Holo-Dancer Decoy

Defensive Artifact. Summon a holo-dancer decoy that taunts enemies and grants boons to nearby allies. It self-destructs if it is not destroyed, dealing damage to enemies in a large area and granting additional boons to allies.

For a short time after using this skill, the next utility skill you use has reduced cooldown. — In-game description

Holo-Dancer Decoy

 

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Antiquary

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Defensive Artifact

Summons

Holo-Dancer

Game link

API

76674, 76800

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Holo-Dancer Decoy

Defensive Artifact. Summon a holo-dancer decoy that taunts enemies and grants boons to nearby allies. It self-destructs if it is not destroyed, dealing damage to enemies in a large area and granting additional boons to allies.

For a short time after using this skill, the next utility skill you use has reduced cooldown.

 Damage: 807 (2)^?

 Damage: 12 (0.03)^?

 Holo-Dancer Decoy (10s): The next utility skill you use has reduced cooldown.

 Taunt (3s): Involuntarily attack foes.

 Taunt (1s): Involuntarily attack foes.

₂ Might (8s): 60 Condition Damage, 60 Power

₄ Might on Self-Destruct (8s): 120 Condition Damage, 120 Power

 Fury on Self-Destruct (8s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury on Self-Destruct (8s): +20% Critical Chance

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pulses: 3

 Recharge Reduced: 80%

 Recharge Reduced: 33%

 Time to Self-Destruct: 3 seconds

 Radius: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
• Improvisation — Use stolen skills twice. Reduce the cooldown of all equipped utility skills when you steal. Cooldown effect will only trigger if all utility slots are filled and if at least one of your active utility skills is on cooldown. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.

Critical Strikes

• Assassin's Fury — Gain might when you gain fury.
• No Quarter — Landing a critical hit while under the effects of fury increases the duration of fury. Gain increased ferocity while under the effects of fury.
• Invigorating Precision — You are healed for a percentage of outgoing critical-hit damage. This healing is increased while you are under the effects of fury.

Trickery

• Pressure Striking — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Antiquary

• Card Swap — Gain access to Reshuffle. Remove conditions from yourself whenever you reshuffle your artifacts or use an artifact skill.
• Prolific Plunderer — Gain an additional artifact slot. Whenever you pilfer, you gain an additional, random artifact. You can use one additional artifact when you pilfer with Skritt Swipe.
• Meticulous Custodian — Your artifacts have increased effectiveness. Beneficial artifact effects last longer.
• Exhilarating Ephemera — Gain increased damage for a period of time after using an artifact.
• Enterprising Aristocrat — Gain initiative and barrier whenever you use an artifact skill. You take reduced strike and condition damage whenever you have barrier.
• Possessive Hoarder — Artifacts grant boons to allies when used. Offensive and defensive artifacts grant different boons. Barrier granted through Magpie's Defense and Enterprising Aristocrat is now also granted to allies as well.

Notes

Bugs:

• This skill does not work with traits that trigger when you interrupt an enemy.
• Unlike all other Artifacts this skill uses unequipped weapon strength.

Anomaly:

Venom skills can be applied to the decoy summoned by this skill. When the decoy attacks it consumes the Thief's Venom stacks not its own.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the power coefficient from 2.5 to 2 in PvE only.
February 03, 2026	Fixed an issue that caused boons from self-destruct to be granted around the antiquary's position instead of the decoy.
January 22, 2026	Reduced the taunt duration from 3 seconds to 1 second in PvP only.
January 13, 2026	All artifacts now use the same weapon-type scaling when calculating damage, regardless of the weapon type equipped. This skill now additionally pulses might to nearby allies and grants additional might and fury to allies when it self-destructs. Reduced the cooldown reduction from 50% to 33% in WvW and PvP.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Holo-Dancer Decoy has been added to the game. In addition to its previous effects, for a short period of time after using this skill, the next utility skill you use has a reduced cooldown.
August 19, 2025	Holo-Dancer Decoy was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.