Blinding Tide

Blinding Tide

0.5½  8  

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Trident

 

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Expose your enemies, inflicting vulnerability in an area.

  Damage: 293 (0.8)^?

  Blindness (4s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 ₃ Vulnerability (8s): 3% Incoming Damage, 3% Incoming Condition Damage

  Number of Targets: 5

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Chaos

 Chaotic Dampening - Chaos aura grants protection. Staff and trident skills gain reduced recharge.

Illusions

 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	This skill now inflicts vulnerability in an area around the player's target in addition to blindness. Its cooldown has been reduced from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Fixed a bug in which an incorrect number of targets displayed in the skill fact.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill has been renamed to "Blinding Tide" (from Ineptitude).
June 25, 2013	Fixed an issue that allowed this skill to be cast at infinite range.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ineptitude has been added to the game.