Interruption: Bjarl (CoE)
Sure, can be useful here.
It is as useful as ele chaining icebow or guardian chaining sanctuary. But hey, what if you are tossed in a pug group as a mesmer and still be useful?
Chanters, Novice (Cliffside)
Hardly, you just toss up a bit of reflection, yank them into a wall and dps them into the ground real quick.
Try those Heart Seeker spammers at the Chest Seal (where groups stacks between two Flame Trap) with not enough Blind. Surely an ele can bring Sandstorm (60 second CD), a thief can exhaust all their initiatives for blind and deal kittenty DPS and engi has two pulses of Blind. But in between the waves when Blind expires, are you gonna tank all the hit? One Heartseeker will down your ele, four or five of them and your ele will be fully dead before pulling any heal himself.
Ascalonian Warriors, Monks, Cultists, Enchanter (Urban)
Same thing. LoS, yank into a wall, dps into the ground real quick.
You assume an average group can DPS them real quick but a Monk with 25 stacks of Might with Heal Area can one shot any unsuspecting thief/ele/guard before they can actually Blind. Same with Warrior’s Rush during channeling. Enchanters has his chaos armor which reflects and are able to one shot any staff eles. Cultists has Dancing Daggers and Heart Seekers. These are extremely dangerous when first pulling to behind the pillar or the tree. You cannot simply use Curtain without yanking them all over the place or risk not reflecting the Mage and Archer projectiles.
Aaaaand same thing. LoS, yank into a wall, dps into the ground real quick. There’s pretty much nothing dredge do that’s worth interrupting anyway other than the little gong banging.
The Veteran Dredge in the big cage which has the big HP pool has two attacks, the shockwave is reflectable, the PbAoE which knocks back and kills all of your wardens needs to be interrupted. A mesmer can hold aggros of some of the dredges on button with chaining wardens while the group can focus elsewhere.
Atherblade Striker, Thug, Inquest Golems (Aetherblade)
Just toss up reflects and you’re good for the striker. Thugs spam stability, so they’re not usually simple to interrupt. Golems are interruptable…but it’s not really all that important to do.
You cannot reflect the Static Field attack – deal 8k damage over 4 sec and stun 1 sec when crossing them. You interrupt the Warbanner animation so that it doesn’t deal damage and the Thugs won’t have Stability. In a group with not enough Stability – since it’s pulsing stacks instead of permanent now- it is imperative to interrupt the golem’s head charge spin or your group will get knocked all over the place. Interrupt it once and group has plenty of time to DPS it down before the skill is up again. Even better, your Daze is an AoE! The pull can be reflected, however.
Baron Von Scrufflebutt (Uncategorized)
I suppose you could interrupt him. Alternatively, you could just dps it down real quick like normal.
You only need to interrupt his unblockable projectile attack twice (before and after all of them wake up) and whoever is doing the DPS doesn’t have to care about interrupting themselves to dodge that attack. Icebow, 100 blades, Meteor Shower are those skills having long channeling time.
Champion Abomination (Arah path 2)
This is really the only single instance in all of PvE that’s actually really important to get interrupts on.
Really? Don’t you argue that two ele can ice bow and burst it down in one single burst before it has a chance to stomp? Glad you agree though.
Legendary Jotun (Arah path 1) to name a few.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the guy you just spam reflects on until it dies?
So you set up two wardens perfectly to reflect his projectiles and ignore him when he summons lava font to kill them? In the process, some melee party members get killed as well. And then, condi cleanse or burn to death.
Condi cleanse: at Cliffside
Meh. You shouldn’t be getting hit by the wells much anyway, and the condies are very short duration there. The vuln stacks from the other guys are reflectable.
All melee classes will get condis from the wells. The damaging condi expires fast so it’s fine to skirt around but warrior surely doesn’t want to see all his greatsword hit becomes a glancing blow and generates no might. In a meta group, everyone will not be happy. Condi cleanse for people who pick up the hammer or accidentally re-pick it up. 1 minute of Poison and Burning says hello. Also, it is to remove the Burning when stacking at the chest seal.
at Aetherblade, at Mai Trin,
Yep, condie cleanses are important here.
at Mage Crusher/Hunter (Arah path 3),
Yeah, cleanses are handy here, but honestly an ele with healing rain does a better job.
The poison is not the point, the immobilization is what kills people. Also Healing Rain has long CD and you want your ele to focus on DPS when the mesmer does his job as a team support.
See comment about mage crusher.
Because people will never bother evading or blocking his Poison attack and guess what? 3K damage from Poison alone. That is like 30% HP of any zerker ele or guard which force them out of rotation. Experienced group doesn’t get the poison here, so it can be swapped out for other utilities
Realistically…almost all PvE instances are better completed by not interrupting things and instead yanking them into a wall and dpsing them down. Where condie cleanse is required it’s nice to have…but your ele/guardian does plenty of condie cleanse without you.
