Total power shutdown?

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I tried posting this in another forum, but no luck.

What is the power (or powers) that is giving me a total shutdown of my abilities (no resurgence, even with advantage; no sheathe etc)

Is this a stun of some sort? Taser arrow?

I tried getting the soul mesmerism stun, but it had no effect at all on the player I tested it on in the powerhouse, so I guess it wasn't that.

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I think it's actually 2 powers that stack. I am seeing it a lot in the last 24 hours. The first is some sort of electrical animation around your body and then another that cracks the ground around your feet. It completely shuts you down.

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There is indeed an electric hold, and at least one hold named condemn that is quite popular and shatters the ground beneath you in a collumb of light (if left on the default color setting it will be orange, to simulate hellfire). Both of those are holds though. Sheath powers (Immolation, Electric Sheath, ECT) should be usable during them and work to break you out. Thye always have been for me, but I haven't tested it since live.

I've never actually had one used on me, so I can't say from experience, but If I am not mistaken a confuse power, of which there are a few, will prevent you from using the Sheaths, and similarly a Sheath effect will not help you break the confuse early. I believe that Resurgence with Evanescent Emergence is SUPPOSED to be usable while confused (it says so in the tool-tip), but I've never actually tried it, and once more, I know that some time ago Evanescent Emergence was bugged (bugged in the way that it didn't work). If Resurgence is still broken in that way, then a confuse effect might explain your experience.

There are also a few known bugs with the behavior of various hold powers under certain circumstances. I've never heard of one yet that makes it impossible to activate a Sheath while held, but I haven't ever really gone and made a complete list of every malfunction publically reported either.

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I believe that Resurgence with Evanescent Emergence is SUPPOSED to be usable while confused (it says so in the tool-tip), but I've never actually tried it, and once more, I know that some time ago Evanescent Emergence was bugged (bugged in the way that it didn't work). If Resurgence is still broken in that way, then a confuse effect might explain your experience.
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This might well be it.

But, I thought a confuse was only meant to knock off your targetting?

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Maybe they're using a hold w/ telekinetic wave (advantaged) to reduce your equilibrium to 0 for 20 seconds?

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Maybe they're using a hold w/ telekinetic wave (advantaged) to reduce your equilibrium to 0 for 20 seconds?

That's what I was going to say. There are some powers which completely shut down your equilibrium and denies energy gained from energy builders for a period of time. Even your skills that cost so little energy that you're used to always being able to cast won't work, then.

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But they shouldn't appear as greyed out 'unusable' icons in your power tray.