Guild Wars 2

This, along with malicious sorcery has significantly amped up the scepter in an amazing way. You can legitimately burst with this skill now, coupled with a shatter. I mean, I was doing this before the patch in my build feeling slow as an ox, but now …

Anyone else been messing with this? It feels so strong now.

yes

scepter #3 is much faster thus stronger as it should as i hardly used it before , and now i find a time frame to hit it in combat
the AA feels the same i dont know why

messiah.1908:

the AA feels the same i dont know why

The third AA in the chain has the same total duration, they just moved the clone generation effect earlier in the animation. Which I think might mean we can cancel out of it to cast another skill sooner?

The change was meant to make the Scepter AA feel better when used in conjunction with our other weapon skills, basically. It wasn’t intended to make the Scepter AA stronger or faster by itself.

Yeah the scepter AA chain is unchanged for total duration but at 15% faster with the trait, nothing about the scepter feels in any way clunky anymore.

I tested the scepter a bit and it felt a lot better than before, especially CI is a lot less clumsy.

Did anyone test it with TW?

Yes its a 7.5k on zerker in 1 second + confusion. 1 v1 you land that + one illusin shatter = death.
tryed it with mimic szeptar and the stundsignet in the timewarp. There is no escape right traid +signets its a 8 seconds stund. Its too good to be true.

Flow.2947:

Yes its a 7.5k on zerker in 1 second + confusion. 1 v1 you land that + one illusin shatter = death.
tryed it with mimic szeptar and the stundsignet in the timewarp. There is no escape right traid +signets its a 8 seconds stund. Its too good to be true.

That sounds tasty. I haven’t tried it full glass yet but have thought about it after seeing how quick it is. All six attacks in the chain typically hit due to the speed increase.

Yeah I was testing it on my hybrid (rabid armor, traveler runes, sinister jewels) gear and even the direct damage from scepter was nice (AA crits for 600+) with around 1.7-1.8k power

In Rampager, both direct and condi damage just wrecked my opponents in sPvP. Added a not-nerfed-yet maim shatter with confusion + blinding→confusion = they died like flies.

Sorry to pull up an old thread, but I’m really liking scepter/torch on my Mesmer and I have a question on this power. Is the secret to hitting multiple targets simply targeting the one in the back or is there more to it than that? It seems inconsistent, but it’s hard to tell in a fight with stuff moving around.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Misguided.5139:

Sorry to pull up an old thread, but I’m really liking scepter/torch on my Mesmer and I have a question on this power. Is the secret to hitting multiple targets simply targeting the one in the back or is there more to it than that? It seems inconsistent, but it’s hard to tell in a fight with stuff moving around.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Confusing images draws a line directly from you to your target. It hits everything that the line passes through, up to 5 at a time.