Confusion Condition

Added to some select skills maybe as a buff or something.

Basically, the confusion condition makes the enemy's screen become all distorted as if he were under the drunk affect. And no, they would not be able to remove it by turning off drunk effects.

Sorry if someone had this idea already, i checked the sticky but didn't find any.

What do you think..

That would be more imbalanced than Deep Wound.

deepwound isn't imbalanced. If you're not able to maintain your health at or near the breakpoint, maybe you deserve the DP you're getting... I like Deep Wound. Combined with bleeding... now stop qq'ing and learn to overcome your inadequacies.

As for OP, there's an effect from Madness darts which already causes this image distortion
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Madness_Dart

/notsigned - as it wouldn't help the current way of playing today

I like this idea rather more: condtion. Drowsiness (or sleepness :S) - you attack 50% slower,

Tryptophan Signet is the closest you''ll get to that i believe
Signet. For 14...20 seconds, target foe and all adjacent foes move and attack 23...40% slower.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Tryptophan_Signet

/notsigned
If anything.. Dazed should do this. But would be too imbalanced.

It has already been suggested many times, and this condition is only useful in PvP as mobs don't get any affect from it. Also some people will receive lag because of the distortion and /rage at Anet.

and
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Tongue_Lash
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Tongue_Whip

It doesn't work like that ... if you turn off post-processing option in the game, both alcohol as well as skills like mentioned dart will not cause distortion on your or target's screen. Plus, it's FPS killer for lower-end machines and would kill more people by hardware lag than by the skill itself. It's a fail idea if you ask me.

Great, that would make it a grand total of 1320 skills in GW.
(Not even mentioning it's a general terrible idea for a skill)

/notsigned

Confusion: While confusion, you experience +1000 ping and -20 fps.

it's not a skill, its just a condition that works the same as drunk. People don't rage about high pings to anet when they are using alcohol do they?

people have the choice to use alcohol

Just having there "Drunk effects" instead "post-processing effects" is enough to discard the entire post.

An effect that affects control input or visual output is never a good idea in multi-player games. It's always just frustrating and annoying.

What something rendering your screen useless? Play Metal Gear Solid.

Removing players ability to see whats on their screen is a horrible mechanic. It has nothing to do with skill and how much you can memorise where your buttons are and how good your eyes are.

Definately /notsigned.

I wonder how long would it take to remove that effect by changing gw.dat

I think you should add to the screen effect that people with minimum hard ware get screwed in this deal. Their frame rate would likely also drop to nil, and perhaps cause freezes for some of them. I also find this to be unimaginative since you are just copying an already existent effect.

How bout a skill called drink pusher?


If confusion were implemented i would like to see a condition which caused a character to attack allies and foes at random. This effect would have to be REALLY short as it would be quite powerful.

HMM

people dont use alcohol with the screen effect on if their comp cant handle it

At best, this seems like a condition that would simulate some form of "blindness" or something - why is that strangely familiar...

Haaa! Relax, I'm kidding. Though I'm not sure Confusion is such a good name... hey how about "Blurred Vision" eh? EH?

Why not give Blackout a more realistic effect aswell while we are at it.