Domination

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"My mind is a dangerous place."

Specializing in Domination gives the mesmer relentless prowess in battle, focusing on disrupting foes before they can strike. They chip away at their enemy's boons, inflicting vulnerability and weakening them.

— In-game description

Domination is a core specialization for the mesmer that focuses on interrupting enemies and rendering them vulnerable.

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Illusion of Vulnerability		Inflict vulnerability when you interrupt a foe. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
Major Adept	Bountiful Blades		Improves greatsword skills. Mirror Blade bounces additional times, and Phantasmal Berserker summons an additional berserker and deals less damage.
Major Adept	Empowered Illusions		Illusions deal increased strike damage.
Major Adept	Rending Shatter		Shatter skills inflict vulnerability on hit.
Minor Master	Dazzling		Dazing or stunning a foe also applies vulnerability.
Major Master	Shattered Concentration		Shatter skills also remove a boon on hit.
Major Master	Egotism		Deal increased strike damage to foes with a lower health percentage than you.
Major Master	Furious Interruption	1	Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
Minor Grandmaster	Fragility		Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
Major Grandmaster	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.
Major Grandmaster	Mental Anguish		Shatter skills deal more damage. This bonus damage is doubled against foes that are not activating skills.
Major Grandmaster	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.

See also: List of mesmer traits

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