List of mesmer traits

This is a list of mesmer traits.

Domination

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"My mind is a dangerous place."

Specializing in Domination gives the mesmer relentless prowess in battle, focusing on disrupting foes before they can strike. They chip away at their enemy's boons, inflicting vulnerability and weakening them.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Illusion of Vulnerability		Inflict vulnerability when you interrupt a foe. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
Major Adept	Bountiful Blades		Improves greatsword skills. Mirror Blade bounces additional times, and Phantasmal Berserker summons an additional berserker and deals less damage.
Major Adept	Empowered Illusions		Illusions deal increased strike damage.
Major Adept	Rending Shatter		Shatter skills inflict vulnerability on hit.
Minor Master	Dazzling		Dazing or stunning a foe also applies vulnerability.
Major Master	Shattered Concentration		Shatter skills also remove a boon on hit.
Major Master	Egotism		Deal increased strike damage to foes with a lower health percentage than you.
Major Master	Furious Interruption	3	Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
Minor Grandmaster	Fragility		Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
Major Grandmaster	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.
Major Grandmaster	Mental Anguish		Shatter skills deal more damage. This bonus damage is doubled against foes that are not activating skills.
Major Grandmaster	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

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"Dancing through the battlefield, swift as a fleeting memory."

Swift and ruthless, Dueling enhances your phantasm's damage output as well as your overall critical hit capability. Dodge your enemies with ease and gain additional bonuses after successfully evading attacks.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Critical Infusion	10	Gain vigor when delivering a critical hit.
Major Adept	Phantasmal Fury		Your phantasms have fury.
Major Adept	Desperate Decoy		Cloak and leave a clone of yourself behind when struck while below the health threshold.
Major Adept	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.
Minor Master	Sharper Images		Illusions inflict bleeding on critical hits.
Major Master	Blinding Dissipation		Shatter skill 2 inflicts blindness.
Major Master	Evasive Mirror	10.5½	Reflect projectiles after a successful evasion.
Major Master	Fencer's Finesse		Gain a stacking ferocity effect when you or one of your illusions strikes with a one-handed sword or a spear. Reduces recharge on sword and spear skills.
Minor Grandmaster	Master Fencer	8	Grant fury to yourself and nearby allies when you critically strike an enemy.
Major Grandmaster	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.
Major Grandmaster	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.
Major Grandmaster	Deceptive Evasion		Create a clone at your current position when you dodge.

Chaos

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"Where some see chaos, I see opportunity."

Focusing heavily on disorienting their enemies at the height of battle, a mesmer's chaos magic enhances the application of boons—often at random—and other improvements to personal defense. It also provides bonuses to condition and boon duration.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Metaphysical Rejuvenation	15	Gain regeneration when struck while below the health threshold.
Major Adept	Method of Madness		Cast Lesser Chaos Storm when you use a healing skill.
Major Adept	Illusionary Defense		Gain a stacking damage reduction whenever you summon an illusion. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
Major Adept	Master of Manipulation		Manipulations grant aegis to yourself and nearby allies.
Minor Master	Illusionary Membrane		While you have regeneration, condition damage you deal is increased, and condition damage you take is reduced.
Major Master	Auspicious Anguish		Convert damaging conditions to boons whenever you gain Distortion or become disabled. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Major Master	Chaotic Transference	15	Chaos Armor grants protection when cast. When you gain protection, also gain regeneration.
Major Master	Chaotic Potency		Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a staff. Staff and trident skills gain reduced recharge.
Minor Grandmaster	Chaotic Persistence		Gain concentration and expertise while affected by regeneration.
Major Grandmaster	Chaotic Interruption	1	When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random. Only affects weapon skills that are recharging.
Major Grandmaster	Prismatic Understanding		Increased stealth duration from mesmer skills. Gain random boons while you are in stealth.
Major Grandmaster	Bountiful Disillusionment		Gain stability when you use a Shatter skill. Gain an additional boon based on which Shatter is used.

Inspiration

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"True beauty is an inspiration to all who behold."

Inspiration magic focuses on healing yourself and nearby allies, as well as improving the potency of your phantasms. It also grants access to additional reflection abilities and strengthens your mantra and signet-based skills.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Mender's Purity		Cast Lesser Power Cleanse when you use a healing skill.
Major Adept	Medic's Feedback		Cast Feedback while reviving an ally. Feedback revives allies inside its dome.
Major Adept	Restorative Mantras		Heals allies around you when you cast a Mantra.
Major Adept	Sympathetic Visage		Phantasms take your conditions when they are first summoned.
Minor Master	Inspiring Distortion		Grant aegis to other nearby allies whenever you give yourself distortion or use Shatter skill 4.
Major Master	Warden's Feedback		Focus weapon skills reflect projectiles. Reduces recharge on focus weapon skills.
Major Master	Restorative Illusions		Heal yourself and lose conditions when you use a Shatter skill.
Major Master	Temporal Enchanter		Glamour skills last longer. When you cast a glamour, allies near the glamour gain resistance and superspeed.
Minor Grandmaster	Healing Prism	10	When healing yourself, nearby allies are also healed. Gain healing power based on a portion of your power.
Major Grandmaster	Mental Defense		Cast Lesser Phantasmal Defender on your attacker when you successfully block or evade an attack.
Major Grandmaster	Illusionary Inspiration		Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
Major Grandmaster	Blurred Inscriptions		Signets have improved active effects, and activating one grants you distortion.

Illusions

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"Or am I an illusion, too?"

Illusion magic specializes in the creation and enhancement of your clones and phantasms. It also improves the power of your shatter skills, granting a vicious and elusive advantage in battle.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Cry of Pain		Shatter skill 2 inflicts more stacks of confusion for an increased duration.
Major Adept	Shatter Storm		Shatter skill 1 becomes an ammo skill.
Major Adept	Persistence of Memory		When a phantasm becomes a clone, it transfers its boons to you.
Major Adept	The Pledge		Reduces recharge on torch skills. Flame bursts from torch skills inflict additional burning.
Minor Master	Compounding Power		Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and gives increased condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
Major Master	Escape Artist		Create a clone when you gain stealth.
Major Master	Phantasmal Haste		Phantasms spawn with quickness. Gain quickness when you create a phantasm.
Major Master	Maim the Disillusioned		Shatter skills inflict torment on hit.
Minor Grandmaster	Master of Misdirection		Shatter skills gain recharge reduction.
Major Grandmaster	Phantasmal Force		Phantasms deal increased strike damage for each stack of might you have. Gain might when your phantasms become clones.
Major Grandmaster	Master of Fragmentation		Your Shatter skills are improved.
Major Grandmaster	Malicious Sorcery		Increases attack speed while wielding a scepter. Reduces recharge on scepter skills.

Chronomancer

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"And once more..."

Chronomancers manipulate the battlefield through the use of wells, creating brief ripples in time that give their allies various boons and slowing your enemies. They also have access to the powerful alacrity boon, reducing skill cooldowns.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Shield Proficiency		You can wield shield items.
Minor Adept	Time Splitter		Gain access to chronomancer shatter skills and Wells.
Major Adept	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.
Major Adept	Time Catches Up		Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.
Major Adept	All's Well That Ends Well		Wells heal allies when they end.
Minor Master	Flow of Time		Gain alacrity for each clone you shatter.
Major Master	Danger Time		Gain additional critical-hit chance against slowed enemies. This bonus also applies to your illusions.
Major Master	Illusionary Reversion		Shatter skills generate a clone if you have enough clones present.
Major Master	Improved Alacrity		Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity.
Minor Grandmaster	Time Marches On		You move 25% faster. The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%.
Major Grandmaster	Stretched Time	3	The first pulse of a well also applies alacrity to allies near the well. Tides of Time now also applies alacrity in an area when cast.
Major Grandmaster	Seize the Moment		You and nearby allies gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Tides of Time now also applies quickness in an area when cast.
Major Grandmaster	Chronophantasma		The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Mirage

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"A ripple in the sand, you see me no more."

Cloaking themselves in rich desert sands, the mirage can execute skills and strike their foes while simultaneously dodging incoming attacks. You dance between your illusions, taking their place and deceiving your enemies.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Axe Proficiency		You can wield an axe in your main hand.
Minor Adept	Mirage Cloak		Gain Mirage Cloak instead of dodge rolling. Ambush skills become available for a short time whenever you gain Mirage Cloak. Gain access to Deception skills.
Major Adept	Self-Deception		Using a Deception skill will create a clone if you have any other clones active.
Major Adept	Renewing Oasis		Gain regeneration when you gain Mirage Cloak. The duration of incoming damaging conditions is reduced while you are regenerating.
Major Adept	Riddle of Sand		When entering combat, your first Ambush attack applies confusion. This ability refreshes when you use a Shatter skill.
Minor Master	Nomad's Endurance		Shatter skills give vigor, and vigor grants condition damage.
Major Master	Desert Distortion		Illusions shattered by Distortion become Mirage Mirrors. Ambush skills become available for a short time whenever you grant distortion to yourself.
Major Master	Mirage Mantle		Gain protection when Mirage Cloak ends.
Major Master	Mirrored Axes		Reduce recharge of axe skills. Axe skills generate an additional phantom axe.
Minor Grandmaster	Speed of Sand		Mirage Cloak increases your movement speed.
Major Grandmaster	Infinite Horizon		When you gain Mirage Cloak, your illusions also gain it.
Major Grandmaster	Elusive Mind		Dodging removes conditions.
Major Grandmaster	Dune Cloak		Use Sand Shards when Mirage Cloak ends.

Virtuoso

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"I imagine blades, you bleed."

The Virtuoso forgoes traditional illusions in favor of psychic daggers, wielded by the sheer power of the mind. Unleash a volley of sharp blades, then outwit your foes with a sharp mind.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Dagger Proficiency		You can wield daggers.
Minor Adept	Psychic Blades		Whenever a clone would be summoned, you instead stock a blade. Blades persist indefinitely until used. Your shatters are replaced with Bladesongs that consume your stocked blades, but still count as shatters for the purposes of core traits. While out of combat, you will automatically stock a blade every 10 seconds.
Major Adept	Bladeturn Refrain		Bladesongs grant aegis.
Major Adept	Mental Focus		Strike damage is increased against foes within the range threshold.
Major Adept	Jagged Mind		Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
Minor Master	Deadly Blades		Blades inflict vulnerability on critical hits. After successfully casting a Bladesong, increase all damage dealt for a short time. This does not stack.
Major Master	Duelist's Reversal	3	Blocking or dodging an attack grants boons.
Major Master	Phantasmal Blades		Phantasms that successfully complete their attack launch a blade at their target and grant you fury when they expire.
Major Master	Sharpening Sorrow		Gain fury when you activate Bladesong Sorrow. Fury increases your expertise.
Minor Grandmaster	Quiet Intensity		Fury gives an increased critical chance. Gain ferocity based on your vitality.
Major Grandmaster	Psychic Riposte	3	Blocking or dodging an attack stocks blades and causes your next Bladesong to be unblockable.
Major Grandmaster	Infinite Forge		Automatically stock blades while in combat.
Major Grandmaster	Bloodsong		Bleeding you apply deals increased damage. Stock a blade after applying enough stacks of bleeding to foes.

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