Disorient

Disorient, previously called Confusion, and more rarely referred to as Mesmerize, is an incapacitating crowd control effect which prevents the target from taking any action for a certain period of time, although, unlike stuns, disorient effects do break on damage. They cause the target to wander about in a confused fashion for the duration of the effect. This makes disorient effects different from sleep and other incapacitate effects under which the target doesn't move.

Examples of disorient effects:

• Mage: [Dragon's Breath] (Talent)
• Paladin: [Blinding Light]
• Rogue: [Blind]

Counters

Ways to remove disorient effects include:

• PvP Trinkets
• Mage: [Ice Block]
• Paladin: [Divine Shield]
• Hunter pets with the [Bestial Wrath] talent are immune to Disorient.

Patch changes

• Patch 1.9.0 (2006-01-03): All Confusion effects have been renamed Disorient effects. This includes Blind, Scatter Shot, etc.
  
• Patch 1.8.0 (2005-10-10): The "Knockout" mechanic has been renamed "Disorient" and all tooltips that referenced this mechanic should be updated.