Clarification on CC.

Phinix1

OK, I was under the impression that ANY CC that causes you to lose control of your character was breakable by holding right mouse and hitting left to do the "break free" animation, so long as you have enough stamina.

Is this not the case? Are there any exceptions?

I stopped by Alessia today against my better judgment, just for the hell of it, even though AD just sits there sending out survival clowns to get all the attacking noobs to bunch up for their siege stacking. Obvious tactic but people fall for it, over and over to farm AP... But that isn't the point.

The point is, the server started to crawl again which happens every single time an interesting large-scale siege gets started, and instantly makes continuing to play in that area pointless and uninteresting.

So, I decided to suicide to a nearby area that was under attack. No big deal, but I'm not going to just GIVE the AP to my free port. Oh no. I'm going to make them fight for it, and waste as much of their time and resources as possible, just because.

So I killed a couple AD siege snipers and stealthed around looking for more, helped pick off a few that were assaulting some of our siege guys, then when it looked like their flank was thinning out I picked an archer NB sniper I had seen to do my suicide.

Got some HoTs rolling and stealthed to get position, put some DoTs on him and stealthed again, threw up Immovable and started to burst him a bit. Apparently he had immovable up because my fear did nothing, even though there was no visual effect. Whatever, blame the lag.

Refresh my hots, throw up Healing Ward, stealth again, start bursting again. Fear still not working. Get feared myself. No problem, must have let Immovable fall off. Still have 2/3 of my stamina left, so break free... Break free! COME ON YOU GLITCHY PILE BREAK FREE!

Over and over I sat there holding right mouse and mashing left repeatedly, for a good 5 seconds, and NOTHING. This was NOT a stacking CC issue, because my character was running doing the fear animation. Of course by then three of the nearby flank pealed off and finished me since I couldn't stealth.

Granted I was trying to suicide anyway. At first I was thinking this was some sort of exploit, but honestly I don't think that archer NB had any idea what was happening. I think the server just couldn't handle all the activity.

But just to be absolutely clear, I thought I would ask anyway.

You CAN break free out of fear, right?

(I have seen people break out of mine, but I just HAD to ask.)

Sharee

You can, and if i had to guess you couldn't because of lag.

Grim13

I lol'd at the deciding to suicide part. ;P

Yeah, I'm sure many people's deaths were from deciding to suicide. *cough*

Braidas

Yes you can break free, but don't count on anything working in lag. Against large groups, I've had immovable up, been knocked down, cc break, recast immovable just to be sure, and then get knocked down again. If there are enough CC's on you it seems something will inevitably get you.

Ezareth

Yeah I had a triple shield stack on last night when a DK invasioned me. I had block held but ohh well I still got knocked down. No biggie my triple shield can absorb 2.5k+ magicka damage...and after that I have 3.7k hitpoints..no sense wasting stamina to break free. Flame whip flame whip flame whip, another DK invasions me and I'm still not up....talons flame whip, flame whip, flame whip, flame whip, by now a third DK joined in and I decided screw it, time to break free. Amazingly it works....time toBolt Escape outta here......bolt escape is broken. Blink blink...magicka is reduced each cast but no blinkey. God I really this buggy ass game sometimes.

I died 7 times last night. Twice to bolt escape breaking, twice to Desktop crashes, once to a potion not firing no matter how many times I pressed it, once to 3 second delay between bolt escapes, and once to a double EP night blade stealth lethal arrow combo while I was fighting 5 or 6 other DC.

Pretty much every night 80% of my deaths are from bugs and I probably spend an extra 75 tro stat pots each day because I'm charged through block or fragmented through block.

Buggy ass game....you deal with it..or you quit.

Only 54 days left on my 6 month sub. I don't think they are capable of turning this around if I gave them even that long.

JLB

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

Yeah I had a triple shield stack on last night when a DK invasioned me. I had block held but ohh well I still got knocked down. No biggie my triple shield can absorb 2.5k+ magicka damage...and after that I have 3.7k hitpoints..no sense wasting stamina to break free. Flame whip flame whip flame whip, another DK invasions me and I'm still not up....talons flame whip, flame whip, flame whip, flame whip, by now a third DK joined in and I decided screw it, time to break free. Amazingly it works....time toBolt Escape outta here......bolt escape is broken. Blink blink...magicka is reduced each cast but no blinkey. God I really this buggy ass game sometimes.

I died 7 times last night. Twice to bolt escape breaking, twice to Desktop crashes, once to a potion not firing no matter how many times I pressed it, once to 3 second delay between bolt escapes, and once to a double EP night blade stealth lethal arrow combo while I was fighting 5 or 6 other DC.

Pretty much every night 80% of my deaths are from bugs and I probably spend an extra 75 tro stat pots each day because I'm charged through block or fragmented through block.

Buggy ass game....you deal with it..or you quit.

Only 54 days left on my 6 month sub. I don't think they are capable of turning this around if I gave them even that long.

Just change the skill names into Templar ones, and you nailed my daily PvP gameplay. Just too many unfair deaths caused by unbreakable CCs and skills not working when/how they should.
It makes the whole experience very frustrating.

My second 3 month sub will not get renewed as I also think there's no way they can turn this around. Such a bugged and unresponsive game.

Cody

Fear just seems to be odd. In my experience with it, sometimes it works. sometimes it does not. though im sure the lag had something to do with it.

Renuo

Cody wrote: »

Fear just seems to be odd. In my experience with it, sometimes it works. sometimes it does not. though im sure the lag had something to do with it.

As far as landing the fear on someone else it can be fiddly with lag as their position ingame might not be 100% accurate with lag and it has a small radius on it, so you might miss pulling it off when it seems like you're close enough.

I try to ambush -> fear to make sure I'm right ontop of them first.

About the CC break I've not had the issue with being unable to break it but it's not a surprise to hear someone having this issue

Ezareth

Fear stacks with eclipse immunity and other immunities for that period of 6 seconds from my experience.