Illusion of Drowning

Sink enemies around your target with an illusionary anchor. — In-game description

Illusion of Drowning

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Trident

Game link

API

10260

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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Illusion of Drowning

Sink enemies around your target with an illusionary anchor.

 Damage: 469 (1.28)^?

 Sink: 2 seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

See also: Interrupt#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 Potency — Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a staff. Staff and trident skills gain reduced recharge.
• 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.

Notes

• Though not listed on the tooltip, the Sink effect does 200 Defiance Break

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	The damage inflicted by this skill has been increased by 33% and now affects up to 5 enemies in an area around the player's initial target.
April 15, 2014	Changed the skill from multi-hit to single-hit, increasing damage to compensate. Updated the skill fact to reflect this.
May 28, 2013	No longer able to affect targets at infinite range. Now respects line of sight.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Illusion of Drowning has been added to the game.