Deja Vu

Phantasm. Block incoming attacks for a short duration. If this skill fully channels, summon a phantasm that slows enemies and grants protection to allies. If an attack is blocked, the phantasm is summoned immediately. — In-game description

Deja Vu

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Specialization

Chronomancer

Weapon

Shield

Type

Phantasm

Activ. type

Channeled

Sequence

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Game link

API

29649

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10.5½  

Deja Vu

Phantasm. Block incoming attacks for a short duration. If this skill fully channels, summon a phantasm that slows enemies and grants protection to allies. If an attack is blocked, the phantasm is summoned immediately.

 Damage: 907 (0.9)^?

 Damage: 453 (0.45)^?

 Slow (2s): Skills and actions are slower.

 Protection (20.5½s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Number of Allied Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

See also: Phantasm#Related traits

Dueling

• Phantasmal Fury — Your phantasms have fury.

Inspiration

• Sympathetic Visage — Phantasms take your conditions from you when summoned.
• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Illusions

• Persistence of Memory — When a phantasm becomes a clone, it transfers its boons to you.
• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
• Escape Artist — When a phantasm is created, grant it distortion.
• Phantasmal Haste — Phantasms spawn with quickness. Gain quickness when you create a phantasm.
• Phantasmal Force — Phantasms deal increased strike damage for each stack of might you have. Gain might when your phantasms become clones.

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.
• Danger Time — Gain additional critical-hit chance against slowed enemies. This bonus also applies to your illusions.
• Stretched Time — Flow of Time now affects nearby allies. Grant alacrity to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• Seize the Moment — You and nearby allies gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Grant quickness to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• Chronophantasma — The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Notes

Anomaly:

Unlike other phantasms, this skill can be evaded and won't produce a Phantasm.

• Phantasms have their own unique weapon strength that is independent of the player's equipped weapon rarity. The avenger has a weapon strength range of 2459-2772, with the midpoint being 2615.5.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	These skills will now immediately summon the phantasm when successfully blocking an attack. If no attack is blocked, the phantasm will still be summoned at the end of the channel.
May 22, 2018	Reduced the damage inflicted by the illusionary avenger by 50% (in WvW and PvP).
February 06, 2018	Phantasms can no longer be shattered and no longer count toward your maximum illusion count. Phantasms are destroyed and then replaced by clones after completing their unique attack or if their attack is interrupted. The phantasm summoned by this skill no longer applies alacrity when it attacks. Its attack damage has been increased by 160%.
October 18, 2016	Illusionary Avenger: Fixed a bug that allowed this illusion to activate Fencer's Finesse.
December 15, 2015	Block duration has been reduced from 2.25 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
November 04, 2015	Illusionary Avenger: Increased the distance traveled for this phantasm's charge attack by 346%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Deja Vu has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Déjà Vu is a feeling of having already experienced the present situation.