Changes: Signet of Midnight

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Skill details

Full: You and target touched foe become Blinded for 15 seconds.

Concise: (15 seconds.) Inflicts Blindness condition. You suffer from Blindness (15 seconds).

This skill is much more useful defensively than offensively. Due to its touch range, it is a totally sweet idea to plunge headlong into the fray with your fragile Mesmer's armor with the intent to blind your target, but it can be a complete lifesaver if a melee user (be it an enemy Warrior or a Bladed Aatxe) decides to feast on your squishy flesh.
For Mesmer/Necromancers or Necromancer/Mesmers, the fact that this skill blinds you as well can be used to your advantage if combined with skills which transfer conditions, such as Plague Touch, Plague Sending, or Epidemic.
For most casters, blindness is not that much of a disadvantage. Since blindness does not affect casting spells, a mesmer will still be quite effective versus those that rely upon sight (Assassins, Rangers, Paragons, Warriors, and Dervishes).
For A/Me or Me/A, you can also use Signet of Malice right after using Signet of Midnight for an effective, entirely energy-free blind infliction.
Combine with Mantra of Inscriptions or Mantra of Signets to use Signet of midnight more often.
For D/Me or Me/D, this combines very well with Sand Shards to take advantage of the blindness inflicted upon you to do large amounts of AoE damage when Scythe Attacks are spammed.
A Rt/Me or Me/Rt can gain huge defensive bonuses using this together with Resilient Weapon and Resilient Was Xiko to potentially gain up to +7 health regeneration and +24 armour.

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 == Notes ==
-* This skill is much more useful defensively than offensively. Due to its touch range, it is rarely a bad idea to plunge headlong into the fray with your fragile Mesmer's armor with the intent to blind your target, but it can be a complete lifesaver if a melee user (be it an enemy [[Warrior]] or a [[Bladed Aatxe]]) decides to feast on your [[squishy]] flesh.
+* This skill is much more useful defensively than offensively. Due to its touch range, it is a totally sweet idea to plunge headlong into the fray with your fragile Mesmer's armor with the intent to blind your target, but it can be a complete lifesaver if a melee user (be it an enemy [[Warrior]] or a [[Bladed Aatxe]]) decides to feast on your [[squishy]] flesh.
 * For Mesmer/Necromancers or Necromancer/Mesmers, the fact that this skill blinds you as well can be used to your advantage if combined with skills which transfer conditions, such as [[Plague Touch]], [[Plague Sending]], or [[Epidemic]].
 * For most casters, blindness is not that much of a disadvantage.  Since blindness does not affect casting spells, a mesmer will still be quite effective versus those that rely upon sight (Assassins, Rangers, Paragons, Warriors, and Dervishes).