Lingering Thoughts

Spin forward and strike multiple times, inflicting conditions and leaving a mirage at your starting position. If an enemy is near the mirage when it expires, a clone is summoned. — In-game description

Lingering Thoughts

0.75¾  0.25¼  

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Specialization

Mirage

Weapon

Main hand axe

Type

Clone

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Spin forward and strike multiple times, inflicting conditions and leaving a mirage at your starting position. If an enemy is near the mirage when it expires, a clone is summoned.

  Damage (3x): 441 (1.2)^?

 ₃ Cripple (1s): -50% Movement Speed

 ₃ Torment (4s): 264 Damage, 382 Damage if Moving

  Number of Targets: 3

  Maximum Count: 2

  Count Recharge: 8 seconds

  Count Recharge: 12 seconds

  Combo Finisher: Whirl

  Range: 130

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Dueling

• Desperate Decoy — Cloak and leave a clone of yourself behind when struck while below the health threshold.
• Deceptive Evasion — Create a clone at your current position when you dodge.

Illusions

• Escape Artist — Create a clone when you gain stealth.

Mirage

• Self-Deception — Using a Deception skill will create a clone if you have any other clones active.
• Mirrored Axes — Reduce recharge of axe skills. Axe skills generate an additional phantom axe.

Notes

• This skill moves the user forward 360 units.
• The clone will spawn on the nearest target within 480 radius.
• Counts as 4 whirl finishers.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased ammo recharge from 10 seconds to 12 seconds.
December 11, 2018	The ammunition-recharge time of this skill has been split between game modes and has been increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds in PvP only.
November 07, 2017	Lowered aftercast by 0.1 second. Fixed a bug that caused this skill to show an incorrect casting time. Added a 0.25-second recharge between uses of this skill to prevent accidental double use.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Lingering Thoughts has been added to the game.