What foes use the confuse debuff against players?

[cohRock]

Since I'm now playing my stone tanker with Minerals almost always active, I happened to notice that it offers protection against the confuse debuff.  I cannot remember any character of mine ever being confused.  Do any foes actually cast it?

[A Cat]

It's rare to be sure, but there are enemies that can confuse you. IIRC, the Awakened do. Also, notably the boss of the Underground Trial does as well. 

[Luminara]

Succubi.  One of the newly added Crey lieutenants/bosses.

[SuperPlyx]

Prisoners in the BAF as well.

 

It's funny on a few Underground and MoM trials I have to stay well out of melee of the fight because a tank on the league is confused and taunting all the teammates in range.

[ZorkNemesis]

Off the top of my head.

 

Circle of Thorns > Succubus

Crey > Crey Crisis Unit?  One of the Crey LTs just got the ability to confuse in the most recent update

Awakened > several mobs, most notably Subjugaters

Apparitions > Enraged Specter

Longbow > Zenflower, a specific boss found in Vernon Von Grun's story arc

Vindicators > Malaise, who only shows up in older story arcs.  He shows up in the Primal Earth Calvin Scott arc as well as the old school Lord Recluse Strike Force

Underground Trial > Something uses it.  I've yet to run UG but shouts are always saying have Tactics or Clarion

[aethereal]

Avatars of Hamidon use confuse.

[Outrider_01]

Malaise in the Sicciro arc I think, only thing let defeat him was burn.

[Six-Six]

Me... with the star. Have me as the leader of your group and we'll all be happily confused together 😃

[cohRock]

1 hour ago, Six-Six said:

Me... with the star. Have me as the leader of your group and we'll all be happily confused together 😃

With your powers of confusion and my ability to get lost in a cereal box, we could be legendary.

[arcane]

Unfortunately NPC confuses are lame af and you never have time to actually kill a teammate.

 

I treat “Confused” as “PvP Mode Activated!” But it always ends in disappointment.

Edited December 6, 2021 by arcane

[InvaderStych]

2 minutes ago, arcane said:

Unfortunately NPC confuses are lame af and you never have time to actually kill a teammate.

 

I treat “Confused” as “PvP Mode Activated!” But it always ends in disappointment.

 

Yeah... That all depends on what power you fire off before you realize you are confused ... *cough*Ground Zero*cough* ... reasonably sure no one actually died from it directly, but much floor was consumed shortly afterwards. 😄

[TheZag]

By the time i notice i got fun mode activated and click one of my friends, its already over and i dont get to attack them.

[The_Warpact]

8 hours ago, cohRock said:

With your powers of confusion and my ability to get lost in a cereal box, we could be legendary.

You could make a movie called "Dazed and Confused", alright, alright, alright.

[oedipus_tex]

IMO the fight where Confuse plays the biggest role is the final battle of the Underground trial. I'm pretty sure in the early days of the trial I contributed to flattening the league with an ill timed Ionic Judgement.

Edited December 6, 2021 by oedipus_tex

[srmalloy]

Knives of Artemis, at least in Heather Townsend's arc in DA.

[Generator]

1 hour ago, oedipus_tex said:

IMO the fight where Confuse plays the biggest role is the final battle of the Underground trial. I'm pretty sure in the early days of the trial I contributed to flattening the league with an ill timed Ionic Judgement.

Didn't you mean, "well-timed Ionic Judgement...?"  🤪

[Ukase]

As has been mentioned, there is a confuse effect in the final room of the Underground Trial, when fighting the Avatar of Hamidon.  The 10 dollar label for the source of this confuse effect in this room are Discordant Spores. It's a PBAoE confuse with a whopping 600 foot radius, mag 20. It spawns every 20 seconds, lasts for 10 seconds. 

Without Clarion, or enough stacked tactics, or a tier 3 break free, you will be literally confused half of the time. 

I have often thought about making a macro to target these things, to see if they are in fact, targetable, but it's typically quite chaotic during the final fight, and I'm often too distracted in that moment to do this. But I digress. Just figured I'd share a fun fact about the Underground confuse situation. 

[Coyotedancer]

1 hour ago, srmalloy said:

Knives of Artemis, at least in Heather Townsend's arc in DA.

 

Yep... The Guardians, I think? (The StJ users-)

[PeregrineFalcon]

6 hours ago, arcane said:

Unfortunately NPC confuses are lame af and you never have time to actually kill a teammate.

Years ago, on the live servers, a friend and I were playing villain-side. I was on my EM/Elec brute. Got confused by a CoT Succubus. I immediately ran over to him and hit Energy Transfer. I was at nearly max Fury. It dropped him, and then he was confused as to what happened.

 

I explained it to him and then spent the rest of the mission chasing him every time I got confused. (I wasn't purposely encouraging the Succubi to confuse me though, no sir!)

 

To this day every time we fight CoT he says "Oh, man. Here we go again."  😁

[arcane]

6 hours ago, TheZag said:

fun mode

To summarize the thread: I’m stealing this term for being confused

[Dr. Voltage]

6 hours ago, arcane said:

Unfortunately NPC confuses are lame af and you never have time to actually kill a teammate.

 

I treat “Confused” as “PvP Mode Activated!” But it always ends in disappointment.

That's why you save your nuke and as soon as your teammates turn orange, you blap em!

And then finish off the enemies solo.

And then revive your team. 

[srmalloy]

1 hour ago, Sejanus said:

That's why you save your nuke and as soon as your teammates turn orange, you blap em!

That's why you took Vengeance, right? To get the maximum benefit from waxing your whole team?

[aethereal]

12 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

That's why you took Vengeance, right? To get the maximum benefit from waxing your whole team?

Sadly, Vengeance doesn't give you more of a bonus if more of your team is dead.  BUT IT SHOULD.

[Dr. Voltage]

52 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

That's why you took Vengeance, right? To get the maximum benefit from waxing your whole team?

Yes....

Edited December 7, 2021 by Sejanus

[A Cat]

2 hours ago, aethereal said:

Sadly, Vengeance doesn't give you more of a bonus if more of your team is dead.  BUT IT SHOULD.

In economic terms, that would be called a "perverse incentive".