Stunlock needs to be put under control and it needs as I like to say to be desinged as gameplay mechanic, which requires COORDINATION. it should never be spam gameplay.
Spam Mechanisms for a gameplay design with so much frustration potential that stunlock gameplay has by its very nature, it is just incomprehendable, how anet could add it into the combat system, without keeping it in check and under a coordination based limit.
Breakbar System, thats the solution and it needs to be implemented ASAP for players as well ,as this system will be able to keep the cc spam under control and in check by forcing players to use the CC skills at the right moments, coordinated with others, to force their foes together into their knees and not by just spupidly mashign all the cc skills anytime just to make your foe instantly unable to do anything, without thinking about it, if the moment of usage was good, because udner the current gameplay design this quzestion simply plays no role – everythign that just better is, who can cc an enemy first to get the advantage of landing burst attacks when the foe is unable to defend themself, thats everything that matters right now in this watered down combat system of GW2.
Just look and compare it with enemies in PvEr that have breakbars, not just weak breakbars that are easy to overcome, but the ones of the very hard bosses, that require alot of coordinated cc action of alot of players.
Thats it what it needs in PvP andespecially WvW to be able to stunlock a player in combat to take them out for some time so that they can#t do something.
it should be just done by just 1 skill being spammed by x peopel to keep an anyme infinetely unable to do anything, without that there is ANY protection from being instantly stunned again, should you decide to use a Stun Break.
Thats the moment, where the breakbar System also has to delieve this protection mechanic, thats needed to remove this stupid perma stunlock from the game, which annoys peopel to hell and makes combat in GW2 ZERO FUN
Thats it what the devs have to check finally.
Interuption mechanics are totally fine and ok, but if it becomes simply too much, then it destroys the whole combat system quicker than you may believe and turns it simply into a complete unfun game!!
In SPvP should it require coordinated continuated CCing of 2-3 players against 1 target to crush the Breakbar (the will of the character basically) to CC the character with hard CC in order to knock the target down, to stun it, to launch it into the air or to petrificate it.
As long the Breakbar hasn’t been crushed, should be all players immune to Hard CC.
First and only once the will of a character has been crsuehd, so the Break bar has reached 0, then the first Hard CC that hits while a Soft CC keeps the Bar at 0 should work and actually interupt the player.
This should be then continuasble by a maximum of 3x if other players can link their hard ccs into the chain as logn the previous hard Cc duration hasn’t expired.
Has the last hard CC duration either expired or the character been stunlocked for 3 hard cc’s in a row, then should the Breakbar automatically recover and go to full again to protect the player from being perma stunlocked to death!!!
Just like bosses in PvE inevitably recover their Breakbar after some time, to prevent players from perma stunlockign them simply to death and forcing players to repeat their cordinated sequence of playing together to interrupt their foes.
The same needs to happen in SpvP/WvW and this can only happen, if ANet adds ASAP the Breakbar System for players as well and rebalances the whole combat system and the CCing mechanics around this change!!
Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside
