Confuse

Levels
Percentage is an estimate based on tests by players. The game does not display the actual formula.

Trigger

 * Confuse works similar to Polymorph. When trying to inflict confuse, your effective attack strength is given a 50% boost and then compares it to the effective defense strength of your target. If your 150% attack is greater than their 100% defense, then the target is confused. If it is still not enough, then the target will resist your spell.  Neither the caster not the target is damaged regardless of outcome.


 * While under confused status, the victim can hit themselves while using a token to perform an action. If the effect triggers, they will have their action blocked and damage themselves by 40-60 health in the process.  Their target enemy or ally will take 0 damage.  They will also only receive 50 points should this happen.  They can get lucky and not trigger the effect until they exhausted their rounds or unlucky and hit themselves every single time under the spell until it is removed.
 * If trying to cast Cleanse to remove the debuff, if confuse triggers, cleanse will not be casted.


 * Confuse does not stack with another confuse. Should confuse be inflicted again before the first confuse's duration ends, the first confuse set-up (% chance to trigger) is discarded and the new confuse set-up is applied. This means that even if the initial confuse only has 1 round left before being automatically removed, the second application will get full rounds.


 * Confuse is a spell type action so bonus damages like Poison, Leadership or Backstab will not trigger when trying to inflict it. It can also be used to lower Confidence bonus damage.  It does not use up a Polymorph spell when inflicted if the target is under poly status.  It also ignores Mana Shield and Sentinel when trying to inflict the debuff.


 * If the victim is stunned or becomes stunned due to confuse effect, the action will appear in the battle stun log.


 * Confuse cannot be performed if the caster is stunned.


 * Confuse can be removed with the Cleric power Cleanse.

Special Inclusion

 * None

Usage

 * Confuse is mainly used to halt the attacks of targets. When they see confuse up they will either ask for an ally cleric for a Cleanse or patiently wait stock tokens so that they exhaust the debuff and unload unhindered attack fast before another confusion hits them.  This can be useful in trying to delay the offense of the enemy and give yourselves some time to regroup and do some Heals and set-up a few Revives and maybe Sentinels.


 * It can be used in the guild based Arena to limit the points an enemy can get in a battle, thereby losing ground in the standings and be behind a rank cutoff. This may force them to buy or use a refill to compensate though.

Recommendation

 * Confusing is another great power for mages, almost unfair. You have the points advantage (Arena and Guild Coins) as well as a huge attack boost to reach up to people you can't normally beat in a straight duel.  The infliction and trigger for targets to hit themselves is not guaranteed to work 100% of the time as it still relies on player stats and chance respectively.  But it sure as hell can annoy the heck out of the enemy team, especially in the Arena.