Decoy (trait skill)

This article is about the Desperate Decoy trait skill. For the utility skill, see Decoy.

Clone. Gain stealth and summon an illusion to attack your foe. — In-game description

Decoy

Profession

Mesmer (trait skill list)

Trait

 Mental Gymnastics

Type

Clone

Game link

API

29477

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40

120

 

Decoy

Clone. Gain stealth and summon an illusion to attack your foe.

 Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Dueling

• Mental Gymnastics — When you successfully evade an attack, gain vigor.

Chaos

• Prismatic Understanding — Increased stealth duration from mesmer skills. Gain random boons while you are in stealth.

Inspiration

• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Illusions

• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.

Notes

• As with all other mesmer skills that say they apply stealth, this skill does not actually provide Stealth. It provides Hide in Shadows, an effect with the same functionality as stealth. Hide in Shadows does not stack with stealth.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 40 seconds to 120 seconds.
August 25, 2015	Desperate Decoy: Fixed a bug that caused this trait to have a recharge longer than its listed value.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Desperate Decoy: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Now casts Decoy when you are struck while below 50% health.