Disarming

Disarming is the action of knocking a weapon out of a creature's hands and onto the ground.

The following skills enable disarming:
 * Disarming Shot (pistols)
 * Flattening Fire (rifles)
 * Swipe when used with Dueling Stance (long blades)

Use Cases
Disarming is an effective method of obtaining certain targets' weapons. For example, a player or creature can disarm a turret to obtain the turret's weapon, which would not otherwise be dropped as loot when the turret was destroyed.

NPCs Capable of Disarming
is perhaps most notorious for his ability to disarm the player using his swipe skill.

Alternate Methods of Disarming
Another viable method of disarming is to dismember the body part that holds a weapon. For example, a player may disarm a turret by dismembering the part of the turret that holds the gun, and this will cause the gun to fall to the ground.

Similar Effects

 * are notable for their Magnetic Pulse ability, which strips items from players' and other creatures' inventory. However, this effect cannot truly disarm the target, since it does not affect equipped items.
 * can rust players' or other creatures' equipped items on hit, which causes those items to gain the rusted status and be forcefully unequipped (but not dropped).