I’ve been working with a confusion build for a while now in SPvP but recently had ideas on how to make it better using unconventional techniques to add confusion.
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Three Synergistic Traits and their Significance:
Confusing Enchantments: Glamour skills cause confusion for 5 seconds to foes who enter or exit their areas.
– Used with Portal Entre, placing the entrances on control points so when the opponents step on them and/or step off, they get 1 stack of confusion.
Dazzling Glamours: Glamour skills blind foes at target location.
– Once again used with Portal Entre placed on points to add blindness to foes when they step onto the portal entrance.
Blinding Befuddlement: Cause confusion when you blind your foe.
– Obviously significant when combined with the previously mentioned traits to add 1 stack of blindness from Confusing Enchantments and another stack of confusion from the blindness from Dazzling Glamours.
Thus in total you potentially get 2 stacks of confusion and blind added to your opponent for each time they step on the portal entrance. And when they step off, they get an additional stack of confusion. This is the most unusual aspect of the build.
Other ways to add stacks of confusion:
Scepter: #2 Counterspell (blind also adds confusion), and #3 Confusing Images.
Torch: #4 The Prestige (blind also adds confusion), and #5 Phantasmal Mage.
Staff: #4 Chaos Armor (when hit has potential to add confusion)
Shattering illusions also adds confusion due to the minor trait Illusionary Retribution. Cry of Confusion thus adds 2 stacks of confusion per illusion shattered.
Also, Staff’s #5, Chaos Storm creates a combo field Etheral, and when using torches #4 The Prestige in the field it grants you Chaos Armor from both entering and exiting stealth.
Now, this entire build hinges on the idea that these three traits actually work with Portal Entre. One would assume, but based on how many bugs are in this game at this moment, I’m not going to keep high hopes for this build just yet.
Playstyle: In general I would assume there would be a large emphasis on playing somewhat defensively while trying to stack confusion and conditions. Also constant creation of clones is very important for shattering purposes as well as defensive ones. Dodging creates clones, thus I equipped Sigils of Energy to the Staff and Scepter to grant easy endurance. Decoy and The Prestige are used to break targeting to make it harder to track and increase longevity.
Unfortunately my good computer is broken at the moment so I can’t test this out for a while and I’m curious if anyone could do me the favor. Thoughts and criticisms on the build are welcome.
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