Good luck and may the six watch over you
Norn confusing mesmer
Good luck and may the six watch over you
I think you should decide which style you want to play first, be it power, condition or hybrid. You say confusion, which leads me to think you want condition (also based on your gear choice). If this is the case, than you do not need to go down 6 into illusion and pick up Illusionary Persona because it is a power trait, actually THE trait for power shatter builds.
Blinding defuddlement is not worth taking after the big nerf it got a year ago. If you want to go 4 points in illusions I’d take illusionary elasticity which is great with staff. Master of misdirection is ok.
You spent 6 points in chaos for a trait that no one (or very few) uses. In the grand master slot you’d better go for Prismatic understanding which gels extremely well with torch and will give you much more survivability. After all you will not use shatters as your main source of damage and thus Bountiful Disillusionment would be wasted.
At this point you have 4 points. You spent 2 for mender’s purity which is ok, but the majority of builds go 4 in dueling for deceptive evasion, which is so important for memsers because it creates clones on dodge and thus giving you fodder for debilitating dissipation in chaos.
As far as utilities I’d recommend decoy (goes well with Prismatic) and one condition removal. The third utility can be portal if you really like it (but it needs some training for maximizing its full potentials) or blink, very useful, or mirror. The healing could be Signet of the Ether or Feast which is by far the most popular. Mirror is ok but will not heal you much.
All in all the build coulkd look like this:
I left blank where you have a multiple choice (chaos master trait can be Chaotic Dampening, Mirror or Anguish or Bountiful Interruption), third utility and Elite which could be mass invisibility which again, goes well with PU
Straight up confusion stacking/damage isnt strong enough anymore. Change Illusionary Persona to Maim The Disallusioned. It’ll give you an extra condi for more condition covering and will increase your burst/pressure to where it needs to be.