Interrupt/Silence?

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

can we please have it so that interrupt actions will work on attacks/spells that we were previously able to Silence? thank you! ^_^

[Seraph522]

As far as I'm aware, that's already the case? If you could Silence an attack previously, it's now covered with Interrupt; the main difference is that the cast bar more clearly shows that it is interruptable.

[Fynlar]

This is already the case, yeah. The reason for the change was that silence was able to work on some things that explicitly were not spells, and this renaming was the game's way of attempting to make that clearer.

[JohnnyDevo]

I think the confusion might be in that silence was previously a status that would prevent "silence-able" casts. But now, interrupt is an action that will immediately interrupt any interruptable cast that is in progress.

Unlike before, you cannot pre-silence to prevent casts, and interrupting things that were classically silencable, like the quick casts on sprites or older caster mobs, are much much harder to get the timing correctly on.

The system was translated, but not in a way that maintains the same gameplay feel of the early early levels.

Not that I think that's really a problem. I like the interrupt system, personally. And silences were never really consequential in those situations.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

are you sure? i couldn't interrupt the one attack that that dhrome chimera thing does in that one Relic trial at lv50. i forget the name, but it is a big attack you would normally silence. i also couldn't interrupt the Mind Blast attack by Psycheflayer in Amdapor Keep. there are also others i noticed that used to be susceptible to silence, but can't be interrupted. odd :/

[Fynlar]

are you sure? i couldn't interrupt the one attack that that dhrome chimera thing does in that one Relic trial at lv50. i forget the name, but it is a big attack you would normally silence.

I distinctly remember being able to, because I remember BRDs waaaaay back in the day coordinating their Blunt Arrow uses to prevent it from using its voices.

Just tested against Dhorme Chimera on 80 PLD, was able to interject Ram's Voice. Are you sure you weren't confusing The Ram's Voice with something like The Ram's Keeper?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

are you sure? i couldn't interrupt the one attack that that dhrome chimera thing does in that one Relic trial at lv50. i forget the name, but it is a big attack you would normally silence. i also couldn't interrupt the Mind Blast attack by Psycheflayer in Amdapor Keep. there are also others i noticed that used to be susceptible to silence, but can't be interrupted. odd :/

You were probably too slow. I have interrupted Ram's voice on the Dhorme Chimera since the changes, as well as dragons voice.

Rams is a faster cast.

[Fynlar]

Dhorme Chimera also has ice/lightning buffs that will both empower and quicken the corresponding voice if he happens to use them.

[Bacent]

Don't forget you can stun him too.

[Naryoril]

the main difference is that the cast bar more clearly shows that it is interruptable.

Ahhhhhh, so THAT'S what it means when a cast bar is red flashing/pulsing.