Illusion of Life

Manipulation. Give allies Illusion of Life at the target location, allowing them to get up from downed state and keep fighting. Fully revives allies if they kill a foe. — In-game description

Illusion of Life

10.25¼  75    

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Manipulation

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

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Manipulation. Give allies Illusion of Life at the target location, allowing them to get up from downed state and keep fighting. Fully revives allies if they kill a foe.

  Illusion of Life (effect) (15s): Illusion of Life (effect)

  Number of Targets: 3

  Radius: 240

  Prevents Capture-Point Contribution

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Chaos

• Master of Manipulation — Manipulations gain recharge reduction and grant superspeed to yourself and allies affected by them.

Notes

• Affected allies are temporarily alive and will return to downed state if they do not rally, incurring further downed penalty.
• If cast on allies with maximum downed penalty they will become defeated unless they rally.
• Allies return to life with 50% hp.

Bug:

This skill does not rally properly when you are fully healed

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 17, 2021	Fixed a bug that could cause affected allies to fail to be fully revived when killing enemies in certain content types or locations.
October 01, 2019	Reduced the amount of time a resurrected ally is invulnerable from 5 seconds to 1 second. This skill should now target more effectively in group situations.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 75-second cooldown in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 120 seconds to 75 seconds in PvP and WvW.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Manipulation skill range has been increased to 1200.
January 27, 2015	The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 130 seconds to 120 seconds.
September 09, 2014	This skill can now be used underwater, centered on the mesmer's location.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that would reset the cooldown for this skill when Far-Reaching Manipulations was equipped. Fixed a bug in which the skill would count the player as one of the max targets. Added a skill fact for number of targets: 3.
August 06, 2013	Updated the animation and effects on this skill to make it easier to read when it is being cast in combat. The timing and effectiveness remains unchanged.
June 25, 2013	Fixed an issue so that Far-Reaching Manipulations no longer reduces the cast time of this skill.
April 30, 2013	Players can no longer circumvent the vengeance properties. Increased cast time by 0.5 seconds.
January 28, 2013	This skill should no longer allow players to rally off of creatures that grant no experience.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Illusion of Life has been added to the game.