Phantasmal Berserker

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Phantasmal Berserker

0.75¾  

15

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Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Greatsword

 

Type

Phantasm

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Phantasm. Throw an illusionary greatsword that inflicts vulnerability in a line and then returns to you. Create a phantasm that uses a whirling attack to damage and cripple foes.

  Damage (4x): 1,020 (0.92)^?

  Greatsword damage: 161 (0.4)^?

 ₄ Cripple (1s): -50% Movement Speed

 ₃ Vulnerability (3s): 3% Incoming Damage, 3% Incoming Condition Damage

  Number of Impacts: 4

  Number of Targets: 5

  Pierces

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description ^[?]

Phantasm

Skill used		Effect
Imagined Burden	6	Deals damage, cripples, and causes a whirl finisher.

Notes

• Similar to the Whirlwind Attack this skill emulates, the number of hits that the phantasm actually lands is dependent on the size and position of the target relative to the Phantasm.
• Phantasms have their own unique weapon strength that is independent of the player's equipped weapon rarity. The berserker has a weapon strength range of 2732-3021, with the midpoint being 2876.5.

Related traits

See also: Phantasm#Related traits

Domination

•  Imagined Burden - Greatsword skills other than the Spatial Surge gain recharge reduction and inflict cripple. Phantasmal Berserker summons an additional berserker but deals less damage.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 06, 2018	Phantasms can no longer be shattered and no longer count toward your maximum illusion count. Phantasms are destroyed and then replaced by clones after completing their unique attack or if their attack is interrupted. Increased the damage of the thrown greatsword by 100%. Reduced the recharge from 20 seconds to 15 seconds in PvE.
November 07, 2017	Reduced casting time from 1 second to 0.75 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to not display legendary-weapon projectile effects. The attack from this phantasm now has a consistent move distance and is unaffected by enhancements that change movement speed.
May 16, 2017	This skill now fires a boomerang projectile that inflicts 3 stacks of vulnerability for 3 seconds in addition to summoning a phantasm.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Phantasm damage has been increased by 15%.
June 25, 2013	Fixed an issue that was causing the damage from this summoned phantasm to not display. Updated the berserker's attack to make it more reliably hit a static target with all 4 of the attacks.
December 14, 2012	Damage now matches the tooltip.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Phantasmal Berserker has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The Illusionary Berserker's greatsword resembles Vision of the Mists.