Chaos Armor

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Chaos Armor

Profession
Mesmer icon small.png Mesmer (skill list)
Weapon
Staff
Weapon slot empty tango.pngWeapon slot empty tango.pngWeapon slot empty tango.pngWeapon slot filled tango.pngWeapon slot empty tango.png
Game link
API
10331
20 Recharge time
25 Recharge time
 
Chaos Armor

Blind and confuse nearby foes while you gain chaos aura. Chaos aura grants you a random boon and inflicts your foe with a random condition whenever you are struck.

Chaos Aura.png Chaos Aura (5s): Give yourself random boons and your foe random conditions whenever you are struck.
Confusion.png3 Confusion on Cast (5s): 165 Damage, 148 Damage on Skill Use
Blinded.png Blindness on Cast (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Protection.png Protection When Hit (3s): -33% Incoming Damage
Regeneration.png Regeneration When Hit (3s): 390 Heal
Swiftness.png Swiftness When Hit (5s): +33% Movement Speed
Weakness.png Weakness on Attackers (3s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)
Confusion.png Confusion on Attackers (5s): 55 Damage, 49 Damage on Skill Use
Crippled.png Cripple on Attackers (3s): -50% Movement Speed
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Radius.png Radius: 240

— In-game description

Mechanics[edit]

  • The boon/condition trigger uses an internal cooldown of 1 second.
  • The chance of each boon or condition being applied is random.

Related traits[edit]

Dueling Dueling

  • Ineptitude 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 Chaos

Illusions Illusions

Chronomancer Chronomancer

Mirage Mirage

Virtuoso Virtuoso

Version history[edit]

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch Changes
August 23, 2022
  • (PvE only) Recharge reduced from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
May 11, 2021
  • Reduced recharge to 25 seconds. This skill no longer applies a random condition to nearby foes when cast. Instead, it now applies blindness and confusion to nearby foes when cast.
October 15, 2019
  • Fixed a bug in which the effect granted by this skill was incorrectly called Chaos Armor instead of Chaos Aura.
February 22, 2017
  • Reduced recharge to 30 seconds.
  • This skill now applies a random condition (confusion, cripple, or weakness) to nearby foes when activated.
January 26, 2016
  • This skill no longer blinds enemies. It will instead apply weakness to them for 3 seconds.
  • The applied duration for swiftness and confusion has been increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
December 01, 2015
  • The visual effects have been replaced with a new version to reduce visual noise.
October 21, 2014
  • Removed the range indicator from this skill.
May 20, 2014
  • Increased the culling priority on this effect.
July 09, 2013
  • This skill no longer automatically applies protection when activated.
  • This buff now provides an equal chance to trigger regeneration, swiftness, or protection on hit with a 1-second internal recharge.
  • The random condition applied now has a 1-second internal recharge per target.
  • These changes apply to the Chaos Armor provided through combo finishers as well.
October 07, 2012
  • Decreased recharge to 35 seconds.
August 28, 2012 Game release:
  • Chaos Armor has been added to the game.