Guild Wars 2

Hi, I want to know if there is a way to counter the inmunity of some bosses or even regular enemies to physical abilities, because its rendering my build useless if I cant kick or stomp a boss or a veteran enemy and some regular enemies are inmune to it too (PvE wise). And I dont think its because the mob granted himself stability because I tried my abilities everytime they are off cooldown, and I can move a boss with a kick 1 in 10-15 tries maybe.

edit… world pve isnt a problem (except for some elementals), but dungeons are a pain for my build.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defiant

Bosses will get stacks of this immunity. As a group you could try and burn sacrificial CCs to land a specific CC you want. It seems I’ve seen some bosses that just generate stacks too fast to ever get through though.

Defiant is kind of two buffs. The first buff generates 3 (on bosses I’ve been aware of this at least) stacks of the second kind of “Defiant”. The first buff does not actually make the boss immune to CC, but the second buff does. Which means in bosses that I’ve seen, 1 in every 4 CC’s works. I’m pretty sure the 3 stack rule doesn’t apply to every single boss, and some just are immune period (WvW tower/keep defenders for example), but that’s what I’ve seen. Check to see which buff the boss has on. It’ll show up under their health bar.

You can still interrupt most bosses with those attacks even if it you don’t CC them (e.g. you can still trigger Distracting Strikes).

Immobilize, Cripple, and Chill will still work if you are trying for a control build.

thanks for the responses, I would check it so I wont waste time trying to leap to the boss to kick him.

Another note: Fear does not count as “CC” to the Defiant buff.