Why oh why do so many NPCs have CCs or Knockbacks?

Most of the stuns are 4m.

When your entrench is down. Roll into the mobs - attack - cover pulse - attack x2 - flash bang - attack and if they are still alive hit them with your hard stun.

That's just one way to deal when entrench is down. A little ingenuity goes along way. And frankly they usually blow it when you are immune anyway in which case it's on cool down.

Obviously boss fights are different but you have ways to avoid almost all of the stuns on trash and a good % of them during boss fights.

You set this up in a way that would get people who imagine this to be happening to be "really smart and awesome", in truth it doesn't work and you know that perfectly fine. Somehow you manage to roll into mobs, some of whom stun pretty much immediatly, attack at point blank, throw them back right after (some of them strong mobs, so they don't care about your knock down), attack twice more etc.

Not just that, two seconds later all your CD's are ready again for the group after and the group after and the group after. I guess going through your list pointing out that you threw everything you could think of in there to make it seem bigger has gotten to you, at least you completely dropped slows which nobody was talking about, so there's some measure of progress.

I never said anything about slows. My point is many of the stuns can be avoided with a little thought. Is it 100% perfect, of course not. But if you know they are going to stun you there are many counters you can use to avoid them.

There is nothing really smart or awesome about what I posted it is just a suggestion to learn everything at your disposal and find a applicable use for them OR you could just complain about it and ask the devs to change it.

Next time you complain though don't use a range class that has a ton of counters.

I enjoy the missions like Imperial heroic on Hoth where you have to take out the rogue Sith in the ice cave and every single silver mob (like twenty of them) Force chokes you in succession.

Once again, you set up a needlessly bloated way of doing things that doesn't work and would require so much time and effort that one would be better of getting stunned, then burning them down with AoE. Somehow in your magical queue you missed the point where an instant CC will hit you and quite easily so, as these mobs aren't being knocked down by cover pulse for example and by the time they're in range for it they're also in range to CC you.

Once again, you set up a needlessly bloated way of doing things that doesn't work and would require so much time and effort that one would be better of getting stunned, then burning them down with AoE. Somehow in your magical queue you missed the point where an instant CC will hit you and quite easily so, as these mobs aren't being knocked down by cover pulse for example and by the time they're in range for it they're also in range to CC you.

This thread would be going a lot better if people actually addressed you, instead of the customized Strawman version of you they keep criticizing.

Stuns and CC that cannot be anticipated, countered, or interrupted are not fun. There are a few Heroics that I leave out of my weekly rotation because every little silver mob has a 4 second stun, or knockback, or something else that cannot be avoided. There are plenty of trash mobs and even boss fights where the mechanics are engaging; your timing matters, your location matters, your abilities matter etc; but those aren't the fights we're talking about in this thread, as I thought was pretty clear from the OP. We're talking about the unnecessary amount of fights where those things don't matter, because unless you one-shot the mob before it aggros you, you are guaranteed an unbreakable instant ability that effectively removes your need to even look at the screen for 4 or more seconds. And when they're clustered, as they are in a lot of the examples people have given, you're guaranteed that over, and over, and over... your abilities and CDs become irrelevant.

That's not fun. It's every bit as cheap as just tacking extra HP onto a mob for fake longevity. Only in a way it's more jarring, because combat is supposed to be an interactive, stimulating activity even when it isn't difficult, and this creates an endless sequence of false starts and jarring stops.

This thread would be going a lot better if people actually addressed you, instead of the customized Strawman version of you they keep criticizing.

Stuns and CC that cannot be anticipated, countered, or interrupted are not fun. There are a few Heroics that I leave out of my weekly rotation because every little silver mob has a 4 second stun, or knockback, or something else that cannot be avoided. There are plenty of trash mobs and even boss fights where the mechanics are engaging; your timing matters, your location matters, your abilities matter etc; but those aren't the fights we're talking about in this thread, as I thought was pretty clear from the OP. We're talking about the unnecessary amount of fights where those things don't matter, because unless you one-shot the mob before it aggros you, you are guaranteed an unbreakable instant ability that effectively removes your need to even look at the screen for 4 or more seconds. And when they're clustered, as they are in a lot of the examples people have given, you're guaranteed that over, and over, and over... your abilities and CDs become irrelevant.

That's not fun. It's every bit as cheap as just tacking extra HP onto a mob for fake longevity. Only in a way it's more jarring, because combat is supposed to be an interactive, stimulating activity even when it isn't difficult, and this creates an endless sequence of false starts and jarring stops.