Guild Wars 2

Class: Mesmer
Weapon: Scepter
Skill slot: 1

The tooltip for the scepters #1 skill’s third chain attack, Ether Clone, states: “Shoot out a third bolt of energy that confuses your target. Summon a clone that casts Ether Bolt”

However, contrary to what the tooltip describes, the confusion condition is not applied.

Auto-casting also seems to be buggy on this spell. Occasionally the auto-cast does not trigger after 1 button press (seemingly when you try to initiate auto-casting from the second or third link in the spell-chain).

When auto-cast does successfully trigger, the period between casts is much longer than if you were to repeatedly press the button yourself. The rate of fire is slow enough to render the auto-casting feature useless for this spell.

This could really do with some attention. Confusion is supposed to be a Mesmer’s signature condition, but the Engineer is currently better at causing it with weapon skills. Every 15sec they can put out 8 stacks (2 × 4 targets) with Static Shot, vs. our 5 stacks from Confusing Images – plus they get multi-target blind as a bonus. Please fix Ether Clone to add a generous helping of Confusion… or even better, put the scepter back to how it used to be – a smaller amount of Confusion on every hit : )