Phantasmal Mage/history
November 28, 2023
- Phantasmal Mage: Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE and from 30 seconds to 25 in WvW.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Strike and burn nearby foes. Create an illusion that releases a massive wave of fire that burns, confuses, and interrupts foes.
- Damage: 504 (0.5)?
- Burning (9s): 1,179 Damage
- Confusion (3s): 99 Damage, 148 Damage on Skill Use
3- Daze: ½ seconds
- Number of Targets: 5
- Radius: 240
- Defiance Break: 100
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
May 02, 2023
- Phantasmal Mage: Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Strike and burn nearby foes. Create an illusion that releases a massive wave of fire that burns, confuses, and interrupts foes.
- Damage: 504 (0.5)?
- Burning (9s): 1,179 Damage
- Confusion (3s): 99 Damage, 148 Damage on Skill Use
3- Daze: ½ seconds
- Number of Targets: 5
- Radius: 240
- Defiance Break: 100
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
February 28, 2022
- (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Strike and burn nearby foes. Create an illusion that releases a massive wave of fire that burns, confuses, and interrupts foes.
- Damage: 504 (0.5)?
- Burning (9s): 1,179 Damage
- Confusion (3s): 99 Damage, 148 Damage on Skill Use
3- Daze: ½ seconds
- Number of Targets: 5
- Radius: 240
- Defiance Break: 100
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
July 07, 2020
- Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Strike and burn nearby foes. Create an illusion that releases a massive wave of fire that burns, confuses, and interrupts foes.
— In-game description
July 10, 2018
- Phantasmal Mage: The burning duration of the initial attack has been modified from 2 stacks for 3 seconds to 1 stack for 6 seconds.
- The attack's burning has been modified from 3 stacks for 3 seconds to 1 stack for 9 seconds.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Strike and burn nearby foes. Create an illusion that releases a massive wave of fire that burns, confuses, and interrupts foes.
— In-game description
February 08, 2018
- Phantasmal Mage: Fixed a bug that caused the daze from this phantasm's attack from benefiting from the Confounding Suggestions trait.
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.
- Phantasmal Mage: The mage summoned by this skill now creates a cone-shaped wave of fire that interrupts foes and applies burning and confusion.
- The mage now spawns near your target instead of near you.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Strike and burn nearby foes. Create an illusion that releases a massive wave of fire that burns, confuses, and interrupts foes.
— In-game description
February 22, 2017
- Phantasmal Mage: In addition to its previous effect, this skill now burns nearby foes when activated.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Strike and burn nearby foes. Create an illusion that burns foes and grants fury to allies.
- Damage: 290 (0.288)?
- Fury (3s): +20% Critical Chance
- Burning (3s): 786 Damage
2- Number of Bounces: 3
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
July 26, 2016
- Illusionary Mage: The recharge of the mage's attack has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
- Burning stacks have been increased from 1 to 2 stacks, with the duration reduced from 6 to 3.
- The missile velocity of the mage's attack has been increased by 33%.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Create an illusion that burns foes and grants fury to allies.
- Damage: 290
- Fury (3s): +20% Critical Chance
- Burning (3s): 786 Damage
2- Number of Bounces: 3
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
June 23, 2015
- Phantasmal Mage: Instead of inflicting confusion on foes and granting retaliation on allies, this phantasm now inflicts 1 stack of burning for 6 seconds on foes and grants 3 seconds of fury to allies.
- Removed undocumented condition removal from this phantasm.
- Mesmer skills that create bouncing projectiles will now have them bounce one additional time.
- Phantasm damage has been increased by 15%.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Create an illusion that burns foes and grants fury to allies.
- Damage: 252
- Fury (3s): +20% Critical Chance
- Burning (6s): 786 Damage
- Number of Bounces: 3
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
January 27, 2015
- Phantasmal Mage: The illusionary mage summoned by this skill now applies 4 stacks of confusion instead of 3 with its attack.
- The duration of the confusion has been increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
- The illusionary mage's rate of fire has been reduced by 1 second.
Phantasmal Mage
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Weapon
- Torch
- Type
- Phantasm
- Game link
“Phantasm. Create an illusion that confuses foes and grants retaliation to allies.
- Damage: 244
- Retaliation (3s): Reflect incoming damage back to its source.
- Confusion (4s): 176 Damage, 198 Damage on Skill Use
4- Number of Bounces: 2
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
May 20, 2014
- Phantasmal Mage: Fixed an incorrect number of bounces skill fact. This skill bounces 2 times (hits 3 targets).
December 14, 2012
- Phantasmal Mage: Damage now matches the tooltip.
November 15, 2012
- Phantasmal Mage: This skill's confusion has been increased to 3 stacks for 3 seconds from 1 stack for 9 seconds.
- The recharge on Phantasmal Mage's skill has been increased to 6 seconds from 5 seconds.
Phantasmal Mage
“Phantasm. Create an illusion that confuses foes and grants retaliation to allies.
- Damage: 363
- Confusion (3s): 99 Damage, 148 Damage on Skill Use
3- Retaliation (3s): Reflect incoming damage back to its source.
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description
Original version
Phantasmal Mage
“Phantasm. Create an illusion that confuses foes and grants retaliation to allies.
- Damage: 363
- Confusion (9s): 99 Damage, 49 Damage on Skill Use
- Retaliation (3s): Reflect incoming damage back to its source.
- Range: 1,200
— In-game description