Ineptitude

Interrupting a foe inflicts blind, and blinding a foe inflicts confusion. This trait can only activate on enemies with defiance bars once per interval. — In-game description

Ineptitude

Specialization

Dueling (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Interrupting a foe inflicts blind, and blinding a foe inflicts confusion.
This trait can only activate on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

  Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 ₂ Confusion (5s): 100 Damage, 99 Damage to Players on Skill Use, 191 Damage to Non-Players on Skill Use

 ₂ Confusion (2s): 40 Damage, 99 Damage to Players on Skill Use, 191 Damage to Non-Players on Skill Use

  Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

Notes

• While this trait is equipped, all skills that apply blind will show "This skill is unique per game mode" to reflect the different duration of confusion through different game modes that this trait provides to them.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 05, 2019	The confusion duration of this trait has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 06, 2018	This trait has been split, and now confusion has been reduced from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP and WvW only.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster trait line in Dueling, to the slot previously taken by Mistrust, and its effects have changed. This trait now causes interrupts to inflict blind for 5 seconds, and applies blind to inflict 2 stacks of confusion for 5 seconds.
July 26, 2016	This trait will now track the internal cooldown for confusion application on a per-target basis. The blind earned from dodging and evading will now properly apply confusion as well.
August 25, 2015	Fixed a crash bug.
July 28, 2015	This trait no longer penetrates through defenses such as block and evasion.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Ineptitude has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to the June 23rd 2015 update, the second mesmer trident skill, now renamed Blinding Tide, was called Ineptitude.

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Ineptitude.