Cry of Frustration

Shatter. Destroy all your clones, confusing nearby foes. The shatter effect also occurs at your location. — In-game description

Cry of Frustration

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Shatter

Game link

API

10190

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25  

Cry of Frustration

Shatter. Destroy all your clones, confusing nearby foes. The shatter effect also occurs at your location.

 Damage: 101 (0.38)^?

 Confusion (3s): 33 Damage, 49 Damage on Skill Use

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related skills

•   Signet of Illusions — Signet Passive: Creates a clone every few seconds. Signet Active: Recharges shatter skills.

Related traits

Domination

• Rending Shatter — Shatter skills inflict vulnerability on hit.
• Shattered Concentration — Shatter skills also remove a boon on hit.
• Mental Anguish — Shatter skills deal more damage. This bonus damage is doubled against foes that are not activating skills.

Dueling

• Blinding Dissipation — Shatter skill 2 inflicts blindness.

Chaos

• Illusionary Defense — Grant protection to nearby allies when you use a Shatter skill.
• Illusionary Membrane — Gain chaos aura when you use Shatter skill 2. While you have chaos aura, condition damage you deal is increased.
• Bountiful Disillusionment — Gain stability when you use a Shatter skill. Grant an additional boon to nearby allies based on which Shatter is used.

Inspiration

• Restorative Illusions — Heal and cleanse conditions from yourself and nearby allies when you use a Shatter skill.

Illusions

• Cry of Pain — Shatter skill 2 inflicts more stacks of confusion for an increased duration.
• Maim the Disillusioned — Shatter skills inflict torment on hit.
• Master of Misdirection — Shatter skills gain recharge reduction.
• Master of Fragmentation — Your Shatter skills are improved.
• Malicious Sorcery — Confusion you inflict has increased duration. When you dodge an attack, inflict confusion on your attacker.

Mirage

• Riddle of Sand — When entering combat, your first Ambush attack applies confusion. This ability refreshes when you use a Shatter skill.
• Nomad's Endurance — Shatter skills give vigor, and vigor grants condition damage.
• Dune Cloak — Shatter skills grant Mirage Cloak when enough clones are present.

Virtuoso

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

Notes

• The damage is based upon the equipped mainhand weapon's strength.
• Each shatter, be it from clones or from the mesmer, causes 1 stack of confusion, or 2 stacks when using the Cry of Pain trait.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 06, 2018	Shatter skills now only shatter clones. Descriptions have been updated to reflect their new functionality.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed the vigor skill fact that appears when Bountiful Disillusionment is present so that the correct 8-second vigor duration is indicated.
May 16, 2017	Increased damage by 15%.
September 29, 2015	Updated the description of these skills to include the effects added when Illusionary Persona functionality was made baseline.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Using any shatter skill now creates the shatter effect on you as well by default. Reduced the recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
January 03, 2013	Shatter skills now share a global 0.25 second recharge, to prevent multiple shatter effects triggering on the same illusion.
October 22, 2012	This skill's tooltip now accurately shows that confusion it applies lasts for 3 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Cry of Frustration has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.

See also

•   Rewinder — Chronomancer's Shatter skill in this slot
•   Bladesong Sorrow — Virtuoso's Bladesong skill in this slot