Guild Wars 2

Illusionary elasticity is supposed to make bounce skills get an extra bounce, however this doesn’t seem to affect illusion’s skills.

Was it ever mentioned anywhere that this is the intended behavior of this trait? It seems like it would make more sense and be more useful if it did affect them.

I got 6 dyes from 1 event in cursed shore yesterday, and four dyes in less than 10 minutes while just killing random mobs today. I definitely feel like the dye drop rate changed. A week ago I was getting maybe 1 dye every half hour.

Yeah, just used them with a bunch of chests.

Not sure if this was said already, looked through the posts but couldn’t find it.

The trait “Dazzling,” which applies 3 seconds of vulnerability when you daze an enemy does not work with the sword skill “Counter Blade.”

Counter Blade is the chain of Illusionary Riposte

Embolism.8106:

Oh, and Chaotic Dampening on WoC Bleeding is not a tooltip anomaly, it is a real nerf. Your Bleeding really do only last 5s.

Embolism.8106:

Master of Misdirection does affect Confusion from Shatters and Illusionary Retribution. It does not affect Confusion from Confusing Combatants or Illusion-inflicted Confusion, like from iMage.

Where did you test these?
I just went and tested these in heart of the mists again to be sure. (tested them in pve before that)
Winds of Chaos lasted 7s against the target golem, even with Chaotic Dampening
I did make a mistake in that Illusionary Retribution does get its confusion extended, but cry of frustation (the only shatter that causes confusion without traits) still did not.

I also made sure to not have any traits on besides the ones that were necessary for testing, to make sure there were no conflicts.

Temariah.9372:

Also, @ thedenofsin, I did not include some of the “bugs” that you brought to the table because I do not feel they are actual bugs. This includes masterful reflection not affecting blurred frenzy (because if you look at the buff icon for blurred frenzy, it is called blur, not distortion, so I think this distinction was made intentionally), and the one about chaotic dampening because it was very badly written and overall did not seem reliable.

The tooltip for blurred frenzy actually says Distortion, so it would be a tooltip bug then I think.

Also just tested chaotic dampening (cause I didn’t understand it either xD).
It seems that putting it on changes the tooltip for the bleeding condition from 7s to 5s, however the condition duration itself is not changed. Doesn’t affect any of the other conditions.

Temariah.9372:

Flame.8096:

Just went to go test Master of misdirection again to be sure.
It seems that all sources of confusion that your character inflicts from its skills/certain traits (Blinding Befuddlement) are extended, but those from shatters/illusions are not.
I would think that atleast cry of frustration should have confusion extended.

Edit:
Also thought of another, not sure if it’s a bug or not though.

Deceptive Evasion
- Sometimes summons clones that attack enemies besides the one you have targeted.
- Not sure how it happens, but it seems that just dodging with more than 1 enemy attacking you may make the clone target a different enemy.
- Most, if not all clones attack whichever target you had selected when it was summoned.

Alright, so you’re saying Master of Misdirection is not a bug? I’ll delete it, thanks for testing.

It IS a bug, or atleast seems like a bug, just only for some skills. The ones I noticed it not working with were: Phantasmal mage, Illusionary Retribution trait, and Cry of Frustration, which are 3 main ways for a mesmer to apply confusion.

Just went to go test Master of misdirection again to be sure.
It seems that all sources of confusion that your character inflicts from its skills/certain traits (Blinding Befuddlement) are extended, but those from shatters/illusions are not.
I would think that atleast cry of frustration should have confusion extended.

Edit:
Also thought of another, not sure if it’s a bug or not though.

Deceptive Evasion
- Sometimes summons clones that attack enemies besides the one you have targeted.
- Not sure how it happens, but it seems that just dodging with more than 1 enemy attacking you may make the clone target a different enemy.
- Most, if not all clones attack whichever target you had selected when it was summoned.

Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Only know of 1 bug right now, if I come across any more I’ll be sure to post them.

Master of Misdirection (Illusions Trait V)
- Doesn’t make confusion from shatters/illusions last 33% longer.
Tested all mesmer confusion skills