Mesmer : Skills

Weapon skills

Greatsword Twohands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Spatial Surge		1		Shoot a beam at your foe. The farther away they are, the more damage you deal.
	Split Surge	Ambush	1½	1	Shoot a beam at a targeted foe, and secondary beams at foes near your target.
	Mirror Blade		¾	8	Throw an illusionary blade that creates a clone at its first target and then bounces to enemies and allies, dealing less damage to foes per hit and granting might to allies.
	Mind Stab		¼	10	Stab an illusionary greatsword through the ground to cripple foes at your targeted location.
	Phantasmal Berserker	Phantasm	¾	15	Throw an illusionary greatsword at your foe, removing boons from struck enemies. Create a phantasm that whirls through foes.
	Illusionary Wave		½	25	Knock back foes with a wave of magical energy.

Rifle Twohands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Friendly Fire		¾		Shoot an illusionary bullet that heals nearby allies on impact.
	Effervescence	Ambush	¼	1	Spray invigorating magic, damaging enemies and healing allies.
	Journey	Clone	½	8	Shoot a bullet through a portal. It reappears above the target location and explodes, damaging enemies and healing allies. Create a clone if you hit an enemy or ally.
	Inspiring Imagery		¾	18	Throw an inspiring beacon to a target location. The beacon will explode after a short duration, granting boons to nearby allies. The beacon can be detonated early to heal allies and damage enemies.
	Abstraction				Detonate your beacon, debilitating enemies and bolstering allies.
	Phantasmal Sharpshooter	Phantasm	¾	20	Create a phantasm that shoots a bullet at your target, stunning them.
	Singularity Shot		½	25	Shoot a bullet at a target location that explodes upon arrival, granting resistance and barrier to allies. A singularity lingers at the impact point.
	Dimensional Aperture				Collapse your singularity, creating a single-use portal that will teleport the user to your current location. Increase the cooldown of Singularity Shot.

Spear Twohands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Psycut		½		Slash your spear in front of yourself. Gain might per target struck.
	Psystrike		½		Rend your foe with an upward swing. Gain might per target struck.
	Mind Pierce		¾		Deliver a finishing thrust, breaking your opponent's mind and inflicting weakness.
	Fractured Glass	Ambush	1	1	Pierce targets in front of you in a flurry of blows, leaving them vulnerable.
	Mind the Gap		½	6	Swing your spear in a circle, dealing increased damage to foes in the outer edge. Striking with the outer edge will always deal a critical hit. Create a clone and gain Clarity if you hit an enemy. If you are empowered, gain might.
	Imaginary Inversion		¾	15	Cleanse conditions and evade while preparing a strong attack. If you successfully evade, heal yourself. Healing is improved if you have Clarity.
	Phantasmal Lancer		½	15	Dash at your foe, removing boons from them. Leave a phantasm at your initial location that will launch a spear at your target, dealing heavy damage and crippling targets. If your phantasm strikes a crippled target, immobilize them instead. If you have Clarity, summon an additional phantasm.
	Mental Collapse		¾	20	Teleport to your target and release a cascade of psychic energy, damaging nearby enemies. Refresh your Mind the Gap skill. Stun foes struck if you have Clarity.

Staff Twohands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Winds of Chaos		¾		Bounce an orb of energy between foes and allies. The first hit applies torment, while subsequent hits to enemies apply confusion. Allies that the orb bounces to gain fury and might.
	Chaos Vortex	Ambush	1	1	Release a vortex of chaos energy that inflicts damaging conditions on foes. Allies near you gain boons. Clones using this attack grant their boons around you instead of themselves.
	Phase Retreat	Clone		12	Teleport away from your target, summoning a clone that casts Winds of Chaos.
	Phantasmal Warlock	Phantasm	¾	18	Summon illusions that deal damage and inflict conditions.
	Winds of Chaos				Bounce an orb of energy between foes and allies that applies random boons to allies and random conditions to foes.
	Chaos Armor			25	Blind and confuse nearby foes while you gain chaos aura. Chaos aura grants you a random boon and inflicts your foe with a random condition whenever you are struck.
	Chaos Storm		¼	35	Create a magical storm at the target location that applies random conditions to foes and boons to allies. The first strike of the storm dazes foes.

Axe Main hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Lacerating Chop		½		Inflict bleeding on your target.
	Ethereal Chop		½		Inflict Torment on your target.
	Mirror Strikes		½		Inflict bleeding and torment on your target.
	Imaginary Axes	Ambush	½	1	Release phantasmal axes that seek out the nearest target after a short delay.
	Lingering Thoughts		¾	¼	Spin forward and strike multiple times, inflicting conditions and leaving a mirage at your starting position. If an enemy is near the mirage when it expires, a clone is summoned.
Virtuoso
	Lingering Thoughts		¾	¼	Spin forward and strike multiple times, inflicting conditions. Stock a blade if you hit at least one target.
Mesmer
	Axes of Symmetry		¾	10	You and all your axe clones shadowstep to a random location around your target and strike, applying confusion. This attack breaks enemy targeting, and your illusions change focus to the targeted foe.
Virtuoso
	Axes of Symmetry		¾	10	Shadowstep to a random location around your target and strike, applying confusion. Stocked blades apply extra stacks of confusion. This attack breaks enemy targeting, and your illusions change focus to the targeted foe.

Dagger Main hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Flying Cutter		½		Send a blade of energy at your target. Hitting the same target multiple times invokes a flurry of blades on your target.
	Phantom Razor	Ambush	¾	1	Slice your foe with a flurry of blades. Each blade inflicts different conditions.
	Bladecall			5	Throw a fan of daggers that return to you. Summon a clone if this attack hits at least one target.
Virtuoso
	Bladecall			5	Throw a fan of daggers that return to you. If your target is in range, the returning daggers will lock on to that target. Stock a blade if this attack hits at least one target.
Mesmer
	Unstable Bladestorm			12	Create a telekinetic storm of daggers that damages foes. With each interval, the bladestorm will fire blades at nearby enemies.

Pistol Off hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Phantasmal Duelist	Phantasm	½	18	Fire multiple crippling bullets at your target and summon an illusion that unloads its pistols on your target.
	Magic Bullet		½	20	Hit up to four foes with a single shot, inflicting confusion on each foe. In addition, the first target is stunned, the second is dazed, and the third is blinded.

Scepter Main hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Ether Bolt	Chain	½		Shoot a bolt of energy at your target.
	Ether Blast	Chain	½		Shoot a second bolt of energy at your target.
	Ether Clone	Clone	¾		Deliver a damaging attack directly to your target. Summon a clone that casts Ether Bolt. Inflict torment instead if you have the maximum number of illusions.
	Ether Barrage	Ambush	1½	1	Launch a barrage of chaos orbs at your foe, inflicting confusion and torment. Condition duration halved for clones.
	Illusionary Counter	Clone	2	12	Block the next attack, and counter by inflicting torment and creating clones that cast Ether Bolt.
	Counterspell		½		Shoot out a bolt that blinds enemies in a line and summons a clone to attack the first foe it strikes.
	Confusing Images		2¼	12	Channel a beam of energy that damages and confuses your foe.

Sword Both hands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Mind Slash	Chain			Slash your foe to make them vulnerable.
	Mind Gash	Chain	½		Gash your foe to make them vulnerable.
	Mind Spike		½		Stab your foe and rip a boon off of them. Does additional damage when the target has no boons.
	Mirage Thrust	Ambush	¾	1	Lunge at your foe and strike them with your sword, briefly dazing them. Leave behind a clone at your original location.
	Blurred Frenzy		1	10	Strike your foe with a flurry of strikes, distorting the space around you, making you evade attacks.
	Illusionary Leap	Clone	½	12	Summon an illusion that leaps at your target, crippling them. After the initial leap, the clone will execute the Mind Slash sword chain.
	Swap				Swap places with your clone. Immobilize nearby foes.
Virtuoso
	Blade Leap		¾	12	Leap to your target and stock a blade if you hit. Can be recast to return to your starting point.
	Returning Edge				Shadowstep back to your previous location, crippling foes as you retreat.
Mesmer
	Illusionary Riposte	Clone	2¼	15	Block your foe and create an illusion when attacked.
	Counter Blade		¾		Shoot out a bolt that dazes foes in a line.
	Phantasmal Swordsman	Phantasm	1	18	Perform a sword strike and create an illusion that attacks your foe. If the sword strike hits, you gain might.

Focus Off hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Temporal Curtain		¼	25	Create a wall of energy that grants swiftness to allies who cross it and cripples foes who touch it. Allies may cross the wall more than once but receive less swiftness after the first crossing.
	Into the Void				Shatter your Temporal Curtain, pulling nearby enemies toward its position.
	Phantasmal Warden	Phantasm	½	20	Create a phantasm that throws axes at nearby targets and creates a defensive bubble, protecting itself and allies from projectiles.

Shield Off hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Echo of Memory	Phantasm	1½	35	Block incoming attacks for a short duration. If this skill fully channels, summon a phantasm that slows enemies and grants protection to allies. If an attack is blocked, Deja Vu is usable for a short time and the phantasm is summoned immediately.
	Deja Vu	Phantasm	1½		Block incoming attacks for a short duration. If this skill fully channels, summon a phantasm that slows enemies and grants protection to allies. If an attack is blocked, the phantasm is summoned immediately.
	Tides of Time		¾	35	Grant boons to nearby allies as you launch a wave of temporal energy that damages and stops enemies it passes through, then returns to you. Touching the returning wave reduces the recharge of this skill.

Torch Off hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	The Prestige			30	Disappear in a cloud of smoke, blinding nearby foes and losing conditions. Reappear three seconds later, burning nearby foes.
	Phantasmal Mage	Phantasm	¾	25	Strike and burn nearby foes. Create an illusion that releases a massive wave of fire that burns, confuses, and interrupts foes.

Spear Aquatic top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Stab	Chain	½		Stab your foe.
	Jab	Chain	¾		Jab your foe.
	Evasive Strike		½		Evade while delivering a powerful final attack.
	Ambush Assault	Ambush	1¼	1	Blink to your target and unleash a series of low-damage strikes that rapidly stack vulnerability.
	Feigned Surge	Clone	1¾	8	Surge toward your foe, striking enemies on the way and creating a clone upon reaching your initial target.
	Phantasmal Mariner	Phantasm	½	10	Perform an evasive strike and create an illusion that evades while attacking your foe in a flurry.
	Slipstream		½	25	Create a current at your location that immobilizes enemies entering it and grants superspeed to allies passing through it.
	Vortex		1¼	40	Create a vortex at your location, pulling nearby foes toward you.

Trident Aquatic top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Siren's Call		½		Unleash sonic energy that bounces between multiple foes, damaging and bleeding them. When it hits allies, it applies might, vigor, or swiftness.
	Wave of Panic	Ambush	½	1	Release a wave of energy that interrupts and confuses foes.
	Blinding Tide		½	8	Expose your enemies, inflicting vulnerability in an area.
	Imminent Voyage	Clone	¾	12	Retreat back, summoning a clone to attack your foe while granting chaos armor to nearby allies.
	Phantasmal Whaler	Phantasm	½	5	Cast Siren's Call on nearby foes and create an illusion that confuses foes with a harpoon gun.
	Siren's Call				Unleash sonic energy that bounces between multiple foes, damaging and bleeding them. When it hits allies, it applies might, vigor, or swiftness.
	Illusion of Drowning		¾	25	Sink enemies around your target with an illusionary anchor.

Healing skills top

Skill	Type				Description
Ether Feast			1	25	Heal yourself and remove conditions. Gain additional health and remove additional conditions for each active clone.
Mirror	Manipulation		1¼	15	Reflect projectiles, and heal yourself.
Mantra of Recovery	Mantra		2¼	24	Meditate, charging a spell that will instantly heal you when activated. Heal yourself and nearby allies when this spell fully charges.
Power Return				1	Instantly heal yourself. Receive increased healing if you are below the health threshold.
Signet of the Ether	Signet		1	30	Signet Passive: Heal yourself whenever you summon an illusion. Signet Active: Heal yourself and reduce the recharge of phantasm skills. Virtuoso: Passive triggers when stocking a blade.
Chronomancer
Well of Eternity	Well		½	30	Create a well that rewinds time, removing conditions from allies. When it expires, the well heals all allies in the area.
Mirage
False Oasis	Deception		¾	25	Create a mirage at your current location and heal over time. When the mirage expires, it spawns a mirage mirror.
Mirage Mirror					Creates a mirror at target location. Touching the mirror shatters it, granting Mirage Cloak to you and weakening nearby foes.
Virtuoso
Twin Blade Restoration	Psionic		1	25	Heal yourself, lose conditions, and throw two blades at your target. If the first blade hits, you gain aegis. If the second blade hits, you gain vigor.

Utility skills top

Skill	Type				Description
Decoy	Clone			40	Gain stealth and summon an illusion to attack your foe. Virtuoso: Stock a blade.
Mirror Images	Clone			30	Summon two clones to attack your foe. Virtuoso: Stock two blades.
Phantasmal Defender	Phantasm		1	50	Summon an illusion that taunts your target and all nearby targets while blocking. When it finishes blocking, the illusion explodes, dealing increased damage for each attack it blocked.
Phantasmal Disenchanter	Phantasm		1	25	Summon an illusion that removes boons from targets it hits. This attack deals increased damage against foes without boons.
Feedback	Glamour			25	Create a dome around your foes that reflects projectiles.
Null Field	Glamour		¼	25	Create a field of energy that rips boons from foes and cures conditions on allies.
Veil	Glamour		¼	72	Create a wall that grants stealth to you and your allies.
Portal Entre	Glamour			72	Create an entry portal at your location that teleports allies to your exit portal.
Portal Exeunt	Glamour				Create an exit portal.
Arcane Thievery	Manipulation		¼	25	Send conditions you have to your foe and steal their boons. Successfully hitting your target inflicts slow on them while granting you quickness.
Blink	Manipulation			35	Teleport to a target location.
Illusion of Life	Manipulation		1¼	75	Give allies Illusion of Life at the target location, allowing them to get up from downed state and keep fighting. Fully revives allies if they kill a foe.
Mimic	Manipulation		¼	20	The next utility skill you use has significantly reduced recharge, and Mimic's recharge is increased by the original recharge of the affected skill. Mimic's recharge cannot be reset by other mesmer skills.
Mantra of Concentration	Mantra		2¼	30	Meditate, charging a spell that will break stuns and grant stability to nearby allies. Grant boons to nearby allies when this spell fully charges.
Power Break				2	Break stuns on yourself and grant stability to nearby allies.
Mantra of Distraction	Mantra		2¼	12	Meditate, charging a spell that will daze your target. Diversion's recharge time is partially refunded when this spell fully charges.
Power Lock				4	Daze your target and nearby foes.
Mantra of Pain	Mantra		2¼	1	Meditate, charging a spell that will damage your target. Grant might to nearby allies when this spell is fully charged.
Power Spike				1	Damage your target and nearby foes. Inflict vulnerability on foes whose skills aren't active.
Mantra of Resolve	Mantra		2¼	20	Meditate, charging a spell that will cure conditions for you and nearby allies. Cure conditions on yourself and nearby allies when this spell is fully charged.
Power Cleanse				1	Remove conditions from you and nearby allies.
Signet of Domination	Signet		½	45	Signet Passive: Improved condition damage. Signet Active: Stun your foe.
Signet of Illusions	Signet		1¼	35	Signet Passive: Creates a clone every few seconds. Signet Active: Recharges shatter skills.
Signet of Inspiration	Signet		¾	30	Signet Passive: Grants swiftness and an additional random boon every ten seconds. Signet Active: Extends the duration of all boons on yourself.
Signet of Midnight	Signet			35	Signet Passive: Improves expertise. Signet Active: Blind nearby foes and stealth yourself.
Chronomancer
Well of Action	Well		¾	25	Create a well of delayed time, damaging and slowing foes. When the well expires, time snaps back, granting boons to allies.
Well of Calamity	Well		¾	20	Create a well that rends time, damaging, weakening, and crippling foes in the area. When the final pulse of Well of Calamity triggers, it deals massive damage to foes in the area.
Well of Precognition	Well		½	45	Create a well that gives allies the ability to see the future, allowing them to block incoming attacks. When the well ends, allies within the well regain endurance.
Well of Senility	Well		¾	25	Creates a well that steals memories from foes, damaging and chilling them. When it expires, foes still inside the well have boons removed from them.
Mirage
Illusionary Ambush	Deception			35	You and all your illusions shadowstep to a random point around your target and gain Mirage Cloak. Illusions' actions are interrupted when they change focus to the targeted foe.
Crystal Sands	Deception		¼	20	Draw in shards of crystal sand that confuse foes they pass through on their way to your targeted location. The shards form a Mirage Mirror upon reaching their destination.
Mirage Mirror					Creates a mirror at target location. Touching the mirror shatters it, granting Mirage Cloak to you and weakening nearby foes.
Mirage Advance	Deception		¾	25	Shadowstep and unleash an attack that blinds and dazes your target and nearby foes. You may reactivate this skill to return to your original position.
Mirage Retreat					Return to your starting point and leave behind a clone at your previous location.
Sand through Glass	Deception		½	30	Evade backward and gain Mirage Cloak.
Virtuoso
Blade Renewal	Psionic		2	40	Channel to gain distortion and stock up to the maximum number of blades.
Psychic Force	Psionic		½	25	Knock back nearby foes with a psychic blade and gain boons.
Rain of Swords	Psionic		¾	25	Create a storm of blades that attacks a large area, damaging and applying vulnerability to targets.
Sword of Decimation	Psionic		½	25	Drop a massive blade on a location, immobilizing enemies. This attack deals increased damage against controlled, downed, or defiant foes. Does bonus defiance-bar damage to defiant foes. Controls include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knock down, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Elite skills top

Skill	Type				Description
Time Warp	Glamour		¼	75	Create an area that warps time, granting you and your allies quickness while slowing enemies.
Mass Invisibility	Manipulation		1¼	50	You and all your allies gain stealth for a short time.
Signet of Humility	Signet		1	90	Signet Passive: Reduces duration of incoming stuns, dazes, fears, and taunts. Signet Active: Transform your foe into a moa bird. (Defiant foes will have their defiant bar reduced instead.)
Chronomancer
Gravity Well	Well		1	60	Create a powerful well that warps space in an area, knocking down, floating, and pulling foes caught in its event horizon. When it expires, foes still inside the well take heavy damage.
Mirage
Jaunt	Deception			½	Shadowstep to a target location and confuse nearby foes.
Virtuoso
Thousand Cuts	Psionic			60	Open a portal that devastates targets in a line in front of you with a flurry of blades.

Downed and drowning skills top

	Skill	Type			Description
Downed skills
	Mind Blast		¾		Create an explosion of magical energy, confusing your foe.
	Deception	Clone	½	15	Shadowstep and create a downed clone of yourself to attack foes in range.
	Phantasmal Rogue	Phantasm	½	8	Summon a phantasmal rogue that deals increased damage from behind. If the rogue hits, the recharge of this skill is reduced.
	Bandage		49¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.
Drowning skills
	Mind Blast		¾		Create an explosion of magical energy, confusing your foe.
	Deception	Clone	½	15	Create a downed clone of yourself to attack your target.
	Phantasmal Rogue	Phantasm	½	8	Summon a phantasmal rogue that deals increased damage from behind. If the rogue hits, the recharge of this skill is reduced.
	Bandage		49¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.