Guild Wars 2

First it seem to be applying way more Defiant stacks than it should be. It is not uncommon to see a dungeon boss with 15+ stacks, where as it should be no more than 5. I suspect Unshakable counts environmental objects as well as trash mobs and/or adds instead of just players, but I might be wrong about it.

Second as I understand applying CC to a boss with defiant stack on, should still interrupt them, and it is often not the case. For instance the same Svanir Shaman in the screenshot has frost breath attack, which is NOT interruptable, even though you get “interrupted” message trying to CC him.

Noticed on:
Svanir Shaman
Mossman
Ettin (prisoner in uncategorized fractal)
Legendary Archdiviner

All getting 18 stacks of Defiant after first CC.

at higher difficulties the stacks of defiant increase…as with scaling group events the more people the more stacks of defiant…earlier today i did a guild bounty and with 50+ people on half-baked he had 25 stacks

@Jettit 25 stacks is unsurprising given 50 people and that all stacks are maxed at 25. What is surprising that 5 man dungeon encounters result in 18 stacks. That looks flat out broken.

I think it’s just that some mobs are supposed to be more resistant, There are mobs with unshakeable that only get 2 or 3 stacks too.

youre in level 54 fractals man…the game is scaling…we get 14 or something in level 30 fractals

Trollhammer.7439:

@Jettit 25 stacks is unsurprising given 50 people and that all stacks are maxed at 25. What is surprising that 5 man dungeon encounters result in 18 stacks. That looks flat out broken.

25 is not the max for defiant, saw a champion a few days ago with 60 stacks, but than we were a LOT and i mean a LOT of players there was right after the tequalt (spelling?) dragon had been killed in sparkfly fen