Phantasmal Rogue

Phantasm. Summon a phantasmal rogue that deals increased damage from behind. If the rogue hits, the recharge of this skill is reduced. — In-game description

Phantasmal Rogue

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Downed
Drowning

Type

Phantasm

Summons

Illusionary Rogue

Game link

API

10224

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Phantasmal Rogue

Phantasm. Summon a phantasmal rogue that deals increased damage from behind. If the rogue hits, the recharge of this skill is reduced.

 Damage: 1,158 (1.15)^?

 Backstab Bonus: 50%

 Backstab Bonus: 25%

 Recharge Reduced: 25%

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Phantasm

Phantasm	Skill used	Effect
Illusionary Rogue	Shadow Assault	Deals extra damage while flanking.

Related traits

Dueling

• Phantasmal Fury — Your phantasms have fury.

Inspiration

• Sympathetic Visage — Phantasms take your conditions from you when summoned.
• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Illusions

• Persistence of Memory — When a phantasm becomes a clone, it transfers its boons to you.
• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
• Escape Artist — When a phantasm is created, grant it distortion.
• Phantasmal Haste — Phantasms spawn with quickness. Gain quickness when you create a phantasm.
• Phantasmal Force — Phantasms deal increased strike damage for each stack of might you have. Gain might when your phantasms become clones.

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.
• Stretched Time — Flow of Time now affects nearby allies. Grant alacrity to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• Seize the Moment — You and nearby allies gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Grant quickness to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• 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.)

Virtuoso

• Phantasmal Blades — Phantasms that successfully complete their attack launch a blade at their target and grant you fury when they expire.

Notes

• Phantasms have their own unique weapon strength that is independent of the player's equipped weapon rarity. The rogue has a weapon strength midpoint of 2615.5.
• Attack from this NPC will appear as "You hit Your-Target-Name-Here for xxx using Shadow Assault". This attack is not the Thief's underwater skill Shadow Assault.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 06, 2018	Phantasms can no longer be shattered and no longer count toward your maximum illusion count. Phantasms are destroyed and then replaced by clones after completing their unique attack or if their attack is interrupted. Reduced the recharge from 20 seconds to 8 seconds. If the rogue hits with an attack, the recharge of this skill is reduced by 25%. This skill no longer has an attack separate from the phantasm summon. Significantly reduced the skill's aftercast. Updated the underwater casting time to better match the casting time on land. Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from dealing its bonus damage. Bonus damage has been reduced to 50% in PvE and 25% in PvP and WvW.
May 16, 2017	This skill now performs an attack that applies 1 stack of confusion and 5 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds in addition to summoning a phantasm.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Phantasm damage has been increased by 15%.
May 20, 2014	Updated the skill facts to have the appropriate damage indicator (separate from the general fix to minion skill damage).
August 28, 2012	Game release: Phantasmal Rogue has been added to the game.