Guild Wars 2

Anyone else feel like the confusion condition isnt quite balanced? Like the damage you take from confusion should be affected by your attack speed? Other games base bonsus damage you do on a coefficient that is affected by your attack speed. This is done so that faster attacks = less bonus per attack, slower attack speed = more bonus per attack. Its a balance thing.

Understanding that, shortbows attack speed is one of the faster attacks in the game. And yet, confusion does the same damage per attack to you, regardless of if you attack twice a second, or once every 5 seconds.

Throw in autoattack on our number 1 ability, maybe 3-4 stacks of confusion, and you will quickly find yourself taking upwards of 1500+ damage a second before you realize whats happening (thank you autoattack!). If im manually attacking things, and taking confusion damage, ive only got myself to blame. I think its rather unbalanced to affect the number 1 ability (for any class).

My proposed 3 solutions (only 1 is needed, but im suggesting 3)
1. The “Mesmers will cry” Solution:
- All class #1 weapon skills dont trigger confusion.
or

2. The “More reasonably on par with normal MMORPG rules” solution:
- Confusion damage scales up and down based on a coefficent determined by attack speed.
or

3. The “optional alternative”
- Confusion damage can never be greater than the damage you are capable of outputting per attack. If your attack could only actually hit for 800 damage (before defense/toughness factor in), then confusion would only be able to do 800 damage to you max, no matter how many stacks. 1 stack obviously wouldnt deal that, but after a certain number of stacks, the damage would cap based on your max damage per hit output. The concept here is that you are so confused, you are attacking yourself. Seems rather silly that you could hit yourself for 2000 damage, but not your target for that much. Maybe this is just an issue of confusion not taking into account your toughness and defense?

And before the trolls chime in with “turn off #1 auto attack”… I did that… and now my finger used for the number 1 key, is the size of the incredible hulks finger, making it really hard for me to explain when going to social gatherings…. so no thanks. Not to mention, turning off autoattack on #1 in pvp/wvw is a pretty big hit to DPS considering how mobile you have to be and not being able to just sit there in combat and only focus on spamming 111111111 like in pve.