Strange Invincibility Gained by Monsters

I apologize if I'm missing a hidden mechanic or special PvE monster ability, but I've been running into a strange problem while going thru GW:EN. Somewhat frequently I will be battling a mob (with my warrior), and the monster I am attacking will suddenly start taking 0 damage. I run a Conjure and many +damage attack skills with Dragon Slash, and all I see are yellow 0's. I do not see them activate any new monster skill, which is rather confusing. They do not use stoneflesh aura, I do not see shield of absorption, and I realize there is a new monster skill for plant monsters for like hibernation or something that reduces all damage.

The species that this has happened to that I can remember off the bat are Sheik in the Finding the Bloodstone dungeon and Destroyers, though I know it's happened with other monsters. This has happened to enemy assassins, warriors, necromancers, etc. etc., and Destroyer mobs don't even have monks (the ones I've run into anyway). I usually am forced to switch targets to a "vulnerable" monster, abandoning the current one (who often is sitting in a Savanna Heat or something...), and somehow, perhaps through hero/henchman damage, they will die.

Please close this thread if this has been discussed or there is a reasonable explanation, but if not, has anybody else encountered this problem?

Although I have not encountered this problem myself, earlier a guildy of mine said this same thing in guild chat. He asked if anyone's heard of "a new bug" where monsters randomly stop taking damage because it kept happening to him while he was playing.

This sometimes happens to me on a warrior, No real explanation.

Yep, happens to me too, only thing that kills them is Degen after that I think.

You do know that there are foes with 2 porfessions now?

I recently discovered that (^.^) while fighting some charrs. A Charr Flame'something' was casting Meteor Shower , my heros spammed some SF, which causes burning, and immediately after i have interrupted his shower he used Extinguish, which is a monk skill..

That leads me to the conclusion that you have probably faced some non-monk foes with some monk skills on their bar. For example Mark of Protection.

Watch out for the Mantis in Dalada, they sometimes resurrect themselves despite being all killed. And before you say it's probably the Rit skill "Restoration" or the Paragon skills "We shall return"/ "Signet of Return"....I watched their skill bars and they never used those.

the only monsters with sec proffessions are the charr, all the others are what they are.

Yea I noticed that too with the sheik with the bloodstone cave quest.

He'd be all alone and it'd be a necro and suddenly he starts taking 0 damage when nothing activated.
Then after about 5-8 seconds he'd take damage again

Thanks guys! I'm glad I'm not crazy...I'd love for Anet to address this, it's kind of more than a minor nuisance when Melee Destroyers rip through your backline...

well i know that the root monster in Excavation use a pve skills wich reduces the damage by 40

I noticed this too today, during the Bloodstone mission - it has bever happend to me before, but today without any reason I would start doing 0 damage to a monster, even though if I changed my target to another monster of the same type I damaged it normally, but when I went back to my original target I still did 0 damage. And it happend to all kinds of enemies, so I doubt it's a skill since skills are usually tied to race/profession.

I got this too, mostly at Asura territory. I'm a bit into Norn now, and so far it hasn't happened.

P.S. It was with my warrior too..

same problem..but i've seen many different monster types do it, even destroyers. In particular, the spiders in asura territory do it quite a bit, even after the lifeweavers are dead (so it's not always shield of absorption).

and the self-rezzing mantids has got to be a glitch..their monster skill doesn't say anything about rezzing, so i don't think it's that.

Same thing happened on my warrior. I didn't notice any skill being used, just started hitting for 0 damage. A guildy also mentioned the Char Effigy's being invincible for him as well.

as for those in asura territory, one of main quests results in you teaming uo with gadd.

and gadd is fond of using iron mist, making all damage but that of lightning do 0 dmg

Shield of Absorption anyone? That thing is annoying...when they use it >_<#

Quote: Originally Posted by Hollow Gein

There are several skills in the game that can reduce damage to zero (e.g., Stoneflesh Aura, Shielding Hands, Shield of Absorption, Iron Mist, etc.). Make sure you aren't dealing with one of those before considering bugs.

I've seen some weird things happen as well (sudden resurrects, taking no damage, etc). Not sure if it's a bug, or some PvE skill, or just their skillbars, but it does get annoying pounding on a single enemy with a sliver of life left for 20 seconds.

They reduce damage, but I've held the button over the monster and sat there doing nothing to see what was coming off and while it can be hrad to read I didn't seem to spot anything.

THOUGH I have a thought, I had the earth mage with me when I hit a ton of invincible monsters, my thought...what if he's using that spell that reduces speed by 80% but they are imune to everything but air spells?