The 15% of max hp spell interruption change discussion

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I'm not including Spirits Within or Holmgang because they are not stuns. When refering to stun-locking, it is the act of actually "stunning" your target into submission. I cannot express this enough.

That's fair enough. I'm guilty of using inaccurate wording. My mistake.

Regardless, even thought the target is not actually "stunned," it is still being locked down. We're not just talking about stuns here. We're talking about interruptions to casts (the topic of the thread). Holmgang did, at one point, excel at this. The drag of the bind causes an interrupt, locks a target from moving (thereby destroying their positioning and possible lines of sight), and allows for the War (and anyone else nearby) to wail away on the caster. With two prepped Fell Cleaves, that's a solid 10 seconds in which the healer wasn't healing anything (including their actual 2 stuns), same as Pld. Before the Tank dmg nerf, a Healer was flat out unlikely to even survive a full War Holmgang Burst Combo. Now that tank dmg was reduced, they can survive, but they still weren't going anywhere or casting anything. That left your dps team plenty of time to do whatever the hell they wanted without worrying about the healer getting in the way.

The question now is if the change to the interruption threshold is going to negatively effect the likelihood of Warrior interruptions. With Pld's, it's not even a question. A Pld is lucky to get a 3k strike with Royal Authority, even if it's a crit. Outside of Spirits Within and Shield Bash, they aren't interrupting anything. War's on the other hand, have more muscle. I saw one do a 3k non-crit Fell Cleave in a Feast match just the other night (which had our healer crying bullsh*t). That's plenty of healer harassment potential, right there. Throw a Ninja into the mix and the healer isn't going to be doing much of anything during the match except running for their lives.