Guild Wars 2

In this video you will see…

• The most “hypest” TimeWarp letdown.

• Crazy bursts

• Clutch Interrupts

• Stupid rotation decisions

• Why I love the Focus

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Lockdown right now is fantastic. Fun, effective, and easy to play… A little too easy, actually. You no longer need to rely on interrupts thanks to the 1s stun from Confounding Suggestions.

Don’t get me wrong; I like the change to confounding.

But the burst you can enact from the 1s stun has next to no counterplay, and saying “oh just use dodges, blocks, ect.” in a hectic teamfight isn’t enough of a counterargument when often you’ll rarely even see the Mesmer coming, much less have your skills off cooldown.

Lockdown right now doesn’t feel as rewarding as it used to be due to the ease of access, but at the same time it is still amazingly fun. Played properly, you feel like a psychic god-thing. Played improperly, you can still be effective to your team. It’s a great time to be a veteran lockdown Mesmer, but it’s never been a better time to explore this extremely fun and rage-inducing playstyle.

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:D gg

i agree before the patch lokdown was more rewarding

now many mesmer just spam it on me getting nothing basically beside good dmg

its kinda lost its edge on interrupt the right moment

All I see is how broken Confounding Suggestion is when you combine it with Chaos Storm and Mentra of disruption. It’s just infinite lockdown + guaranteed successful burst. It really need to have an ICD of 5 second.

Why can’t Anet understand, and keep on over-nerfing the wrong stuff when the real broken stuffs are so obvious? Why do Anet keep on favoring Mesmer and Ele no end?

Toxsa.2701:

All I see is how broken Confounding Suggestion is when you combine it with Chaos Storm and Mentra of disruption. It’s just infinite lockdown + guaranteed successful burst. It really need to have an ICD of 5 second.

Why can’t Anet understand, and keep on over-nerfing the wrong stuff when the real broken stuffs are so obvious? Why do Anet keep on favoring Mesmer and Ele no end?

Lol.

Broken link is broken:
The video shows you using CI, the link shows BD
Sw+F and not two swords
TW and not MI

Korusef.3714:

Broken link is broken:
The video shows you using CI, the link shows BD
Sw+F and not two swords
TW and not MI

Chaos has had a very bad habit with broken links

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Lockdown right now is fantastic. Fun, effective, and easy to play… A little too easy, actually. You no longer need to rely on interrupts thanks to the 1s stun from Confounding Suggestions.

Don’t get me wrong; I like the change to confounding.

But the burst you can enact from the 1s stun has next to no counterplay, and saying “oh just use dodges, blocks, ect.” in a hectic teamfight isn’t enough of a counterargument when often you’ll rarely even see the Mesmer coming, much less have your skills off cooldown.

Confounding is a pretty fun trait, but it really shouldn’t be sitting in adept.
I did a pretty elongated write up on it last week when I was totally sober, but looking back I’d still stand by it.

Man, has Staff/Sword-Focus changed so much. Nice vid. You’ve gotten really aggressive with the weaponset. I remember that you started playing that way after you practiced with the old shatterlock a bit, but now it’s even moreso — and with your beloved CI.

It’s funny how, playing lockdown before, it feels really effortless now.

Toxsa.2701:

All I see is how broken Confounding Suggestion is when you combine it with Chaos Storm and Mentra of disruption. It’s just infinite lockdown + guaranteed successful burst. It really need to have an ICD of 5 second.

Why can’t Anet understand, and keep on over-nerfing the wrong stuff when the real broken stuffs are so obvious? Why do Anet keep on favoring Mesmer and Ele no end?

So you think Confounding Suggestions would be balanced if it had an ICD of 5 seconds?

Hint, before you answer, do some basic research. This hint applies to most things in life.