Guild Wars 2

I “discovered” something interesting. I play a shatter build and as a consequence I apply confusion to the enemy, sometimes up to or more than 10 stacks. When the enemy (player or npc, doesn’t matter) attacks sometimes I see one big damage number (most often about 1500 to 2000) for confusion and sometimes I get many smaller damage numbers (about 3 or 4 times 500-800, but all simulatiously appearing numbers are the same). The smaller numbers appear all at about the same time (like bleeding).

Now I want to know if someone can explain to me why this is happening.

Confusion inflicted by Illusions, which can occur from Confusing Combatants or the Phantasmal Mage, are shown separately to Confusion inflicted by yourself (which includes Confusion from Shatter skills). Is that what you’re seeing?

It used to be quite obvious when Trident Clones inflicted Confusion.

That explains it. Thanks for the answer.

Embolism.8106:

It used to be quite obvious when Trident Clones inflicted Confusion.

Especially since the old Trident Clones applied a different type of confusion
(doing only 50% damage of the regular confusion in the old WvW days)