Guild Wars 2

This can be performed in mist form, or mist form can be activated without interrupting the execute. Either way, it’s surely not intended, especially after the recent changes to disallow things such as healing while in mist form.

It has been so for as long as I can remember. It sucks, but I find it no different from thieves finishing you in stealth, various classes doing it with stability or mesmers doing it with blur thingy. Not a bug.

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It has been so for as long as I can remember. It sucks, but I find it no different from thieves finishing you in stealth, various classes doing it with stability or mesmers doing it with blur thingy. Not a bug.

It is a bug. The stealth can be countered by AOE and various other things. However, the mist form makes the executioner completely immune to any sort of interruption.

You raise an interesting observation about mesmer distortion in this regard as well. While a great deal harder to perform adequately (as a mesmer would need a fulls et of clones to get enough distortion), distortion should also interrupt/cancel an execute. Execution should not be uncounterable. Stability is fine, as it is a boon that can be purged. Stealth can be countered with AOE knocks and other such things.

Distortion and mist form should lock out execution for the duration, as they have no counter. Any other such abilities should also lock out executions as well.