Distortion/history
October 04, 2022
- Chronomancer:
- Continuum Shift: This skill has been moved to slot 5 of the profession mechanic bar. Distortion is now accessible in slot 4.
- Virtuoso:
- Bladeturn Requiem: This skill has been moved to slot 5 of the profession mechanic bar. (Bladesong) Distortion is now accessible in slot 4.
Distortion
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Profession mechanic
- Type
- Shatter
- Game link
“Shatter. Gain distortion and destroy all your clones, gaining additional distortion for each one shattered.
- Distortion (1s): Immune to conditions and damage.
- Number of Targets: 1
- Radius: 240
- Prevents Capture-Point Contribution
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
July 16, 2019
- Continuum Shift: This skill now replaces distortion in the F4 slot instead of taking the F5 slot. Additionally, it applies 1 second of distortion when cast.
Distortion
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Profession mechanic
- Type
- Shatter
- Game link
“Shatter. Gain distortion and destroy all your clones, gaining additional distortion for each one shattered.
- Distortion (1s): Immune to conditions and damage.
- Number of Targets: 1
- Radius: 240
- Prevents Capture-Point Contribution
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
March 27, 2018
- Distortion: Updated the tooltip description of this effect to better reflect its functionality.
Distortion
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Profession mechanic
- Type
- Shatter
- Game link
“Shatter. Gain distortion and destroy all your clones, gaining additional distortion for each one shattered.
- Distortion (1s): Immune to conditions and damage.
- Number of Targets: 1
- Radius: 240
- Prevents Capture-Point Contribution
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
February 06, 2018
- Shatter Skills: These skills now only shatter clones. Descriptions have been updated to reflect their new functionality.
Distortion
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Profession mechanic
- Type
- Shatter
- Game link
“Shatter. Gain distortion and destroy all your clones, gaining additional distortion for each one shattered.
- Distortion (1s): Evade all attacks.
- Number of Targets: 1
- Radius: 240
- Prevents Capture-Point Contribution
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
September 29, 2015
- Shatter skills: Updated the description of these skills to include the effects added when Illusionary Persona functionality was made baseline.
Distortion
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Profession mechanic
- Type
- Shatter
- Game link
“Shatter. Gain distortion and destroy all your clones and phantasms, gaining additional distortion for each one shattered.
- Distortion (1s): Evade all attacks.
- Number of Targets: 1
- Radius: 240
- Prevents Capture-Point Contribution
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
June 23, 2015
- Using any shatter skill now creates the shatter effect on you as well by default.
- Reduced the recharge to 50 seconds.
- When affected by traits such as Maim the Disillusioned and Illusionary Retribution, this skill now strikes 1 target.
Distortion
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Profession mechanic
- Type
- Shatter
- Game link
“Shatter. Destroy all your clones and phantasms, gaining distortion for each one shattered.
- Distortion (1s): Evade all attacks.
- Number of Targets: 1
- Radius: 240
- Prevents Capture-Point Contribution
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
May 21, 2014
- Distortion:
- Fixed a bug that caused this buff to grant evasion instead of invulnerability.
- Updated the description of this buff to indicate invulnerability.
April 30, 2013
- This skill no longer allows capture of control points in all formats or communing in PvP.
Distortion
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Profession mechanic
- Type
- Shatter
- Game link
“Shatter. Destroy all your clones and phantasms, gaining distortion for each one shattered.
- Distortion (1s): Evade all attacks.
- Prevents Capture-Point Contribution
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
January 03, 2013
- Shatter skills now share a global 0.25 second recharge, to prevent multiple shatter effects triggering on the same illusion.
Original version
Distortion
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Profession mechanic
- Type
- Shatter
- Game link
“Shatter. Destroy all your clones and phantasms, gaining distortion for each one shattered.
- Distortion (1s): Evade all attacks.
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description