What counts as crowd control during bossfights?
By Sophia Vance
With Patch 2.0 Some achievements were removed, some other achievements were added.
A couple of these new achievements are basically "Kill boss X without using crowd control".
What counts as crowd control? Does cold damage(wich slows) counts as crowd control? Or is it aimed for stuns or specific skills such as slow time?
12 Answers
Crowd control spells are those which mass-stun/freeze or have specific debuffing, distracting or confusing the opponents to slip out of tight circumstances. If you use these, you cannot get the achievement. Slowing, chilling or burning effects do not count. For example, Slow Time can be used without limitation.
Some that I know of:
Barbarian:
- Ignore Pain
- Ground Stomp
Wizard
- Frost Nova
- Diamond Skin
Monk
- Blinding Flash
- Crippling Wave(*)
- Seven-Sided-Strike w/ Pandemonium (stun effect)
Witch Doctor
- Spirit Walk
- Mass Confusion
- Horrify
Demon Hunter
- Smoke Screen
- Shadow Power(*)
Also, having a freeze / stun property on your weapon or any other item also disqualifies you from the achievement. Even a 1% chance counts.
(*): Unsure of these. Have not tested yet.
There might also be more to add (Crusader, anyone?).
11There is a wide range of skills that will count as crowd control.
First check your gear (including legendary gems) for any of the following:
- Blind
- Charm (eg Deathseer's Cowl) / Confusion
- Cold/Slow/Chill
- Fear
- Freezing
- Immobilize
- Knock Back
- Knock Up
- Polymorph (as in WD chicken)
- Stun
I have no input on the reports of frozen orb working ok, I can first hand confirm that cold damage especially on a weapon counts as CC.
Also any skill that gives those effects will count.
While some skills like a Demon Hunter's Companion with Spiders are clear that it will act as crowd control, some skills have hidden micro-stun effects and are frustrating to detect such as VAULT!
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