Illusionary Inspiration

Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade. — In-game description

Illusionary Inspiration

Specialization

Inspiration (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Minor

Training cost

6 Hero points

Game link

API

API

“

Illusionary Inspiration

Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you.

Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

 Healing: 212 (0.3)^?

 Healing: 106 (0.15)^?

 Healing: 106 (0.10)^?

 Healing Increase to Others: 15%

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Bladecall — Dagger
•   Phantasmal Duelist — Pistol
•   Ether Clone — Scepter
•   Illusionary Counter — Scepter
•   Counterspell — Scepter
•   Illusionary Leap — Sword
•   Illusionary Riposte — Sword
•   Phantasmal Swordsman — Sword
•   Phantasmal Warden — Focus
•   Phantasmal Mage — Torch
•   Mirror Blade — Greatsword
•   Phantasmal Berserker — Greatsword
•   Friendly Fire — Rifle
•   Journey — Rifle
•   Abstraction — Rifle
•   Phantasmal Sharpshooter — Rifle
•   Phase Retreat — Staff
•   Phantasmal Warlock — Staff
•   Feigned Surge — Spear
•   Mind the Gap — Spear
•   Imaginary Inversion — Spear
•   Phantasmal Mariner — Spear
•   Phantasmal Lancer — Spear
•   Imminent Voyage — Trident
•   Phantasmal Whaler — Trident
•   Echo of Memory — Shield
•   Deja Vu — Shield
•   Lingering Thoughts — Axe
•   Effervescence — Rifle
•   Bladecall — Dagger
•   Blade Leap — Sword

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Ether Feast
•   Mirror — Manipulation
•   Mantra of Recovery — Mantra
•   Power Return
•   Signet of the Ether — Signet
•   Well of Eternity — Well
•   False Oasis — Deception
•   Twin Blade Restoration — Psionic

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Decoy — Clone
•   Mirror Images — Clone
•   Phantasmal Defender — Phantasm
•   Phantasmal Disenchanter — Phantasm
•   Blade Renewal — Psionic

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Deception
•   Phantasmal Rogue

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Deception
•   Phantasmal Rogue

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Chronomancer

• 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.)

Traits that are improved by this trait

Dueling

• Deceptive Evasion — Create a clone at your current position when you dodge.

Inspiration

• Restorative Mantras — Heals allies around you when you use a charge of a Mantra.
• Ego Restoration — Create a clone when you use a healing skill.
• Restorative Illusions — Heal and cleanse conditions from yourself and nearby allies when you use a Shatter skill.

Illusions

• Escape Artist — When a phantasm is created, grant it distortion.

Chronomancer

• All's Well That Ends Well — Wells heal allies when they end.

Virtuoso

• Psychic Blades — Whenever a clone would be summoned, you instead stock a blade. Blades persist indefinitely until used. Your shatters are replaced with Bladesongs that consume your stocked blades, but still count as shatters for the purposes of core traits. While out of combat, you will automatically stock a blade every 10 seconds.
• Jagged Mind — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
• Psychic Riposte — Blocking or evading an attack stocks blades. Dodging stocks a blade and causes your next Bladesong to be unblockable.
• Infinite Forge — Automatically stock blades while in combat. When you use bladesong above the blade threshold, refund blades. Blade attacks deal more damage.
• Bloodsong — Bleeding you apply deals increased damage. Stock a blade after applying enough stacks of bleeding to foes.

Notes

• Heals the mesmer and 4 allies near the mesmer each time a clone or phantasm is created. Clones that appear from phantasms will also trigger the heal.
  • Heals per illusion summoned, meaning summoning 2 at once will trigger this trait twice.
  • This means  Chronophantasma can cause a single phantasm to active this trait 3 times.
  • Stacks with   Signet of the Ether; so they both activate per illusion created, though only Illusionary Inspiration will heal allies.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Reduced the outgoing healing increase from 15% to 10% in PvP only.
November 28, 2023	This trait has been moved to the minor grandmaster slot, replacing Healing Prism. This trait now increases outgoing healing in addition to its previous effect.
November 30, 2021	Added clarifying text stating that for Virtuoso, this trait triggers when stocking a blade. Fixed a bug preventing this trait from activating and healing nearby allies when you stock a Blade.
October 02, 2018	This trait now causes mesmers to heal all nearby allies whenever they summon an illusion. Competitive-mode healing effectiveness is 50% of PvE.
July 10, 2018	Reduced the duration of aegis shared by this trait from 10 seconds to 2 seconds.
February 06, 2018	This trait no longer causes phantasms to grant regeneration. Instead, summoning a phantasm grants 2 stacks of might for 10 seconds to the caster and four nearby allies. This effect occurs after the activation of Lesser Signet of Inspiration.
July 26, 2016	This trait will no longer activate Signet of Inspiration when phantasm casts are interrupted.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Illusionary Inspiration has been added to the game.