VicariousExp
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Quote:Dear Dispari:Originally Posted by Dispari
* Holds are the most potent. They flat out stop someone from attacking or moving period. They're short duration.
* Stuns are fairly good. They don't stop someone from moving, but they do stop them from attacking. They're slightly longer in duration most of the time.
* Sleep, confuse, and fear are softer controls. They can be weakened or even broken when enemies are attacked. These mezzes tend to have very long durations to compensate.
Confuse is not a soft control. It is 100% reliable. When something is confused, it will not damage you; except through locationals like caltrops that were already set out PRIOR to confusion, and frankly no other hard controls will do that either. It has stopped being a threat and it will no longer be a threat until a point at which confuse has worn off.
If there are no enemy targets for a confused monster to attack, it will not attack any friendly targets. It will sit there and let you kill it. It will not break any faster whether you're beating on it or not, the duration is identical. In addition, confuse will also remove the threat of any active pets the target might have, making it even stronger than holds (especially since most true Confuses have a LONGER base duration).
The distinction between soft and hard control is not always a useful one. Black Hole and Dimension Shift are hard controls. They are reliable, they completely remove threats and they do not break early. This does not necessarily mean you may find them pleasant. -
Quote:But if you use that logic, you'd also have to call "Power of the Phoenix" "Aggro everything on the map and go afk" because in order to put good use to it, you have to kill somebody first.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
In order to put good use to Follow Up, you have to quickly follow it up with something?
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Well, if you really have to have Tourette's about it, we could call it "Pump Up", it would be equally scatological and the FCC wouldn't have to come and burn down your house. >_>
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When it's much more of a Set Up? If you use Aim to Aim, you're Aiming, if you use Build up to build Up, you're building up, but if you use Follow up as a Follow up, you're stupid.