Counterspell

Shoot out a bolt that blinds enemies in a line and summons a clone to attack the first foe it strikes. — In-game description

Counterspell

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Type

Clone

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

10314

“

0.5½  

Counterspell

Shoot out a bolt that blinds enemies in a line and summons a clone to attack the first foe it strikes.

 Damage: 37 (0.1)^?

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

₅ Confusion (7s): 639 Damage, 81 Damage on Skill Use

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

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.

Inspiration

• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Illusions

• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
• 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.
• Danger Time — When you inflict slow, you and your clones' outgoing critical-strike damage is increased for a duration.

Virtuoso

• Jagged Mind — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	This skill now inflicts 5 stacks of confusion for 7 seconds in PvE only.
October 02, 2018	Fixed a bug that prevented the clones summoned by this skill from being equipped with the mesmer's off-hand weapon. Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause this skill to behave incorrectly.
August 28, 2018	In addition to its previous effects, mesmers will summon a clone to attack the first enemy struck by this skill.
October 22, 2012	Projectile skills for the scepter have had their velocity increased by 33%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Counterspell has been added to the game.