The first treasures of event, macers commented on the effectiveness of stagger vs the paragons. Fast forward to Hythloth: I had 110 fencing stoned. Being done with Hythloth farming, I decided to raise it to 120 & see if pierce (40% stamina drain debuff over 10 sec) would be of any use against paragon elder gazers and balrons.
Fencing is now at 120 & fencing mastery is level 3: first day, pierce seemed to be pretty effective vs paragon elder gazers. Next day it was not so much. First day on paragon balarons it seemed to allow me to tank one while an archer helped me until other paragons spawned and sent us running - we had it down to 10%. The next day paragon balrons owned me every 5 sec and pierce seemed to do nothing.
So, what experience have you all had vs the Hythoth paragon balrons with either stagger or pierce?
Fencing is now at 120 & fencing mastery is level 3: first day, pierce seemed to be pretty effective vs paragon elder gazers. Next day it was not so much. First day on paragon balarons it seemed to allow me to tank one while an archer helped me until other paragons spawned and sent us running - we had it down to 10%. The next day paragon balrons owned me every 5 sec and pierce seemed to do nothing.
So, what experience have you all had vs the Hythoth paragon balrons with either stagger or pierce?