Feigned Surge

Clone. Surge toward your foe, striking enemies on the way and creating a clone upon reaching your initial target. — In-game description

Feigned Surge

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Type

Clone

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

10318

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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10.75¾  8  

Feigned Surge

Clone. Surge toward your foe, striking enemies on the way and creating a clone upon reaching your initial target.

 Damage: 880 (2.4)^?

 Number of Targets: 5

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Dueling

• 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.

Inspiration

• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Illusions

• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.

Notes

• A Clone is only created if the mesmer has an enemy targeted.

Bug:

It can occasionally get stuck in the surge animation instead of finishing the cast even when the mesmer reaches the target.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 30, 2021	Fixed a bug causing this skill to create a clone instead of stocking a blade when used by a Virtuoso.
May 08, 2018	Increased the damage of this skill by 200% and clarified the text in its tooltips. The mesmer now charges at their targeted enemy, striking up to 5 enemies along the way before summoning a clone upon reaching the target.
June 25, 2013	Increased the damage by 33%.
December 14, 2012	This skill is now a leap finisher.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Feigned Surge has been added to the game.