I was doing my due diligence looking at old posts and I’m curious – Is the PvE stagger working as intended on bosses in dungeons or the legendary bosses scattered around the map?
Reason I’m asking is because I came across a thread saying that the Arena Champion could no longer be staggered. This was several years old but I can’t find any recent information on this subject.
The last time we did Warmaker we could stagger lock every single mob and boss in the dungeon and generally had zero challenge clearing it. I don’t know if this is due to balancing of HP on bosses or just damage output at level 60 with dragonbone weapons or something else. I was really looking forward to having to dodge the Havel the Rock boss a few times, but he never swung at us once.
I’m trying to figure out if this is working as intended or a bug.
Right after this comment another user mentions that its the weapon needed that changed, so i would assume that you would be able to stagger with anything some time ago, and now they made so only heavy weapons manage to do so. Still trying to look for the specific patch where this is added, though
The only thing I’ve been able to discover from reading that thread and a few other things on Reddit is it was supposed to be a stagger added to heavier weapons. I assume these to be the two handed weapons.
It was only two players and two thralls in Warmaker. I had an 1h axe/shield, thrall had 1h mace/shield, partner had 2h spear and her thrall had 2h great sword. I’m going to guess it’s probably the spear from what I’ve been reading how it’s light attack is the stun-lock king.
If this is working as intended it’s a bit sad that dungeon bosses and other legendary mobs will just succumb to a simple and repeated poking. I get that the Devs may intend for them to get stunned every once in awhile, but I don’t think the Devs intended for us to just lock them in a corner either.
I’m not sure about that patch. We only started playing recently. I’m going to do some more tests later to see if this is related to specifically the thralls dealing so much more damage that they’re triggering the stagger thresholds or if it’s just the spear or two handed great sword.
So far from our testing with our weapon setup (2 one handed maces, 2h spear, and 2h great sword) – We’ve been able to stagger-lock the following: Demon Spider, Giant Croc, King Scorpion, White Tiger, some dragons (all small ones, red, green, undead), Daughter of Ymir, Scorpion Queen (dungeon), and pretty much everything in all the dungeons.
Notable exceptions that we couldn’t stagger: Wights & Sons/Daughters of Dagon.