Portal Entre

Glamour. Create an entry portal at your location that teleports allies to your exit portal. (Creating a new entrance portal while you have an active portal will destroy the active portal.) — In-game description

Portal Entre

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Glamour

Movement

Teleport

Sequence

 → 

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

10197

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72  

Portal Entre

Glamour. Create an entry portal at your location that teleports allies to your exit portal.
(Creating a new entrance portal while you have an active portal will destroy the active portal.)

 Range Threshold: 5,000

 Duration: 60 seconds

 Duration: 30 seconds

— In-game description

Mechanics

The portals are indestructible, untargetable objects which can teleport any allied players up to 20 times when interacted with either portal. The distance between two portals is restricted to 5,000 in PvE/WvW and 6,000 in SPvP.

After creating the initial portal with Portal Entre, the mesmer gains  Portal Weaving effect and has 60 seconds to activate   Portal Exeunt, which lasts 10 seconds after a short activation delay. Recharge time for Portal Entre begins upon activation, and it resets to full recharge when the Portal Exeunt is used. Portals become brightly lit when they can be interacted with.

Skill   Mimic can be used to reset the recharge by casting it before Portal Exeunt; in that case, if Portal Entre is used a second time while  Portal Uses is still active, the original portal will disappear immediately. If Portal Entre is instead used after Portal Uses expires, the original portal can still be used for a brief moment, thereby allowing portals to be chained.

This skill is frequently used to bypass jumping puzzles when the reward chest's area overlooks the ground. After the Mesmer gets to the reward chest (possibly by legitimately completing the JP), they can cast Portal Entre at their location, drop/glide down to the ground, then cast Portal Exeunt and use it to teleport themselves and others back up to the reward chest.

Along with the Prototype Position Rewinder item and Thief's Shadow Portal skill, Mesmer's Portal can also be used to reverse a mistake in jumping puzzles. Before attempting a tricky jump, Portal Entre can be cast at the Mesmer's location. If the jump is missed and the Mesmer falls, but survives, they can cast Portal Exeunt where they land and teleport back to their previous location.

Related traits

Inspiration

• Temporal Enchanter — When you cast a glamour, allies near the glamour gain resistance and superspeed.

Gallery

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  An inactive and active portal.

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  A portal cast by an enemy player.

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  The unique portal context action interface.

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  The previous uniquely colored portal context action interface.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 30, 2019	This skill now uses different effects depending on whether the caster is an enemy or an ally.
December 11, 2018	The duration of time the mesmer has to place Portal Exeunt has been split between games modes. The duration has been reduced from 60 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP and WvW, but remains unchanged in PvE.
December 15, 2015	Mesmer portal tracking is now removed when a raid encounter begins.
September 29, 2015	Updated this skill to show an icon for the duration that you have to place the exit portal. Fixed a bug that could cause a noninteractable portal entrance to remain in the world if the mesmer died before casting the Portal Exeunt.
July 29, 2015	Fixed an issue that allowed players to have zero cooldown on reentering the portal when under the effects of resistance.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Attempting to create a second portal entrance while you have an active portal will destroy the active portal. Reduced the recharge on glamour skills by 20%.
April 15, 2014	Added a range threshold skill fact.
February 26, 2013	Mesmer Portals can no longer be interacted with when there is an obstruction between them and the player.
November 15, 2012	This skill's recharge has been increased to 90 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Portal Entre has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The skill's sound effect is the theme from Guild Wars played backwards on a prototype music box with echo added. Maclaine Diemer posted a video showing the prototype in response to a Reddit thread.

See also

Skills

•   Create Teleporter
•   Portal Entrance

Items

• Experimental Teleportation Gun
• Prototype Position Rewinder
• Watchwork Portal Device
• White Mantle Portal Device