Guild Wars 2

I had something very triggering(xD) happen to me today and I wanted to share with the general community a bug that has been in the game for a few months now(or more). This bug is what people I know like to refer to as the Confusion Bug, aptly named as it involved confusion doing ridiculous amounts of damage in specific circumstances.

I have two specific examples to show in picture form and one video to show what it is actually like when you’re playing.

From Today: http://i.imgur.com/N1AQCI3.jpg

From the World Championship Qualifier(August 6th): http://i.imgur.com/0c8JGOS.jpg

The video was muted by twitch(for the best because of my strong language). Watch carefully my HP going down specifically.

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/paulawl/v/108141670
Youtube Mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9acCIwpNzk

Now why does this occur? I have gone the extra mile to test my theory and found out that channeled auto attacks such as Druid Staff and Mesmer Greatsword seem to trigger confusion many times over when you attempt to auto attack with your back turned and moving to prevent your character from turning to the target. I have provided examples of my tests as well.

Druid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmImJXIBmk&feature=youtu.be

Mesmer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ewv4pttNE&feature=youtu.be

Daddy ANet please.

I agree with this being a bug. I have it constantly happen to me against reef drakes and in PvP. I play a Guardian so it is not just constant attacking skills that trigger the bug.

This explains a lot..anet plz.

I’ve had this happen a few times in wvw which made me pause a few times but I thought it was a mistake on my end so I shrugged it off. Now seeing this post it makes a lot of sense now why I died even just auto attacking. Ridiculous dmg in 1 tick. If anyone is able to explain it in more detail and/or how to avoid it somehow I’d be grateful, I experienced this while using warrior (gs, sw/shield,mace/shield), thief (d/p,d/d) and a few other classes (engi, guard, necro) so I am not sure what would trigger it on those.