Deceptive Evasion

Create a clone at your current position when you dodge. — In-game description

Deceptive Evasion

Specialization

Dueling (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Deceptive Evasion

Create a clone at your current position when you dodge.

 Combat Only

— In-game description

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

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.

Notes

• When used with Virtuoso, stocks a blade on dodge roll.
• The resulting clone appears at the beginning of the mesmer's dodge roll and targets the nearest foe.
• When used in conjunction with  Infinite Horizon, the newly created clone will gain mirage cloak and perform its ambush attack.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Added a skill fact to indicate that this trait only functions while in combat.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Deceptive Evasion has been added to the game.