BY FAR the most annoying bug.

[MooseKnucklin]

Why is it, that i can open with a stun, but i can be stunned for 16 minutes before my stun goes off? The combat doesn't need to start until my attack ACTUALLY HITS THE MOB. This is by far the most annoying thing i have ever seen in an MMO. Makes a stun basically useless on mobs.

[renegadeimp]

Stun puts you in combat. There are other skills that can take out a mob or player and wont put you in combat.

[Aeoneas]

Why is it, that i can open with a stun, but i can be stunned for 16 minutes before my stun goes off? The combat doesn't need to start until my attack ACTUALLY HITS THE MOB. This is by far the most annoying thing i have ever seen in an MMO. Makes a stun basically useless on mobs.

 

 

Wait...16 minutes?

[MooseKnucklin]

Stun puts you in combat. There are other skills that can take out a mob or player and wont put you in combat.

 

You don't understand what i mean. Let me repeat myself.

 

When i OPEN COMBAT on a mob with a stun, they should not have time to hit me with a stun before my stun hits them. MEANING combat should not start until my stun actually hits. Should i dumb it down more, or do you understand now?

[Drudenfusz]

You consider that the most annoying thing in the game? I have experienced it too, but it is nothing compared to that I have to doff my orange gear and don it again everytime I enter or leave a warzone because the game simple does not add the stats to my character after that. Or that I get bugged out of the Alderaan warzone because the speeder does not appear or won't let me click it (yes, I love PvP, but that is quite frustrating).

[amnie]

that has never happened to me

[cannadriod]

i got bugged in a choke hold, /stuck didnt work also you cant use quick travel when stunned so i was kinda screwed. tried reloading ui, relogging nothin worked. i was pulling my hair out with this 1. some time later i logged into another server then came back and that fixed it. lucky i had toons on another relm otherwise i would have never figured this 1 out. Edited February 4, 2012 by cannadriod

[Drakinor]

Why is it, that i can open with a stun, but i can be stunned for 16 minutes before my stun goes off? The combat doesn't need to start until my attack ACTUALLY HITS THE MOB. This is by far the most annoying thing i have ever seen in an MMO. Makes a stun basically useless on mobs.

 

Typically speaking, gross exageration and misunderstanding of fairly basic game mechanics will get you flammed. Look at it this way, when you stun something, you are now acting IN A COMBATIVE WAY against it, therefore in combat. And questions? And how is stun useless on mobs? I use it all the time quite effectively on multiple classes.....

[Kabjat]

You don't understand what i mean. Let me repeat myself.

 

When i OPEN COMBAT on a mob with a stun, they should not have time to hit me with a stun before my stun hits them. MEANING combat should not start until my stun actually hits. Should i dumb it down more, or do you understand now?

 

The thing that I find BY FAR the most annoying are people on the forums and in game that talk down to others and insult them, completely unprovoked and for no reason whatsoever...much like in the above quote. I realize much of the time the person is taking out their anger at getting bested in pvp on others, but it is still one of my pet peeves.

 

My best guess is whoever stunned you probably hit their own stun, seeing you coming. Or the game is probably broken.

Edited February 4, 2012 by Kabjat

[GnatB]

Typically speaking, gross exageration and misunderstanding of fairly basic game mechanics will get you flammed. Look at it this way, when you stun something, you are now acting IN A COMBATIVE WAY against it, therefore in combat. And questions? And how is stun useless on mobs? I use it all the time quite effectively on multiple classes.....

 

So, basically, the mobs you're fighting have incredibly fast reflexes, and their stuns have a frame advantage over your stuns, so thier counterstun manages to land first.

 

Or it's just a bug/bad design.

 

I have to agree with the OP (though I've rarely experienced this) my money would be on the latter. Unless there's some cast time involved, and you can't do the cast time portion in stealth.

[silkforcalde]

There's no reason to open with stun.

[TotalKitty]

It's not a bug.

 

For instance, should I on my assassin, open the combat by mauling - I get cast out of stealth, and the enemy turn around and gets a hit off, before the maul hit lands. I assume if it's an enemy with a stun ability, that ability will be the first the enemy uses and that's what you're experincing.

 

Bug? No. It's a a piss-poor mechanic. The game was simply designed like that.

[Anelitt]

I think its the same thing i experienced with my pet.

 

Standing 30 meters away from a mob group, i press the pet attack button.

 

Khem'val starts running towards them, i shield Khem'val while he is still 28 meters away from the group and BAM i have instant aggro from all of them even though neither me or my pet are anywhere near them yet ö_0.

 

So monsters seem to get into combat just by the fact i used an ability in which they are involved, such as sending pet towards them, even though there has not actually been any contact.

 

 

Same thing could be happening to you: You cast ur stun on a mob, the millisecond you pressed the button for that stun and the client registered it the mobs aggroed you and stunned you, even though the animation of you stun has just been running for say 0,2 sec but the stun itself actually is not yet applied.

 

Its another case of animation taking priority over actual effect of the ability.