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

   

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Specialization

Chronomancer

Slot

Elite

Type

Well

Training cost

25 Hero points

Game link

API

30359

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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.

 Pulse Damage: 292 (1.1)^?

 Pulse Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Final Damage: 558 (2.1)^?

 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

 Defiance Break: 350[sic]

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Domination

• Illusion of Vulnerability — Inflict vulnerability when you interrupt a foe. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Furious Interruption — Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
• 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.
• Power Block — Interrupts deal damage and inflict weakness. Enemy skills that you interrupt have an increased cooldown. Cannot increase recharge of skills with no recharge or skills on creatures with defiance bars. This trait can only damage enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Dueling

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Chaos

• Chaotic Interruption — When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random. Only affects weapon skills that are recharging.

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

Bug:

The Defiance Break sums up to 350 based due to the listed 1 second knockdown while the actual knockdown duration is 3 seconds and thus the skill deals 550 defiance bar damage in total.

• This Well pulses 3 times, followed by a final "effect".
  • The pulse damage is applied on each of the 3 pulses.
  • The final damage is applied (similarly to a pulse) 1 second after the 3rd pulse.
• 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
May 02, 2023	Increased pulse power coefficient from 0.8 to 1.1 in PvE only. Reduced final power coefficient from 3.0 to 2.1 in PvE only.
November 29, 2022	(PvE only) Reduced cooldown from 90 seconds to 60 seconds. Increased power coefficient for pulsing strikes from 0.6 to 0.8. Increased power coefficient for the final strike from 2.4 to 3.0.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
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.