Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

I am a shout WAR who usually takes fear me over on my mark for the cc and control it brings.

As of late though I have been noticing it totally fail at point blank me standing in the boss’s face with full adrenalin.

I will give examples from fractals:

On the final boss in the Groll shaman dungeon I used fear me to move him away from the people we are defending rather often. If he got too close (people being downed or just bad luck and positioning of him and the target he picks to go for) I would use fear me to buy a little more time or move him to a better area. As of late I can be standing right under him on the circle for him on the ground or right in front of him and it straight up does nothing to him.

In the Dredge map for the final boss both ice or suit I would use fear me to break the heal every time the shout was off CD. Now I can be standing right next to him and shout off my fear me and it may break his heal once and after that it does nothing at all.

On cliff side I would use fear me to move the boss away if people were taking too much damage or if I wanted to interrupt a move or res and he was too close. It worked well and helped control the flow of the fight. Now he gets the fear icon over his head and just keeps on trucking.. Switching targets, jumping, slamming, doing what he does you get the point.

What is going on? Has anybody ells noticed this? It is to the point I see 0 reason to use it any more.. The CD is so long and with the fear not working on a boss more then once if at all I may as well just sit with on my mark on my bars at all times.

Thanks for any constructive ideas or answers.

P.S. the only change I see noted is Fear Me: Updated the tooltip to correctly state the range of the skill.

But Anet has made other changes in the past w/o saying a word..

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-December-14-2012/

under “General”:

Fear is now properly affected by Defiant.