Illusionary Wave

Knock back foes with a wave of magical energy. — In-game description

Illusionary Wave

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Greatsword

Game link

API

10220

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0.5½  20  

Illusionary Wave

Knock back foes with a wave of magical energy.

 Damage: 121 (0.3)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

₅ Vulnerability (6s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

 Knockback: 450

 Number of Targets: 5

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 450

— In-game description

Related traits

Domination

• Illusion of Vulnerability — Inflict vulnerability when you interrupt a foe. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Dazzling — Disabling a foe also applies vulnerability. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Furious Interruption — Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
• Fragility — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
• Vicious Expression — You and your illusions deal increased strike damage to foes without boons. Disabling a foe removes boons from them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Power Block — Interrupts deal damage and inflict weakness while granting you a damage increase. This trait can only damage enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Dueling

• Duelist's Discipline — Pistol attacks from you and your illusions have a chance to cause bleeding. Interrupting a foe recharges pistol skills. This trait can only reduce recharge on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Superiority Complex — Your critical hits deal more damage. Critical hit damage against disabled foes, or foes below the health threshold, is further increased. Disabled foes are affected by stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, or launch.
• 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 Interruption — When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random. Only affects weapon skills that are recharging.

Chronomancer

• Delayed Reactions — Disabling a foe slows them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. This trait can only affect the same enemy with once per interval.

Troubadour

• Syncopate — Deafening Drum releases an additional quick wave after a delay. Deal damage to enemies you disable.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds. This skill now inflicts vulnerability.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Competitive splits: Reduced power coefficient from 0.3 to 0.01. Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
December 01, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused the knockback from this skill to occasionally fail when the trait Imagined Burden was equipped.
October 15, 2013	Updated the skill to indicate its actual attack distance, which is 450.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Illusionary Wave has been added to the game.