Gravity Well

Well. Create a powerful well that warps space in an area, knocking down, floating, and pulling foes caught in its event horizon. When it expires, foes still inside the well take heavy damage. — In-game description

Gravity Well

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Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Specialization

Chronomancer

Slot

Elite

Type

Well

Training cost

25 Hero points

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Well. Create a powerful well that warps space in an area, knocking down, floating, and pulling foes caught in its event horizon. When it expires, foes still inside the well take heavy damage.

  Pulse Damage: 160 (0.6)^?

  Pulse Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

  Final Damage: 638 (2.4)^?

  Final Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

  Knockdown: 1 second

  Pull: 240

  Float: 1 second

  Number of Targets: 5

  Pulses: 3

  Duration: 3 seconds

  Radius: 240

  Combo Field: Dark

  Range: 900

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Domination

• Vicious Expression — You and your illusions deal increased 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.

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.
• All's Well That Ends Well — Wells heal allies when they end.

Notes

• Despite the tooltip, the knockdown lasts 3s and therefore causes 300 Defiance bar damage. This is probably due to PvE balance for a CC-Elite to be strong in breaking defiance bars. It has no impact against other players in PvP or WvW, since the float interrupts the knockdown anyway.
• The 1s float causes 100 Defiance bar damage, the pull causes 150 Defiance bar damage; the whole skill causes a total of 550 Defiance bar damage.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced pulse power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.01. Reduced final power coefficient from 2.4 to 0.01. Reduced cooldown from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.
February 22, 2017	Fixed a bug that caused this well to be destroyed prematurely when used with Continuum Shift. Fixed a bug that caused wells to display their effects incorrectly while under the effects of quickness or slow.
November 17, 2015	Reduced the visual noise on the effects associated with this skill.
October 27, 2015	Reduced damage of final strike by 20%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Gravity Well has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The skill icon appears to depict a model of a planetary system.
• In astrophysics, the term gravity well refers to the gravitational pull a body exerts in space.
• An event horizon is the boundary around a black hole at which escape from the black hole's gravity well becomes impossible.
• Gravity Well's signature sound is a crunch on every pulse.