Phantasmal Disenchanter

Phantasm. Summon an illusion that removes boons from targets it hits. This attack deals increased damage against foes without boons. — In-game description

Phantasmal Disenchanter

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Phantasm

Summons

Illusionary Disenchanter

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

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Phantasmal Disenchanter

Phantasm. Summon an illusion that removes boons from targets it hits. This attack deals increased damage against foes without boons.

 Damage without Boons: 1,007 (1.0)^?

 Damage without Boons: 504 (0.5)^?

 Damage with Boons: 403 (0.4)^?

 Damage with Boons: 201 (0.2)^?

 Boons Removed: 5

 Boons Removed: 1

 Number of Bounces: 4

 Range: 900

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Phantasm

Phantasm	Skill used	Effect
Illusionary Disenchanter	Disenchanting Bolt	Deals damage and removes boons.

Mechanics

• When used underwater, the activation is 0.5½ second.
• Phantasms have their own unique weapon strength that is independent of the player's equipped weapon rarity. The disenchanter has a weapon strength midpoint of 2615.5.
• The attack cannot hit the same target more than once.
• Each bounce has a range of 600, however the phantasm times out after about ~1000 range projectile travel distance, making the projectile lose its owner and thus no longer inheriting player stats or showing up in their combat log.

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.
• 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.)

Virtuoso

• Phantasmal Blades — Phantasms that successfully complete their attack launch a blade at their target and grant you fury when they expire.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
November 28, 2023	Reduced the number of boons removed from 2 to 1 in WvW only.
October 04, 2022	Reduced number of boons removed from 5 to 2 in WvW only.
May 22, 2018	The damage of this skill has been reduced by 50% in PvP and WvW.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP and WvW.
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 now fires a bouncing projectile that only bounces to enemies. This attack is unblockable and removes 5 boons from the targets it strikes. The base attack damage has been increased by 300%. This attack deals 250% more damage against foes without boons. The initial boon removal from the mesmer has been eliminated.
October 18, 2016	The casting time of this ability has been reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
July 26, 2016	This utility skill now delivers an additional attack when it is initially cast, removing boons from enemies and conditions from allies in a radius around the target.
September 29, 2015	Reduced the attack recharge by 2 seconds. The attack from this phantasm is now referred to as "Disenchanting Bolt" in the combat log.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Phantasm damage has been increased by 15%.
May 20, 2014	Fixed an incorrect number of bounces skill fact. This skill bounces 4 times (hits 5 targets). Fixed a bug that caused this skill to fail to hit its fifth target. Updated the skill facts to have the appropriate damage indicator (separate from the general fix to minion skill damage).
April 15, 2014	Added skills facts for boons removed and conditions removed. Added a skill fact for number of bounces: 5.
December 03, 2012	Phantasmal Disenchanter can now be cast at the correct distance.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Phantasmal Disenchanter has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This phantasm wields a scepter with the same skin as the Abyssal Scepter.
• The skill icon is a reference to the Rubin vase, a common optical illusion.