It is a zerg, Haviz. I am recently coming off a 4 month break – ran a few 5 mans, it’s pretty much the same zerg as before. Rush down on a boss and DPS the hell out of him, minimal mechanics. Note: I never said there were no mechanics in GW2, I said in my direct words, “a trinityless system favors the zerg.” Favors, FaVoRs, FAVORS.
Zerg is definitely not 5 people.
You must think monsters are human players who spam every non auto attack skill on their bar. AI does not use skills as appropriate when off cooldown. They use skills when certain predefined criteria are reached, and when those criteria do not apply, they use skills in a predefined skill rotation.
Most of those criteria you speak of are most likely something like “range < x”. Predefined skill rotation is a vast overestimation.
Have you actually attempted to kill a world boss alone, or looked at a fractal boss’s behaviour properly? Certain skills are one-hit kill affairs, and only trigger in certain rotations – if you interrupt them, it takes the mob another 40-50 seconds to reach the same point in the skill rotation again, whereby you could interrupt them again.
I am not going to gloat here but in fact I did kill temple bosses in group of 2-3 players on daily basis.
Take for instance the Whirlwind attack of the Risen Priest of Melandru. It AoE downs all players without Invuln who did not dodge in time and it has far more than enough hits to pierce Aegis and Protection easily. It activates as the 7th skill in a 40 second rotation involving cleave attacks with his weapon, a knockback single attack leap skill with his weapon, an Earthquake AoE with a 300 unit radius which launches and damages, tossing 5x black projectiles which bleeds immobilises all targets it touches, before following up with 5x earth spike attacks from the ground which can be dodged, and finally the whirlwind AoE knockback. Interrupting the Whirlwind ensures he cannot use it until the entire rotation is repeated. Formerly, his morphing of players into drakes at the 75%, 50%, 25% marks was also Interruptible, until Anet decided to change that 5 second animation into an instant cast. Knowing and using that Interruption is why I could solo Melandru to death, where full parties fail. (Past tense, because the instant cast nature now makes that mechanic compulsory.)
His Whirlwind attack is definitely not on 40 second rotation. I recorded partial duo of him and he uses it much often and if you watch it closely you would come up with the conclusion that there is no skill rotation.
Or the Megadestroyer, whose Summoning attacks at phases 75% and 50% can be entirely cancelled out by an Interrupt chain at the correct timing, so that he never disappears beneath the lava.
Can’t say I ever done him.
At higher level fractals, players, especially Elementalists, always Interrupt the Jellyfish boss’s stunning Whirl attack, preventing it from doing any damage. This is made possible by the fact that Float and Sink are exempt from the Defiant mechanic.
I actually do that but fractals overally are really bad idea to bring up since at levels 70+ bosses have 30+ stacks of defiant.
In guild missions, the bounty that swallows players (Big Mayana) can be Interrupted to keep all players in a fight.
Have not done her(?) ever.
Against the Legendary Risen Priestess of Dwayna, the Priestess’ revives on the Veteran Acolytes can be Interrupted. If left to revive, they will summon Veteran risen Knights and Risen Plague Carriers, whose explosions are the main cause of downs at the temples.
With just 2-3 people you can simply burst her before she starts to revives anyone.
There’s a lot more examples that anyone who actually bothered to fight will know about. The current version of the Defiant mechanic, in placing too many stacks of Defiant there, makes it harder to Interrupt mobs when they should be Interrupted. Knockdown is still ok, what gets on our nerves is people who waste a zero-defiant stack status on a useless 1 second stun without even Interrupting anything important.
Every dungeon boss I solo’d including lupicus do not have any skill rotations and if you interrupt most of their attacks they will use it again shortly. The only exception from that rule that I know of is Legendary Berserker Abomination but if you interrupt his berserkering too early it will go on 5s cooldown anyway.
). Would it hurt you if we get mini dredge or Clown Cart Fan title? I would be happy with it.