Hey there Placentalicous! I love to hear about people that use my build with their own personal twist!
Feel free to share it in this thread so more people can see it!
To your question: I will of cause have to give it a test inside WvW when th paetch hit, but so far I have been testing the build for some time inside sPvP to see how 50% less Confusion damage feels, and even while confusion deals a lot of the damage in the build, it’s mostly vs players not understanding confusion. Good players didn’t take damage from it anyway, and I just used it to lure out condition removal or shut them down for some time!
The build still got pretty much one of the best burning uptime in the game, able to keep it up permanent quite well. So that’s still a major damage dealer right there, and probaly the reason why it’s still working quite well in sPvP at 50% less confusion damage, but it is of cause a major damage nerf. It also means I will have a much harder time to justify picking up bomb kit, instead of grenade kit in WvW, in sPvP bomb kit feels a lot stronger because of the time we fight on the points and it really shine.
But outside in WvW Nade kit is, even before the 50% damage nerf to confusion, nades feels stronger then bomb kit on many points: The Freeze nades beat glue bomb, the bleeding nades beat the burning bomb (the duration on those bleeds a sick!), the smoke bomb is on some points better then the flash grenades, but that can hardly justify picking it over grenade kit.
Concusion bomb is of cause what sells the kit for me, and it’s a lot stronger then the poison grenades (even while those are strong)! I mean 5 stacks confusion in AOE won me a lot of encounters where I was outnumbered because people tend to spam a lot more skills there.
but with a 50% damage nerf? meeeh, I will have to test it, but i’m afraid AoE poison fields will be more solid in the end!
In the end I still think the build will work, and I’m going to make a roaming video with it is athe very first ting, but I’m afraid my Condition Grenadir build will overpower it, unless they buff the bomb kit some what! =/
Even while I like the Grenade kit, I don’t like how they somehow manage to make it the best kit for everything, leaving the rest in the dust.
But overall, I’m very disapointed in the way Anet is gonna fix Confusion, because while I do agree it’s to strong, I don’t agree it’s because of the damage output.
he flaw with confusion at the moment is it trigger from a lot of things it should trigger from, the biggest being: Traits that activate a skill, Trait that gives on dodge effects and weapon/kit/attunment swapping.
An example would be me fighting my clone, 5 stacks confusion is about 3k damage on a skill use, let’s say I get hit by that, I then make an attack, because I was a bit to slow to notice (Happens), I take 3k damage then, which sent me below 75% health, where hidden flask now trigger and I take 3k damage more, I of cause panic, because I just took 6k damage in about 1 sec, and the enemy is about to hit me with blowtorch, so I dodge, which neat me a 3k hit more, doing about 2-3 seconds I took 9k damage, from using one skill. See, that’s the problem.
If It had been me I had first removed confusion from dealing damage on such things, then tested it for 1-2 months to see if we needed to lower the damage a bit more and THEN I would maybe lower the damage of confusion. But I’m quite sure confusion would be perfect if it only was on skill ACTICATION! I just feel bad for the condtion mesmers, because we at least got other condition builds, they don’t! =/
End of a long rant that turned longer then I expected hehe
