Guild Wars 2

Looks interesting. Why the 10% on mind wrack from illusions and not 33% longer confusion? IMO confusion acts as a defensive and offensive ability. A smart player will be forced to cleans, wait until its over or blast through the damage. A bad player will continue to damage themselves through the entire stack. In a shatter build CoF is just gravy on the biscuits. Free damage.

Regardless, it’s still a good trait even for a shatter build. In my mind the damage would end up being nearly the same plus the added “oh kitten confusion” factor. It all just comes down to how we play our Mesmers. I was just asking in any case. Good build.

In a group and where’s lots of dodging involved, i’d pick the vigor-on-shatter trait instead of the cooldown one. Actually if i only put 10 in Inspiration, i would definitely use that trait. You can easily stack over a minute of Vigor on yourself with the Dueling 5 trait and this one. It’s ridiculously powerful. It gives your whole group pretty much permanent Vigor(double endurance regen, double dodges pretty much) and is overlooked VERY often.