The devs have been trying to standardize what powers root you — cause you to stop, stand in place, animate, and generally not keep traveling and/or fighting — and what powers don’t. Eventually, it will all make sense, but at the moment it’s still (as it has been) a scosh higgledy-piggledy.
Hey everyone. The changes to toggle power animations and the standardization of what does and doesn’t root you should now be up on live. I just wanted to clear up any confusion about some other changes to click powers that also happened at this time. The only intended changes to rooting were supposed to be for toggle powers at this time. We’re in the process of standardizing click powers to follow their own set of rules, but they’re not going to be slightly different than the rules for toggles.
Right now, our intent is to use these rules for click powers:
1. AOE Heals will not root
2. Self Buffs will not root
3. Self Heals will not root
4. Everything else will.You may have noticed some click powers that used to root you and now don’t. These powers snuck their way into the wrong build (see what happens when we don’t root them), and most of these will change back in the next build that makes it to live. Consider this an official head’s up.
Again, sorry for the confusion this has caused. We’ll get it all sorted out shortly and we thank you for your patience and understanding.