents blinding from all sources except [[Enfeeble]] and [[god]] powers. These include monsters with no eyes, such as [[list of jellies|jellies]] and [[glowing orange brain]]s, and creatures with strong non-sight senses like [[bat]]s and [[warg]]s.

[[Nonliving]] and [[plant]] creatures are immune to blindness, except from Enfeeble and god powers.

[[Undead]] creatures are immune to blindness except from Enfeeble, god powers, and [[wand of light]].

==Sources==
'''Player and monster:'''
*[[Atropa]] [[dart]]s
*[[Wand of light]]
*The [[Gloom]] spell
*The [[Enfeeble]] spell
*[[Chaos]] weapons

'''Players only:'''
*Wearing the [[Cloak of Starlight]]
*[[Ru]]'s Aura of Power and Apocalypse
*[[Zin]]'s Recite (when used against heretics)
*[[The Shining One]]'s Divine Shield ability

'''Against the player:'''
*[[Gozag]] wrath (chance to trigger when seeing gold)
*Zin wrath
*[[Throw Klown Pie]]
*Being hit by a melee attack after being afflicted with the [[Black Mark]]

==History==
*Prior to [[0.34]], [[undead]] creatures were totally immune to blindness.
*Prior to [[0.32]], blindness against players simply caused [[confusion]]. Many new sources of player blindness were added in this version.
*Prior to [[0.31]], creatures with non-living and plant holiness could be blinded by wands of light.
*Wands of light were added in [[0.29]].
*The cloak of Starlight gained *Dazzle in [[0.26]].
*Prior to [[0.16]], the [[sense invisible]] monster intrinsic would stop blindness.
*During the brief period in which [[jester]]s existed, you could also temporarily blind monsters by hitting them with [[pie]]s.

[[Category:Status effects]]

Blind - Revision history

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