Guild Wars 2

•Domination: Power Block – Enemy skills that you interrupt have an increased cooldown of 10s (no internal cooldown on this skill, just depends on cooldowns of your interrupts)

This is one of the upcoming new GM traits. Is this a trait that only has use in PvP/WvW situations, or does it affect PvE enemies?

Next to that, do PvE enemies even have “skill cooldown”, or are their skills pretty much random?
How are mobs programmed when it comes to skill use?

At least some mobs have skill cooldowns. gw2dungeons.com sometimes shows the skill CD along with mob info (though it’s not complete for every dungeon).

The biggest question for PvE is:

When I ‘interrupt’ a champion that has defiant stacks traits like Halting Strike, Chaotic/Bountiful Interruption will trigger.
What happens when I can’t interrupt a skill but cooldown it while it’s being casted? :o

cry Pyro I think we need your help :<

When you proc HS/BI/CI, you get the benefit although it’s not a valid interrupt because the boss has defiant. This mean you didn’t really interrupt anything.

Because of that, I’m guessing the new trait won’t work on them unless they have 0 defiant stacks.

Me Games Ma.8426:

The biggest question for PvE is:

When I ‘interrupt’ a champion that has defiant stacks traits like Halting Strike, Chaotic/Bountiful Interruption will trigger.
What happens when I can’t interrupt a skill but cooldown it while it’s being casted? :o

cry Pyro I think we need your help :<

This is actually something we speculated about on the podcast. I concluded that…we don’t know. There’s no mechanic in the game currently that does something like that, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

Pyroathiest.4168:

Me Games Ma.8426:

The biggest question for PvE is:

When I ‘interrupt’ a champion that has defiant stacks traits like Halting Strike, Chaotic/Bountiful Interruption will trigger.
What happens when I can’t interrupt a skill but cooldown it while it’s being casted? :o

cry Pyro I think we need your help :<

This is actually something we speculated about on the podcast. I concluded that…we don’t know. There’s no mechanic in the game currently that does something like that, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

Well okay, I guess we have to wait then… I hope there is some use in PvE for it. Creating traits only for PvP isn’t really good thinking I guess.