Guild Wars 2

Are you okay with current Confusion? Do you think devs did a great job decreasing its damage by dat 50% or was it one of their worst ideas since game’s launch? If you were a dev, would you revert it back to previous state, change how the condition works or let it weak as is?

The decision to reduce it to the amulet-pvp (spvp) level of 50% was probably not thought out. At the same time, leaving it at 100% would of been problematic.

The goal should have been not simply to reduce the damage, but to reduce the damage in a way that made the condition still problematic for the bad-players who simply fight through it and ignore the stacks. Right now, it simply does too little damage at 50% to be effective. Players simply ignore it when its on them because it does so little damage.

Reducing it to 75% damage (instead of 50%) probably would have been a better balance in significantly lowing the damage (the goal) while still ensuring that it remains useful and formidable to players who ignore/fight through it.

This should of been an easy tweak, but it was horribly botched. Essentially, a meat cleaver was used to chop off the arm when the problem was simply a hangnail.

it used to be fairly interesting, glamour spec was the problem more than the condition itself. The way it was changed just nerfed many builds that were not abusing it

Well it’s a whole lot less effective than it used to be. I’d agree it was probably over-nerfed.

When did they do this?
And no, it doesn’t sound okay, because it seems like it’s killing a viable mesmer build and forcing all of them into a burst/shatter build.

A couple of upgrades back, they halved confusion. There were several threads about it. It did need a nerf…probably not such a drastic one.

confusion plays into the shatter spec, so it was a nerf to that also, same as the attempts to nerf dagger dagger bunker ele’s affected staff eles

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it used to be fairly interesting, glamour spec was the problem more than the condition itself. The way it was changed just nerfed many builds that were not abusing it

They could have nerfed Dazzling alone and this would significantly decrease glamour builds effectiveness. But instead, because nerfing is kewl, we got both. That’s like if we asked for anet to completely remove glamour builds from the game, except we didn’t…

Overnerfed. I feel it was only nerfed this hard due to glamour builds. Maybe nerfing the glamour build itself, while only altering confusion to … maybe 75%? … would have been better.

I barely use my mesmer any more due to it, thats how I feel about it.

the wrong thing was applying it without cap limit.
The ability of just 2 classes to change large scale battles was clearly OP….

They did the wrong change as Always…instead of addressing the issue (no cap) they halved damage ._.

So they ruined roaming confusion professsions while leaving the issue of organized small groups of players being able to impact too much a zerg fight.

Also i read so many people talking about L2p, that you can completely avoid damage and stuff.

That is WRONG you can disconnect keyboard and mouse as you see confusion and still die to it….
An example?
A clone attacking triggers it…..try to fight those “funny” (see anet “fun”) reef dragons in southsun…..or devious tessa that if i remember well has the habit of stacking 25 confusion in few seconds.