can bosses be inflicted with status effects?

Well, yea, would be kinda weird to have an endgame boss be trivialized by stun or freeze builds. i mean they're supposed to be challenging, so i get where they're coming from

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kompaniet wrote:

Stun builds can actually stun most endgame bosses though.

no stun build I'm aware of can stun a Guardian or Shaper consistently. Past the guaranteed stuns such as vaal gs and slayers ascendancy of stun on full life, it's pretty much impossible with amount of hp they have.

T13+ bosses also are pretty damn hard to stun permanently, especially after warlords mark nerf - that nerf was quite heavy. And forget about it if there is a monster life mod, physical reduction mod, hexproof or cannot be stunned (obviously)

Stun builds are in a shitty place because once you pass a threshold with stun reduction, simply stacking damage is the way to go to to further chance to stun. You end up with skill like eq being way better than a skill designated for stunning such as ground slam.

And even if you build full stun and full damage you won't be able to permanently stun high level content. Since game is basically one shot shit besides bosses, stun is in a bad position - you will stun the trash you'll oneshot anyway without a real need to stun, yet you can't stun something that you want to stun (bosses)

honestly as of right now your best bet is to get a full knockback build. max crit bow and knockback. it doesn't interrupt skills or anything but at least it introduces a level of control back into your hands in these fights

I made an assassin ice spear user with marylene's fallacy this league on hardcore and it could freeze just about everything up to tier 15 if the map was white / no hp mods, more if i'd had a level 4 empower and/or 21 icespear I suspect or if I ran EE.

I don't think you can generally get permanent CC on the guardians/shaper though but i'm also fairly sure I couldn't do the guardians currently due to lack of leech/regen.