Psychic scream is the essentially the only interrupt and one of the escape tools a discipline priest has technically there are 2 for holy and shadow if you account silence and holy word: chastise. Why does the description say
Lets out a psychic scream, causing 5 enemies within 8 yards to flee, disorienting them for 8 sec. Damage may interrupt the effect.
Disorienting an enemy is completely different than fearing the target. A disorient will make them walk around in a circle basically where as a fear makes them run from you. Torghast it is referenced as a fear. Was it originally a disorient and decided that was a bad idea?
It’s honestly bothering me to no end.
It’s always been a fear affect, I think they just changed the wording
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Yeah it’s been a fear effect since Classic. It may be a flavor thing, that is pretty weird tbh.
It’s DR category is disorient. Might be because of that, though doesn’t seem like they’re consistent in tooltips.
Yeah, just a lot of loose language all the way around.
Interrupts, fears, disorients, etc. are actual game mechanics.
But colloquially, even a non-interrupt CC may “interrupt” a spell, a mob may become “disoriented” by a fear, etc. Blizz should probably sharpen up their tooltip descriptions to better reflect the actual game categories.
They should also replace psychic scream/mind control/shackle undead with a better selection of 1 or more versatile CCs, but we can only dream…
so it doesn’t share dr with actual fear? like warrior fear?
Warrior/warlock fear are also categorized as disorients. Basically disorient is the umbrella category and fears are in it. Rogue blind, cyclone and dragons breath are all also considered disorients and dr together.
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