Guild Wars 2

Hey guys.. just wondering here.. I’ve been bounced up and down, in and out more than I can remember in Balanced Stance, Last Stand, Eternal Champion, Rampage etc etc.. and am at my wit’s end trying to put heads and tails on the current variant of Stability..

Here is the gist of it.. I am sure I still have plentiful stacks of Stability.. yet I am bounced around like a rag doll.. even in simple small to medium scale fights. I am also sure that I wasn’t chained by overwhelmingly large amounts of cc in some fights..

example just recently while stomping a Reaper I popped Balanced Stance preemptively and probably got hit by the downstate Fear.. (-1 Stack) then was successfully pulled off by a Dragon Hunter’s followup F1 and I was sure I had 2 stacks of Stability at the start of it..

Also isn’t there a .75 second duration where they can’t strip Stability after they just took 1 off me.. I’m not entirely sure how that works but shouldn’t we be immune to stuns during that window? Yet I’ve been flipping lke a pancake in some fights.. without any skills becoming available in between stuns/cc. =/

Just trying to understand this..

Chances are your stability is being striped/stolen/corrupted. Each hard cc takes away one stack (no more than once every 0.5s), but it’s a boon, so necros, thieves, and mesmers can get lucky and take it off you completely using a boon steal skill (even if you had a million stacks of it).

Ah makes sense, thanks.. boon strip/steal slipped my mind..