Phantasmal Sharpshooter

Phantasm. Create a phantasm that shoots a bullet at your target, stunning them. — In-game description

Phantasmal Sharpshooter

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

Type

Phantasm

Game link

API

72007

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0.75¾  20  

Phantasmal Sharpshooter

Phantasm. Create a phantasm that shoots a bullet at your target, stunning them.

 Damage: 422 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

₁₀ Vulnerability (8s): +10% Incoming Damage, +10% Incoming Condition Damage

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Stun: 10.5½ seconds

 Defiance Break: 200

 Defiance Break: 150

 Radius: 240

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Mechanics

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

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

• Phantasmal Fury — Your phantasms have fury.
• 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.

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

• 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.
• 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

• Syncopate — Deafening Drum releases an additional quick wave after a delay. Deal damage to enemies you disable.
• Harmonize — Gain a note when you use a phantasm skill.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	Reduced the ammo count from 2 to 1 in PvE only.
February 27, 2024	Phantasmal Sharpshooter has been added to the game. Reduced the phantasm's casting time from 1.2 seconds to 0.8 seconds. The phantasm's attack now strikes targets in a radius of 240 around the impact. This skill now has 2 charges in PvE only.
November 28, 2023	Phantasmal Sharpshooter was available during the Expanded Weapon Proficiency Beta Event.