Idomitable Will question

I was playing my Claws/Willpower Brute and was fighting a group of Green Ink Men and the first time I fought them, I got stunned and disorientated and yes, I had Indomitable Will activated and running.

That should not be happening as Indomitable Will grants immunity to stun and disorient effects while active right?

I do know of any kind of status effect power not working when fighting against Riechsman as his attacks go through it, but not some common minion like a green ink man right?

It grants a certain number of protection points, not immunity. If the number of a certain type of mez on you is high enough, it will overcome that protection and you will be mezzed. A group of green ink men can easily stack enough stuns to mez you through your protection.

To expand a bit:

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Originally Posted by Microcosm A group of green ink men can easily stack enough stuns to mez you through your protection.

Especially at that level. Mez protection granted from these type of powers scales upward with level, meaning that it starts somewhat low.

Pretty much what they said, enough green ink men can stun just about anyone.

Thats odd, But I did petition and file a bug report believeing this to be some kind of bugg that they should fix before people really start whining about it and was told the same thing from the GM's. The power is working as intended.

thanks for the info.

Now for those who are thinking about playing a /willpower toon. I would point out, that it's not a serious problem. Willpower is still not gimped. I have a level 50 Claws/Willpower Scrapper and I have never been stunned or disorientated on that toon. Never knew you could get stunned or disorientated or whatever while having Indomitable Will active. It just happened last night and it was the first and only time I noticed it and it may not happen again.

So you can stop reading this reply now unless you are curious as to why I got a Claws/Willpower Scrapper and a Claws/Willpower Brute.

Long story short, going rogue came out and issue 21 is coming out, so I stopped playing scrapper because I didn't like the taunt power you got in your offensive powerset and I felt the Hitpoints you got where too low. So I made a Claws/Willpower Brute to replace my Claws/Willpower scrapper and I am starting over from scratch. No I do not feel Scrappers are gimped and yes, if you want a scrapper, stop reading this and go make one and start playing. You won't get any discouragement from me.

In the end, I am deleting a bunch of characters on my account to cut down to 3-4 characters to save cost and to work within time constraints. I simply can't keep more than 3-4 characters active. I also want to make my own story arcs (not farms, 2 farm missions are enough) for AE to offer my creativity to those who happen to stumble upon them so that's going to use up alot of my time.

Willpower has pretty much the same stun protection as every melee defense set out there, so what you experienced is not unique to WP. All brutes and scrappers start out at 5.58 points of protection from most mezzes at L10 (the earliest most sets get thier mez protection) and end up with 10.38 points at L50. All the sets have the same level of protection the only real differences are what level you get your protection and which mez effects you are protected against. Tanks are on a different scale that starts higher and ends higher, but they work the same way. (KB protection is an odd exception to this, but thats a different topic).

All mez effects stack since what they actually do is subtract their magnitude from your current mez level - and once you are at a certain value (-1 or below I believe) then you are held, stunned, slept, confused etc. You start at 0 on everything and mez protection toggles just add to your status effect level and makes it harder to mezz you, but not impossible. Since green inkmen do stun in all their attacks, if you are hit by a lot of them its one of the few ways to get stunned through your mezz protection toggle. I have had large groups if high level longbow stun me as well as they have a lot of stunning attacks and a lot of malta can also be dangerous - while they don't have as many stun attacks as LB or Ink men they have some very long lasting ones (like - 1 minute) so they can stck up over multiple groups of malta.

Dwarf Form for khelds works like that too. get held while human, you can still click to dwarf and you are now protected.

The nictus death stun in the last mission of an ITF is also above standard mez protection levels.

Yeah, Green Ink Men suck.

Enough of them can stack stuns through even a Stone tank's Granite and Rooted. Every single attack they throw at you has a chance to stun, so they can stack like, mag 30 or 40 in a matter of seconds. Fighting more than about 5 will suck in a big way for melee characters.

Didn't read all the replies... however a month or so ago, there was some one on the Virtue Help channel wondering why Indomitable Will kept toggling off when they got mezzed. After about 30-45 minutes of private tells to this individual, it turned out he thought Rise to the Challenge was Indomitable Will.