Cast when Stunned Support

Causes a linked spell to activate when the player is stunned.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Blocking: A block requiring recovery counts as a stun.

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 24 || 18 || 26 || 32% || 118,383 |- ! 2 | 27 || 20 || 29 || 33% || 175,816 |- ! 3 | 30 || 22 || 32 || 34% || 254,061 |- ! 4 | 33 || 24 || 35 || 35% || 225,766 |- ! 5 | 35 || 25 || 37 || 36% || 447,718 |- ! 6 | 38 || 27 || 39 || 37% || 388,734 |- ! 7 | 40 || 29 || 41 || 38% || 755,049 |- ! 8 | 43 || 31 || 44 || 39% || 1,016,533 |- ! 9 | 46 || 33 || 47 || 40% || 860,401 |- ! 10 | 48 || 34 || 49 || 41% || 1,038,201 |- ! 11 | 50 || 35 || 51 || 42% || 1,248,678 |- ! 12 | 52 || 37 || 53 || 42% || 1,498,138 |- ! 13 | 54 || 38 || 55 || 44% || 1,790,934 |- ! 14 | 56 || 39 || 57 || 45% || 3,341,223 |- ! 15 | 58 || 41 || 58 || 46% || 9,900,250 |- ! 16 | 60 || 42 || 60 || 47% || 21,274,363 |- ! 17 | 62 || 43 || 62 || 48% || 50,550,118 |- ! 18 | 64 || 44 || 64 || 49% || 89,834,713 |- ! 19 | 66 || 46 || 66 || 50% || 146,782,704 |- ! 20 | 68 || 47 || 68 || 51% || |}

Mechanics

Cast when Stunned targets the enemy which stunned the player. Spells that don't have targeting, like Discharge or Ice Nova, will be cast on the character as usual.

When the character is stunned, the chance to activate supported spells is rolled individually for each linked spell, then all the spells that succeeded this chance check will activate at once. Multipe copies of the same spell cannot activate at the same time, only one can, however linking multiple copies of the same spell increases the chance that at least one of them activates.

After that the global CwS cooldown occurs, which is currently 250ms. Getting stunned during cooldown time will not cause any supported spells to activate, even if you have multiple CwS groups.

Strategy

Versus

You will suffer a mean two stuns over your Life pool. At level 20 this corresponds to about one Cast when Stunned cast per Life pool---much less than a level 1 which requires only 440 damage taken. However, Cast when Stunned has several advantages which may tip its balance in its favour:

• Blocking prevents damage but not stuns. The block cap of 75% results in a fourfold improvement in mean stuns per damage taken.
• Unlike , Cast when Stunned does not suffer a damage penalty at any level. However, it is usually still ineffective for damage-dealing purposes.
• Cast when Stunned does not have a limit on active skill level. This makes it a better choice for level-dependent skills since the trigger damage for increases rapidly with level.

Quest reward

This skill can be gained as a reward for finishing quest:

• A Fixture of Fate in Act 3 (Normal), by Templar, Shadow, Marauder, Ranger, Duelist, Witch and Scion

Version history

Version	Changes
1.0.2	Now has a 250ms cooldown.
1.0.0	Cast when Stunned has been added to the game.