Confuse still steals Exp?

Does confuse still steal exp? I heard that it no longer does. Also how does confuse work in pvp and what can you do to counter it? Also what is a good counter for countering a foe that uses - recharge ataxia against you in pvp? Does domination provide resistance to - recharge?

Confuse can lower xp. You gain xp based on the % of damage dealt to an enemy. If an enemy beats an enemy by itself, you will gain 0% xp, because you did 0% of the damage.

Confuse can lower xp if the enemy deals the majority of the damage. However, bear in mind that as long as you do half the damage you still receive 80% of the xp. As a result confuse generally will increase your xp over time as opposed to reducing it.

In pvp, there is no protection from mez effects, but their durations are far shorter than in PVE and will be further reduced by resistance. Confuse will cause you to target both allies and enemies. If you can isolate your target away from your allies then confuse will have little effect.

Finally, no Domination does not provide protection from -recharge. There is an IO, part of the Winter's Gift set, that can provide 20% resistance to -recharge.

Fighting confused foes is like shooting fish in a barrel. I submit that xp/min goes UP since you spend less time on other mitigation measures.

Also confuse is excelent on the STF.

Dr Aeon and his pesky super duper EB spawning power...

Well, pets spawned when confused spawn with a strong disliking for their owners face...

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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl [*]Watching out for the Spinning Disco Portal of D00M!*

Confuse does not steal any XP. It grants bonus XP.

If you do 50% of the damage to an enemy, you get 80% of the experience for that enemy. You are getting experience for damage you did not do.

NO NO NO! Confuse never, ever "steals XP."

A foe defeated by a confused foe does not award XP to you because you never earned it -- you didn't do any of the damage. But nothing takes away any XP you earned. As far as you are concerned, that foe never existed. At worst you could say that confusion can reduce the amount of XP available to be earned from a particular pool of foes. Since there are fewer foes to kill, you complete missions faster and get those mission bonuses faster. At worst, there is a reduction in XP that is available to earn . . . but you can always do another mission. Unless you are doing a limited number of Kill-all missions, it really doesn't matter.


AND, as long as you (and/or your team and/or your pets) do SOME of the damage to the target of the confused foe, then you get BONUS XP -- you get XP that you did not earn by getting some of the XP earned by the confused foe. So you are not only having to do less damage to defeat a foe, but you are getting bonus XP for defeating that foe.

This is one of the worst misconceptions in the game. I run into it all the time. I even wrote a long section about it in my Illusion/Radiation guide.

In short, confuse powers move you to the mission bonus quicker than if you didn't have confuse.

This is my new avocation. First, I was the self-proclaimed priest of the death-less howling twilight usage. Now I will add the "Confusion conquers all" to my agenda.

This is how I have always viewed confuse. On teams when the foes are really hard then its an insurance policy that you wont die. Chances are if you are in this situation you need to turn down the difficulty anyways. Second the damage done is xp leeching but I find on teams that have alot of aoe having the confuse foes fight is just bad. For the most part they would not have died any faster because it would have been overkill damage. So in the case with aoe heavy teams I wouldnt use it. What it boils down to is this, is the xp lost from confuse going to be more or less than the total debt the team would have gotten from that encounter? Since debt is like almost non-existent these days it takes away from the utility that confuse brought to the table. For solo this is a different matter. I found it extremely valueable on redside due to mobs having insane control resistances and domination not always being up. So thats pretty much the one thing to rely on. Now that we have a choice for doms being on blueside I find myself not needing it as much.

/head desk

My dominator is built for team support, fast recharge and end drain. Frequently, I fire off synaptic overload on a nearby group - just because I like griefing our team //// wait not that! I do it because I know after they start bashing each other they won't accidentally get aggroed to fighting us. It's funny, too, because some blasters or scrappers will break off the current fight and dash over to that confused group like a house-a-fire because I think they don't want to miss out on all the xp.