Damage should break mez

[Lewoco]

I'm going to assume that damage is meant to break mez and indeed for NPC's it does. Unfortunately for players - at least under some circumstances - it doesn't.

For example, the following steps illustrate the problem (may take a few attempts if you have good resists):

* Cast a DoT on yourself.

* Cast a mez on yourself.

If the spells stick, your movement controls will stop responding and you will receive the message, 'You lose control of yourself!'

The DoT will then 'tick' doing you some damage. This will wipe the debuff icon and generate the message, 'You are no longer stunned.' However your controls will still remain locked out!

Once the max duration of the (already faded) mez has expired, your movement controls will once again start to function and you will receive the message, 'You have control of yourself again.'

Now I could be wrong, but I would have thought that the controls should be re-enabled and the 'You have control of yourself again.' message should appear at the same time that the mez is broken and the stun/debuff icon disappear, rather than after the maximum duration of the mez.

Could we get a fix implemented for this?

 

[Nwaij]

AFAIk mez on players was changed to not breaking from dots a while ago cause people started to dot themselfs with a baby dot when fighting mezzing mobs.

 

[Wiz]

Yeah, a player's own DOTs will not break mez on himself to prevent DOTs being used as an anti-mez shield.

 

[Mythryn]

Also, it seems like dots have to overcome your natural regen in order to break a mez. IE Rust/Tomb Rot don't break mez.

 

[Kirin Folken]

The Lady Something Named dragon outside DHK the one that charms has mez issues (think its the black one)

She can mez you and then procced to beat the crap out of you without breaking mez. Rather frustrating to say the least....

I know I have come across a few other mobs in game as well that can mez PCs and not break the Mez killing them. (have ot see if I can find some of them again, but I know the Dragon for sure does. Just tryed to kill her a few days ago and everyone was experienceing this problem. Of coures if its intended.... not much more to be said other then Ouch)

 

[lotox]

The Lady Something Named dragon outside DHK the one that charms has mez issues (think its the black one)

She can mez you and then procced to beat the crap out of you without breaking mez. Rather frustrating to say the least....

I know I have come across a few other mobs in game as well that can mez PCs and not break the Mez killing them. (have ot see if I can find some of them again, but I know the Dragon for sure does. Just tryed to kill her a few days ago and everyone was experienceing this problem. Of coures if its intended.... not much more to be said other then Ouch)

I think you have this direly confused with fear, which those dragons do.
If you were being mezzed they would swap targets to someone else, that being said i thought these guys charmed or mezzed as well.

 

[Trust And Fall]

I brought this up a few posts ago...

charm/fear/mez is broken on some mobs... The icon fades away but your controls are still locked. This has happened to me in MielechC and DN.

 

[Kirin Folken]

I think you have this direly confused with fear, which those dragons do.
If you were being mezzed they would swap targets to someone else, that being said i thought these guys charmed or mezzed as well.

Fear and Mez use 2 different Icons, it was most certainly mez (confirmed by Icon and by text that displayed). After a half dozen attempts at bring her down the same issue kept coming up each time.

 

[Wiz]

Fear and Mez use 2 different Icons, it was most certainly mez (confirmed by Icon and by text that displayed). After a half dozen attempts at bring her down the same issue kept coming up each time.

This will only happen if you are DOTing yourself, stop DOTing yourself.

 

[Kirin Folken]

This will only happen if you are DOTing yourself, stop DOTing yourself.

That would only be true if I was Doting myself... Stop asumeing I was cheating.

A GM is welcome to come watch next time to see whats going on.


Edit: Question... would a player under the effects of charm doting another player cause this issue?

 

[Worelan]

Edit: Question... would a player under the effects of charm doting another player cause this issue?

It was me that was charmed, and I don't think NPC's can use your clickies (my mask)

 

[Kirin Folken]

Didn't Zorcid get charmed at one point?

Was just a thought, I honestly have no clue what happened. Wiz says it doesn't work that way, yet we all saw it work that way *shrug* No one was doting themselves so thats out of the picture.

My only other thought is prehaps Fear was landing but the client wasn't reporting it. However the Mez was still on the bar which ment even being nailed by fear that the dragon shouldn't have attacked until mez was gone.