Mesmer : Specializations

Domination top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Illusion of Vulnerability		Inflict vulnerability when you interrupt a foe. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
Bountiful Blades		Improves greatsword skills. Mirror Blade bounces additional times, and Phantasmal Berserker summons an additional berserker and deals less damage.
Empowered Illusions		Illusions deal increased strike damage.
Rending Shatter		Shatter skills inflict vulnerability on hit.
Tier: Master
Dazzling		Dazing or stunning a foe also applies vulnerability.
Shattered Concentration		Shatter skills also remove a boon on hit.
Egotism		Deal increased strike damage to foes with a lower health percentage than you.
Furious Interruption	3	Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
Tier: Grandmaster
Fragility		Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
Vicious Expression		You and your illusions deal increased strike damage to foes without boons. Disabling a foe removes boons from them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Mental Anguish		Shatter skills deal more damage. This bonus damage is doubled against foes that are not activating skills.
Power Block		Interrupts deal damage and inflict weakness. Enemy skills that you interrupt have an increased cooldown. Cannot increase recharge of skills with no recharge or skills on creatures with defiance bars. This trait can only damage enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Dueling top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Critical Infusion	10	Gain vigor when delivering a critical hit.
Phantasmal Fury		Your phantasms have fury.
Desperate Decoy	120	Cloak and leave a clone of yourself behind when struck while below the health threshold.
Duelist's Discipline		Pistol attacks from you and your illusions have a chance to cause bleeding. Interrupting a foe recharges pistol skills. This trait can only reduce recharge on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
Tier: Master
Sharper Images		Illusions inflict bleeding on critical hits.
Blinding Dissipation		Shatter skill 2 inflicts blindness.
Evasive Mirror	10	Reflect projectiles after a successful evasion.
Fencer's Finesse		Gain a stacking ferocity effect when you or one of your illusions strikes with a one-handed sword or a spear. Reduces recharge on sword and spear skills.
Tier: Grandmaster
Master Fencer	8	Grant fury to yourself and nearby allies when you critically strike an enemy.
Superiority Complex		Your critical hits deal more damage. Critical hit damage against disabled foes, or foes below the health threshold, is further increased. Disabled foes are affected by stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, or launch.
Ineptitude		Interrupting a foe inflicts blind, and blinding a foe inflicts confusion. This trait can only activate on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
Deceptive Evasion		Create a clone at your current position when you dodge.

Chaos top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Metaphysical Rejuvenation	15	Gain regeneration when struck while below the health threshold.
Method of Madness	75	Cast Lesser Chaos Storm when you use a healing skill.
Illusionary Defense		Gain a stacking damage reduction whenever you summon an illusion. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
Master of Manipulation		Manipulations grant aegis to yourself and nearby allies.
Tier: Master
Illusionary Membrane		While you have regeneration, condition damage you deal is increased, and condition damage you take is reduced.
Auspicious Anguish		Convert damaging conditions to boons whenever you gain Distortion or become disabled. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Chaotic Transference	15	Chaos Armor grants protection when cast. When you gain protection, also gain regeneration.
Chaotic Potency		Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a staff. Staff and trident skills gain reduced recharge.
Tier: Grandmaster
Chaotic Persistence		Gain concentration and expertise while affected by regeneration.
Chaotic Interruption	1	When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random. Only affects weapon skills that are recharging.
Prismatic Understanding		Increased stealth duration from mesmer skills. Gain random boons while you are in stealth.
Bountiful Disillusionment		Gain stability when you use a Shatter skill. Gain an additional boon based on which Shatter is used.

Inspiration top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Mender's Purity	1	Cast Lesser Power Cleanse when you use a healing skill.
Medic's Feedback	32	Cast Feedback while reviving an ally. Feedback revives allies inside its dome.
Restorative Mantras		Heals allies around you when you cast a Mantra.
Sympathetic Visage		Phantasms take your conditions when they are first summoned.
Tier: Master
Inspiring Distortion		Grant aegis to other nearby allies whenever you give yourself distortion or use Shatter skill 4.
Warden's Feedback		Focus weapon skills reflect projectiles. Reduces recharge on focus weapon skills.
Restorative Illusions		Heal yourself and lose conditions when you use a Shatter skill.
Temporal Enchanter		Glamour skills last longer. When you cast a glamour, allies near the glamour gain resistance and superspeed.
Tier: Grandmaster
Healing Prism	10	When healing yourself, nearby allies are also healed. Gain healing power based on a portion of your power.
Mental Defense	90	Cast Lesser Phantasmal Defender on your attacker when you successfully block or evade an attack.
Illusionary Inspiration		Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
Blurred Inscriptions		Signets have improved active effects, and activating one grants you distortion.

Illusions top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Cry of Pain		Shatter skill 2 inflicts more stacks of confusion for an increased duration.
Shatter Storm		Shatter skill 1 becomes an ammo skill.
Persistence of Memory		When a phantasm becomes a clone, it transfers its boons to you.
The Pledge		Reduces recharge on torch skills. Flame bursts from torch skills inflict additional burning.
Tier: Master
Compounding Power		Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and gives increased condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
Escape Artist		Create a clone when you gain stealth.
Phantasmal Haste		Phantasms spawn with quickness. Gain quickness when you create a phantasm.
Maim the Disillusioned		Shatter skills inflict torment on hit.
Tier: Grandmaster
Master of Misdirection		Shatter skills gain recharge reduction.
Phantasmal Force		Phantasms deal increased strike damage for each stack of might you have. Gain might when your phantasms become clones.
Master of Fragmentation		Your Shatter skills are improved.
Malicious Sorcery		Increases attack speed while wielding a scepter. Reduces recharge on scepter skills.

Chronomancer Elite Specialization top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Time Splitter		Gain access to chronomancer shatter skills and Wells.
Delayed Reactions		Disabling a foe slows them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. This trait can only affect the same enemy with once per interval.
Time Catches Up		Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.
All's Well That Ends Well		Wells heal allies when they end.
Tier: Master
Flow of Time		Gain alacrity for each clone you shatter.
Danger Time		Gain additional critical-hit chance against slowed enemies. This bonus also applies to your illusions.
Illusionary Reversion		Shatter skills generate a clone if you have enough clones present.
Improved Alacrity		Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity.
Tier: Grandmaster
Time Marches On		You move 25% faster. The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%.
Stretched Time	3	The first pulse of a well also applies alacrity to allies near the well. Tides of Time now also applies alacrity in an area when cast.
Seize the Moment		You and nearby allies gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Tides of Time now also applies quickness in an area when cast.
Chronophantasma		The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Mirage Elite Specialization top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Mirage Cloak		Gain Mirage Cloak instead of dodge rolling. Ambush skills become available for a short time whenever you gain Mirage Cloak. Gain access to Deception skills.
Self-Deception		Using a Deception skill will create a clone if you have any other clones active.
Renewing Oasis		Gain regeneration when you gain Mirage Cloak. The duration of incoming damaging conditions is reduced while you are regenerating.
Riddle of Sand		When entering combat, your first Ambush attack applies confusion. This ability refreshes when you use a Shatter skill.
Tier: Master
Nomad's Endurance		Shatter skills give vigor, and vigor grants condition damage.
Desert Distortion		Illusions shattered by Distortion become Mirage Mirrors. Ambush skills become available for a short time whenever you grant distortion to yourself.
Mirage Mantle		Gain protection when Mirage Cloak ends.
Mirrored Axes		Reduce recharge of axe skills. Axe skills generate an additional phantom axe.
Tier: Grandmaster
Speed of Sand		Mirage Cloak increases your movement speed.
Infinite Horizon		When you gain Mirage Cloak, your illusions also gain it.
Elusive Mind		Dodging removes conditions.
Dune Cloak		Use Sand Shards when Mirage Cloak ends.

Virtuoso Elite Specialization top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Psychic Blades		Whenever a clone would be summoned, you instead stock a blade. Blades persist indefinitely until used. Your shatters are replaced with Bladesongs that consume your stocked blades, but still count as shatters for the purposes of core traits. While out of combat, you will automatically stock a blade every 10 seconds.
Bladeturn Refrain		Bladesongs grant aegis.
Mental Focus		Strike damage is increased against foes within the range threshold.
Jagged Mind		Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
Tier: Master
Deadly Blades		Blades inflict vulnerability on critical hits. After successfully casting a Bladesong, increase all damage dealt for a short time. This does not stack.
Duelist's Reversal	3	Blocking or dodging an attack grants boons.
Phantasmal Blades		Phantasms that successfully complete their attack launch a blade at their target and grant you fury when they expire.
Sharpening Sorrow		Gain fury when you activate Bladesong Sorrow. Fury increases your expertise.
Tier: Grandmaster
Quiet Intensity		Fury gives an increased critical hit chance. Gain ferocity based on your vitality.
Psychic Riposte	3	Blocking or dodging an attack stocks blades and causes your next Bladesong to be unblockable.
Infinite Forge		Automatically stock blades while in combat.
Bloodsong		Bleeding you apply deals increased damage. Stock a blade after applying enough stacks of bleeding to foes.