Diversion

Shatter. Destroy all your clones, dazing their targets. The shatter effect also occurs at your location. — In-game description

Diversion

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Shatter

Game link

API

10287

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Diversion

Shatter. Destroy all your clones, dazing their targets. The shatter effect also occurs at your location.

 Daze: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 1

 Radius: 240

 Defiance Break: 100

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related skills

•   Signet of Illusions — Signet Passive: Creates a clone every few seconds. Signet Active: Recharges shatter skills.
•   Mantra of Distraction — Mantra. Meditate, charging a spell that will daze your target. Diversion's recharge time is partially refunded when this spell fully charges.

Related traits

Domination

• Illusion of Vulnerability — Inflict vulnerability when you interrupt a foe. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Rending Shatter — Shatter skills inflict vulnerability on hit.
• Dazzling — Dazing or stunning a foe also applies vulnerability.
• Shattered Concentration — Shatter skills also remove a boon on hit.
• Furious Interruption — Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
• Vicious Expression — You and your illusions deal increased strike damage to foes without boons. Disabling a foe removes boons from them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Power Block — Interrupts deal damage and inflict weakness. Enemy skills that you interrupt have an increased cooldown. Cannot increase recharge of skills with no recharge or skills on creatures with defiance bars. This trait can only damage enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Dueling

• Duelist's Discipline — Pistol attacks from you and your illusions have a chance to cause bleeding. Interrupting a foe recharges pistol skills. This trait can only reduce recharge on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Superiority Complex — Your critical hits deal more damage. Critical hit damage against disabled foes, or foes below the health threshold, is further increased. Disabled foes are affected by stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, or launch.
• 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 Defense — Grant protection to nearby allies when you use a Shatter skill.
• Chaotic Interruption — When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random. Only affects weapon skills that are recharging.
• 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

• 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.

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.

Notes

• This skill is locked until level 15.
• An enemy  Dazed by Diversion cannot be dazed again until the daze effect wears off. For this reason, Diversion is strongest when using a mix of ranged and melee clones, or ranged clones with the mesmer in melee range. That way, one Diversion occurs right away, while other Diversion needs to wait for the clone to run to the target to get in range, which may cause a second application of daze if the previous daze had already ended.
  • Against enemies with Defiance Bars however, all clones shattered will damage the defiance bar with their daze regardless of time elapsed in between their shattering. If only the mesmer hits with Diversion, they will deal 100 damage to the defiance bar with daze. But if they hit with 3 clones and themselves, they will deal 400 defiance bar damage with their daze.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 06, 2018	Shatter skills now only shatter clones. Descriptions have been updated to reflect their new functionality.
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 to 38 seconds. It now shows the number of targets dazed (1) when untraited.
January 03, 2013	Shatter skills now share a global 0.25 second recharge, to prevent multiple shatter effects triggering on the same illusion.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Diversion has been added to the game.

Trivia

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

See also

•   Time Sink — Chronomancer's Shatter skill in this slot
•   Bladesong Dissonance — Virtuoso's Bladesong skill in this slot