Blinding Tide

Expose your enemies, inflicting vulnerability in an area. — In-game description

Blinding Tide

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Trident

Game link

API

10259

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

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0.5½  8  

Blinding Tide

Expose your enemies, inflicting vulnerability in an area.

 Damage: 293 (0.8)^?

 Blindness (4s): Next outgoing attack misses.

₃ Vulnerability (8s): +3% Incoming Damage, +3% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Domination

• Fragility — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.

Dueling

• Ineptitude — Interrupting a foe inflicts blind, and blinding a foe inflicts confusion. This trait can only activate on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Chaos

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

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	This skill now inflicts vulnerability in an area around the player's target in addition to blindness. Its cooldown has been reduced from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Fixed a bug in which an incorrect number of targets displayed in the skill fact.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill has been renamed to "Blinding Tide" (from Ineptitude).
June 25, 2013	Fixed an issue that allowed this skill to be cast at infinite range.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ineptitude has been added to the game.