Often, spells like Earth Shock will cause a partial cooldown to go off on arbitrary schools of magic. About 70% of the time on my Mage, if I get my frostbolt interrupted it will cause my fire spells and/or arcane spells to take a 2 or 3 second cooldown. The effectively makes Earth Shock a silence on their enemies in PvP, which is a major factor in PvP.
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This. I got counterspelled out of shadow AND holy earlier, with no improved CS debuff on me.
If it works like my Felhound’s spell-lock does it silences all magic for 3 seconds, and if interrupting it will silence that specific school for 8.
Spelllock silences (magic dispellable debuff) for 3 seconds, it does not interrupt all schools. If I cast scorch and you spell lock me, I can immediately Ice Block away the debuff or have a priest dispel it. If I cast scorch and get earth shocked, I can’t Ice Block 70% of the time because the whole school gets put on CD and interrupting a school os different than silencing. Also, spell lock works a certain way every time but interrupts work a certain way sometimes and another way an unpredictable amount of times.
Gotcha. I hope someone is actually reading all these and noting them at least. Sometimes feels like we’re reporting bugs to the ether.
Improved CS and Spell Lock are almost the same spells. Spell Lock just lasts for 3/6 and CS for 4/8 seconds. I wouldn’t be shocked if this bug is happening with Spell Lock as well.