Blinding Tide

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Blinding Tide

Profession
Mesmer icon small.png Mesmer (skill list)
Weapon
Trident
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Game link
API
10259
Only available underwater This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.
0.5½ Activation time  8 Recharge time  
Blinding Tide

Expose your enemies, inflicting vulnerability in an area.

Damage.png Damage: 293 (0.8)?
Blinded.png Blindness (4s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Vulnerability.png3 Vulnerability (8s): +3% Incoming Damage, +3% Incoming Condition Damage
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Range.png Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits[edit]

Domination Domination

Dueling Dueling

  • Ineptitude 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 Chaos

Version history[edit]

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch Changes
May 08, 2018
  • This skill now inflicts vulnerability in an area around the player's target in addition to blindness.
  • Its cooldown has been reduced from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.
October 23, 2015 Heart of Thorns release:
  • Fixed a bug in which an incorrect number of targets displayed in the skill fact.
June 23, 2015 Specialization update:
  • This skill has been renamed to "Blinding Tide" (from Ineptitude).
June 25, 2013
  • Fixed an issue that allowed this skill to be cast at infinite range.
August 28, 2012 Game release:
  • Ineptitude has been added to the game.