I have 50 war already, now leveling PLD. I like pld more, but one thing make me mad, why paladin's Stun ability have GCD and warrior's not ? It's almost impossible to interrupt anything.
I have 50 war already, now leveling PLD. I like pld more, but one thing make me mad, why paladin's Stun ability have GCD and warrior's not ? It's almost impossible to interrupt anything.
I agree 100%.
Other people claim Paladins can "chain stun" but we can't do it while tanking. At end game, in order to use Shield Bash before the enemy cast time finishes, we have to be auto-attacking; we cant be using any other abilities. Period. The GCD is longer than the cast bars, so if you used any ability right before the enemy starts casting you will never get the stun off in time.
And there is no way to tank using auto-attack; it's impossible to maintain threat if you're not using Flash or Halone combo.
This is a general problem with the encounter design. Paladin's offensive skills need to be rethought to have their effects trigger instantly. In Coil I have to use Spirits Within BEFORE the orbs start casting the spell I want to interrupt, or I can never interrupt because although Spirits Within is off the GCD the silence doesnt proc until the end of the animation -- which is longer than the cast time the orbs need to use their shock. The only way to time it correctly is to cast the interrupt before the enemy even starts casting.
The way the interrupts work currently, this is not something the average player is going to be able to do. Especially if they happen to lag a little.
Last edited by therpgfanatic; 03-07-2014 at 05:28 AM.
No you don't. I silence all High Voltage while tanking just fine without using it before the casting. You might want to check your Internet. And surely as the previous poster shows, you can chain stun while tanking because you should have an enormous lead in enmity thanks to the boost to tanking stances in 2.1. Sometimes on PLD, I just keep casting Stoneskin on myself or on WAR, I just keep alternating SE and SP instead of BB when I know I won't lose hate.
Sadly, fights in this game are so scripted you can easily time boss rotations to within a gcd. Once you know this, you can be ready to stun and still keep on tanking.
And at least you are finally admitting RoH combo is better enmity generation than RoH spamming. Baby step improvements.
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