Ailment
Status Ailments encompass a variety of detrimental effects. Those associated with an element are collectively referred to as Elemental Status Ailments. Status Ailments are similar to Curses, but there is no inherent limit on the number of different Status Ailments a target can have at any given time.
Elemental Status Ailments
The most common Status Ailments are of the elemental variety and are typically caused by Elemental Damage.
- Ignite is associated with with Fire and causes the affected target to Burn, taking Fire Damage over time.
- Chill is inherent to Cold and slows the movement, attack, and cast speeds of the affected target.
- Freeze is also associated with Cold and prevents the affected target from taking actions.
- Shock is associated with Lightning and causes the affected target to take increased damage.
Any hit of Cold Damage has the potential to Chill the target. Chill can also be inflicted by skills such as 
Ice Shot and 
Arctic Armour, which leave patches of ice on the ground.
Ignite, Freeze, and Shock can be inflicted by Critical Strikes of the corresponding element. There are other ways for these Status Ailments to be applied as well. Targets cursed with 
Conductivity have a chance to be Shocked when hit with any Lightning Damage. Other skills such as Module Error: Too many skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Glacial Hammer". Please choose only one of the following ids:
CityStalkerGlacialHammer - 10% chance to Freeze enemies, 50% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage (page)
GlacialHammerRoyale - 10% chance to Freeze enemies, 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage, Every third successive strike Freezes enemies as though dealing (100-190)% more Damage, +(0.2-0.3) metres to Melee Strike Range, 35% increased Duration of Cold Ailments, (10-19)% increased Effect of Cold Ailments, Adds (3-20) to (4-30) Cold Damage against Chilled Enemies (page) and 
Burning Arrow have a built-in chance to inflict elemental Status Ailments.