Blind reduces the chance to-hit of the target. The amount of reduction is unknown but is suspected to cause a -50 to the to-hit chance. Blind lengths vary depending on the source of the Blind. The effects of Blind can be mitigated through either being outright cured by doctor stims, Jedi heal state ability or through players having Defense vs Blind skill modifiers. Blind defensive skill mods will reduce the chance that the state can be applied to the target. When blind is applied to a target, the newer application's timer will overwrite the former thus the effect can continuously be applied. All state inducing attacks have a base chance of succeeding against a target which is further modified by the target's defenses against that state. The state application success chance is further lowered on a scaling basis against targets of higher CL than the target initiating the state attack.