Freezing, lead feet, and scream spam

[LarchTree]

Gas Skeletons, all warriors (2h weapons), spear chuckers, and I believe witch doctors and shamans maintain their 'immovable' status if frozen right after they break out of freeze. This means a merc can't make them slam into a wall for a shatter kill with heavy attack or shield bash. They simply will not move unless they are allowed to be unfrozen and finish the escape animation before being frozen again.


This is also a good way to initiate scream spam. From memory, I've only made it happen on skeleton warriors, but I would imagine any enemy with the "GET OFF ME" radius pushback could do it. If someone is close when freeze breaks, they do their scream/spear twirl. Now if that same player or a different one manages to get close enough, they'll scream again instantly. This can be repeated indefinitely as far as I can tell, though usually the players will finally back off or get knocked away and not get close enough in time to keep the scream going.

I've had trouble getting the out of freeze scream spam to trigger constantly, but it has happened enough to be bothersome, particularly for melee characters who pretty much lose their window for damage when the screams won't stop.