Guild Wars 2

I took a longish break from mesmer for most of the summer and late spring ankitten ow maining it once again.

People talk about glamour/condition mesmers being very nerfed. How and why did this happen and what could glamour mesmers do before the nerf? How exactly were they nerfed. I’m just curious lol, and historical sample builds/weapontypes would aid in the explanation.

As far as i know, Confusion dmg was nerfed by half. Glamour builds rely on confusion as main condition dmg so the nerf destroyed it.

I think a typical glamour look like this (trait-wise): http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAscUjkOxwJPCPMxBkzjkIAnCVB7I9oMQj0A-j0yAIMioRaBIVJZ0mAlDDYacRrVxioxqZwUpER1+jg5VWUNA-w

Also blinding befuddlement was nerfed into the ground.

jportell.2197:

Also blinding befuddlement was nerfed into the ground.

Oh, what exactly was the nerf? I didn’t know about this one.

Haha of course I knew about the confusion nerf, and I think confusion is still strong even after it when notticing how OP it is when applied on you in pve.

How exactly was blinding beffuddlement changed?

keenlam.4753:

jportell.2197:

Also blinding befuddlement was nerfed into the ground.

Oh, what exactly was the nerf? I didn’t know about this one.

Blinding befuddlement used to just be each time blind was applied no matter what any skill that applied blind also applied confusion. Now it has an ICD of 5seconds I believe and if the target already has blind on it it will not receive the confusion.