Ice Greavers
ven, 03/18/2011 - 13:35
These guys scare me more than any other enemy. If they freeze me, I have to wait to get hit to run away, except their attack creates a cloud of frost that freezes me again once I become unfrozen. Meanwhile he's right up in my face constantly swooping. I have the choice to keep my shield up and hope the attack breaks the ice and I don't get refrozen, or to keep pushing the attack button and take more damage in the meantime (if the greaver is facing my back I'm screwed. Well, I'm screwed either way). Too much?
ven, 03/18/2011 - 13:39
#2
Shield bump them as they are
Shield bump them as they are about to attack. Its basically the only way to deal with them if they catch you with their freeze. Also works to prevent getting frozen in the first place. They attack in about 1.5-2 seconds after they swoop. Just time it right and you'll be fine!
ven, 03/18/2011 - 15:05
#3
Ice greavers are scary,
Ice greavers are scary, especially when they attack in groups: 1-2 mob attacks is enough to shatter my (5* volcanic plate) shield.
As mentioned, the same attack that frees you also drops a cloud that immediately re-inflicts the freeze status. Might I propose a cool-down period of 5 seconds between the status effect wearing off, and the next time it can be inflicted again? This would also help with the shock condition, where just being immobilized/shieldless guarantees that monsters hit... and re-shock... you in a perpetual loop of guaranteed death.
For added fun: shields revive on a timer, and just paying to be revived does not make the shield recover faster. I've sometimes found myself reviving with a broken shield- is this bug still active? It's very annoying, and creates an incentive to sit there dead a while instead of playing.
Stun Greavers can prove to be even worse than this, by creating a haze that causes stun and cannot even be blocked or avoided like the freeze one - If you're stunned, you're done. Can't run away with the low movement speed, hard to time hits because your attack speed decreases so much, even difficult to shield or repel.
Greavers shouldn't really create this haze, or at least it shouldn't cause the status every freaking time. Fighting four greavers, coming from all directions and creating hazes everywhere isn't very nice.