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Jam Jar · Mar 03, 2008, 07:41 AM // 07:41

I've been trying out my luck with a ranger interrupter, and it's pretty okay since I'm not that great at interrupting yet. But I was wondering if there's any use for a R/Me in an interrupting build if you go Illusion Magic and take cast time slow down skills like Arcane Conundrum or others to help interrupt and to annoy?

And also, what do you do if there's a healer that's pretty decent.

MasterSasori · Mar 03, 2008, 07:53 AM // 07:53

Practice makes perfect. Don't worry if you're not great at interrupting when you first start, just practice. Besides, you'd want to fill your bar with more useful skills than Arcane Conundrum.

About interrupting healers: they often heal in a certain pattern. Instead of relying on reaction time, predict what will come next.

Cebe · Mar 03, 2008, 08:31 AM // 08:31

[skill]Broad Head Arrow[/skill][skill]Epidemic[/skill][skill]Distracting Shot[/skill]

Do Not load your skillbar up with loads of Mesmer spells.

Broad Head Arrow is a fantastic Ranger Elite since Daze is pretty much total caster shutdown, and with Daze, you don't need to use an interrupt to interrupt a caster...you simply need to hit them when Dazed, which will automatically interrupt any spell they try to cast.

Jam Jar · Mar 03, 2008, 09:00 AM // 09:00

@ Celestial Beaver, even Monks O_O

Cebe · Mar 03, 2008, 11:51 AM // 11:51

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Originally Posted by Jam Jar

@ Celestial Beaver, even Monks O_O

If an enemy monk gets lucky they may be able to remove the Daze condition, or manage to cast a quick skill like Reversal of Fortune or Protective Spirit. Well you can get around condition removal by covering the Daze with something...this is often done with something like [wiki]Apply Poison[/wiki].

If you really want to use Arcane Conundrum, get a Caster hero - and put it on them. You can easily spec 10 Illusion and create a N/Me curses bar such as Spiteful Spirit, Enfeebling Blood, Insidious Parasite, Rip Enchantment, Arcane Conundrum, Shrinking Armor..., or you can take a full-on Mesmer hero, Mind Blast Ele hero with a couple of utility Illusion skills tagged onto the end of the bar... etc.. etc..

I find Broad Head Arrow + Epidemic, and a hero with Maelstrom is fun...for really tricky Monks it does a good job of shutting them down (use of snare advised).

Amy Awien · Mar 03, 2008, 12:05 PM // 12:05

Why maelstrom if any other AoE over-time will do with Daze?

BHA is neat but doesn't teach the more common ways of interrupting with d-shot and it's siblings, for which the Frustation/Arcane Conundrum combo offers a method to ease the learning curve.

Skyros · Mar 03, 2008, 02:01 PM // 14:01

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Originally Posted by Amy Awien

Why maelstrom if any other AoE over-time will do with Daze?

BHA is neat but doesn't teach the more common ways of interrupting with d-shot and it's siblings, for which the Frustation/Arcane Conundrum combo offers a method to ease the learning curve.

Frustration/cry also doesnt teach people how to use savage/d-shot. The best way to learn is to just use them... practice practice practice.

Frustration/Cry is basically a handicap and if you get used to all the spells casting 100% slower then you will only be hurting yourself if you want to be good at interrupting.

samcobra · Mar 03, 2008, 02:11 PM // 14:11

Go to the Isle of Nameless and 1 v 1 the healer and enchantment masters. Don't out damage them, just interrupt their key skills and shut them down. That's the best way to learn how to interrupt IMO.

Amy Awien · Mar 03, 2008, 06:22 PM // 18:22

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Originally Posted by Skyros

Frustration/cry also doesnt teach people how to use savage/d-shot. The best way to learn is to just use them... practice practice practice.

It's not that straightforward, slowing down casting doesn't just make it easier to interrupt any spell, it presents more opportunities to use interrupt skills, since more spells become interruptible with them, and this means more learning events and thus faster learning. It also - and more importantly - gives more time to recognize spells, icons and animations, and choose/learn which ones to go after.

Sir Pandra Pierva · Mar 03, 2008, 08:22 PM // 20:22

if you wanna learn how to interupt grab a PD mes and have fun with that<_<>_>

Skyros · Mar 03, 2008, 09:51 PM // 21:51

no... to slow it down is just handicapping yourself.. you just gotta practice and observe which keys skills to interrupt... its fairly obvious

Aegis, DAs, hard reses, high damage attacks like SH or MS in pve...

a ranger should be doing all this by looking at the castin patterns and such... not casting Frustration and and reading each skill as they slowly cast and see whether or not he/she should interrupt it.

its just gonna increase the steepness of the learning curve when you stop taking frustration and you realize that you cant interrupt for diddly...

another thing... i dunno why you suggest frustration over BHA + Epidemic for a ranger... you have to spec a decent amt of atts to make frustration last long enough to do any real good.