Phantasmal Lancer

Phantasm. Dash at your foe, removing boons from them. Leave a phantasm at your initial location that will launch a spear at your target, dealing heavy damage and crippling targets. If your phantasm strikes a crippled target, immobilize them instead. If you have Clarity, summon an additional phantasm. — In-game description

Phantasmal Lancer

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Type

Phantasm

Summons

Illusionary Lancer

Game link

API

72946

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Phantasmal Lancer

Phantasm. Dash at your foe, removing boons from them. Leave a phantasm at your initial location that will launch a spear at your target, dealing heavy damage and crippling targets. If your phantasm strikes a crippled target, immobilize them instead. If you have Clarity, summon an additional phantasm.

 Damage: 367 (1.0)^?

 Phantasm Damage: 665 (0.6)^?

 Phantasm Damage: 443 (0.4)^?

 Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

 Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

 Immobilize against Crippled Targets (2s): Unable to move.

 Immobilize against Crippled Targets (1s): Unable to move.

 Swiftness (8s): +33% Movement Speed

 Boons Removed: 2

 Number of Targets: 5

 Empowered Phantasms Created: 2

 Phantasm Attack Radius: 240

 Dash Range: 450

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Phantasm

Phantasm	Skill used	Effect
Illusionary Lancer	Phantasmal Javelin	Launches a spear that deals damage and cripples.

Notes

Bugs:

• Tooltip is missing the phantasm ability type.
• The Illusionary Lancer triggers Fencer's Finesse on its initial strike.

• Phantasms have their own unique weapon strengths, which can be found in the list of phantasms.

Related traits

Dueling

• Phantasmal Fury — Your phantasms have fury.

Inspiration

• Sympathetic Visage — Phantasms take your conditions from you when summoned.
• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Illusions

• Persistence of Memory — When a phantasm becomes a clone, it transfers its boons to you.
• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
• Escape Artist — When a phantasm is created, grant it distortion.
• Phantasmal Haste — Phantasms spawn with quickness. Gain quickness when you create a phantasm.
• Phantasmal Force — Phantasms deal increased strike damage for each stack of might you have. Gain might when your phantasms become clones.

Chronomancer

• Time Catches Up — Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.
• Stretched Time — Nearby allies gain boons for each clone you shatter. Grant boons to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• Seize the Moment — You and nearby allies gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Grant quickness to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• Chronophantasma — The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Virtuoso

• Phantasmal Blades — Phantasms that successfully complete their attack launch a blade at their target and grant you fury when they expire.

Troubadour

• Harmonize — Gain a note when you use a phantasm skill.

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Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 21, 2024	Reduced the phantasm damage coefficient from 0.6 to 0.4 in PvP only. Reduced the cripple duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds and the immobilize duration from 2 seconds to 1 second in PvP and WvW.
September 10, 2024	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from summoning a phantasm when used on an evading enemy.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Phantasmal Lancer has been added to the game. This skill's phantasms no longer dash at the target and now launch their spears toward the target, inflicting damage in an area. This skill now grants swiftness to the player. Increased the damage from 0.4 to 0.6 in WvW and PvP.
June 27, 2024	Phantasmal Lancer was available during the Spear Beta Event.