Guild Wars 2

Any1 else thinks that 3sec is way too low for destroying all your illusions? Should be 5sec. 3sec is bad enough for pvp and in pve its almost completely useless.

Try it when using Scepter/Torch.

Confusion as a whole needs a rethink. Right now it deals substantially more damage in WvW/PvE than in sPvP, but I’m not sure that is a smart solution.

I’d say that in PvE (not in WvW!), duration of Confusion should be doubled on all abilities.
Further, CoF should be 4s baseline.
Further, Signet of Midnight should be +10% condition duration, not boon duration.

Echo.7634:

Try it when using Scepter/Torch.

iMage is the worst phantasm in the game and scepter is a joke, no thanks.

Scepter/Torch is actually not bad, but yes it suffers from Torch’s problems, specifically Prestige not producing the burn if anything except duration ends the stealth, and the iMage.

Cry of Frustration really needs Master of Misdirection to work without impeccable timing/luck, I do think it should be buffed to 4s. Also, Confusing Combatants needs to be affected by Master of Misdirection, in fact all Illusion-inflicted conditions need to be modified by +condition duration.

I’m not sure whether Confusion itself couldn’t use some rethinking.
What if it were much more difficult to apply (even for us, and we already get it in spades), but in turn it had a medium~long duration, and “charges”. Basically, make it work like the CC-immunity on bosses, every time the subject takes damage from it, the stack reduces by one (and hence the intensity of the feedback damage).

I’d prefer Confusion remain a mostly short-duration (4 – 5s) condition simply because it’s less vulnerable to condition removal this way.