Lesser Chaos Storm

Create a magical storm at the target location that applies random conditions to foes and boons to allies. The first strike of the storm dazes foes. — In-game description

Lesser Chaos Storm

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Profession

Mesmer (trait skill list)

Trait

 Method of Madness

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Create a magical storm at the target location that applies random conditions to foes and boons to allies. The first strike of the storm dazes foes.

  Damage: 88 (0.33)^?

  Aegis (3s): Block the next incoming attack.

  Resolution (3s): Incoming condition damage decreased by 33%.

  Swiftness (3s): +33% Movement Speed

  Chilled (1s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

  Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

  Weakness (2s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

  Daze: 1 second

  Duration: 5 seconds

  Radius: 240

  Combo Field: Ethereal

  Defiance Break: 100

  Range: 1,200

— 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.
• Dazzling — Dazing or stunning a foe also applies vulnerability.
• 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.
• 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

• Method of Madness — Cast Lesser Chaos Storm when you use a healing skill.
• 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.
• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.

Notes

• This skill can hit enemies up to 6 times - with the first strike and then in 5 pulses over 5 seconds. The first strike and each pulse deal the listed damage and inflict either Chilled, Poison or Weakness on enemies while applying either Aegis, Resolution or Swiftness to allies. Additionally, the first strike also dazes enemies.
• Hits up to 5 targets at once.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
May 11, 2021	The Retaliation boon has been renamed Resolution.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Method of Madness: Increased cooldown from 35 seconds to 75 seconds.
October 01, 2019	This skill now always dazes on the first strike but can no longer randomly daze on other strikes. Added a skill fact to show Chaos Storm's duration.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Descent into Madness: The skill fired by this trait has been renamed to Lesser Chaos Storm. This trait now casts Lesser Chaos Storm when you use your healing skill in addition to when you take falling damage.
October 15, 2013	Descent into Madness: Fixed a bug with the Chaos Storm triggered by this trait to properly deal the correct damage.
October 15, 2013	Facts have been added to trait tooltips. Skills that are fired off from traits will now be displayed in the tooltip. Descent into Madness: Fixed the Chaos Storm created by this skill to match the actual Chaos Storm functionality.

See also

•   Chaos Storm