Fustration, A rangers best friend.

Recently came to my knowledge that Frustration, the mesmer Illusion Magic skill [skill]Frustration[/skill]

I assumed before this just meant spells... guessing many others did too, since thats what its description states. It infact activates off of any interrupt regardless of what was interrupted. Notably, Ranger interrupts. They all state 'targets action is interrupted' besides Concussion Shot, this too activates the damage from Frustration. Which would mean (i assume) that so would Incendiary Arrows.

If every arrow you fired not only caused Burning for 3 seconds and interrupted your target. Your target also casts 50% slower and is hit for upto 53 damage each hit from an interrupting arrow. This could be a very powerful method of taking down bosses instead of BHA. Give Norgu, Frustration, use Incendiary Arrows on your ranger hero's. Every single arrow fired will interrupt and cause 53 extra damage, which becomes stupidly powerful when your start spamming Needling Shot on the lower health foes.

Just thought people should know about this and its potential in PvE. Other methods of use can involve things like Dwarven Battle Stance or Lightning Javelin. Any thoughts on this?

Concussion shot ALSO has an icreased chance to nail the interrupt since its double cast time. Great for the icky Fire Ele bosses. I actually load this on my ranger's bar often for specific things... Also great with Psychic instability [skill]Psychic Instability[/skill]

When i read the skill it said they are damaged if interupted while using a skill.
Otherwise its still good.

I've used this on ranger bars already as well. The problem is the illusion spec though.... it's costly on the energy to put up and keep up. You really need 9-12 ranks in illusion to get a reasonable duration on it (especially against bosses w/ their reduced durations). And if I have that many ranks I start looking at the skill line and wondering what else do I want to bring.... (fragility, soothing images, conjure nightmare/phantasm, phantom pain, clumsiness, distortion.....)

The only way I've managed to get it to operate was while running marksmans wager because otherwise the costs for the illusion spells are just too high. And in this case, forget the interupt preps, just bring 2 normal ones and play interupter. (another interesting use of marksmans wager... nobody expects the spanish inquisition... make that heal party spamming ranger)

I also tried an old fashioned style frustration/fragility spike as well... (for those who remember the old incendiery arrows fragility spike, which made use of the 1s no spec burn to trigger fragility twice per arrow while under an IAS). But again, it's costly and it's a one shot gimmick...

Overall, I'd rate frustration as a 'buddy' skill. One of those skills I'd ask the party mesmer to bring if he's already specced into illusion. He can cast it on the rangers target then go about spreading illusory pain/degen.

The only bosses that have half hex/condition duration are all Tyrian and any Uber boss from Factions or Nightfall. I was also thinking more along the lines of running Norgu/A mesmer with this, if they're running Illusion its a handy skill to bring. Specially since it activates off interrupting the targets action, regardless of what it actually is. I could see Echo/Frustration w/ several Incendiary Arrows rangers causing quite alot of damage very fast to high end bosses.

Oh and since its Illusion, Mantra of Persistance would work, so you could effectively end up with 19second hex even on half duration bosses.

Quick question, when it states when foe is interrupted, that includes being interrupted while melee attacking as well, right? Like whenever a distracting shot hit a foe under Frustration would be +50 damage as long as the foe was doing something?

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*sigh*
Lennymon you really should learn to read. Yes it says that in the skill but:
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