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Posted by: frifox.5283

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Ok, maybe not exactly meta but definitely an interesting new playstyle for mesmers in dungeons. Lets hope this isn’t one of them famous unintended “bugs” that ANet loves to nerf.

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Posted by: Gyler.8150

Gyler.8150

God this is so getting nerfed to the ground. Was similar to necro through defiant fear, except for the not doing anything for a few minutes. Would love to see a 5 mesmer powerblock lupi run though!

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Posted by: SteepledHat.1345

SteepledHat.1345

What? We can finally play interrupt in dungeons? Kill it with fire!

Yeah, I’d be surprised if it were intended.

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Posted by: TheKillerAngel.3596

TheKillerAngel.3596

God this is so getting nerfed to the ground. Was similar to necro through defiant fear, except for the not doing anything for a few minutes. Would love to see a 5 mesmer powerblock lupi run though!

Lupi is immune to control effects.

Think stacking and skipping trash is cheap?
Read: Playing to Win.
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Posted by: noobgood.8762

noobgood.8762

Can’t you interrupt him with +CC duration?

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Posted by: TheKillerAngel.3596

TheKillerAngel.3596

You cannot daze, stun, or fear Lupicus.

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Posted by: haviz.1340

haviz.1340

You can interrupt him though.

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Posted by: Miku Lawrence.6329

Miku Lawrence.6329

Yep, works fine on Lupi.

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Posted by: noobgood.8762

noobgood.8762

So it goes through defiance?

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Posted by: Miku Lawrence.6329

Miku Lawrence.6329

So it goes through defiance?

Shhhhhhh

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Posted by: Natsu Dragneel.1625

Natsu Dragneel.1625

“working as intended’ YERP

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Posted by: The Mexican Cookie.3690

The Mexican Cookie.3690

You cannot daze, stun, or fear Lupicus.

You can stun lupicus, or at least you used to be able to. I don’t know if the sigil of paralyzation nerf made it impossible now, I never went and tried again.

Back when I was a nub and Dub was teaching me how to play, we used to use shield for lupicus kills. I had a para sigil on mine because who knows why, and shield bash would stun him.

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Posted by: deSade.9437

deSade.9437

Yeah, totally intended. Totally.
Totally.
… I need to try it out before they fix it…

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Posted by: LordByron.8369

LordByron.8369

Sad thing is:
Intended or not this is playing on reaction ._. something that should be incentivated more than passive stacking.

Most skills have a precast to make it even harder.

GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.

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Posted by: noobgood.8762

noobgood.8762

It’s not intended. Because I said it. You elitists.

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Posted by: deSade.9437

deSade.9437

It’s not intended. Because I said it. You elitists.

:( Meanie.
If only… but it just cannot be. The increased recharge time might be intended – a very interesting addition; power block bypassing defiant stance can’t be. Not even remotely.
Let us hope they take a while to fix it, eh?
Orrr anet might surprise me. Back in gw1 I would’ve been ready for a surprise, but…

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Posted by: haviz.1340

haviz.1340

You can stun lupicus, or at least you used to be able to. I don’t know if the sigil of paralyzation nerf made it impossible now, I never went and tried again.

Back when I was a nub and Dub was teaching me how to play, we used to use shield for lupicus kills. I had a para sigil on mine because who knows why, and shield bash would stun him.

About 1 month ago I could still troll an entire team so I guess it still works.

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Posted by: haviz.1340

haviz.1340

Anyway, this game would be much better with that, so much controls! Just imagine stunlocking every boss.

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Posted by: Dub.1273

Dub.1273

You cannot daze, stun, or fear Lupicus.

You can’t, I can.

Dub | [rT]
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Posted by: Gyler.8150

Gyler.8150

That’s what a hardmode boss should look like, tricking the players into thinking its safe and then, BAM right in the face

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Posted by: FenrirSlakt.3692

FenrirSlakt.3692

You cannot daze, stun, or fear Lupicus.

You can’t, I can.

Did he just doublekick?

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Posted by: LordByron.8369

LordByron.8369

Just a thing many people ignores:
those skills have cast time.

Evasion doesnt

it means stunlocking on reaction needs skill and since attack rate is way faster than CDs its not a bad thing at all.

GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.

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Posted by: SorrowsEmbrace.8120

SorrowsEmbrace.8120

From some testing -
It definitely works on the berserker abom in arah p2. It works on imbued shaman’s agony arrows, though it would take someone with a lot better twitch skills then me to do it consistently. It also works on the molten berserker, tho his main flailing attack seems to count as multiple little attacks, so I saved my interrupts for his jumps. I’m pretty sure it works on mossman – but again he attacks pretty fast, so it will take someone with more skill then me to confirm.

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Posted by: Agony.3542

Agony.3542

Just a thing many people ignores:
those skills have cast time.

Evasion doesnt

it means stunlocking on reaction needs skill and since attack rate is way faster than CDs its not a bad thing at all.

Whirlwindattack has evasion and a cast time.

Yes, nitpicking much here.

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Posted by: LordByron.8369

LordByron.8369

Just a thing many people ignores:
those skills have cast time.

Evasion doesnt

it means stunlocking on reaction needs skill and since attack rate is way faster than CDs its not a bad thing at all.

Whirlwindattack has evasion and a cast time.

Yes, nitpicking much here.

It does dps even if it doen st evade.
Reason why really few players use mesmer sw4 (that on another side gets punished by so many multiattacks instead of being incentivated in pve)

GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.

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Posted by: Warcry.1596

Warcry.1596

I knew you could interrupt through Defiant for a while now, the control effect would only interrupt, not disable though.

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Restore that which was lost. And all shall be as one.”

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Posted by: Kain Francois.4328

Kain Francois.4328

Why not take this mechanic, and make interrupts a Ranger niche?

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Posted by: Charming Rogue.8071

Charming Rogue.8071

This is most definitely a bug. It’s awesome for sure, but I don’t think the devs would like it if Mesmers were allowed to stunlock lupicus lol. (and yes, it works on lupicus to the point where he can’t do any attacks)

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Posted by: deSade.9437

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But it’s awesome and super fun. Sadly.

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Posted by: frifox.5283

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Mark this day. It’s the end of the short lived new mesmer meta.

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Posted by: Blood Red Arachnid.2493

Blood Red Arachnid.2493

I suspect it is a bug, but this is still pretty boss.

I don’t have opinions. I only have facts I can’t adequately prove.

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Posted by: Gyler.8150

Gyler.8150

Aaaaaand It’s gone.

Back to square one.