Winds of Chaos

Bounce an orb of energy between foes and allies. The first hit applies torment, while subsequent hits to enemies apply confusion. Allies that the orb bounces to gain fury and might. — In-game description

Winds of Chaos

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Game link

API

10273

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0.75¾  

Winds of Chaos

Bounce an orb of energy between foes and allies. The first hit applies torment, while subsequent hits to enemies apply confusion. Allies that the orb bounces to gain fury and might.

 Damage: 121 (0.3)^?

 Damage: 81 (0.2)^?

 Fury (3s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (3s): +20% Critical Chance

 Might (5s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Torment (5s): 110 Damage, 159 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Confusion (5s): 55 Damage, 49 Damage on Skill Use

 Number of Bounces: 2

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Attack rate is approximately 1.12 seconds per attack.
• Does damage and then bounces to an ally or enemy, whichever is closer.
• It will always try to bounce in a pattern of [Enemy > Ally > Enemy].
• This skill's projectile is homing, meaning that it will track its target for a certain amount of time.
• When cast by a clone, the duration of applied torment and confusion is 2 seconds in all game modes.

Related traits

Illusions

• Malicious Sorcery — Confusion you inflict has increased duration. When you dodge an attack, inflict confusion on your attacker.

Virtuoso

• Jagged Mind — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
• Sharpening Sorrow — Gain fury when you activate Bladesong Sorrow. Fury increases your expertise.
• Quiet Intensity — Fury gives an increased critical chance. Gain ferocity based on your vitality.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 28, 2022	Fury: Critical chance bonus increased from 20% to 25% in PvE only.
May 25, 2021	When cast by a clone, the durations of applied torment and confusion have been reduced from 5 seconds to 2 seconds in all game modes.
May 11, 2021	Increased projectile speed by 25%. Increased casting speed by 0.1 second. Lowered aftercast animation lock by 0.2 seconds. Fixed an inconsistency with projectile behavior after bouncing. This skill now applies torment for 5 seconds to the first target struck and confusion for 5 seconds on subsequent hits to enemies. Allies hit gain might for 5 seconds and fury for 3 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.3 to 0.2.
February 08, 2018	Reduced bleeding duration from 7 seconds to 4 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused clones using this skill to inflict vulnerability instead of torment. Reduced torment duration from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
February 06, 2018	Instead of inflicting vulnerability, this attack now has a chance to inflict 1 stack of torment for 5 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Mesmer skills that create bouncing projectiles will now have them bounce one additional time.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to only inflict 5 seconds of bleeding instead of 7 when used by clones.
October 15, 2013	Fixed the bleeding skill fact to display the proper duration when Chaotic Dampening is equipped.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Winds of Chaos has been added to the game.