Template:Crowd control

Crowd control (CC/mezzing) abilities include root, snare, stun, sleep and slow.

• All archetypes will have their own versions of CC breaks.

• CC effects do not apply to Non-combatant (green) players. The target of a CC ability must be flagged in order to suffer the CC effects. This prevents players from opening attacks that stun non-combatant players during a pull for example.

• Melee archetypes will offer various mobility and CC counters against ranged archetypes, such as the Ranger.

• Some crowd-control abilities can dismount a mounted player. In that case the mount would persist with its own health pool and other stats.
  • In current Alpha-1 testing mounts are not separate from the player.

There's also going to be effects that just stun the mount or stun you on the mount. – Steven Sharif

• Summoner's summons will be able to use crowd control.

Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.

• There will be diminishing returns on stuns, sleep and slows so as to avoid stun locking.
  • Diminishing returns on CC effects have not yet been implemented in Alpha-1 testing.

Diminishing returns in regards to crowd control and conditions like stun and sleep and slows and that thing: Yes we will have absolutely diminishing returns. I think it's a necessary component to balance out classes that have high control ability. – Steven Sharif

• Hard CC's are stuns, knock downs, sleeps, paralysis, some roots, some silences.
  • Hard CCs may be housed in action oriented skills because they are skill shots that are more difficult to land.

• Lockdowns won't likely be tab-targeted skills. This is to avoid imbalanced combos with skill shot (action targeted) abilities.

We're trying to stay away from hard locks as much as we possibly can. We want to have the system be very play, counter-play, counter-counter-play feel. – Jeffrey Bard

• Soft CC's are in the tab-targeted abilities.

Skill	Icon	Primary	Description
Air Strike		Ranger	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Ancestral Bolas		Tank	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Chain Lightning		Mage	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Chains of Restraint		Cleric	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Condemn		Cleric	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Crippling Blow		Fighter	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Fissure		Mage	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Grapple		Tank	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Imbue Ammo: Weighted		Ranger	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Knock Out		Fighter	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Leap Strike		Fighter	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Quake		Mage	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Slam		Tank	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Slumber		Mage	Template:formatskillorupgrade
Tremoring Bellow		Tank	Template:formatskillorupgrade