Signet of Illusions

Signet Passive: Creates a clone every few seconds. Signet Active: Recharges shatter skills. — In-game description

Signet of Illusions

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Signet

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

10247

Gallery
Overhead activation icon

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Signet of Illusions

Signet Passive: Creates a clone every few seconds.
Signet Active: Recharges shatter skills.

 Recharge Reduced: 100%

 Recharge Reduced: 50%

 Interval: 10 seconds

 Combat Only

— In-game description

Mechanics

Passive signet effect

• Applies  Signet of Illusions when not on recharge
• The passive effect only creates clones while in combat. Virtuoso will instead stock a blade, working like an in-combat version of the trait  Psychic Blades.
  • The summoned clone will target the nearest enemy within 1200 range of the mesmer.

Active signet effect

• This skill's recharge begins at the same time shatter skills are recharged.
• The active effect does not recharge   Continuum Split for Chronomancer or   Crescendo for Troubadour.
• When used underwater, this skill has a 0.5½ second activation time.
• With  Blurred Inscriptions the active gains  Active Clones Summoned: 1

Related traits

Inspiration

• Illusionary Inspiration — Increase healing to other allies. Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.
• Blurred Inscriptions — Signets have improved active effects, and activating one grants you distortion.

Illusions

• Compounding Power — Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage and condition damage for a short duration. Virtuoso: Triggers when stocking a blade.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 30, 2025	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from working properly with the troubadour elite specialization.
October 21, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 60 seconds to 35 seconds in PvP only. Reduced the shatter recharge percentage from 100% to 50% in PvP only.
August 13, 2019	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from recharging chronomancer shatters.
July 16, 2019	The description for this skill has been updated.
April 23, 2019	This skill's recharge now begins at the same time shatter skills are recharged.
March 27, 2018	Fixed a text error for the passive effect that referenced this skill's old behavior.
February 06, 2018	The passive effect has been changed; it now causes a clone to be automatically summoned every 10 seconds while you are in combat
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Reduced recharge to 60 seconds. This skill now specifies which skills it recharges.
June 25, 2013	Clones and phantasms will now gain the passive effect of this signet when they are created, rather than a few moments after creation. Decreased the bonus hit points to clones and phantasms to 50%.
September 08, 2012	Fixed a bug with Signet of Illusions. It now gives phantasms 50% more health instead of 300% more.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Signet of Illusions has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.