Pacification

[Spoekes]

Any advice on how to tell if a certain enemy skill is not affected by pacify?

While doing daily hunts on PLD I noticed there are some monsters that have skills with castbar that still go off even if they are pacified.
I always thought if they can be pacified, they can only use auto attacks. Is this not the case?

Edit: I know its a weapon skill block. But if you fight something that is not a human, what is a weaponskill? Breathes with poison i.e. seem to sometimes be interrupted, sometimes not.

[Alahra]

Any advice on how to tell if a certain enemy skill is not affected by pacify?

While doing daily hunts on PLD I noticed there are some monsters that have skills with castbar that still go off even if they are pacified.
I always thought if they can be pacified, they can only use auto attacks. Is this not the case?

Pacify doesn't work on magical monster attacks so some of those are probably getting through because they're magical.

[Brannigan]

Random.

Pacify prevents stuff like (hard mode) Ifrit's Radiant Plumes, Eruptions, and Incinerate (fire breath).
It lands on goblin snipers in A2S but I don't know if it actually prevents anything.
It also works on the big scorpion guys (Sastasha hard first boss, A3 Normal) but doesn't actually prevent any attacks from going through.

So basically it's random. Magic isn't an indicator (thanks Ifrit), cast bar or lack of one isn't. It's just random. Whatever the devs flag as a weapon skill. It generally works on instant attacks though (those ones that basically just hit for like auto attack damage times 2), except when it doesn't like in the case of the scorpion guys.

[Phoenicia]

Pacification doesn't "interrupt" cast bars. The cast bar will go through and finish anyways, if the pacification buff is still up when the bar is done, the skill won't happen. Maybe that's what you're experiencing.

Magical attacks are the regular spells that THM and ACN have. Almost everything else is a weaponskill. You have to time it so the pacification debuff is up at the end of the cast bar so the weaponskill doesn't happen. Otherwise you're better off stunning/dodging.

[SeraviEdalborez]

Ifrit readies Eruption.
^ This is a weaponskill.

The gorgimera begins casting The Ram's Voice.
^ This is a spell.