Mimic

Manipulation. The next utility skill you use has significantly reduced recharge, and Mimic's recharge is increased by the original recharge of the affected skill. Mimic's recharge cannot be reset by other mesmer skills. — In-game description

Mimic

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Manipulation

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

29578

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0.25¼  20  

Mimic

Manipulation. The next utility skill you use has significantly reduced recharge, and Mimic's recharge is increased by the original recharge of the affected skill.
Mimic's recharge cannot be reset by other mesmer skills.

 Echo (10s): Your next utility skill will recharge faster.

 Recharge reduced to: 1 second

— In-game description

Related traits

Chaos

• Master of Manipulation — Manipulations grant aegis to yourself and nearby allies.

Notes

• Mimic only reduces the recharge of utility skills. It does not affect Shatters, nor healing skills, nor elite skills, nor trait cooldowns.
• As noted in the skill description, Mimic's recharge is completely unaffected by Continuum Split.
• The effect will be used when casting mantras. This will affect the cooldown, but not the charge cooldown. Since mantra cooldowns are 4 seconds or less, mimic is wasted on mantras.
• The effect will not be used when casting Portal Entre. It will be used as normal when casting Portal Exeunt.
• Using Mimic before activating Blink can make yourself a great way to escape from dangerous situations or to move faster on the map by "skipping" long distances

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.
July 16, 2019	The boon that allows faster skill recharge is now removed prematurely if the caster enters or exits a transformation or uses a mount.
March 05, 2019	Reduced the recharge time of this skill from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
December 11, 2018	This skill's recharge time has been reduced from 75 seconds to 40 seconds and is now increased by the recharge time of the utility skill that it affects. The recharge time of this skill cannot be reset by other mesmer skills.
October 18, 2016	The recharge time of this ability has been reduced from 90 seconds to 75 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now causes the next utility-slot skill you use within 10 seconds to recharge in 1 second. Increased recharge to 90 seconds.
September 09, 2014	Mimic now will copies all boons from the target foe to the player.
July 01, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the underwater channel for this skill to be shorter than the land channel.
June 03, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the underwater channel for this skill to be shorter than the on-land channel.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Mimic has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Mimic was originally implemented as the engineer skill Absorb, which stored an enemy projectile for later use.
• This skill underwent a major overhaul as a part of the September 2014 Feature Pack.
• It was completely redesigned during the 23rd of June 2015 Specialization Rebalance.
• The current function of this skill is identical to Glyph of Renewal from the original Guild Wars.