Phantasmal Warlock

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

Phantasmal Warlock

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Type

Phantasm

Summons

Illusionary Warlock

Game link

API

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Phantasm. Summon illusions that deal damage and inflict vulnerability.

  Damage (3x): 498 (0.45)^?

  Damage (3x): 249 (0.225)^?

 ₂ Vulnerability (5s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage

 ₄ Vulnerability (5s): +4% Incoming Damage, +4% Incoming Condition Damage

  Number of Targets: 3

  Range: 1,200

  Illusions Summoned: 2

  Illusions Summoned: 1

— In-game description

Phantasm

Skill used	Effect
Mage Strike	Deals damage, applies vulnerability.

Related traits

Domination

• Fragility — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.

Dueling

• Phantasmal Fury — Your phantasms have fury.

Chaos

• Illusionary Defense — Gain a stacking damage reduction whenever you summon an illusion. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
• 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 when they are first summoned.
• Illusionary Inspiration — 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 gives increased condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
• 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.
• 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

• Phantasmal Blades — Phantasms that successfully complete their attack launch a blade at their target and grant you fury when they expire.

Notes

• Each warlock phantasm hits 3 times and inflicts 2 vulnerability 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
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.