Chaos Armor

Blind and confuse nearby foes while you gain chaos aura. Chaos aura grants you a random boon and inflicts your foe with a random condition whenever you are struck. — In-game description

Chaos Armor

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Game link

API

10331

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20

25

 

Chaos Armor

Blind and confuse nearby foes while you gain chaos aura. Chaos aura grants you a random boon and inflicts your foe with a random condition whenever you are struck.

 Chaos Aura (5s): Give yourself random boons and your foe random conditions whenever you are struck.

₃ Confusion on Cast (5s): 165 Damage, 148 Damage on Skill Use

 Blindness on Cast (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Protection When Hit (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Regeneration When Hit (3s): 390 Heal

 Swiftness When Hit (5s): +33% Movement Speed

 Weakness on Attackers (3s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

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

 Cripple on Attackers (3s): -50% Movement Speed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

— In-game description

Mechanics

• The boon/condition trigger uses an internal cooldown of 1 second.
• The chance of each boon or condition being applied is random.

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

• Illusionary Membrane — Gain chaos aura when you use Shatter skill 2. While you have chaos aura, condition damage you deal is increased.
• Chaotic Transference — Gaining chaos aura grants boons to nearby allies.
• Chaotic Potency — Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a staff. Staff and trident skills gain reduced recharge.
• Chaotic Persistence — Gain concentration and expertise while affected by regeneration.

Illusions

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

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.

Mirage

• Renewing Oasis — Gain regeneration when you gain Mirage Cloak. The duration of incoming damaging conditions is reduced while you are regenerating.

Virtuoso

• Jagged Mind — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
May 11, 2021	Reduced recharge to 25 seconds. This skill no longer applies a random condition to nearby foes when cast. Instead, it now applies blindness and confusion to nearby foes when cast.
October 15, 2019	Fixed a bug in which the effect granted by this skill was incorrectly called Chaos Armor instead of Chaos Aura.
February 22, 2017	Reduced recharge to 30 seconds. This skill now applies a random condition (confusion, cripple, or weakness) to nearby foes when activated.
January 26, 2016	This skill no longer blinds enemies. It will instead apply weakness to them for 3 seconds. The applied duration for swiftness and confusion has been increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
December 01, 2015	The visual effects have been replaced with a new version to reduce visual noise.
October 21, 2014	Removed the range indicator from this skill.
May 20, 2014	Increased the culling priority on this effect.
July 09, 2013	This skill no longer automatically applies protection when activated. This buff now provides an equal chance to trigger regeneration, swiftness, or protection on hit with a 1-second internal recharge. The random condition applied now has a 1-second internal recharge per target. These changes apply to the Chaos Armor provided through combo finishers as well.
October 07, 2012	Decreased recharge to 35 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Chaos Armor has been added to the game.