9 Month Vacation Coming back need help

[Eebig]

Ill try to make this as short as possible, here is my dilemma I have a 38 coercer (with 9 month vacation) and been reading on the forums about how much they were nerfed, however is seems that most of these are focused on raids. How are the solo coercers handling the changes with pets and such.Are coercers able to solo well still?Now I remember starting out dying very very often compared to my other toons. Although this was usually caused by some skill deficiencies on my part. In other words what I'm asking are coercers still among the best solo class in the game or are they seeing as much problems there as they are in raids?

[Rijacki]

<cite>Eebig wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ill try to make this as short as possible, here is my dilemma I have a 38 coercer (with 9 month vacation) and been reading on the forums about how much they were nerfed, however is seems that most of these are focused on raids. How are the solo coercers handling the changes with pets and such.Are coercers able to solo well still?Now I remember starting out dying very very often compared to my other toons. Although this was usually caused by some skill deficiencies on my part. In other words what I'm asking are coercers still among the best solo class in the game or are they seeing as much problems there as they are in raids?</blockquote>The recent changes (including nerfs) were to RoK related content: - 50% damage reduction for most charmed pets but only in T8 zones- A change to the only target in game were power drain was effective (you can still drain it, but it's as pointless to drain as any other target since it now uses abilities and not spells)- Power regen on a large percentage of items no matter how easy to get, but only items from T8 and Timorous Deep (T1 and T2).- Massive group power regen proc on a collection quest reward; procs on any spell cast by the wearer. Equipable in the high 70s but I forget the exact level.- Coercer "heroic" fabled epic without coercer related stats or skills and a broken proc.- Coercer "raid" mythic epic with a group Mana Font returning 60% power vs 10% (this is only an issue for the achievement requiring power to be under 30% in order to get a DPS boost).- Illusionist mythic (group haste vs single target haste for the same 1 concentration), Swashie mythic (increase to hate transfer), and Guardian mythic (no riposte) making coercer hate generation obsolete.- Coercer mythic with mental damage on taunts by the tank (an ability also on the guardian raid set which is shown to be ineffective even in that form).For a coercer that isn't 70+ and/or doesn't raid, you shouldn't see any of the ramifications of the changes (at least not until you reach RoK lands and discover your absolute best pet will do half the damage of the corpse candle you loved in Bonemire).

[Aule]

<p>As a follow up to the above post, if I was only running solo or group content, I wouldn't be complaining.  Even with the above-mentioned nerfs I do excellent.  So much in fact that I get "That's it, I'm rolling a coercer" comments from other guildmates.</p><p>Sadly that doesn't apply to raiding though.</p>