With the most recent patch and nerf to confusion, the Staff weapon is now become weaker and now Mesmers are being pigeon-holed into using greatswords (most effective in glass canon builds) to be viable in WvW.
Please take a look at staff and the 3 conditions that it randomly casts. The random Vulnerability is pretty useless for a staff and changing this to Poison instead of Vulnerability would make Staff viable again.
Please also look at Mesmer Scepter. Scepter skill #1 (Ember Clone) still does not cause confusion even though the tooltip states that it does. This weapon was weak before the confusion nerf but is totally useless now.
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