What does mean +50% damage against inactivity in the virtuoso?

[anduriell.6280]

I couldn't stop thinking what could mean +50% extra damage vs inactivity detailed in the tooltips of the F skills.

 

Does it mean Virtuoso in opposite to mesmer (with the confusion condition) will deal more damage to enemies no casting skills? So what happens when we mix confusion with that effect? 

[Hirosama Nadasaki.6792]

13 minutes ago, anduriell.6280 said:

I couldn't stop thinking what could mean +50% extra damage vs inactivity detailed in the tooltips of the F skills.

 

Does it mean Virtuoso in opposite to mesmer (with the confusion condition) will deal more damage to enemies no casting skills? So what happens when we mix confusion with that effect? 

 

This effect is already present in core mesmer, on the Mental Anguish trait on the domination traitline.

It means it deals bonus damage if the enemy is not in the middle of any skills or attacks at the moment, such as they're stunned or dazed.

[Junkpile.7439]

Sound like typical buy expansion because new elite specs are totally broken thing. Will be interesting see how these f skills work with shatterer traits. 😎

Edited July 29, 2021 by Junkpile.7439

[Jijimuge.4675]

If you look at the stream of the virtuoso, you can see how the test character spawned 2 phantasmal berserkers, and had mirror blade bounce extra times so I'm pretty sure they had the trait "Bountiful Blades".

 

If they had that, then I think it's odds on that the effect you're seeing of 25% extra damage and +50% against inactivity is because the test character had the trait "Mental Anguish" and not because it's a feature of the Virtuoso specialisation.

[Daniel Handler.4816]

It means blade songs use shatter traits

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shatter

 

Scaling for the 5 blades vs 4 illusions (with player) should be interesting.