Swirling Shadows-Line Skills on Bosses

Vulkhan

Do Swirling Shadows-Line Skills work on Bosses? I did some testing and the Spell seemd never to work.

Shadow Strike-Tooltip says it resets the duration of swirling shadow-line skills witch only make sens on longer fights like bosses but in case the swirling shadow-line skills dont work on bosses it is pointless?

maybe i missunderstood something.
TY @all for Help

Mesh

The majority of (if not all?) named mobs are immune to snare and because the Shadows line is a single effect, that means they're immune to the entire spell.

I suggested in my Necro wishlist that they split the effect into two parts, the snare and the DoT, so that the damage portion still works even on snare immune targets.

Fidric

same issue applies to the bard's combined movement speed snare and attack speed slow song.

the bosses are immune to snares so you cannot apply the attack speed slow as a result (which you can usually use on a boss)

ThePanda

Yea this spell lines is 99% useless unless you’re fear kiting solo

Vulkhan

ok so 1 more free skillslot untill rework will change something...
TY @all for clirification!

Velthorian

It's not a single effect, there is a damage component. Combined with shadow strike to keep this up the entire time of a fight, it's actually your most efficient dot, by alot. Especially when the fight duration reaches ridiculous levels 90sec +. 15+ ticks, at level 34 that's about 150 damage for like 30 mana. Also, snare is useful for more then fear kite, stops runners in dungeon which can lead to wipes, also in a group snared targets are preferable, for aggro control, and emergencies. If your wizard pulls aggro it's alot easier to snap it back when target is snared.

The way it should work, is damage component remains, snare part is ignored. If it does not work like that, it sounds like a bug or oversight.

Bruskie

no Boss mobs cannot be snared.