I, myself a mesmer player think that condition mesmer(half confusion) is pretty strong, with traiting and stuff, i could apply 5-10 stack confusion, with a decent cd, even if u for example failed to hit enemy with confusion, U still have staff(which i believe all of confusion mesmer use) and then, u could basically spawn 3 clones with staff in 6 seconds( 1 dodge roll included), just with (40%+ cond duration) food, i could basically stack 10-15 stack of bleeding and burning and some stack of vuln( including with the help of sharper image trait which inflict bleeding when the clone deal crit dmg, u can get like 48% crit chance or even 50ish with rabid gear and maintenance oil) an also the trait that( grants 1 extra bounces to attack that do bounce) basically i could have my 3 clone and myself an extra bounce of staff auto attack that inflict condition, and i do understand that the enemy cant take 3 bounces with just single attack, it will hit the enemy once, bounce back to us. but with the traiting u could get the last bounce to the enemy, so the condition inflicted is not to be mess with ,except for the slow projectile speed. lets take a look at another skill(Chaos Armor) it grants protection, regen, or swiftness to mesmer when we are getting hit(make us more tankier) and the condition that inflicted to enemy are (Blind,Confusion, Cripple) and with the trait( Blinding also cause confusion) Chaos armor which lasted for 5 sec is my primary source of defensive and contribute a lot to inflicting confusion. so the equation is like 33% u cripple enemy, 33% you cause confusion to enemy and the other 33% u cause blind AND confusion. if blind is not strong enough to counter any GC build, they got an extra confusion on top of it, even 5 stack of confusion can deal like 1900 ish damage, im sure some of them can deal more. Before people QQ on how Chaos armor only last for 5 sec and have like 35 sec cd(but usually people can get it down to like 28 sec thx to -20% staff cd redux), i would add another skill which is chaos storm that grants Aegis, Swiftness or Retal for 3 second and the field lasted either 4 or 5 sec and I usually use the trait that ( grant retal when blocking ) which is quite insane of retal up time. and im not stopping here yet, Chaos Storm have Ethereal combo field, if u put down Chaos Storm + sStaff no 2 which has leap combo finisher, boom another Chaos armor and if its expired i can put my glamour skill feedback or Null field i usually have one of them on my skill slot while glamour mesmer tends to have 2 of them used, so those skill provide ethereal combo field which i can use my leap again to have the chaos armor and yes the Staff no 2 is only 8 sec cd(6 sec when traited which i think everyone does). so yes i dont need to babysit u guys to count. and guess what the enemy which I fought have choices of playing tom and jerry with me and they trying to hit me i got buffs from chaos armor which made me tankier and they could dmg themself because of the confusion, and retalation not to mention the blindness, oh and the clones that could stack 10++ bleeding and a burn and several stack of vuln. usually what they do is just run because i cant kill them since the bleeding from my auto attack dont last long and it travel at low speed projectile so it wont quite reach them, but the problem here is not running against mesmer. but people trying to fight a mesmer~ so yeah i think conf is a bit Overpowered and so does mesmers. maybe thats why there is a lot of cond mesmer after the thieves popullation decreased.
TL;DR: the wall of text there is an example how i pretty much like my mesmer despite its quite strong, then again i dont protect my build thats why its wall of text, i described from one skill to another~ well maybe getting out of topic of discussion, i am sorry for that!
