Guild Wars 2

first off, i am gonna say it here, pu just gives more defence to the player, doesnt give any offence at all, most players out there think that pu is overpowered cause they deal ‘insane dmg’ while beeing tanky, this is wrong.

pu itself just gives awesome defence capabilitys.

so , despite saying that, its a really awesome trait, i think its one of best traits in game if not best..

everyone is calling out nerfs, and they r right, with changes i meant nerfs, but not nerfing it to ground, here are a few ideas:

we could make it so that it only gives one boon each time u go into stealth, boons durations of those current boons get a 2x longer duration tho, would mean that if u would currently get protection (idk how much the protection currently lasts in one tick) the duration would be doubled , but u would only get one tick of it, u wont get any other during the duration of that stealth (same as regen or aegis, if u get aegis it would be bad luck for u tho :P)

make the boons only apply once every two seconds, meaning in a 3 second stealth u would only get one tick(veil),in a 4 second stealth (decoy /prestige i think? the torch skill 4) u would get 2 ticks, on mass invi u would get 3 ticks, ofc if u dont get outta stealth before

dont make it making ur stealths last 1 sec more, so that u would still get booons etc, but ur stealth stays same

be creative, dont hate on me, admit that prismatic understanding is the best trait in terms of defence

ps: my honest thoughts, i am beeing serious, etc

return confusion damage and repair all mesmer bugs (~37 now), after nerf pu as much as you want.

returning confu dmg : condi engis would be op

Very true.

I don’t think we need to change Confusion damage as much as we need to improve the Mesmer-specific applications of Confusion. Obviously the Glamour nerfs were way overboard and could be vastly improved. Secondly, why is it that so many other professions seem to apply 5 stacks of 5s base duration Confusion all at once (even AoE for Engie bombkit), and most of our Confusion is either 1 stack and/or very short duration. (3s base)

For example the Grandmaster Minor, illusion on-death trait….hello? 1 stack with 3s duration? Useless. Needs to be at least 5s base duration.

Same goes for F2 Shatter CoF, traited it’s nice that you can stack 8 stacks of Confusion in an AE, but the 3s base duration is just trash. Basically you might hit a button once, see the relatively big Confusion damage number float over your head, and then you simply wait it out. It doesn’t punish you nearly enough.

Considering that Confusion is/was supposed to be the main Mesmer condition, I think we’re pretty terrible at maintaining a meaningful amount of it on a target. The Scepter #3 has a that 5s base duration, but the channel is so slow that by the time it ends the first stack only has 2s left. Pathetic!

Same for the iMages Confusion attack. Pathetic! Low duration and only 3 stacks, on a Phantasm with a long CD. Slow moving projectile with only 2 bounces that also applies a relatively crappy boon rather then attacking another person. Adding insult to injury, condi-duration still doesn’t pass on to it either.

In short, I don’t feel that Confusion damage is the real problem, it’s that Mesmer’s ability to inflict it is plain broken in various ways.

Confusion is pretty fun & effective on Condie Engies, so there is no reason that it couldn’t be the same or better on Mesmers if the skills, traits, and phantasm were fixed to make it a bit more viable.

Edit: Lastly, why is there no Confusion duration sigil? Does anyone use the 33% duration increase trait? Seems like that trait was intended to be a Mesmer exclusive, so if so few are using it, how about boosting it to 50%?

i am using the 33% trait on my torment confusion (more torment) shatter build, its pretty neat, f2 wrecks my enemys:p

but i just use it cause there isnt smth better for condi mes there

Let them fix bugs and rework some skills first, after that they can nerf pu.
Just reduce the duration of the buffs by 1 sec and/or remove the 1 second longer stealth. Problem solved.