Guild Wars 2

calavel.6249:

Xavi.6591:

I would like to see Mesmer Confusion buffed (un-nerfed!) to make it more viable. Mesmer’s were (supposed to be) the confusion class before the confusion nerf.

TBH, I’m glad mesmer is more than just “the confusion class”, but I too would like to see confusion-focused builds become viable again. (Broken) Perplexity runes is just a sad reminder how bad this condition is when compared to bleed, a condition that most classes can build to spam endlessly. Confusion is tricky to apply and manage effectively, and the reward you get is half the DPS of a bleed spammer.

well, yeah confusion was a core mechanic of mesmers and glamour build was the only non ai heavy build out there. that’s why we used them in wvw raids and were viable. the nerf has made us a veilbot 1v1 class. of course change happens and i was always hoping that there would something new come along…but it hasnt yet. it be great if we had a few non ai/ non illusion based builds again…i have moved on from confusion and glamour builds but i do miss being viable in wvw raids.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Fear is an emotion. We are a mentalist class!

Actually, I feel like GW2 mesmers are more of a “Drag space and time into the gutter and shoot them twice in the head” kind of class.

More than minds, you warp reality itself.

Mesmer had fear on chaos storm before if you remember?
And it wasn’t rng, as it always(iirc) procced on first tick of chaos storm

I feel torment is better suited to mesmers than fear. The only thing fear does is create distance and we have plenty of ways to do that already. On the other hand, we need more damaging conditions since Anet decided that confusion shouldn’t be threatening.

This thread is just as wonky as the “Confusion, necro needs it.” thread over in the necromancer subforums. Unless it is a sarcastic reply of some sort?

Adding more conditions to anything other than an elementalist or guardian would cause another dhuumfire disaster, and every other class, especially warrior, will get skills and traits buffed to have condition immunity and stability to handle it again. This would result in a double disaster. Again.

I really like the idea of Mass Hysteria elite. I’m just imagining a huge midfight and all of a sudden 4 enemies running off the point. I’d imagine that it’d have to have an insanely long CD in order to not be OP though.