Defiance Problems

I am playing an assalt rifle/devices blaster, and for a very long time, i have noticed that, in certain situations, i cant use my first 2 primary attacks when held, stunned, or slept. Whenever i get held by a level 50 boss, i am 100% to not able to attack. When i am in pvp, if get held by dominators i am not often able to attack. I have asked many blasters if they have the same problem and so far, the only other one to say they have experienced it was a fellow AR/Dev blaster.

I have sent bug reports a few times for over a year now. Can anyone tell me if this happens to all blasters randomly, am i just missing something about how defiance works, or am i bugged?

Sounds odd.

I'd expect this to be lag, but can't be 100% certain as it's not me playing here. Sometimes you get the power icons in the "recharged" state, even though they are actually still recharging due to server lag. Defiance should always let you use those powers as long as you have the Endurance for them and your HP value is greater than zero.

If you're sure this isn't lag I recommend filing a bug report.

It can't be recharge lag because it is happening at the begining of fights. Before I use any power I get held and am rendered useless. I guess I will file another bug report and hope it gets checked

The closest solution I can imagine would be that, possibly, the redraw animation for your powers is being triggered independently of the power activation itself and is not covered by Defiance. Essentially, you're clicking a power to make an attack, but, before you can make the attack, you need to draw your weapon only you can't because only the act of making the attack rather than drawing the weapon is provided your Defiance capabilities. I'm not sure how likely this is, though it might have some origin in BABs messing around with getting rid of redraw some months back. All of this only applies if you are attempting to use the powers without your weapon drawn, however, so, if that's not true, back to the drawing board.

Saddly my gun is always out. No redraw happening.

I've run into this before with my Assault Rifle Blaster. I reported it here a few months back, and passed on the info to both Arbiter Kim and Castle... didn't hear anything back, but I assume they looked into it.

It was weird, too, as it didn't seem to happen with every mob. Someone noted that Burst seemed to be playing Full Auto's animation when you used it while held, and that seemed to be accurate some of the time. Anyway, it was hard to replicate fighting against Malta that were doing their best to kill my Blaster. I should try it with lowered settings.

But please do bug this. I reported it and others have, and apparently it's still happening.