Magic Bullet

Hit up to four foes with a single shot, inflicting confusion on each foe. In addition, the first target is stunned, the second is dazed, and the third is blinded. — In-game description

Magic Bullet

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand pistol

Game link

API

10229

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0.5½  

25

20

 

Magic Bullet

Hit up to four foes with a single shot, inflicting confusion on each foe. In addition, the first target is stunned, the second is dazed, and the third is blinded.

 Damage: 73 (0.2)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

₃ Confusion (5s): 165 Damage, 148 Damage on Skill Use

₃ Confusion (3s): 99 Damage, 148 Damage on Skill Use

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Daze: 2 seconds

 Stun: 20.5½ seconds

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Number of Bounces: 3

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Defiance Break: 450[sic]

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

See also: Interrupt#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.
• 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.
• 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

• Chaotic Interruption — When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random. Only affects weapon skills that are recharging.

Illusions

• Malicious Sorcery — Confusion you inflict has increased duration. When you dodge an attack, inflict confusion on your attacker.

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.

Virtuoso

• Jagged Mind — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.

Notes

Bug:

The Defiance Break sums up the excluding stun and daze value to 382 rather than displaying 240 for stun and 200 for daze.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
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) Reduced power coefficient from 0.2 to 0.01. Reduced stun duration from 2.5 seconds to 2 seconds.
April 23, 2019	Stun duration for this skill has been increased from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
February 06, 2018	This skill now inflicts confusion on each impact. Confusion has been increased from 1 stack to 3 stacks with a duration of 5 seconds in PvE and 3 seconds in PvP and WvW.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Pistol skills used by you and your illusions have had their range increased to 1200. Mesmer skills that create bouncing projectiles will now have them bounce one additional time.
May 20, 2014	Added a skill fact for number of bounces: 2. Updated the skill facts to show increased bounces when traited with Illusionary Elasticity. Added a skill fact to show the confusion duration on the fourth target when traited.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the aftercast by .2 seconds.
March 26, 2013	The traited version is now a projectile combo finisher to match the base skill's functionality. No longer hits targets beyond maximum range.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Magic Bullet has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The magic bullet theory is a disparaging name critics have given the single-bullet theory that the Warren Commission proposed to explain how a single bullet could have killed John F. Kennedy and injured Texas Governor John Connally.
• This skill was renamed from Trick Shot to Magic Bullet with the third Beta Weekend Event, likely to avoid confusion with the thief skill.