Weekly Skill Overview (Deterrence)

 Deterrence

The so called Hunter "Bubble".

Well this statement is actually really wrong since it not making the hunter immune but making the hunter unable to attack cause he is pacified for the entire duration of deterrence and gives the hunter 100% chance to  parry and deflect everything but there is a catch. It can parry and deflect anything that CAN be parried. And unfortunately there are quite a few abilities that cannot be parried.

For example you cannot parry Warrior's Overpower since this ability cannot be parried. And it can get even worse if the warrior have the Overpower glyph. This glyph is making Overpower proc not only from dodge but from parries too. It's like we are an Overpower procing machine.

Also you cannot parry abilities from stealth since also those abilities cannot be parried. But not because they have to use them by stationing behind the hunter but cause the way they are scripted. Some stealthed abilities cannot be parried.

Also there is another issue with Deterrence.

And this is about the deflection. It seems that you cannot deflect spells that are already flying toward you. 

For example

If a mage casts a frost bolt at you and you pop deterrence before the cast is over you will be able to deflect it but if the cast finishes before you cast deterrence the attack will hit you. 

Same with the deterrence fading. If the cast is finished before deterrence fades but the spell reaches you after, the spell will be deflected even if you don't have the deterrence buff anymore.

Another thing are DoTs.

When you deterrence, you are able to deflect every spell that is casted on you but that doesn't mean you are clearing the already applied debuffs from you. If you had a DoT on you it will keep ticking even after you cast deterrence.

And of course there are Chaos bolt. 

This ability will pierce deterrence so don't wonder if you die from chaos bolt while on deterrence.

So now you can understand why this so called Hunter "bubble" is not really a bubble but a joke.It has soooo many flaws that sometimes it's causing more troubles than it solves.