Mirror Blade

Throw an illusionary blade that creates a clone at its first target and then bounces to enemies and allies, dealing less damage to foes per hit and granting might to allies. — In-game description

Mirror Blade

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Greatsword

Type

Clone

Game link

API

10333

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0.75¾  

5

8

 

Mirror Blade

Throw an illusionary blade that creates a clone at its first target and then bounces to enemies and allies, dealing less damage to foes per hit and granting might to allies.

 Maximum Damage: 403 (1.0)^?

 Maximum Damage: 303 (0.75)^?

 Minimum Damage: 179 (0.4437)^?

 Minimum Damage: 78 (0.1923)^?

 Damage Reduction per Hit: 15%

₃ Might (6s): 90 Condition Damage, 90 Power

₃ Vulnerability (5s): +3% Incoming Damage, +3% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Bounces: 4

 Range: 1,200

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Mechanics

• This skill will summon a clone based on the main-hand equipped when the first hit of the skill occurs.
• This skill will not bounce off the clone summoned.

Bug:

Unlike other bouncing skills such as   Winds of Chaos,   Mirror Blade can keep bouncing between allies rather than following [enemy>ally>enemy..] logic. This can lead to losing 2/3 of the skill's potential damage.

Related traits

Domination

• Bountiful Blades — Improves greatsword skills. Mirror Blade bounces additional times, and Phantasmal Berserker summons an additional berserker and deals less damage.
• Fragility — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.

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.

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.
• Deadly Blades — Blades inflict vulnerability on critical hits. After successfully casting a Bladesong, increase all damage dealt for a short time. This does not stack.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.75 in PvP and WvW.
May 11, 2021	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to incorrectly calculate damage reduction for consecutive hits.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to display its slashing effect on the player instead of its target. Cooldown reduced from 8 seconds to 5 seconds. Rather than inflict equal damage per hit, the damage is reduced 15% per bounce. Competitive splits: Increased cooldown from 5 seconds to 8 seconds.
March 27, 2018	Reduced damage by 14% in PvP and WvW.
February 06, 2018	Increased damage by 43% in PvE only.
July 26, 2016	Increased the number of bounces produced by this attack from 3 to 4.
July 28, 2015	Reduced number of bounces from 4 to 3.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Mesmer skills that create bouncing projectiles will now have them bounce one additional time.
April 30, 2013	Added an unblockable skill fact.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Mirror Blade has been added to the game.