Mind Spike

Stab your foe and rip a boon off of them. Does additional damage when the target has no boons. — In-game description

Mind Spike

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword

Activ. type

Chain

Sequence

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Game link

API

10172

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0.5½  

Mind Spike

Stab your foe and rip a boon off of them. Does additional damage when the target has no boons.

 Damage without Boons: 734 (2.0)^?

 Damage without Boons: 489 (1.333)^?

 Damage with Boons: 550 (1.5)^?

 Damage with Boons: 244 (0.666)^?

 Boons Removed: 1

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Dueling

• 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient when striking enemies with boons from 1.0 to 1.5 PvE only.
July 07, 2020	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to display the incorrect tooltip damage in Competitive game modes.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced base power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.666. Reduced power coefficient against foes with no boons from 2.0 to 1.333.
February 06, 2018	Increased the damage of the final sword attack by 11% against foes with boons and by 51% against foes with no boons.
September 29, 2015	Increased damage to targets without boons by 10%.
April 15, 2014	Updated the skill facts to correctly display the number of boons removed: 1.
August 20, 2013	Fixed a bug where this skill was checking for a boon on the mesmer instead of on the target. The extra damage will now be correctly applied when the player's target has no active boons.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the base damage by 20%. This skill does an additional 50% damage to targets with no boons.
April 30, 2013	Renamed to Mind Spike (from Mind Stab).
February 26, 2013	This skill will now hit up to three targets.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Mind Spike has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to the 30 April 2013 update, Mind Spike was called Mind Stab, which conflicted with the mesmer greatsword skill as it shared the same name. The old name is still used in the combat damage log.
• As of 25 June 2013 update, Mind Spike damage was reduced by 20%.
• Initially the skill only did 50% more damage if the Mesmer had no boons (not the actual target), however this was fixed with the August 20th 2013 update. Now the extra damage will be correctly applied when the player's target has no active boons.