Guild Wars 2

Ok, i’m going to start by saying that I’m still pretty new to GW2 PvP. I didn’t play beta at all. But I do have a fairly strong background in other PVP games such as WoW, DAOC, WAR, etc etc. So I have a fairly general idea of what to do and how to process and learn from my experiences in PVP.

So I’m going to describe a situation that I see very often in PVP, and I hope that some of you with more in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of GW2 pvp can explain it.

Very often when fighting players I will see the “Immune” message pop up when I target them. Now I understand that there are several abilities available to the various classes that can make them invulnerable for a short period of time. However, what I see very often is when enemies are running away from me, or when I come across them unaware and start shooting at them with my rifle(warrior), the immune message will pop up for every attack.

I can understand that in some situations an enemy player would very quickly activate their defensive cooldown to try and figure out where the fire is coming from. But in most cases it’s like the player doesn’t even know I’m there, or acknowledge my presence.

The only thing I can think of is that it might be lag. The player I’m shooting at is not where they actually are, and the only way the game knows how to resolve the issue is by throwing up the immune message on my client. But maybe there’s another explanation?

I’m REALLY hoping someone can give me an explanation for this, because it’skittenfrustrating.

One thing ive seen people forget about is the active dodge system this game employes. People have some measure of control over avoiding attacks, and there are many many skills along with active dodge that allow players to prevent damage.

Plus when a player is downed, they are immune to all damage for a few moments. This is something that i have seen many others forget about.

Players who are out of range will also sometimes pop the immune message.

I think it’s necessary to have more specifics. I rarely see Immune on players, except when they are going into the downed state. It could be something class specific, where for example maybe your class has a certain condition that is applied upon attacking, and for whatever reason that person might be immune to those effects from a skill they have.

No, I’m pretty sure it’s not the active dodge. I’ve seen plenty of people use that, and I’ve done it myself. But even if I’m wrong, how does that explain the immune messages popping up on targets that are moving perpendicular to me that aren’t even paying attention?

They clearly aren’t dodging. They aren’t even acting like they’re under attack at all. I can understand the out of range message, and that might be it some of the time. But I’ve seen the immune message pop up at closer ranges as well.

Hmm….I hadn’t considered the immune message being thrown up against status effects. Maybe it’s the bleed from the auto-fire on the warrior rifle?

there are definitely a lot of immunities in the game

what you’re describing sounds weird though

If they are warriors they have the skill “endure pain” which gives 3-4 seconds of invunrobility, can’t say on other classes though.