Dueling

Specialization background.

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"Dancing through the battlefield, swift as a fleeting memory."

Swift and ruthless, Dueling enhances your phantasm's damage output as well as your overall critical hit capability. Dodge your enemies with ease and gain additional bonuses after successfully evading attacks.

— In-game description

Dueling is a core specialization of the mesmer that focuses on enhancing dodging, interrupts and improving your phantasms' damage.

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Critical Infusion	10	Gain vigor when delivering a critical hit.
Major Adept	Phantasmal Fury		Your phantasms have fury.
Major Adept	Mental Gymnastics	5	When you successfully evade an attack, gain vigor.
Major Adept	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.
Minor Master	Sharper Images		Illusions inflict bleeding on critical hits.
Major Master	Blinding Dissipation		Shatter skill 2 inflicts blindness.
Major Master	Evasive Mirror	10.5½	Reflect projectiles after a successful evasion.
Major Master	Fencer's Finesse		Gain a stacking ferocity effect when you or one of your illusions strikes with a one-handed sword or an underwater spear. Reduces recharge on sword and underwater spear skills.
Minor Grandmaster	Master Fencer	8	Grant fury to yourself and nearby allies when you critically strike an enemy.
Major Grandmaster	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.
Major Grandmaster	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.
Major Grandmaster	Deceptive Evasion		Create a clone at your current position when you dodge.

See also: List of mesmer traits

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