How does Disrupt work?

[Roo Stercogburn]

This might be a bit nubbish to ask, but here goes.

I was wondering this last night. Yet again I've been juggling my spec looking for something viable and was trying out Dissolving Mist which is a ground targetable spell.

I'd be casting it at an area and would get in shiny big letters a "Disrupt" message. My understanding of "Disrupt" was when you cast a spell at someone, they are can to disrupt it i.e. resist the spell. This not being a spell you cast at someone but rather at the ground I was a bit confused.

Now if someone does something to interupt you casting, this is fair enough. You go back to the start when the effect wears off and start casting again, is this also called "Disrupt"?

However, and here's the crunchy bit: If someone has prevented you from casting, shouldn't you then be able to cast the spell when the effect wears off? Disolving Mist is on a massive timer and the timer would still kick off, even though the spell had not been cast.

Is this working the way it should, i.e. you got interupted on cast, nae luck you can't use it, or is it a bug? Or have I missed the point of disrupt somehow.

 

[Bahumat]

On my Witch Hunter I have Magnus Shroud. It gives me 100% chance to disrupt magic for 7 seconds. I thought "great, casters wont be able to cast". But in fact it makes me resist almost every spell.

 

[Legean]

Disrupt is outright resist. It means you cast the spell but they avoided the effect, just like a tank may block a melee attack and take no damage. So you still cast the spell and have to wait on any timers for it to come up again. It works on all magic damage reguardless of if it is single target, AoE or ground targetted!

If you are interupted on a spell I think you dont reset any timers, you just start again and recast.

 

[Flimgoblin]

pretty sure that an AoE spell should still hit other targets if one disrupts it - same with a ground target - a bit odd what you were reporting with your ground target being entirely removed by a single disrupt...

 

[Javai]

While we're on the topic, why does the disrupt floating text appear in difference colours, usually grey but sometimes green or red, surely a resist is a resist?

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

pretty sure that an AoE spell should still hit other targets if one disrupts it - same with a ground target - a bit odd what you were reporting with your ground target being entirely removed by a single disrupt...

Aye, its simply not casting then the cooldown timer is kicking in.

 

[Serbitar]

Aye, its simply not casting then the cooldown timer is kicking in.

report it as a bug imo, when i've used pit of shades on my sorc i often get the odd disrupt tick on a mob/player but the spell still casts and it happily damages anything else in the aoe

 

[Generation]

Never had a problem with Dissolving Mist myself, i've had it disrupted plenty of times but it's still on the ground and ticking.

Haven't been on the magus recently, have they fixed the tooltip on the spell yet?
Was looking forward to my 240ft cloud as it suggests, when it's more like 20ft

 

[Jenk]

While we're on the topic, why does the disrupt floating text appear in difference colours, usually grey but sometimes green or red, surely a resist is a resist?

I'd like to know this, too.

 

[TheBinarySurfer]

I'd like to know this, too.

I think you get different colors from a different disrupt target (e.g. your target you are attacking, something inside your AoE, something attacking you).

Some clear documentation surrounding disrupt / dodge / parry / block etc would be lovely mind - anyone got a good link?

 

[Javai]

I think you get different colors from a different disrupt target (e.g. your target you are attacking, something inside your AoE, something attacking you).

Some clear documentation surrounding disrupt / dodge / parry / block etc would be lovely mind - anyone got a good link?

Sadly that isn't the explanation as I've had different colours on a single target :/

 

[Tallen]

While we're on the topic, why does the disrupt floating text appear in difference colours, usually grey but sometimes green or red, surely a resist is a resist?

It's quite simple really.

Grey is you

Red is your targetted enemy

Green is your defensive target (friend)

This is how i think it's supposed to work, but i can say for sure if thats how it actually works.

 

[TheBinarySurfer]

Sadly that isn't the explanation as I've had different colours on a single target :/

Odd - then no clue sorry. I'll pay attention next time i see it on my BW though!