I’m unsure if the necro curses work on bosses. On normal enemies you can see the curse either above the head for iron maiden or at the feets for decrepify. However on bosses no such indication can be seen.
Debuffs work, CCs don’t.
There are going to be more than 2 curses… right?
No there are only 2 curses.
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Does that mean bosses are affected by curses, but not the cc effects of them? So Decrepify wouldn’t slow, but it would still reduce their damage by 20%?
Or you could still benefit from the cd reduction of the Abhorrent Decrepify talent even though the curse might not actually do anything to a boss?
Just the two it seems. Slots are at a premium. You can spec into a passive that gives you Amplify Damage (like 9% for 3 pts?) on any target you have a curse on. You can even spec for the Iron Maiden curse to be free to cast, so it’s only a matter of hitting the button to access the damage bonus on a cursed target.
that would depend on whether the dmg reduction is tied to the slow or is a seperate instance.
Maybe some cl beta testers can clarify how curses work on bosses if at all.
Most non-crowd control effects apply to bosses without issue.
Crowd control effects are instead converted to stagger on bosses.
I imagine what happens when you decrepify them is that they are cursed and do less damage but instead of slowed they have the equivalent amount of stagger applied to them.
There are a bunch of effects that work on bosses that you can add a slow to for the duration and they all seem to work so I don’t think decrepify would be any different but I did not test it specifically.
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yes the slow gets converted to stagger. But he was asking if secondary utilities work normally, ie the dmgreduction. Or if it is just added to the staggergauge as well, which is obviously not that good of a deal in this case.
To make an example from wow. In the old times if a raid boss was immune to a cc spell, they were immune to all secondary effects from said cc spell as well. But it was changed over time to allow secondary effects to happen.
Intestes to know how this works on Season 1… anyone?