Guild Wars 2

Hello guys

i’ve noticed that when you use elixir S in engineer or mist in Elementalist while you have confussions on you, if you use a “blocked skill” you sitll got the dmg from the conffusion.

For example:
If you are an ele with 4 confussions and you use mist and then you spam heal button you will get the dmg from how many times did you pressed the skill instead of how many times you actually used it.

I hope you guys understand what im trying to say since my skills of English are poor.
if not ill try to upload a video asap.

That’s not a bug with confusion. In fact that means it’s working fine and well.
Confusion effects any attack and some actions, other than dodge and running/walking, before it goes through. This means when you do something simple like swing a sword it will realistically look like this:
Action requested → Confusion applies the predetermined damage → You swing the sword → the sword either hits or misses.

So in your case that means it really follows this:
Action requested → Confusion applies the predetermined damage → OH NOES! The skill is blocked from use! stop;
That’s why this happens. It’s not a bug with the confusion mechanic it’s more of a problem with how confusion works on skills.
Right now confusion does this all over the place. Play a warrior with 5 points into the power tree? Your dodges will now hurt you if you have confusion because you caused an action that had an attack on it. D’oh!
There’s your example, which is a great one.
My personal favorite is how (doesn’t seem to always do it oddly) if you play an engie and dodge and leave a bomb it’ll blow and cause you confusion damage.

Confusion is a condition that deals damage each time a player uses a skill, not each time a player press the key, or is it?

You can just destroy yourself while in mist or elixir S without doing nothing, just because you smash your keys too fast (and u cant use your skills while mist or elixir, so you just kill yourself without reason, u didnt even have skills in your skillbar)

Thats why its bugged in my opinion.

Can’t exactly tell if this was the players fault, but I got an Engineer in the last match, using Elixir X, becoming a tornado, and getting like 3-4 confusion ticks per second.

Definitely a bug. Funny one tho.

If this is true, it is a bug. Confusion is supposed to trigger on skill use, not button press. The game is obviously letting the blocked skills be ‘used’ to trigger confusion even though they aren’t really useable.