Compounding Power

Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade. — In-game description

Compounding Power

Specialization

Illusions (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Minor

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Compounding Power

Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration.

Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

 Compounding Power (8s): +2% Damage, +2% Condition Damage

 Maximum Stacks: 5

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Bladecall — Dagger
•   Phantasmal Duelist — Pistol
•   Ether Clone — Scepter
•   Illusionary Counter — Scepter
•   Counterspell — Scepter
•   Illusionary Leap — Sword
•   Illusionary Riposte — Sword
•   Phantasmal Swordsman — Sword
•   Phantasmal Warden — Focus
•   Phantasmal Mage — Torch
•   Mirror Blade — Greatsword
•   Phantasmal Berserker — Greatsword
•   Journey — Rifle
•   Phantasmal Sharpshooter — Rifle
•   Phase Retreat — Staff
•   Phantasmal Warlock — Staff
•   Feigned Surge — Spear
•   Mind the Gap — Spear
•   Phantasmal Mariner — Spear
•   Phantasmal Lancer — Spear
•   Imminent Voyage — Trident
•   Phantasmal Whaler — Trident
•   Echo of Memory — Shield
•   Deja Vu — Shield
•   Lingering Thoughts — Axe
•   Bladecall — Dagger
•   Blade Leap — Sword

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Decoy — Clone
•   Mirror Images — Clone
•   Phantasmal Defender — Phantasm
•   Phantasmal Disenchanter — Phantasm
•   Blade Renewal — Psionic

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Deception
•   Phantasmal Rogue

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Deception
•   Phantasmal Rogue

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Chronomancer

• Chronophantasma — The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Traits that are improved by this trait

Dueling

• Deceptive Evasion — Create a clone at your current position when you dodge.

Inspiration

• Ego Restoration — Create a clone when you use a healing skill.

Virtuoso

• Psychic Blades — Whenever a clone would be summoned, you instead stock a blade. Blades persist indefinitely until used. Your shatters are replaced with Bladesongs that consume your stocked blades, but still count as shatters for the purposes of core traits. While out of combat, you will automatically stock a blade every 10 seconds.
• Psychic Riposte — Blocking or evading an attack stocks blades. Dodging stocks a blade and causes your next Bladesong to be unblockable.
• Infinite Forge — Automatically stock blades while in combat. When you use bladesong above the blade threshold, refund blades. Blade attacks deal more damage.
• Bloodsong — Bleeding you apply deals increased damage. Stock a blade after applying enough stacks of bleeding to foes.

Notes

• This only increases the damage of the Mesmer's attacks. It does not increase Illusion attack damage like  Empowered Illusions does.
• New stacks do not refresh the duration of old stacks.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	This trait no longer increases the condition damage attribute and instead increases outgoing damage from conditions by 2% per stack.
November 30, 2021	Added clarifying text stating that for Virtuoso, this trait triggers when stocking a blade.
October 26, 2021	Positive percentage-based enhancements now display with a "+." For example, swiftness now displays "+33% Movement Speed" instead of "33% Movement Speed."
May 08, 2018	The damage bonus per stack of this effect is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 2% damage bonus per stack in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the outgoing damage per stack from 3% to 2% in PvP and WvW.
February 06, 2018	This trait has moved to the minor trait slot of the master tier, and it now grants a stacking 3% flat-damage boost and 30 condition damage (with a maximum of 5 stacks) for 8 seconds whenever an illusion is created.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Added: Gain 50 condition damage for each illusion you control. Fixed a bug that caused this trait to be nonfunctional while downed.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Compounding Power has been added to the game.