Dueling

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"Dancing through the battlefield, swift as a fleeting memory."

Swift and ruthless, Dueling enhances your phantasm's damage output as well as your overall critical hit capability. Dodge your enemies with ease and gain additional bonuses after successfully evading attacks.

— In-game description

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Dueling is a core specialization of the mesmer that focuses on enhancing dodging, interrupts and improving your phantasms' damage.

Tier Trait Tango-recharge-darker.png Description
Minor Adept Critical Infusion.png Critical Infusion 10 Gain vigor when delivering a critical hit.
Major Adept Phantasmal Fury.png Phantasmal Fury Your phantasms have fury.
Major Adept Mental Gymnastics.png Mental Gymnastics 5 When you successfully evade an attack, gain vigor.
Major Adept Duelist's Discipline.png Duelist's Discipline Pistol attacks from you and your illusions have a chance to cause bleeding. Interrupting a foe recharges pistol skills.
This trait can only reduce recharge on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
Minor Master Sharper Images.png Sharper Images Illusions inflict bleeding on critical hits.
Major Master Blinding Dissipation.png Blinding Dissipation Shatter skill 2 inflicts blindness.
Major Master Evasive Mirror.png Evasive Mirror 10.5½ Reflect projectiles after a successful evasion.
Major Master Fencer's Finesse.png Fencer's Finesse Gain a stacking ferocity effect when you or one of your illusions strikes with a one-handed sword or an underwater spear. Reduces recharge on sword and underwater spear skills.
Minor Grandmaster Master Fencer.png Master Fencer 8 Grant fury to yourself and nearby allies when you critically strike an enemy.
Major Grandmaster Harmonious Mantras.png Superiority Complex Your critical hits deal more damage. Critical hit damage against disabled foes, or foes below the health threshold, is further increased.
Disabled foes are affected by stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, or launch.
Major Grandmaster Ineptitude.png 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.
Major Grandmaster Deceptive Evasion.png Deceptive Evasion Create a clone at your current position when you dodge.
See also: List of mesmer traits