Illusionary Leap

Clone. Summon an illusion that leaps at your target, crippling them. After the initial leap, the clone will execute the Mind Slash sword chain. — In-game description

Illusionary Leap

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword

Type

Clone

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

10173

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0.5½  12  

Illusionary Leap

Clone. Summon an illusion that leaps at your target, crippling them. After the initial leap, the clone will execute the Mind Slash sword chain.

 Damage: 1 (0.003)^?

 Cripple (1s): -50% Movement Speed

₂ Vulnerability (5s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Grants Illusionary Leap for 5 seconds.
• This skill creates the clone adjacent to the mesmer’s target.
• Upon activation, a sword clone is created and only all existing clones created by this skill will dash ~800 range units towards the target, each applying 1s crippled to the target if they hit.
• If this skill is used outside of range, no clone will be created and Swap will be unavailable. However, any pre-existing clones made from this skill will still dash ~800 range units towards the skill's target and cripple.
• This skill does not apply vulnerability; the Mind Slash used by the clone does.
• This skill may be cancelled nearly immediately after activation with no loss in functionality, resulting in ~1.5s faster total recharge.
• This skill is replaced by   Blade Leap for Virtuoso.

Related traits

Domination

• Fragility — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.

Dueling

• 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.

Inspiration

• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Illusions

• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.

Trivia

• Early beta versions of this skill used the following icon:

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 06, 2018	Reduced the aftercast by 0.15 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the delay before the clone is summoned by about 0.25 seconds to allow players to start casting this skill while moving within range and not have it fail. The speed of attack of Illusion has been increased by about 0.35 seconds to allow for better tracking against moving targets.
January 13, 2015	Removed the ability to use this skill in midair.
September 09, 2014	This skill now creates the clone adjacent to the mesmer's target instead of at the mesmer's location. The initial cast of this skill no longer acts as a Leap finisher, though Swap retains its leap functionality. Added messaging if the skill is cast out of range of the target.
July 01, 2014	Fixed a bug that allowed players to swap places with their clone after it was destroyed.
June 25, 2013	Fixed an exploit that allowed for more clone generation than intended.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Illusionary Leap has been added to the game.