Diversion

Shatter. Destroy all your clones, dazing their targets. The shatter effect also occurs at your location. — In-game description

Diversion

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Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Shatter

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Shatter. Destroy all your clones, dazing their targets. The shatter effect also occurs at your location.

  Daze: 1 second

  Enemies Dazed: 1

  Radius: 240

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Domination

• Rending Shatter — Shatter skills inflict vulnerability on hit.
• Dazzling — Dazing or stunning a foe also applies vulnerability.
• Shattered Concentration — Shatter skills also remove a boon on hit.
• Vicious Expression — You and your illusions deal increased strike damage to foes without boons. Disabling a foe removes boons from them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Mental Anguish — Shatter skills deal more damage. This bonus damage is doubled against foes that are not activating skills.

Chaos

• Bountiful Disillusionment — Gain stability when you use a Shatter skill. Gain an additional boon based on which Shatter is used.

Inspiration

• Restorative Illusions — Heal yourself and lose conditions when you use a Shatter skill.

Illusions

• Maim the Disillusioned — Shatter skills inflict torment on hit.
• Master of Misdirection — Shatter skills gain recharge reduction.
• Master of Fragmentation — Your Shatter skills are improved.

Chronomancer

• Delayed Reactions — Disabling a foe slows them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. This trait can only affect the same enemy with once per interval.
• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.
• Flow of Time — Gain alacrity for each clone you shatter.
• Illusionary Reversion — Shatter skills generate a clone if you have enough clones present.
• Seize the Moment — Gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Nearby allies also gain quickness.

Mirage

• Riddle of Sand — When entering combat, your first Ambush attack applies confusion. This ability refreshes when you use a Shatter skill.
• Nomad's Endurance — Shatter skills give vigor, and vigor grants condition damage.

Related skills

•   Signet of Illusions
•   Time Sink - Chronomancer variant

Notes

• This skill is locked until level 15.
• An enemy  Dazed by Diversion cannot be dazed again until the daze effect wears off. For this reason, Diversion is strongest when using a mix of ranged and melee clones, or ranged clones with the mesmer in melee range. That way, one Diversion occurs right away, while other Diversion needs to wait for the clone to run to the target to get in range, which may cause a second application of daze if the previous daze had already ended.
  • Against enemies with Defiance Bars however, all clones shattered will damage the defiance bar with their daze regardless of time elapsed in between their shattering. If only the mesmer hits with Diversion, they will deal 100 damage to the defiance bar with daze. But if they hit with 3 clones and themselves, they will deal 400 defiance bar damage with their daze.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 06, 2018	Shatter skills now only shatter clones. Descriptions have been updated to reflect their new functionality.
September 29, 2015	Updated the description of these skills to include the effects added when Illusionary Persona functionality was made baseline.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Using any shatter skill now creates the shatter effect on you as well by default. Reduced the recharge to 38 seconds. It now shows the number of targets dazed (1) when untraited.
January 03, 2013	Shatter skills now share a global 0.25 second recharge, to prevent multiple shatter effects triggering on the same illusion.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Diversion has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.