Signet of Inspiration

Signet Passive: Grant swiftness and an additional random boon every ten seconds. Signet Active: Extends the duration of all boons on yourself. — In-game description

Signet of Inspiration

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Signet

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

10236

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Signet of Inspiration

Signet Passive: Grant swiftness and an additional random boon every ten seconds.
Signet Active: Extends the duration of all boons on yourself.

 Aegis (3s): Block the next incoming attack.

 Alacrity (3s): +25% Skill Recharge Rate

 Fury (3s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (3s): +20% Critical Chance

 Might (20s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Regen (3s): 390 Heal

 Resolution (3s): Incoming condition damage decreased by 33%.

 Always Receive—Swiftness (5s): +33% Movement Speed

 Vigor (3s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Stability (3s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

 Resistance (3s): Nondamaging conditions currently on you are ineffective.

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

 Duration Increase: 3 seconds

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Mechanics

• When used underwater, the activation time is 0.5½ second.
• The passive effect also works out of combat.
• The active effect does not benefit from boon duration.
• Applies the  Signet of Inspiration passive effect when not on cooldown.
• With  Blurred Inscriptions the active gains  Number of Targets: 5

Bug:

When traited with Blurred Inscriptions the duration increase is no longer displayed in the tooltip.

Related traits

Chaos

• Chaotic Persistence — Gain concentration and expertise while affected by regeneration.

Inspiration

• Blurred Inscriptions — Signets have improved active effects, and activating one grants you distortion.

Chronomancer

• Improved Alacrity — Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity.

Mirage

• Renewing Oasis — Gain regeneration when you gain Mirage Cloak. The duration of incoming damaging conditions is reduced while you are regenerating.
• Nomad's Endurance — Shatter skills give vigor, and vigor grants condition damage.

Virtuoso

• Sharpening Sorrow — Gain fury when you activate Bladesong Sorrow. Fury increases your expertise.
• Quiet Intensity — Fury gives an increased critical chance. Gain ferocity based on your vitality.
• Psychic Riposte — Blocking or evading an attack stocks blades. Dodging stocks a blade and causes your next Bladesong to be unblockable.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
June 28, 2022	Fury: Critical chance bonus increased from 20% to 25% in PvE only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: This now only affects the user by default. The trait Blurred Inscriptions increases the target cap to 5.
May 11, 2021	The Retaliation boon has been renamed Resolution.
March 05, 2019	Lowered the extended durations of boons that this skill grants from 5 seconds to 3 seconds. Lowered the recharge time from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.
December 11, 2018	The active effect of this signet no longer shares the mesmer's boons with allies. Instead, it now extends the duration of all allies' current boons by 5 seconds.
October 02, 2018	Normalized the duration of boons applied by this skill to 3 seconds. Might and swiftness are exceptions to this rule and remain at durations of 20 seconds and 5 seconds respectively.
July 10, 2018	Reduced the duration of aegis shared by this skill from 10 seconds to 2 seconds.
February 06, 2018	This skill's active effect will now share 2 seconds of alacrity if the caster has alacrity in addition to its previous effects. The passive effect has been updated to randomly apply 2 seconds of alacrity in addition to its previous boons.
October 18, 2016	Added stability, quickness, and resistance to the signet's passive skill. The active skill of this ability has been reworked and will now apply one of each of your boons to nearby allies for the same duration the passive skill applies them.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Reduced recharge of this skill to 30 seconds. The passive effect of this signet now grants 5 seconds of swiftness plus one other random boon every 10 seconds. It no longer grants swiftness as one of its random boons.
December 14, 2012	Increased swiftness duration from five to ten seconds. This passive effect now works outside of combat.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Signet of Inspiration has been added to the game.