Roots: 5% chance to break if...

[DJKuhn]

I went through 70 levels of warden without much use for roots. I much preferred melee combat, even in the days when level 50 was the cap and there were no AAs. What can I say...I'm an ogre. Then I started solo-healing Unrest, and roots suddenly became invaluable. For a couple weeks, I'd cast roots on things whether or not I needed to just to get my subjugation skill where it needed to be. I'm now capped at 350/350. Both my roots are at master 1 level. The description of the spells says they have a 5% chance to break on damage. That's about inline with what I've seen. The question is: sometimes they seem to break "just because" -- no damage being done to the rooted critter, it just unroots. First question: is that working as intended? Is there a chance per tick or something that roots break? Second question: if that isn't what's supposed to happen, is there any way to determine via log who/what broke the root? Thanks, long-time rooters!

[Dragonreal]

I do believe there's supposed to be a resistability check every x amount of seconds (it should list it in the spell description.. says something like x% resistability and x% every tick). I could be misremembering though... been a long time since I really looked at my roots since I usually just go tank mobs.

[Arielle Nightshade]

<p>Also, can you truly say that "NO" damage of any kind is being done?  No one in your group has any kind of proc or any buff up that procs a damage?   We sometimes forget the 'set it and forget it' passive stuff.</p><p>On the other hand, the mobs in Unrest are a couple levels higher that you in some cases, and Named in some other cases.  They might have higher resistability and greater chance to break due to that?</p>

[Veedublya]

Roots can break for no reason at all, happens alot when i farm and unfortunately its totally normal. I have never noticed a root lasting longer on lower mob vs. higher mob but obviously the higher the level the more chance the root can be resisted.

[Tricit2]

If you 'Examine' your root spell, you'll see the initial less resistability, then a resistability per tick of every so seconds (I think you may need AA for this value to be different? I don't know, I have AA in it).

[Leucippus]

A wizard here, not a warden, but we have roots too. Some hard to find culprits on breaking roots are: procs on items, auto-attack, DoTs, maybe spells that cast something unrelated on termination that triggers a proc one would not expect to trigger, AoE spells, etc. Remember, rooted mobs are not mezed so .... if the mob hits you and you have a reactive on you, that reactive can break the root too! -Leucippus

[Leucippus]

Oh yeah.... And that wonderful bard spell that has a chance of adding damage to all hostile spells. -Leucippus