Mind Stab

Stab an illusionary greatsword through the ground to cripple foes at your targeted location. — In-game description

Mind Stab

 

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Greatsword

Game link

API

API

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0.25¼  10  

Stab an illusionary greatsword through the ground to cripple foes at your targeted location.

  Damage: 726 (1.8)^?

  Damage: 403 (1.0)^?

  Cripple (5s): -50% Movement Speed

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 240

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.

Virtuoso

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

Notes

• Movement interrupts the activation time.

Bug:

Using this skill interrupts your own activation time for other skills that are not healing or control skills.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 02, 2022	In PvE only, increased damage multiplier from 1.0 to 1.8.
March 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.7 to 1.0 in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Cooldown reduced from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. This skill no longer removes boons, but instead inflicts cripple for 5 seconds. Competitive splits: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.7.
September 09, 2014	Increased the radius of the attack to 240. Increased the damage of the attack by 17%.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the aftercast by .4 seconds.
September 14, 2012	Improved responsiveness.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Mind Stab has been added to the game.