Guild Wars 2

Or more specifically, why don’t interrupts and stun breakers seem to matter to them anymore?

Was just running my hammer/shouts tank warrior in AC. This is a great build for AC as graveling scavengers can be interrupted before they do their knockdown-chomp-o-doom as well as interrupting and recovering from many of the boss big attacks.

Only problem is the mobs are ignoring the interrupts on both hammer 4 and hammer 5. See mob start big hit animation. Fire off interrupt. Mob goes splat to the ground. Interrupt gets written over their head. And then they do whatever they were going to do anyway. This happened with all ranks of mobs (no circle, silver, gold, and purple), and with Kholer, the Spider Queen, and all the various gravelings. Mobs are just flat out ignoring interrupts.

Perhaps worse, they’re also ignoring stun breakers. Since you can interrupt a graveling scavenger from going chompy, you can try hitting your stun breaker. You’ll pop up, get to do one action, and then the next tic of the graveling chomp puts you right back on the ground taking big damage. I actually died at the spike trap on path 2 for the first time ever because a scavenger went om-nom-nom on me and none of my usual tricks worked.

Now, knockbacks sometimes work provided the mob actually gets knock backed. The fact that knockback is a sometimes only thing has been a bug for a while. If the mob should get knockbacked but only says interrupted, you end up eating whatever it was you were trying to interrupt. If the mob actually gets knockbacked, then it really is interrupted. Annoyingly, you’ll have both happen during the same fight against the same mob.

Anyway, can we pretty please make the mobs play by the rules? Or better yet, can you start mass banning the gravelings for exploiting?

Are you sure you’re interuppting the Scavengers? I did AC runs last night and I interrupts still worked on the Breeders and Scavengers. There’s one Scavenger, I believe, which is a gold and has defiant stacks. Maybe you tried interrupting him?

Also with Scavengers, they re-apply their KD when they damage. So use your stun breaker right after they damage, and roll away. You can observe this by simply walking into a Scavenger that’s doing their chompy thing. You will get KD’d and start get damaged.

Ursan.7846:

Are you sure you’re interuppting the Scavengers? I did AC runs last night and I interrupts still worked on the Breeders and Scavengers. There’s one Scavenger, I believe, which is a gold and has defiant stacks. Maybe you tried interrupting him?

Also with Scavengers, they re-apply their KD when they damage. So use your stun breaker right after they damage, and roll away. You can observe this by simply walking into a Scavenger that’s doing their chompy thing. You will get KD’d and start get damaged.

On the runs we just did, the breeders ignored the interrupt the same way the scavengers did. I’d smash it over the head, it would sprawl on the ground, interrupt would show up on screen, then the thing would pop back up and start puking babies again. Sometimes. Like when I was babysitting our NPC versus the burrows, I smashed it over the head and it kept puking out its babies right on top of the 2nd stupidest NPC in the game (the glory stealing ‘supreme commander’ is worse).

Sometimes it worked just fine and they’d stop. I could not figure out a rhyme or reason to what was happening.