Mirage Advance

Deception. Shadowstep and unleash an attack that blinds and dazes your target and nearby foes. You may reactivate this skill to return to your original position. — In-game description

Mirage Advance

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Specialization

Mirage

Slot

Utility

Type

Deception

Movement

Shadowstep

Sequence

 → 

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

42851

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0.75¾  25  

Mirage Advance

Deception. Shadowstep and unleash an attack that blinds and dazes your target and nearby foes. You may reactivate this skill to return to your original position.

 Damage: 399 (1.5)^?

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Daze: 2 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Defiance Break: 200

 Range: 900

— 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.
• 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.

Mirage

• Self-Deception — Using a Deception skill will create a clone if you have any other clones active.

Notes

• Applies  Mirage Advance for 10 seconds.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	This skill now dazes enemies that it strikes.
May 08, 2018	This skill can now be used underwater.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Mirage Advance has been added to the game.