Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this is common knowledge, but I was quite surprised to find out tonight that the Confusion damage shown on the tooltip on gw2skills.net build calculator, appears to be exactly half of what the actual damage is for in-game Confusion.

Illustrated Here: http://oi59.tinypic.com/o8uddw.jpg

The picture shows my build on gw2skills.net, with 1527 Condition damage doing 180 Confusion damage. However, with that same build/gear in-game, it shows 1604 Condition damage (I had Might I think?) doing 371 Confusion damage with 1 stack. Or, as mentioned above, almost exactly double what the calculator shows.

This is a pretty significant thing to know when attempting to make a Condition build viable like I’ve been doing the past week. I didn’t check if the Torment damage was also halved/different, although it seems to be displaying what I would imagine is more accurate. This makes a 3 clone Cry of Frustration suddenly make them hit themselves for 2200+ damage, instead of barely 1000, with my gear at least. That’s HUGE.

Were others aware of this?

PvP and WvW confusion damage is halved. PvE uses the full damage from confusion.

Ahhh…. well that makes more sense. Good to know, thanks.

Edit: So THIS is the “Confusion Nerf” everyone talked about for the year I didn’t play.

Eucalyptus.9784:

Ahhh…. well that makes more sense. Good to know, thanks.

Edit: So THIS is the “Confusion Nerf” everyone talked about for the year I didn’t play.

yeah THIS is the nerf and it was too much for wvw at least. i understand that with perplexity confusion can still be strong for other classes(not mes, because we have a hard time to stack it), but yeah it used to be good in wvw raids. that was pretty much THE nerf that turned mes into veilbots, because now we are a pet class only.