Guild Wars 2

If you know of a place that explains confusion in much more detail than the wiki please link me here.

Confusion does damage anytime you use a skill.

Does that mean anytime I hit 1-9 and 0 ? I was just reading a thread where it said you take damage on dodge roll only if you trait it to use a skill at the same time (clone, caltrops, heal)

I am looking for specifics since engineers and mesmers are using this is WvW like it’s going out of style and I need to adjust but can’t find any definitive information that could help me beat them.

In my brief testing it didn’t seem to be hurting me when I used skill 7-9 on my elementalist but each of those removes a condition so this brings me to my second question: If I use a condition removal skill does the confusion get removed first or will it do damage for me activating the skill and then remove it?

Also my buddy is 100% sure that it does damage on heal, but unless im low enough to get downed by it my heal is still going to gain me a significant amount of health so this one is a wash IMO.

Correct me WHEN I’m wrong!

Thanks in advance.

Also forgot to mention that since the last patch my combat log has only been showing about half of what is actually happening which makes it almost impossible to accurately test things right now.

Wow thanks for moving my thread to players helping players otherwise known as where questions go unanswered or where good threads go to die.

Killacam.2064:

my second question: If I use a condition removal skill does the confusion get removed first or will it do damage for me activating the skill and then remove it?

Confusion will trigger once before being removed.

Confusion does damage for any action, that includes utility skills as well as your dodge roll if your dodge roll has something attached to it like spawn a clone, heal you, drops calotraps.

It also does its damage before the action is completed so if you are trying to heal and you dont have the health to survive the confusion damage before your heal health is applied then you go to a downed state.

In WvW I have had confusion tick as high as 4500-4750 depending on the stacks so its good to heal early.

Go find Diplomat Tarban in Brisban Wildlands then wait for a guild to engage him as part of guild bounty. When fighting him, it was pretty much constant 6 stacks of confusion. death happened in about 2-10 seconds depending on if was able to stop attacking and heal in time.
confusion deals damage when you attack, and it’s multiplied by how many stacks of confusion you have on you. so if 1 stack does 800 damage every time you use a spell, 6 stacks does 4800. then if you attack 5 times in 3 seconds, that’s 24000 damage in 3 seconds.
I don’t know anymore specifics, but I have noticed that healing does not trigger it, and dodging didn’t seem to for me.

yes any action including utility and healing and also condition removals, before it gets removed. but unless you got very high stack most healing skills will heal more than you take damage