Power Lock

Daze your target and nearby foes. — In-game description

Power Lock

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Sequence

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Game link

API

10206

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Power Lock

Daze your target and nearby foes.

 Daze: 10.5½ seconds

 Daze: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 5

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 24 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Defiance Break: 150

 Defiance Break: 100

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

See also: Interrupt#Related traits

Domination

• Illusion of Vulnerability — Inflict vulnerability when you interrupt a foe. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Dazzling — Dazing or stunning a foe also applies vulnerability.
• Furious Interruption — Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.

Chaos

• Chaotic Interruption — When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random. Only affects weapon skills that are recharging.

Inspiration

• Restorative Mantras — Heals allies around you when you use a charge of a Mantra.

Chronomancer

• 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 30, 2024	This mantra no longer requires a target.
February 14, 2023	Mesmer mantras now require an initial casting time to prepare the mantra charges. (Undocumented) Requires a target to activate.
May 11, 2021	Mantras no longer need to be prepared before use. They regenerate ammunition normally.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced daze duration from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
October 01, 2019	This skill now requires mesmers to face their target and respects line of sight.
April 23, 2019	Daze time for this skill has been increased from 1 second to 1.5 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Mantras: The instant portion of these skills can now be cast while jumping.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Mantra skills will no longer display their number of charges in the enhancement bar and will instead use the ammo system. Ammo count has been set to 2. Recharges between casts have not changed. Power Lock: Count recharge has been set to 24 seconds. Updated skill description to reflect that this skill hits multiple targets.
July 26, 2016	The recharge between uses has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
September 09, 2014	This skill now affects up to 5 foes within 180 units of the target.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Power Lock has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.