Mind the Gap

Clone. Swing your spear in a circle, dealing increased damage to foes in the outer edge. Striking with the outer edge will always deal a critical hit. Create a clone and gain Clarity if you hit an enemy. If you are empowered, gain might. — In-game description

Mind the Gap

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Type

Clone

Game link

API

73093

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Mind the Gap

Clone. Swing your spear in a circle, dealing increased damage to foes in the outer edge. Striking with the outer edge will always deal a critical hit. Create a clone and gain Clarity if you hit an enemy. If you are empowered, gain might.

 Damage: 587 (1.6)^?

 Damage: 513 (1.4)^?

 Outer-Edge Damage Increase: 20%

 Outer-Edge Damage Increase: 10%

 Clarity (15s): Your spear skills are empowered.

₄ Might (10s): 120 Condition Damage, 120 Power

₄ Might (6s): 120 Condition Damage, 120 Power

 Outer-Edge Critical Chance: 100%

 Number of Targets: 5

 Combo Finisher: Whirl

 Range: 300

— In-game description

Notes

Bugs:

• Tooltip is missing the clone ability type.
• The radius of the outer edge telegraph is only 280 despite hitting up to 300 like the skill tooltip indicates.

• The radius of the inner circle is 160, while the outer edge is effective from 160 to 300.
• The damage increase from the outer edge is granted as long as a part of the enemies hitbox is in it, which is always the case on hitboxes larger than 160.

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.

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Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the power coefficient from 2.0 to 1.6 in PvE only.
March 11, 2025	Increased the cooldown from 6 seconds to 8 seconds in PvP only.
February 11, 2025	Reduced the power coefficient from 2.5 to 2.0 in PvE only.
October 21, 2024	Reduced the damage multiplier from 1.54 to 1.4, and reduced the outer-edge multiplier from 20% to 10% in PvP only (Undocumented) Reduced the duration of the Might granted by this skill from 10 seconds to 6 in WvW and PvP only.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Mind the Gap has been added to the game. This skill's visual effect has been improved to better outline the outer edge. This skill now always grants Clarity on hit. This skill's outer edge will now always deal critical damage when it strikes an enemy. Increased the damage coefficient from 1.4 to 1.54 in PvP only.
June 27, 2024	Mind the Gap was available during the Spear Beta Event.