Guild Wars 2

I stopped right after the nerf. I’m wondering if anyone still runs one.

I’d also be very interested to know if the damage reduction actually changed things, or to people just spam “1” for longer before they are downed.

The nerf to Blinding Befuddlement probably killed it deader, along with destroying the trait’s synergy with Chaos Armour.

IMO the Blinding Befuddlement nerf needs to be reverted. It is a senseless change, and they try to call it a buff by pretending they increased the Confusion duration from 1s to 4s when it was 4s to begin with.

I suspect that they destroyed the build entirely, but I don’t want to jump to conclusions. Thanks for your input.

I’m playing a condition Mesmer, and for situations where I expect to be part of really big zerg-fights (for example WvW reset), I change my build to Glamour. Of course people probably don’t die just because of me, but at least I’m adding to the overall damage of our group. Also, I’m blinding people in the opposing zerg, reflecting their projectiles and stripping their boons. Imo, it’s still a valuable for zergfights… even though it probably gets outclassed by what other classes can do.

Thanks Saturn,

When I was running a glamour mesmer I felt that the benefit that I brought wasn’t really killing people outright, but more that it would cause the other zerg to hesitate allowing our zerg to surge (this may all be in my meglomaniac mind).

I think I may try it again and see if I get the same effect.