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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5246128" data-attributes="member: 78116">I don't mind the odd stun power now and again, the problem is the auto-hit problem with stun powers (due to some classes having terrible will) and the general "spammability" of it. Stun is just as bad for monsters as PCs, as any solo that does not have a way of dealing with being stunned is effectively automatically free experience points. Personally I am dealing with stun in a couple of ways:1) I have made solos and elites resistant to it. This means in general stuns aren't such an automatically great choice - while still being very solid against the majority of creatures.2) On the converse, I reduce the amount of stuns I use on monsters. One monster may have a stun power, but that's it and I typically make them save ends (which allows bonus saves and such). I do not try to "stunlock" PCs anymore. Part of this is because with the new damage and effects of epic monsters, stunlocking isn't required to make an encounter challenging anymore.I've also decided to start just replacing monsters that would stun/dominate at-will towards dazing or other effects (like employing the PCs highest level encounter against its allies without expiring it, ala the Kraken for example). I also try to make combats where something like the creature that dominates, like the cacodemon in my recent SoH game, can be "forced" out or dealt with to give the PC back their turn. For example the cacodemon dominates the barbarian, but the wizard is first so he uses arcana to force the demon out of the barbarian and remove the dominate condition.Doing that seems far more fun, because the PC is more "active" in how the condition works and it means even a non save ends power can be prevented.</blockquote>

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