Epidemic


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 * [[Image:Mesmer-icon.png]] ||Profession:|| Mesmer

Description
Transfer all negative "Conditions" and their remaining durations from target foe to all foes adjacent to your target.

Acquisition
Skill Quests: Skill Trainers: Signet of Capture:
 * None
 * Taltosh (Grendich Courthouse)
 * Captain Osric (Yak's Bend)
 * Dakk (Ember Light Camp)
 * Wrath (The Black Curtain)
 * ... (more) to be added ...

Usage
This skill is useful when combined with Fragility, because the damage from Fragility triggers not only when the target suffers from a condition but also when that condition is removed. Since Epidemic removes the conditions from the target, it triggers as many "strikes" of Fragility as the target had conditions.

If a foe near the target was hexed with Fevered Dreams, the target will lose any conditions they had then immediately regain them. In this manner, Fragility can be made to trigger three times in rapid succession per condition (once when they get the conditions, once when Epidemic causes them to lose the conditions, and once more when Fevered Dreams causes them to regain all the conditions), plus again when the conditions run out on their own.

This skill is also useful against enemy necromancers, to prevent them from using Plague Sending, Plague Signet, Plague Touch, or other skills which transfer conditions from themselves to you or your party members.