Phase Traversal

Legendary Assassin. Step through the Mists to your target. Your next few attacks can't be blocked. — In-game description

Phase Traversal

Profession

Revenant (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Legendary Assassin

Movement

Shadowstep

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

28231

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0.5½  

30

35

35

 

5

5

12

 

Phase Traversal

Legendary Assassin. Step through the Mists to your target. Your next few attacks can't be blocked.

 Damage: 532 (2.0)^?

 Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

₂ Unblockable (5s): Your attacks are unblockable

 Quickness (3s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Unblockable

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Salvation

• Resilient Spirit — Periodically gain barrier for each unique boon you have.
• Generous Abundance — Heal allies around yourself when using a Legend skill. Heal allies around Ventari's Tablet when using a Legendary Centaur skill. Dragon Facet skills and Ventari's Will cannot activate this trait.

Devastation

• Aggressive Agility — Movement skills grant resistance.
• Notoriety — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when using a legendary stance skill.
• Brutality — Gain quickness when you swap weapons. While you have quickness, your strikes remove stability. This removal effect can only occur once per interval on each target.

Herald

• Shared Empowerment — When applying a boon to an ally, also apply might to nearby allies.
• Reinforced Potency — Gain concentration and deal increased strike damage for each active boon you have.
• Elevated Compassion — Heal allies when you grant them boons. Grant boons to allies when your upkeep cost is equal to or higher than the threshold. An ally can only be affected by this skill once per interval.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 23, 2021	Increased cooldown from 5 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP only.
July 07, 2020	This skill now performs a pathing check before activation.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This skill no longer increases damage for the next few attacks, and it now uses the new unblockable effect. Damage increased by 100% in PvE only. Energy cost raised from 30 to 35 in WvW to match the PvP version.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Skills and traits that grant the unblockable status now use a unified effect. This effect is intensity stacking, and stacks are lost whenever attacks hit or miss. Single strikes that hit multiple foes only consume 1 stack. Skills that grant the unblockable status for a duration have been updated to use a number of stacks instead.
August 28, 2018	The energy cost of this skill has been reduced from 35 to 30 in PvE and WvW.
February 07, 2018	Reverted the range check on this ability.
February 06, 2018	This skill is now unblockable and grants 3 seconds of quickness in addition to its previous effects. Fixed a bug in which this skill could be used on targets outside of its range.
July 26, 2016	This skill will now properly damage downed enemies.
May 17, 2016	The cost of this skill has been increased from 20 to 35.
October 27, 2015	Added a 5-second recharge.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Phase Traversal has been added to the game.