Guild Wars 2

I was looking at the scepter today trying to figure out ways to make it more useful and wanted and this is what i came up with…

The auto attack chain: First hit causes vulnerability, second hit causes a random condition (bleeding, burning or poison) plus it should do mini explosions much like the engineers’ pistol auto, and the third hit can stay the same,

skill #2: Counterspell instead of blind should cause 3 stacks of torment, and Illusionary counter should stay the same.

Confusing images: instead of five hits, make it three hits that do the same damage as five hits, and each hit causes 2 stacks of confusion.

Thoughts?

The auto idea I like but the auto is only 3 hits

1= 2 vulnerability (gives it some purpose in a power build but not great)
2= random condition always good
3= mini explosion for small radius aoe blind.

It would still need a animation speed up but this would make it better even if it didn’t speed up. Example my necro gets bleed, bleed, poison on its auto chain its same speed as mesmer scepter (think it is game wide attack rate for scepter) but since its condi on all the attacks it isn’t so bad.

2. would be a bit to strong that would be 8 stacks of confusion from a block and counterspell. I think counter spell is ok but change it to like necro dagger 4 off hand where it slightly tracks and it can bounce 3 times(between enemies) for blinds.

Confusing images suggestion mmm reducing the kittens to 3 seems ok and 6 stacks is ok also I think.

The blind ideas I put in there would make blinding befuddlement trait even more attractive in builds with scepter. Since there is the icd on it now you can’t just blind stack confusion on someone till death but you would at least get a blind if you can’t proc confusion again and it would make scepter a pretty good offensive and defensive weapon.

One downside to a 3 hit auto is that you could avoid the entire chain with a single dodge roll instead of two.

Not the first post about Scepter and until Anet sorts it, it wont be the last

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Scepter-Torch-Dying-to-be-condition/first#post2629609

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Not the first post about Scepter and until Anet sorts it, it wont be the last

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Scepter-Torch-Dying-to-be-condition/first#post2629609

I’m always just partially skeptical though, when I have so much success with them…