Ether Clone

Clone. Deliver a damaging attack directly to your target. Summon a clone that casts Ether Bolt. Inflict torment instead if you have the maximum number of illusions. — In-game description

Ether Clone

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Type

Clone

Activ. type

Chain

Sequence

 →  → 

Game link

API

10291

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0.75¾  

Ether Clone

Clone. Deliver a damaging attack directly to your target. Summon a clone that casts Ether Bolt. Inflict torment instead if you have the maximum number of illusions.

 Damage: 275 (0.75)^?

 Damage: 183 (0.5)^?

 Torment (9s): 198 Damage, 286 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Mechanics

• The clone created does not use the full scepter attack chain. Instead, it will use only Ether Bolt every 2s.

Related traits

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.

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.

Trivia

• As of the April 19, 2016 game update, this attack no longer uses a projectile

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 30, 2021	Fixed a bug in which this skill did not stock blades for a Virtuoso past a maximum of 3.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Autoattack Chain: Reduced power coefficients from 0.5/0.5/0.75 to 0.333/0.333/0.5.
December 12, 2017	Torment application lowered to 1 stack, duration increased to 9 seconds
August 09, 2017	Fixed an incorrect torment-damage skill fact.
April 19, 2016	Reduced the aftercast delay by 0.45 seconds. This skill no longer fires a missile but is a direct attack instead.
January 26, 2016	This skill no longer generates a clone if the player has the max number of illusions. It instead applies 2 stacks of torment for 5 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Adjusted the timing of this attack to flow better with the other attacks in the chain. The projectile is now launched sooner, but the attack has slightly longer aftercast. The number of clones generated per second by this chain is unchanged.
June 27, 2013	Fixed a bug causing this ability to generate two clones in a WvW or PvP map.
October 22, 2012	Projectile skills for the scepter have had their velocity increased by 33%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ether Clone has been added to the game.