Guild Wars 2

I definitely agree that scepter is pretty useless in pve, but confusion itself is pretty useless which may be a bigger issue for the class. I love the idea of having a confusion based weapon. however, generally you pick scepter or sword because you want to use focus (pve) or pistol (Pvp) I think the only two reasons you would pick scepter over sword are

1) its ranged
2) it applies confusion

the real problem is that because it requires autoattack to hit in order to chain its actually sort of a melee weapon that you can use ranged. the further you are from.the target the less effective the auto attack becomes. so realistically you.want to be really close in order to reduce chain time. but if that’s the case you may as well be using the sword as the auto attack is much higher dps, the 2 is in most situations better than a single block, and the 3 is amazing.

I lve tried really hard to make all the Mesmer weapons work but the only one that really feels rock solid to me is staff. my other weapon issues probably belong in another tread but I am pretty sure the scepter is the worst weapon the Mesmer has access to. speeding up projectile time is fine but it definitely doesn’t solve any of the deeper problems with the weapon.