Curse of Isolation?

[Phineus]

<DIV> Did this thing always take 5600 hp and 4100 power from epics?</DIV>

[Jaroth Cloudwalk]

No, It used to be a much much smaller amount.  The only use for it before was to farm nil crystals.  Now it is somewhat useful.

[Phineus]

 Im thinking taking 5600 power from a mob might  get you on his poopoo list.

[Jaroth Cloudwalk]

<DIV>Only if the tank isn't doing their job.</DIV>

[Burnout]

this spell is as long totally useless - till it's changed from absolute numbers to a % base.<div></div>

[Araxes]

It's a flat debuff reduction of <b>maximum possible </b>health pool ... So for example ... mob X Heroic has 7500 HP ... you debuff for 1k of max HP ... the way this curse works is that its max is reduced ... to 6500.  So it would be 6500 current/6500 max.  NOT 6500/7500 which would be simply a decrease of HP - not the max #it's most useful vs. heroic encounters ... as 5xxx HP won't mean anything to an Epic.<div></div>

[Domiuk]

<DIV>"It's a flat debuff reduction of <B>maximum possible </B>health pool"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Is that a definate ? or how do you define maximum possible ?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>For example , we have our epic at 1,000,000 hps</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Say 6 classes debuff its stamina and its HPS drop say 15% </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It now has 850,000 HPS and thats its current "maximum possible"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>we cast curse if isolation and it losses another 5k</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So 845,000 hps ?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>one thing of note of course is duration , the mob has to actually die with this in effect for it to be any use.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I do think the mob will indeed lose 5000 hps if it has already been damaged of course.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So in above example our mob is stamina debuffed and has lost 150,000 hps to debuffs , it also has taken 350,000 dmg as people have been wacking on it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So now at 500,000 hps we cast CoI and it drops to 495,000 and will not regain those points if it dies.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The only real thing i think of note is that you can only cast it once on any mob. (you can and of course should reacst it if the duration expires).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>5k is not to be sniffed at, its still a decent amount of damage even if you can only use it once.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[MorbiusAu]

Pathetic spell, you either have to cast it close to mob death or continuly recast it on the encounter just to maintain the -5K hitpoints, you are far better off spending the power on a nuke to reduce its actual hitpoints. Make the spell do nothing but summon 10 nil crystals with a 5 min recast and it would be an improvement. <div></div>