Axes of Symmetry

You and all your axe clones shadowstep to a random location around your target and strike, applying confusion. This attack breaks enemy targeting, and your illusions change focus to the targeted foe. — In-game description

Axes of Symmetry

0.75¾  

10

15

 

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Specialization

Mirage

Weapon

Main hand axe

Movement

Shadowstep

Game link

API

API

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You and all your axe clones shadowstep to a random location around your target and strike, applying confusion. This attack breaks enemy targeting, and your illusions change focus to the targeted foe.

  Damage: 458 (1.25)^?

  Damage: 642 (1.75)^?

 ₃ Player Confusion (6s): 180 Damage, 149 Damage to Players on Skill Use, 287 Damage to Non-Players on Skill Use

 ₃ Player Confusion (3s): 90 Damage, 149 Damage to Players on Skill Use, 287 Damage to Non-Players on Skill Use

  Clone Confusion (6s): 60 Damage, 50 Damage to Players on Skill Use, 96 Damage to Non-Players on Skill Use

  Clone Confusion (3s): 30 Damage, 50 Damage to Players on Skill Use, 96 Damage to Non-Players on Skill Use

  Breaks Enemy Targeting

  Evade: 0.75¾ seconds

  Combo Finisher: Leap

  Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Dueling

• Evasive Mirror — Reflect projectiles after a successful evasion.

Inspiration

• Mental Defense — Cast Lesser Phantasmal Defender on your attacker when you successfully block or evade an attack.

Mirage

• Mirrored Axes — Reduce recharge of axe skills. Axe skills generate an additional phantom axe.

Notes

• While only axe clones are teleported, the focus change affects all clones.
• Phantasms are entirely unaffected.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.
March 05, 2019	Reduced this skill's damage in WvW to match the PvP version of this skill. The number of confusion stacks that this applies is now 3 in all game modes.
December 11, 2018	The physical damage of this skill has been split between game modes and reduced by about 30% in PvP only.
July 10, 2018	Inflicted confusion duration has been reduced from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvE.
May 08, 2018	This skill has regained its confusion-inflicting function. Confusion remains split between game modes and will inflict 6 stacks for 3 seconds in PvP and WvW, and 3 stacks for 8 seconds in PvE, with each clone inflicting one stack of the condition.
February 08, 2018	Now applies torment instead of confusion. Previous durations unchanged.
February 06, 2018	The confusion aspect of this skill has been split. Confusion stacks have been reduced in WvW and PvP from 5 to 3, and their duration has been reduced from 4 seconds to 3 seconds. Clone-inflicted confusion duration has been reduced from 4 seconds to 3 seconds.
November 07, 2017	This skill will now rotate the camera to face your target after the shadowstep. This skill now performs a range check before casting. Shortened maximum distance to target after shadowstep by 20%.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Axes of Symmetry has been added to the game.

Trivia

• An axis of symmetry is a line which splits a graph into two perfect mirror images.