Time Warp

Glamour. Create an area that warps time, granting you and your allies quickness while slowing enemies. — In-game description

Time Warp

 

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Type

Glamour

Training cost

9 Hero points

Game link

API

10311, 10377

“

0.25¼  

120

75

75

 

Time Warp

Glamour. Create an area that warps time, granting you and your allies quickness while slowing enemies.

 Quickness (1s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Superspeed (10.5½s): Movement speed is greatly increased. Maximum duration: 10s

 Slow (1s): Skills and actions are slower.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Duration: 3 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 360

 Combo Field: Ethereal

 Range: 1,200

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Mechanics

• This skill isn't ground targeted when underwater, instead the effect is applied around the caster.
• Immediately grants its boons, followed by 5 pulses.

Related traits

Inspiration

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

Chronomancer

• Danger Time — Gain additional critical-hit damage against slowed enemies. This bonus also applies to your illusions.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 15, 2025	Reduced the duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
May 21, 2024	This skill no longer inflicts chilled.
February 14, 2023	This skill now also grants superspeed to allies and inflicts chill on enemies. Reduced cooldown from 120 seconds to 75 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Maximum targets reduced from 10 to 5.
May 11, 2021	Reduced cooldown from 180 seconds to 120 seconds. Reduced duration from 10 seconds to 5 seconds. This skill now applies 1 second of quickness and slow per pulse, for a total of six pulses over a 5-second duration.
July 30, 2019	This skill now uses different effects depending on whether the caster is an enemy or an ally.
February 22, 2017	The interval of quickness and slow that this skill applies has been increased from every 1 second to every 2 seconds. Quickness and slow duration have been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds. This skill now affects up to ten targets. This skill will now apply slow through an unblockable attack rather than directly applying through all defense.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill is now classified as a glamour. It now pulses 1 second of slow every second on foes in the affected area, in addition to its previous effect of quickness on allies.
January 27, 2015	The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 210 seconds to 180 seconds.
July 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented the casting animation from playing if the player had a greatsword equipped.
May 20, 2014	Added a skill fact for number of targets: 5. Added a skill fact for pulses: 11.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the skill to enter cooldown twice.
June 25, 2013	Time Warp has had its underwater aftercast reduced by 1.1 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Time Warp has been added to the game.