Echo of Memory

Phantasm. Block incoming attacks for a short duration. If this skill fully channels, summon a phantasm that slows enemies and grants protection to allies. If an attack is blocked, Deja Vu is usable for a short time and the phantasm is summoned instantly. — In-game description

Echo of Memory

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Specialization

Chronomancer

Weapon

Shield

Type

Phantasm

Activ. type

Channeled

Sequence

 → 

Summons

Illusionary Avenger

Game link

API

30769

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10.5½  

30

30

35

 

Echo of Memory

Phantasm. Block incoming attacks for a short duration. If this skill fully channels, summon a phantasm that slows enemies and grants protection to allies. If an attack is blocked, Deja Vu is usable for a short time and the phantasm is summoned instantly.

 Damage: 907 (0.9)^?

 Damage: 453 (0.45)^?

 Slow (2s): Skills and actions are slower.

 Protection (20.5½s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Time Echo (10s): You may block again.

 Number of Allied Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Phantasm

Phantasm	Skill used	Effect
Illusionary Avenger	Echo of Memory	Deals damage, causes slow, and grants protection.

Related traits

See also: Phantasm#Related traits

Dueling

• Phantasmal Fury — Your phantasms have fury.

Inspiration

• Sympathetic Visage — Phantasms take your conditions from you when summoned.
• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Illusions

• Persistence of Memory — When a phantasm becomes a clone, it transfers its boons to you.
• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
• Escape Artist — When a phantasm is created, grant it distortion.
• Phantasmal Haste — Phantasms spawn with quickness. Gain quickness when you create a phantasm.
• Phantasmal Force — Phantasms deal increased strike damage for each stack of might you have. Gain might when your phantasms become clones.

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.
• Danger Time — Gain additional critical-hit chance against slowed enemies. This bonus also applies to your illusions.
• Stretched Time — Flow of Time now affects nearby allies. Grant alacrity to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• Seize the Moment — You and nearby allies gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Grant quickness to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• 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.)

Notes

• Creates an Illusionary Avenger at your location when the channel finishes, which rushes at the target.
• The AoE affects 5 allies and 5 enemies.
• Phantasms have their own unique weapon strength that is independent of the player's equipped weapon rarity. The Avenger has a weapon strength range of 2459-2772, with the midpoint being 2615.5.
• If Echo of Memory blocks an attack, it will only begin to recharge after the effect Time Echo expires, or Deja Vu is cast.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 10, 2024	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from summoning a phantasm when used on an evading enemy.
February 14, 2023	These skills will now immediately summon the phantasm when successfully blocking an attack. If no attack is blocked, the phantasm will still be summoned at the end of the channel.
May 22, 2018	Reduced the damage inflicted by the illusionary avenger by 50% (in WvW and PvP).
February 06, 2018	Phantasms can no longer be shattered and no longer count toward your maximum illusion count. Phantasms are destroyed and then replaced by clones after completing their unique attack or if their attack is interrupted. The phantasm summoned by this skill no longer applies alacrity when it attacks. Its attack damage has been increased by 160%.
December 13, 2016	The cooldown of this ability has been increased from 30 seconds to 35 seconds in PvP only.
October 18, 2016	Illusionary Avenger: Fixed a bug that allowed this illusion to activate Fencer's Finesse.
July 26, 2016	Updated the skill fact for Echo of Memory's duration.
May 17, 2016	The recharge of this skill will now begin when Time Echo's effect ends.
December 15, 2015	Block duration has been reduced from 2.25 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
November 04, 2015	Illusionary Avenger: Increased the distance traveled for this phantasm's charge attack by 346%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Echo of Memory has been added to the game.