Phantasmal Whaler

Phantasm. Cast Siren's Call on nearby foes and create an illusion that confuses foes with a harpoon gun. — In-game description

Phantasmal Whaler

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Trident

Type

Phantasm

Summons

Illusionary Whaler

Game link

API

10328

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

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Phantasmal Whaler

Phantasm. Cast Siren's Call on nearby foes and create an illusion that confuses foes with a harpoon gun.

 Damage (4x): 588 (0.6)^?

₈ Confusion (6s): 528 Damage, 396 Damage on Skill Use

₄ Confusion (3s): 132 Damage, 198 Damage on Skill Use

 Number of Casts: 3

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 15 seconds

 Radius: 600

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Phantasm

Phantasm	Skill used	Effect
Illusionary Whaler	Whaler's Volley	Deals damage and causes confusion.

Related traits

See also: Phantasm#Related traits

Dueling

• Phantasmal Fury — Your phantasms have fury.

Chaos

• Chaotic Potency — Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a staff. Staff and trident skills gain reduced recharge.

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.
• Malicious Sorcery — Confusion you inflict has increased duration. When you dodge an attack, inflict confusion on your attacker.

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

• Jagged Mind — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
• Phantasmal Blades — Phantasms that successfully complete their attack launch a blade at their target and grant you fury when they expire.

Notes

• Phantasms have their own unique weapon strength that is independent of the player's equipped weapon rarity. The defender has a weapon strength midpoint of 2553.5.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 06, 2018	This skill has been renamed to Phantasmal Whaler for consistency with other phantasm skills. Confusion duration has been increased from 3 seconds to 6 seconds. Increased the confusion stacks per hit from 1 to 2. Reduced the recharge from 20 seconds to 5 seconds. This skill now uses the ammunition system and has 2 casts with a 15-second recharge between casts. Damage has been increased by 30%.
May 16, 2017	This skill now fires Siren's Call projectiles at 3 nearby foes in addition to summoning a phantasm.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Increased the damage of this phantasm by 53% to put it in line with other phantasms.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Phantasm damage has been increased by 15%.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that allowed this ability to be cast without a target.
May 20, 2014	Updated the skill facts to have the appropriate damage indicator (separate from the general fix to minion skill damage).
December 14, 2012	This phantasm now attacks more often, and now does a reasonable amount of damage.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Illusionary Whaler has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The skill icon bears a very close resemblance to a Mind Flayer, a psionic creature infamous for its mind-affecting abilities in Dungeons & Dragons.