Crushing Shock and Healing? PVP

Sagetim

Focus all the elemental energies with your staff and blast an enemy for 696 Flame Damage, 696 Frost Damage, and 696 Shock Damage. Enemies hit while casting are interrupted, set Off Balance, and stunned for 3 seconds.

IT DOES SAY "Enemies hit while casting"...so are all healing ability not being cast and just somehow fall out the sky???

This is one of the main things in the game I have never understood and drives me up the wall. Example: Warden "Polar Wind" ; Templar "All healing skills"; They can cast non stop heals and you can interrupted them, this is even with Bashing them witch is also an interrupted ability.

This should be fixed

the1andonlyskwex

"while casting" only applies to skills that have a cast time (i.e. aren't instant).

Sagetim

the1andonlyskwex wrote: »

"while casting" only applies to skills that have a cast time (i.e. aren't instant).

Instant cast is still a cast... If you are hitting the player at the same time it should still work.

ganzaeso

I do not know if bashing interrupts Templar heals that are instant cast. Is this something you have personally tested @Sagetim?

the1andonlyskwex

Sagetim wrote: »

the1andonlyskwex wrote: »

"while casting" only applies to skills that have a cast time (i.e. aren't instant).

Instant cast is still a cast... If you are hitting the player at the same time it should still work.

Instant cast means the cast time is zero, so there is no "while" to interrupt. Your interrupt will always hit before or after the actual cast, never during it.

axi

Sagetim wrote: »

the1andonlyskwex wrote: »

"while casting" only applies to skills that have a cast time (i.e. aren't instant).

Instant cast is still a cast... If you are hitting the player at the same time it should still work.

"At the same time" is kinda silly phrase when we are talking about something that happens instantly in the computing standards. Assuming servers proccessing speed You would need to use Your crushing shock in the same nanosecond that cast of some healing ability is being performed. Good luck with that.

Amottica

Instant cast in games tends to mean instant so their is no duration to gbe cast time. The character’s movement is irrelevant.

Sagetim

why I can interrupt guards at keeps and resources healing themselves but not players. No cast Time on guards heals.

Just saying you should be able to interrupt people spamming heals in PVP

Soulshine

Sagetim wrote: »

why I can interrupt guards at keeps and resources healing themselves but not players. No cast Time on guards heals.

Just saying you should be able to interrupt people spamming heals in PVP

Speaking as a healer: you have an interrupt to my "spamming heals" : kill me. If can.

Nuff said on this.

Bradyfjord

It's an mmo standard that:

1. Abilities with cast times can be interrupted.
2. Abilities without cast times cannot be interrupted.

TequilaFire

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Krumz

Sagetim wrote: »

Focus all the elemental energies with your staff and blast an enemy for 696 Flame Damage, 696 Frost Damage, and 696 Shock Damage. Enemies hit while casting are interrupted, set Off Balance, and stunned for 3 seconds.

IT DOES SAY "Enemies hit while casting"...so are all healing ability not being cast and just somehow fall out the sky???

Using the logic from your phrase, "...while casting" implies that the caster is in between the start and end of a cast. An instant cast ability doesn't have a cast time. It wouldn't make sense for an interrupt to stop something with a 0 second cast time.

FrancisCrawford

Sagetim wrote: »

why I can interrupt guards at keeps and resources healing themselves but not players. No cast Time on guards heals.

Just saying you should be able to interrupt people spamming heals in PVP

If something is channeled, as NPC heals commonly are, that's similar to having a cast time.

EF321

You absolutely can interrupt channeled healing abilities, like dark conversion.

Girl_Number8

TequilaFire wrote: »

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@TequilaFire
say it, you know you want too 😄

TequilaFire

Girl_Number8 wrote: »

TequilaFire wrote: »

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@TequilaFire
say it, you know you want too 😄

Already had enough vacations. lol

Girl_Number8

TequilaFire wrote: »

Girl_Number8 wrote: »

TequilaFire wrote: »

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@TequilaFire
say it, you know you want too 😄

Already had enough vacations. lol

😂 ikr

thanks for the smile

axi

Sagetim wrote: »

why I can interrupt guards at keeps and resources healing themselves but not players. No cast Time on guards heals.

Just saying you should be able to interrupt people spamming heals in PVP

Guards have chanelled heals not instant cast ones.

Astrid

Crushing shock will only interrupt a channeled ability, (snipe, jesus beam, dark deal, a sorc summoning their pet ect - templar jabs do not apply i don’t believe even though it is technically a channeled abiltiy). It won’t just interrupt any old ability and nullify what they’re doing.