Guild Wars 2

I’ve been running 4/6 Rune of Perplexity and the (2) bonus of +15% confusion duration is not applying to the (4) confusion damage (unless the base duration isn’t really 5s).

According to the wiki, the (2) and (6) confusion duration bonuses don’t work at all for any confusion application.

As powerful as these runes are, I think it’s a pretty serious bug that these bonuses are non-functional and have been since the runes were introduced.

I had a weirder encounter with perplexity runes. I was dueling a thief on my mesmer and I was running a condi build with perplexity runes. The thief was a full glass cannon. He jumped me with steal and basilisk venom and it instantly put 5 stacks of confusion on me. Can these runes backfire and put confusion on u if someone interrupt u first? I was on ts with the thief and he wasn’t running perplex runes himself. This happened 2 times btw, would be nice if anyone else could replicate/confirm this.

I noticed that petrification from boxes o fun also trigger runes of perplexity on yourself, so it may have something to do with how petrification is coded in this game.

Or maybe he was using sigil of generosity.