Guild Wars 2

Does distortion block subsequent channeled attacks if you hit it after the channel begins? Last night I ate a full Ranger longbow channel after hitting distortion as I saw the first arrows coming but it seemed to do nothing.

If that’s how it suppose to work it’s strange since Mirror will reflect partial channels. Maybe I was just seeing things because it would make distortion much less powerful…

Distortion blocks all damage with the exception of previously applied status effects ( conditions) and the agony hits from jade maw, which I haven’t managed to block yet. If you ate the full channel of damage with distortion actually running, you encountered a very strange bug.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Distortion blocks all damage with the exception of previously applied status effects ( conditions) and the agony hits from jade maw, which I haven’t managed to block yet. If you ate the full channel of damage with distortion actually running, you encountered a very strange bug.

Ok cool thanks. More likely user error and it was down or something and I thought it was up.

What about necro wells? I know they can go through some other immunity effects like Ice Block. Maybe a ground based condition that’s already active when you hit it counts as a previously applied effect?

Stiv.1820:

Pyroatheist.9031:

Distortion blocks all damage with the exception of previously applied status effects ( conditions) and the agony hits from jade maw, which I haven’t managed to block yet. If you ate the full channel of damage with distortion actually running, you encountered a very strange bug.

Ok cool thanks. More likely user error and it was down or something and I thought it was up.

What about necro wells? I know they can go through some other immunity effects like Ice Block. Maybe a ground based condition that’s already active when you hit it counts as a previously applied effect?

There are no known exceptions to the rule I stated. Not even things like retaliation can make it through blur/distortion.