Phantasmal Warlock

Phantasm. Summon illusions that deal damage and inflict conditions. — In-game description

Phantasmal Warlock

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Type

Phantasm

Summons

Illusionary Warlock

Game link

API

10216

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Phantasmal Warlock

Phantasm. Summon illusions that deal damage and inflict conditions.

 Damage (3x): 498 (0.45)^?

 Damage (3x): 249 (0.225)^?

₂ Torment (4s): 176 Damage, 254 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 1,200

 Illusions Summoned: 2

 Illusions Summoned: 1

— In-game description

Phantasm

Phantasm	Skill used	Effect
Illusionary Warlock	Mage Strike	Deals damage, applies torment.

Mechanics

• Each warlock phantasm hits 3 times and inflicts 2 stacks of Torment per hit.
• Phantasms have their own unique weapon strength that is independent of the player's equipped weapon rarity. The warlock has a weapon strength midpoint of 2877.

Related traits

Dueling

• Phantasmal Fury — Your phantasms have fury.

Chaos

• Chaotic Potency — Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a staff. Staff and trident skills gain reduced recharge.

Inspiration

• Sympathetic Visage — Phantasms take your conditions from you when summoned.
• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Illusions

• Persistence of Memory — When a phantasm becomes a clone, it transfers its boons to you.
• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
• Escape Artist — When a phantasm is created, grant it distortion.
• Phantasmal Haste — Phantasms spawn with quickness. Gain quickness when you create a phantasm.
• Phantasmal Force — Phantasms deal increased strike damage for each stack of might you have. Gain might when your phantasms become clones.

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.
• Stretched Time — Nearby allies gain boons for each clone you shatter. Grant boons to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• Seize the Moment — You and nearby allies gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Grant quickness to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• Chronophantasma — The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Virtuoso

• Jagged Mind — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
• Phantasmal Blades — Phantasms that successfully complete their attack launch a blade at their target and grant you fury when they expire.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	The phantasm summoned by this skill now inflicts torment instead of vulnerability.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 18 seconds to 15 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) WvW will now use the PvP version of the skill, which summons 1 warlock.
December 03, 2019	Reduced the number of warlocks summoned from 2 to 1 in PvP only. Increased the vulnerability applied per hit from 2 stacks to 4 stacks in PvP only.
May 22, 2018	The damage of this skill has been reduced by 50% in PvP and WvW.
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. This skill now summons two warlocks that channel a beam on your target, inflicting 2 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds. Each beam hits 3 times.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that caused this phantasm’s attack to not increase in damage against foes with certain conditions.
February 22, 2017	In addition to its previous effect, this skill now also fires Winds of Chaos projectiles at up to 3 unique targets within a radius of 600 of the caster.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Phantasm damage has been increased by 15%.
May 28, 2013	The damage skill fact now displays accurately.
December 14, 2012	Damage now matches the tooltip.
October 22, 2012	This illusion's recharge between attacks is now slightly longer.
October 07, 2012	Increased recharge to 20 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Phantasmal Warlock has been added to the game.

Trivia

• These phantasms wield a staff with the same skin as Antique weapons, but with the characteristic mesmeric pink transparency.