Signet of Midnight

Signet Passive: Improves expertise. Signet Active: Blind nearby foes and stealth yourself. — In-game description

Signet of Midnight

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Signet

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

10234

Gallery
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Signet of Midnight

Signet Passive: Improves expertise.
Signet Active: Blind nearby foes and stealth yourself.

 Signet of Midnight: 180 Expertise

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Stealth (2s): Grants stealth.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

 Breaks Stun

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Dueling

• 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

• Prismatic Understanding — Increased stealth duration from mesmer skills. Gain random boons while you are in stealth.

Inspiration

• Blurred Inscriptions — Signets have improved active effects, and activating one grants you distortion.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 30 seconds to 35 seconds.
December 11, 2018	This signet's passive effect now grants 180 expertise at level 80 instead of a flat condition duration in order to be consistent with other signet effects.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: The signet's active effect now grants stealth for 2 seconds but no longer applies vulnerability or cripple. The recharge has been increased from 25 seconds to 30 seconds.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
July 26, 2016	This skill now delivers an unblockable attack and will no longer apply blindness through evade. This skill now applies 10 stacks of vulnerability as well as cripple for 5 seconds, in addition to blinding enemies.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: The passive effect of this signet now grants 20% condition duration instead of 10% boon duration.
June 25, 2013	Increased the blind duration to 5 seconds. Decreased the cooldown to 30 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Signet of Midnight has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.