User:MintyDemise/Minty Elite Specs/Veil Weaver

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Beauty, Wonder, Guilt, Obsession. Madness touches all and I encompass madness.

— The Veil Weaver

Veil Weavers are illusionists who create effects from wearing their illusions upon themselves, creating various effects by overloading the sensory input in the mind of their enemies that look at them. A Mesmer can activate their Veils after a short channel that continuously pulses its effects into their location environment to any enemies or even allies viewing the mesmer. Additional illusory energy can be channeled to increase the effectiveness of the Veil's effects for a short period in exchange for putting the veil on a cooldown. Thematically Veil Weavers position themselves on the battlefield as an offensive beacon, furthering their area control with marks that gain effectiveness based boons and conditions.

Some say they gain powers from from peering through the veil and into the Mists, utilizing what they learned from its untold horrors against their foes. Others believe that Veil Weavers magics were developed through the whims of a particularly eccentric practitioner of the mesmeric arts. Whatever the source, Veil Weavers uphold their mystery with inspiring grace while inspiring madness.

List of Veil Weaver skills

Profession mechanic

Unlike shatters which are activated instantly, Veils are activated after charging for a short period upon selection. Veil activation is a completely passive effect and cannot be interrupted, as mesmeric magics begin descending upon the Mesmer like an aurora concentrating upon a central point. Once in an active state Veils can be infused with illusion energy through shattering all available illusions through a secondary activation. Veils effects have an effective radius of 600 units around the Mesmer, only one can be active at any time, and do not go on cooldown until after they are empowered by shattering illusions.

Skill			Description
F1: Veil of Conundrums	1	12	Continuously deal minor damage to enemies looking at your location every 1/2 second. Shatter Effect: Deal major damage to enemies looking at your location - damage and duration scales with number of shattered illusions.
F2: Veil of Madness	1	15	Continuously inflict Confusion (5s) to enemies looking at your location every 5 seconds. Shatter Effect: Inflict stacks of Confusion and Torment to enemies looking at your location - stacks scales with number of shattered illusions.
F3: Veil of Dissonance	1	35	Continuously inflict Weakness (2s) to enemies looking at your location every 5 seconds. Shatter Effect: Inflict a 1/4 second Daze upon enemies looking at your location every 1/2 second - total duration scales with number of shattered illusions.
F4: Veil of Celerity	1	50	Continuously generate Swiftness for yourself and allies looking at your location. Shatter Effect: Remove all movement impairing conditions and gain Distortion - total duration scales with number of shattered illusions.

Weapon skills

Veil Weavers utilizes dual daggers as two handed weapons and cannot equip only a single dagger. Skills will not be available for use unless two daggers are equipped. Skills operate at 600 range.

#	Skill			Description
1	Astral Stab	1/2		Teleport and phase your daggers into your target dealing damage and inflicting Bleed (4s)
1	Twisting Chaos	3/4		Whirl and unleash a spiral of chaotic energy at your target inflicting them with Bleeding (8s) and dealing damage in a line.
1	Madness Mine	1/2		Teleport your daggers above your target dropping them in a fury of magic that deals damage and leaves behind a mine that causes Confusion (5s).
2	Mind Seeker	3/4	5	Create multitudes of astral daggers that fan out and seek the nearest enemy mind in range dealing damage.
3	Phase Step	1/2	12	Throw a dagger and teleport to its landing position dealing damage, causing Cripple (4s), and summoning an Illusion that utilizes the Astral Stab attack chain.
4	Insanity Pulse	3/4	20	Send forth 3 forward moving orbs that Taunts (1s) enemies.
5	Phantasmal Chainer	1	25	Spin your daggers around you inflicting Torment (8s) and tethering enemies. Summon an illusion that attacks and cripples your enemies.
5	Creeping Madness	1	5	Send a pulse towards your enemies through your tether. If the pulse reaches them deal damage and inflict Confusion (8s).

Slot skills

Mark utility skills allow the Veil Weaver to control boons and conditions on themselves and enemies respectively. Each Mark grows in utility upon fulfilling conditions specified by the Mark creating additional effects.

Healing

Skill				Description
Mark of Harmony		1/4	30	Heal and grant Vigor to allies. Grant Protection if they have 2 or more boons.

Utility

Skill				Description
Mark of Fragility		1/2	20	Inscribe a mark that damage and inflicts Vulnerability (10s) to foes. Deal additional damage for every condition they have above 2.
Mark of Guilt		3/4	30	Inscribe a mark that damages foes and inflicts Cripple (6s) to foes. Inflicts Torment (8s) for every boon they have above 2.
Mark of Persistence		3/4	30	Inscribe a mark that damages foes and grant Regeneration (5s) to allies. Grants Swiftness (10s) and extends the duration of all boons on allies if they have 2 or more boons.
Mark of Disenchantment		1	35	Inscribe a mark that damages and removes boons from foes. Inflicts Weakness (4s) and extends the duration of all conditions on foes if they have 2 or more conditions.

Elite

Skill				Description
Mark of Instability		1/2	45	Inscribe a mark that damages and inflicts Fear (2s) and Torment (10s) to foes. Once the fear expires, inflict Confusion (10s) if they have 2 or more boons, otherwise they are Stunned instead.

List of Veil Weaver traits

See also: List of mesmer traits

Tier	Name	Recharge	Description
Minor Adept	Seam Mastery		You can equip daggers and gain access to Veil Weaver marks. Gain access to Veils which allows you to pulse effects around yourself.
Major Adept	Visage of Humility	30	Whenever you lose more than 15% of your maximum health within 2 seconds, gain Distortion (1s).
Major Adept	Chaos Balance		Conditions you apply last longer, if your target has more boons than conditions, this bonus is increased.
Major Adept	Marks of Transference		Marks transfer a boon from foes to allies and a condition from allies to foes. Mark cooldowns are reduced.
Minor Master	Critical Weaves	5	Critical hits have a chance to extend the duration of conditions on your target.
Major Master	Sights of Weariness		Activating a Veil inflicts Weakness (4s) to foes around you.
Major Master	Revealed Madness		You and allies around you deal increased damage for each unique condition on foes.
Major Master	Weaver's Conversion		Gain a charge each time you score a critical hit. After enough charges, your next attack is unblockable and converts a condition on you and surrounding allies into a boon.
Minor Grandmaster	Path to Madness	10	Shatter infusing Veils briefly reflect incoming conditions to your target.
Major Grandmaster	Visions of Regret		Every enemy attack against you inflicts Confusion (8s) on foes around you if you have an active shatter infused Veil. Unblockable.
Major Grandmaster	Progression of Anguish		When a debilitating condition you inflict expires or is removed, inflict a random damaging condition on the foe. Increase the duration of your damaging conditions.
Major Grandmaster	Seam Ripper	1	Deal a large amount of damage each time you remove a boon from a foe. Your attacks have a small chance to remove boons.

List of Veil Weaver equipment

• Daggers: Guilt & Shame
• Runes: Superior Rune of the Veil Weaver - Condition Damage (1,3,5), Power (2,4), Marks Apply Confusion (8s) (6)

Design Notes

Akin to how Reapers were inspired by slow unstoppable killers from horror movies, Veil Weavers were inspired by the progression of losing sanity upon seeing something horrific. Veil Weaver abilities continuously puts condition pressure on their foes and spreads Weakness reducing the damage of attacks made against them. Their Due to their ease of access to continuous Weakness, Veil Weavers have few defensive options or abilities that increase defensive effectiveness other than conditions. Strictly power based builds should also be an option for the Veil Weaver. Originally designed to actually merge and utilize illusions as temporary shields the design for the Veil Weaver has gone through several iterations. At one point Veils were ground targeted effects a kin to "Temporal Curtain" which was reworked as it that with marks too much visual effects would be going on at the same time from one specialization. Before the current iteration Veil Weavers had more design elements that focused on Boons application but it felt too forced, and didn't bring that much to already existing options. Following that idea the thought of a more Condition Based focus began to manifest so to give the Mesmer another more active option to Scepter or Staff Clone spam. Admittedly, Veil Weavers tread the line between and Mesmer and Necromancer very precariously, and in the end it may only be the theme and purple butterfly-ish effects that separates them.