Mantra of Distraction

Mantra. Meditate, charging a spell that will daze your target. Diversion's recharge time is partially refunded when this spell fully charges. — In-game description

Animation

Mantra of Distraction

20.25¼  12  

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Mantra

Sequence

 → 

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Mantra. Meditate, charging a spell that will daze your target. Diversion's recharge time is partially refunded when this spell fully charges.

  Recharge Time Reduced: 15 seconds

  Recharge Time Reduced: 10 seconds

  Number of Casts: 2

— 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.
• Furious Interruption — Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
• 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

• 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.

Inspiration

• Restorative Mantras — Heals allies around you when you cast a Mantra.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	Mesmer mantras now require an initial casting time to prepare the mantra charges. The effects they grant when completing the initial cast are as follows: Mantra of Distraction: Reduce the recharge time of Diversion.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
May 11, 2021	Mantras no longer need to be prepared before use. They regenerate ammunition normally.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced diversion recharge from 15 seconds to 10 seconds.
July 30, 2019	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from reducing the recharge of Time Sink.
April 23, 2019	Daze time for this skill has been increased from 1 second to 1.5 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Mantra skills will no longer display their number of charges in the enhancement bar and will instead use the ammo system. Reduced cast time by 0.5 seconds. Mantras no longer grant bonus Toughness while channeling. Ammo count has been set to 2. Recharges between casts have not changed. Mantra of Distraction: When fully charged, this skill reduces the recharge of Diversion by 15 seconds.
July 26, 2016	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 20 seconds to 12 seconds.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Fixed a bug that prevented the toughness granted by channeling a mantra from scaling properly with your effective level.
July 28, 2015	Reduced this skill's recharge from 30 seconds to 20 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused mantras to begin recharging as soon as the preparation skill was complete instead of when the last charge was expended.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Mantras now give 600 toughness while channeling them.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that allowed players to have mantra charges when the associated mantra was not equipped.
October 15, 2013	Reduced the underwater cast time to 2.75 seconds to match the on-land cast time.
April 30, 2013	Reduced mantra cast times from 3.25 seconds to 2.75 seconds.
December 14, 2012	Decreased all Mantra cast times by one second.
October 07, 2012	Added a much faster breakout for mesmer underwater mantras.
October 01, 2012	Updated mantras to now function underwater as they do above water. They also no longer go on full recharge when interrupted.
September 25, 2012	Fixed text on "readied" mantra buffs.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Mantra of Distraction has been added to the game.

Gallery

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  Skill animation (open to play).