Well of Senility

Well. 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. — In-game description

Well of Senility

   

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Specialization

Chronomancer

Slot

Utility

Type

Well

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

29856

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0.75¾  

20

25

 

Well of Senility

Well. 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.

 Damage: 399 (1.5)^?

 Chilled (1s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Boons Removed: 3

 Boons Removed: 2

 Daze: 3 seconds

 Daze: 2 seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pulses: 3

 Duration: 3 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Ethereal

 Range: 900

— In-game description

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.

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.
• 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.

Notes

• Despite the skill description, this Well pulses 4 times, with the first pulse applying on Well placement.
  • The first 3 pulses each deal the listed damage and apply chill.
  • The last pulse applies the daze and removes boons (and activates All's Well That Ends Well if you have it traited).

Anomaly:

While it has the same listed cast time as   Well of Action, it is actually one server tick shorter (40 ms).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only. Increased pulse power coefficient from 0.7 to 1.5 in PvE only. Increased the number of boons removed from 2 to 3 in PvE only.
February 14, 2023	This skill now dazes enemies on its final pulse in addition to removing boons.
June 28, 2022	Renamed Well of Senility. Now removes two boons from enemy targets on the final pulse instead of providing alacrity to allies.
March 05, 2019	Reduced the recharge time of this skill from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
December 11, 2018	The duration of alacrity that the final pulse of this skill applies has been increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds. Its casting time has been reduced from 1 second to 0.75 seconds.
October 02, 2018	Reduced the recharge time from 35 seconds to 30 seconds. Reduced the alacrity duration from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
February 22, 2017	Fixed a bug that caused wells to display their effects incorrectly while under the effects of quickness or slow.
May 17, 2016	The visual effects of this skill has been restored to their original state for the player. The previous effects are now used as the lower level-of-detail versions.
April 19, 2016	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 35 seconds.
November 17, 2015	Reduced the visual noise on the effects associated with this skill.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Well of Recall has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The skill icon depicts an in-game waypoint.
• Well of Recall's signature sound effect is of crunching ice, while a faint chime rings and gets longer on every pulse.