Would blocking it work?

Roll dodge and run. There’s no real counter to it, you can block one or two, but you’re opponent can simply spam it more often than you can defend against it.

The usual is Dizzying Swing > Dizzying Swing > Dizzying Swing > Executioner > Executioner = (almost) dead. This happens all within 5 seconds. If you don’t get away, you’re going to die.

Use immovable potions to counter knockbacks and the like. Movement in this game is king, and that's what makes the servers' performance so important. A split second of lag can kill.

orion_1981usub17_ESO wrote: »

Do not back up, which feels natural but is stupid. If your backpedalling, you lose as it makes you even easier to target. Step forward thru them, continue to do this as they try to line up the swing. It takes practice but dswing needs a target at your cursor, remove yourself from their screen. Also, dont fight melee against heavy melee unless you are also heavy melee. Also also, use voice coms and ask your friends to stun them or heal you.

This^
you need to side step them or walk though them dizzy swing is a channel that only works in front of you in a 5m cone. If you step outside of that cone the cast will interupt and they enemy has to channel again.

Before they reduced the cast time of dizzy swing + snares were more potent it was actually pretty hard to hit consistent dizzy swings.
Now dizzy swing has a timeable off global cooldown stun and a potent snare + the shorter cast time. Its definetly too strong compared to class spammables.

It's meta for a reason. So that's what you see in PvP 90% of the time, stam dizzy executioner spammers. Everyone uses it so no one wants a nerf to it.

Meanwhile mag is stuck with passives that only work with staff skills...

Pvp takes a very long time to even grasp what is going on. Blocking doesn't help much as you lose more stam than they do, and that doesn't even stop their attack or anything.
Either stun them or teleport away, depending on class. Tbh fights mostly go to whoever strikes first if both are good.

D Swing has many counters. Move out of range, Dodgerole, move to close to your enemy, move through your enemy, or just play if it lags then D Swing gets stuck anyway. I still wish for a reliable Stamina Spamable on my Stamsorc, the only reason I still use it, is that there is no alternative.

The answer to your question depends entirely on your class and build. A medium armor 2h/bow stamblade will have a very different defensive strategy against dizzy than say a destro/snb mag necro. So what class are you playing, what weapons and sets are you using, and what traits do you use?

One very general tip against dizzy is to keep track of your off balance debuff to prevent getting stunned in a bad situation.

Magdk

Speed? nope
Roll dodge? lol
Block? lmao

Even with SnB you will not able to burst high WD && self heal stam character

Distance.

It's an over-performing skill. Just imagine how bad it was when it had a knock back with every hit, but doing the chunk of damage it does combined with off balance is still strong. And it's also a very conditionally powerful skill based on how good your png is vs your opponent. It's easier to land and dodge when you have better latency vs your opponent (a lot skills can be like this a bit, but due to the cast time, melee range this one is probably the biggest of the bunch). But there is a reason why most run it over any class spammable or weapon spammable. Sure, some class spammables suck, but almost all suck in comparison to dizzy. Honestly they should probably just double the cost of the skill.

But unless you are a tank build, you really cannot afford to block a spam of dizzy, just occasional swings if someone isn't spamming. But yes, block will work from any direction. If you have a good png vs them, stepping through them as they charge up the attack can be a good defense, but if png is bad, then they may not be where you think they are because of latency. Dodge rolling to add distance and moving away, hopefully you can range attack them. But don't waste so much stam blocking or rolling to where you cannot break free if you get knocked down, that's what they count on, chunking you down in a stun to swap to executioner. But unless you have an overwhelming surge of attack damage to pressure them with or are a NB using cloak, keeping them at a distance is the best way to deal with them. Most of the solutions are temporary (block, dodge, immove pots, etc.) because they will spam it non stop on you until it works if you don't have anything to pressure them back with.

Another thing why DS is so powerful: Executioner. Is it just me or is that skill super, super fast? It’s a lot faster than other executes in the game, at least from my experience. It activates instantly (?). Compared to that Impale from Nightblades or any other executes just feel super slow.

What’s the cast time on d-swing, .08 seconds? That can very difficult to react to if you don’t know when it’s coming. But you do know there’s most likely a second one coming to block or dodge. If there’s a lot of flashy action going on around me tho it can make it hard to see too, seems to cause some information overload in my brain and I have a hard time following what’s happening.

However, with this latest patch, I’ve noticed a possible delay on blocking attacks. Maybe I’m just slow lol but I always seem to be a half second behind in blocking.

Id say right counters are the following:
-Time (you cant expect to be able to counter everything on day 1 when you encounter it)
-Common sense (not being super stubborn to continue with bad habits that make dizzy spam good way to deal with you)
-Range (dizzy does not have 28 meters of range (anymore))
-Mobility (dizzy makes attacker more or less root himself for the duration of channel needed to perform this attack, so just move ffs lmoa af)

Usually, good players just mover trough you, while you try to land a dizzy. Some counter this by moving backwards while they try to spam dizzy, knowing players will attemt to move trough them. It rarely works, but still its similar thing as with trying to land DBoS - just move back a bit while u use this attack.

Dizzy can be blocked, dodged, interrupted if u fast enough since its channeled ability

Sleep724 wrote: »

What’s the cast time on d-swing, .08 seconds? That can very difficult to react to if you don’t know when it’s coming. But you do know there’s most likely a second one coming to block or dodge. If there’s a lot of flashy action going on around me tho it can make it hard to see too, seems to cause some information overload in my brain and I have a hard time following what’s happening.

However, with this latest patch, I’ve noticed a possible delay on blocking attacks. Maybe I’m just slow lol but I always seem to be a half second behind in blocking.

this is an issue i guess i need to pay more attention to. once i get "dizzied", I don't always know. If i knew as soon as I was dizzy, I would do an instant purge and prevent the next one from knocking me over. The graphic animation that tells me I'm dizzy is very subtle sometimes and hard to notice.