Guild Wars 2

Since confusion has been in the spotlight as of late (mainly thanks to the nerfs we have received.) I have been curious as to why there is no rune for confusion duration. Almost every other condition has a sigil or rune that increases it’s duration or gives a chance to cause it on hit. This would do one big thing for confusion, builds give us staying power.
Right now would be a great time for it to be implemented as well since our phantasms (looking at you image!) now inherent our condition duration. So the superior rune could be something like this
Superior Rune of The Dumbfounded (idc what the name is really)
+28 Condition damage
+20% Confusion Duration
+55 Condition damage
5% chance to cause confusions for 5s to enemies that strike you (CD 60s)
+100 Condition damage
When you use a healing skill nearby foes are confused for 5s

So as unlikely as it is for this to happen who would like to see it implemented? I think it would be nice since in pvp and wvw confusion doesn’t it hit very hard and isn’t around for very long… A rune set like this would give it some staying power and make confusion mesmers a little more viable.

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Ross Biddle.2367:

Anet doesn’t like you petitioning for things on the forums. They’ll delete your thread.

Changed the title. lol.

Would prefer (2) to be generic condition duration, (4) to be confusion duration, and (6) to be your four with a much lower CD, but adding only a single stack for three seconds.

Considering Nightmare are the only runes as of the moment that add condition damage and condition duration, these would both fill a niche and be very solid for helping out the Mesmer in particular. Possible it would shut down some bursty mult-hit builds a tad hard, i.e. 100B Warrior, but that only really requires a change to the (6) to fix.

Fuschia.6573:

Would prefer (2) to be generic condition duration, (4) to be confusion duration, and (6) to be your four with a much lower CD, but adding only a single stack for three seconds.

Considering Nightmare are the only runes as of the moment that add condition damage and condition duration, these would both fill a niche and be very solid for helping out the Mesmer in particular. Possible it would shut down some bursty mult-hit builds a tad hard, i.e. 100B Warrior, but that only really requires a change to the (6) to fix.

Pretty much what I did with the rune stats was take grenth rune and replace chill with confusion… that way if ANet were to ever implement this it could be done easily. However I like the ideas you proposed and they would honestly help Mesmer out more and give a good bonus to condition and confusion both…