Illy's guide to Raiding.....

[Falkur]

Anyone got one?

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cast [Removed for Content] and don't die

[Controlor]

This all depends on WHERE you go. what group your in. what your guild wants you to do. etc etc etc I am the main CC in the guild i am in. We have a coercer and another illy the other illy isnt that great so he is thrown often in groups for his buffs and he just does what he does. And coercer focuses on keeping pr for MT. I am norm in MA group if no coercer sometimes they throw me in MT group. Now i know that our mez doesnt last long on any raid mob. But i have found when MT pulls 2 mobs in a group i usually single target the add (if it is yellow con or above dont bother mezing evens or below). main mez is 5 in penetration so lasts 16 seconds on a single epic mob. Which most the times they can burn the other one to like 20% or less befor mez breaks. This helps out the healing because that 16 seconds they only fight 1 mob not 2 less dmg to tank. I also perma mez mobs when i am able to like the 4 mobs with gnillwa in lyceum or verious other mobs on raids that are able to last full duration. I also generlaly toss my goup mez on a group of 4 mobs or more the 8 seconds can help also. If you are mezing tho make sure you have a macro to anounce when your mez is down (not nesicarily when you mez) so that the aoers can aoe or they get kinda peeved. AND always ask your raid leader befor you start mezing IF they want you to mez or not. Some dont like you to mez its all relative. IF your not gonna focus on mezing at all then go for dps. buff and dps up. If only 2 chanters there will be 1 in MA and 1 in MT group your job is to keep their pr up. Mana flow as often as you can on healers who get low or the MA / MT who get low on pr. A lot of higher end mobs have pr drains so this is KEY to help them keep pr up. Devitalizing stare as often as possible. And make a macro to Savante / momentary sentiment it is a good combo buff similar duration that reduce pr consumption by half and boost casting skills. If you are put into a caster group go balls to the wall on dps. Feel free to spam your dots and nukes and such. If your in scout group then haste them and cast as much as you can. but again make sure you keep your and others pr up. Other than that its all relative on what you wanna do yourself. Personally i looooooove CCing and i stun then stifle/daze after mezing to give it a 20sec+ duration of it not touching the tank. I dont really care much for dpsing i am lazin in that particular area but i could if i wanted. And if yah read the threads a lot of the illys go for more dps than for CCing and can parse fairly well. LASTLY HAVE FUN raiding thats key

[Kuragi]

The most useful place I've used mezzing is fighting Tarinax in Deathtoll.   He has adds that come in and target random people in the raid, and every time people die to them, more bad stuff happens.  So what I and another mezzer have done is just lock them all down until Tarinax is dead.  Then the raid group cleans them up. This is a full time job.  Depending on how much DPS your raid can handle, you can get 4 or 5 or maybe more of the adds before Tarinax dies.  And the adds are fairly resistant.  I've maxed out penetration, have all master spells, and they still resist maybe one time in 4.  Nasty.  That's why you want 2 people doing it.  AND, it's important to remove all your proc gear when you do that, or you could have the embarrasment of your mez getting resisted, and your proc making it through and waking up the mob.   Oops.

[Falkur]

i've done the CC in most KOS zone but lookin to achieve that balls to the walls DPS

[Pins]

<cite>Controlor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Now i know that our mez doesnt last long on any raid mob. But i have found when MT pulls 2 mobs in a group i usually single target the add (if it is yellow con or above dont bother mezing evens or below). main mez is 5 in penetration so lasts 16 seconds on a single epic mob. Which most the times they can burn the other one to like 20% or less befor mez breaks. This helps out the healing because that 16 seconds they only fight 1 mob not 2 less dmg to tank. I also perma mez mobs when i am able to like the 4 mobs with gnillwa in lyceum or verious other mobs on raids that are able to last full duration. I also generlaly toss my goup mez on a group of 4 mobs or more the 8 seconds can help also. If you are mezing tho make sure you have a macro to anounce when your mez is down (not nesicarily when you mez) so that the aoers can aoe or they get kinda peeved. AND always ask your raid leader befor you start mezing IF they want you to mez or not. Some dont like you to mez its all relative. </blockquote>You are aware that a more effective strategy would be to burn the mobs down instead?

[Controlor]

<cite>Pinski wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Controlor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Now i know that our mez doesnt last long on any raid mob. But i have found when MT pulls 2 mobs in a group i usually single target the add (if it is yellow con or above dont bother mezing evens or below). main mez is 5 in penetration so lasts 16 seconds on a single epic mob. Which most the times they can burn the other one to like 20% or less befor mez breaks. This helps out the healing because that 16 seconds they only fight 1 mob not 2 less dmg to tank. I also perma mez mobs when i am able to like the 4 mobs with gnillwa in lyceum or verious other mobs on raids that are able to last full duration. I also generlaly toss my goup mez on a group of 4 mobs or more the 8 seconds can help also. If you are mezing tho make sure you have a macro to anounce when your mez is down (not nesicarily when you mez) so that the aoers can aoe or they get kinda peeved. AND always ask your raid leader befor you start mezing IF they want you to mez or not. Some dont like you to mez its all relative. </blockquote>You are aware that a more effective strategy would be to burn the mobs down instead? </blockquote>Yes i am fully aware of that. However the guild i am in LACKS the dps to properly do so for me to not care about mezing. On any given raid we have anywhere from 5-7 fighter classes 4 or so mages and like 3 scouts SO mezing helps a lot with the lacking in our DPS catagory. Half the time i wont mez tho its dependant on how bad the MT is getting hit for and how fast we are killing them.