No, it's not 'overpowered to some player'. He's not kidding, it's instant death. When you receive shock ticks (and thus get paralyzed - cannot move, cannot attack, cannot block), the immunity you get after taking damage (~1.5 secs of invincibility after taking any damage) is removed, and you can get hit instantly after the tick. And status effects can refresh, aswell - So essentially, it goes like this:

-Playing well, no problems. This is T3.
-You're fighting some devilites, and walk around a bit, causing Shock Greavers to spawn.
-Not being able to react to all of them, you get hit by something and shocked.
-The shock automatically causes a tick, right as you're inflicted by it. Your damage invincibility is lost.
-You get hit again.
-You get shocked again.
-You get hit again.
-You get shocked again.
-You get hit again.
-You're dead.
-Basically, you just lost 30 health in about five seconds.

Anyone who has done shock stratums on T3 without any resist knows how this feels.

This is one of the reasons why the status effect and status resistance system is so broken. But really, shock is insanely overpowered, but... In T3, the 'main' status effects are all OP when using no resist. (Shock doens't even matter - If you don't have maximum, you're dead. No choice.)

Freeze? You're in a narrow platform, and can't dodge well, shield gets broken by retrodes or gun puppies. Continuous freeze, cannot counter-attack at all. Dead after a while. Resist reduces chance of being frozen. This doens't help the usual instant death much. It'd require maximum resist to be "immune" and not affected by this instant death.

Fire? 1.5 bars of damage per second, if you stand on an oiler's fire or zombie's breath. No resist? That's alright. Take 3 - 4 bars of damage instead. And everything else will always set you on fire.

So yeah. Playing on T3 ends up forcing you to wear status resistant armor, or you're dead meat on those stratums.

I wouldn't call it Overpowered, but its definitely stronger than the rest, if anything it feels like the other ones are just too weak, all though Cidatel fire hurts pretty good if you dont have fire resist.So I guess it all depends.

If you ask me though they should buff some of the status effects for players.

lulz, I left off an 's" before.

Anyway that situation you described also almost perfectly matches freeze, except with freeze you're going to lose your shield and you won't be moving anywhere.

Oh and fire, I have no resist for that (owlite is meh...) 8D The fact I made it through all the prevanduke levels of FSC was more due to my awesome team members than anything else for me.

Wear status resistant gear. THAT'S WHAT IT IS THERE FOR.

Enemies should not be able to stunlock the player, ever. I don't care if it's an avoidable stunlock, they shouldn't have the ability to do it. It's unfair, and removes a lot of fun from the game.

Adding a cooldown on stunning effects against the player is really the only way to prevent that without causing a lot of trouble.

It's just nonsense that enemies can cause a status effect with every attack that can freeze you in place or just slow you down to the point of being unable to escape, and then continue to attack you AND re-inflict the status with each attack.

meowreka -

I disagree. I love the challenge each successive Tier has provided. Even though my forays into T3 are pretty limited in number and end in horrible, pathetic death, I know that I can do better in how I play to avoid that. (Not just a matter of gear.) 90% of the time, when I get cornered or stun/status locked, its because I did something foolish. The other 10% I still yell "BULLS@#$!" .. but that's just the nature of challenging video games, IMO.

Personally, I find bullet-hell more frustrating than stuns, but thats probably because I'm terrible at navigating it... (i blame lag?)

If it AI were extremely unpredictable, I would agree, but its pretty predictable. I also want to say that some level layouts combined with certain status themes are "unbalanced" in how difficult they are -- but thats OK in my opinion, since gates and levels change, and its a symptom of the developers wanting levels to vary in difficulty. (Which is good!)

I have a much different opinion about stunlocking in PvP, however...

Really, any situation in which you get shocked and there is more than one Greaver present, you're more or less boned. Or out for a ton of health. Playing cautiously will only save you to some extent because there are areas that spawn multiple Greavers almost on top of you. Also, I've noticed that Greaver shock status attacks can actually trigger about half a second after their actually attack- you'll see a faint electric-blue glow in the area after the attack, which persists for about a second (kind of like the chromalisk spit, but far shorter in duration and more subtle). After you block the initial bite (which can also proc shock, I think), get out of the way if you can.

Ahh Greavers.. I prefer to call them "F#%@-You-Bats"

Best thing I've found for Greavers is using the Flourish sword line... it interrupts them quickly and the attack-movement helps you get away from any that you aren't attacking/interrupting.

Still get shocked/etc. by them now and then, but I find it vastly more successful than trying to shield bounce (and get shocked anyway) or trying to flee/shoot.

Honestly I love Flourish for dealing with status-imbued Devilites and Wolvers, too. The attack movement and quick interrupt seems to counter their maddening hit-and-run tactics well. On that note, its decent against hit-and-run gremlins (healer and bomber), too, despite piercing not being their weakness.

(UNCONFIRMED: Also, I swear I've had better success shield bouncing Greavers without status-infliction by taking a step back so their models aren't clipping through my shield bubble, but that just may be coincidence.. It seems really odd that shielding success would be tested in code that way.)

I've seen the greavers on ice levels leaving this blue aura behind and freezing as well, but you could block them at the time I saw it happen.

Here's how AI shock is overpowered:
get shocked->get hit by every monster around you->dead in 0,5s
(happened at least twice to me in electro arenas by ending up between mech knights due to my failure.. it's just baffling how that ammounts to going from full hp to zero with no room to use even a remedy (shock gets applied->instant shock tick guaranted->cant use items while shock tick progresses)

besides that it's totally balanced. Perhaps taking damage should interrupt the shock tick.

shock is overpowered....and we have way too many shock stratums. I just had an awful experience in a shock arena where the shock bats were in the line up with the robots that shoot a line. It wouldn't be so bad if the shield worked at least half the time, but when the bats move while charging up their shock attack....how do you defend that? Moreover, if you are surrounded in a corner and activate your shield which doesn't push them away, what do you do? Keep holding the shield button hoping you can take 5 hits of charged shock while the robots just lined you up isn't a good idea, and releasing the shield to re-engage it to hopefully push them back isn't either (because the time it takes to do that, they've already shocked you).

And now, you are sitting on shock ticks that slow you down enough for them to surround you again, and repeat the process. I died 5 times, lost all my ME and couldn't even adventure further because the ROI went to sh*.

Fire and Freeze are no where overpowered in comparison. Fire has never immobilized me, allowing me to get to a safe location to heal or defensive position. As for freeze, I just put up my shield and it knocks everything away from me (and protects me from attacks) long enough for me to get unfrozen. Shock though, it turns off the shield ability...awesome!

"realistic" -- maybe, but this is a game, screw realism when revives are exponentially expensive.

The biggest problem is that there is only 1 craftable armor set with shock resist.
And it sucks.

Grey Feather is actually quite fantastic as long as you're not bad at handling things that stun. If Shock defense is more important to you than attack speed, Grey Feather is a wonderful option.