The improbable/impossible is possible with a coercer along!

DwarvesR · 03-22-2007, 03:20 AM

Today I was in a 5-person group that was doing the Nest for one of the Hoo'loh updates. The group was me, a wizard, a ranger, a warden, and a warlock. We couldn't find a tank to save our lives. After it looked like the gorup might be breaking up due to lack of available tankage, I said "I can charm a tank pet for us in there."

The wizard is a friend of mine and knows a bit of what coercers can do, so she immediately said "Sounds great!" The rest of the group wasn't too sure about it, but decided "Why not? We'll give it a go. worst that happens is we die and have to come back alter when we can find a tank."

It was rough at first. Most of the group hadn't played with a coercer before, and so didn't realize what I was doing at 1st. I mezzed a group and started charming a mob out of it to use as a tank and the warlock steps up and blasts my target. I got it charmed before he killed it, then we killed the other part of the group. But then, no one was really sure who to assist, we got a couple of bad pulls, and with no "real tank" to pick up the adds, even though I was mezzing them, the group mates wouldn't focus on 1 target, would break mezz all over the place, and. . . we had a couple of wipes early on. Frustration began to set in, until I told was able to educate everyone that my pet was "tank" and they should target through it and only it. I made a big deal that "adds are mine, don't touch them!" and that I would be mezzing groups at a time and we'd just need to pick them off 1 mob at a time. The warlock had a "light bulb moment" and everyone else went along with it.

The next fight was a smashing success. And the next, and the next. . . . you get the picture. Once everyone got used to the idea that I would control the mobs while they burned them down, instead of everyone trying to "do it all" themselves, it became a grear experience.

About halfway through I lost my original tank pet, charmed another that turned out to be a warlock, and it still tanked fine plus would regularly nuke for 2K-ish too, so that helped some too. I was sad when I lost that pet SMILEY Since we had the group targeting through my pet, when charm broke, the pet was now the target, so it tended to die fast if when "de-charmed."

Sure, it would have been easier with a true tank in the group, but you know what? It worked. We finished the zone with a single healer and no tank. Or I suppose you could say I was tank. I even body-pulled most mobs before sic'ing the pet on them, since I had to move them out of social aggro range. The other nice things were that I got a Possession Master I and the fabled robe off the end mob out of it too.

Had I not been along, though. . . that group wouldn't have been able to do any of that. Was a lot of fun, and now a few more people know what a coercer can really do too!

Korpo · 03-22-2007, 11:45 AM

Or you could have just gone into the nest and solo'd it SMILEY

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Sydias · 03-22-2007, 03:29 PM

Hehe. Good story. Also, I guess you definitely could have gone ahead and soloed it. SMILEY

03-22-2007, 03:20 AM	#1
DwarvesR General Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,390	Today I was in a 5-person group that was doing the Nest for one of the Hoo'loh updates. The group was me, a wizard, a ranger, a warden, and a warlock. We couldn't find a tank to save our lives. After it looked like the gorup might be breaking up due to lack of available tankage, I said "I can charm a tank pet for us in there." The wizard is a friend of mine and knows a bit of what coercers can do, so she immediately said "Sounds great!" The rest of the group wasn't too sure about it, but decided "Why not? We'll give it a go. worst that happens is we die and have to come back alter when we can find a tank." It was rough at first. Most of the group hadn't played with a coercer before, and so didn't realize what I was doing at 1st. I mezzed a group and started charming a mob out of it to use as a tank and the warlock steps up and blasts my target. I got it charmed before he killed it, then we killed the other part of the group. But then, no one was really sure who to assist, we got a couple of bad pulls, and with no "real tank" to pick up the adds, even though I was mezzing them, the group mates wouldn't focus on 1 target, would break mezz all over the place, and. . . we had a couple of wipes early on. Frustration began to set in, until I told was able to educate everyone that my pet was "tank" and they should target through it and only it. I made a big deal that "adds are mine, don't touch them!" and that I would be mezzing groups at a time and we'd just need to pick them off 1 mob at a time. The warlock had a "light bulb moment" and everyone else went along with it. The next fight was a smashing success. And the next, and the next. . . . you get the picture. Once everyone got used to the idea that I would control the mobs while they burned them down, instead of everyone trying to "do it all" themselves, it became a grear experience. About halfway through I lost my original tank pet, charmed another that turned out to be a warlock, and it still tanked fine plus would regularly nuke for 2K-ish too, so that helped some too. I was sad when I lost that pet Since we had the group targeting through my pet, when charm broke, the pet was now the target, so it tended to die fast if when "de-charmed." Sure, it would have been easier with a true tank in the group, but you know what? It worked. We finished the zone with a single healer and no tank. Or I suppose you could say I was tank. I even body-pulled most mobs before sic'ing the pet on them, since I had to move them out of social aggro range. The other nice things were that I got a Possession Master I and the fabled robe off the end mob out of it too. Had I not been along, though. . . that group wouldn't have been able to do any of that. Was a lot of fun, and now a few more people know what a coercer can really do too! __________________ Jonna - 78 Inquisitor, Keodan - 77 Fury, Elynna - 90 Coercer, Clarisse - 90 ShadowKnight, Gotter - 90 Warlock, Kyeda - 66 Necromancer, Spirrita - 66 Defiler, Darlana - 75 Dirge, Meylota - 54 Warden, Guuk - 60 Monk, Briarra - 55 Brigand, Dactylus - 51 Mystic

03-22-2007, 11:45 AM	#2
Korpo Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,141	Or you could have just gone into the nest and solo'd it . __________________

03-22-2007, 03:29 PM	#3
Sydias Loremaster Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 218	Hehe. Good story. Also, I guess you definitely could have gone ahead and soloed it. __________________ Dukou Tyranus - Lvl 70 Half-elf Dirge (Antonia Bayle) Nukor - Lvl 70 Dark Elf Warlock (Antonia Bayle) Fuzzles Fuzzikins - Lvl 52 Fae Paladin (Antonia Bayle) Durge - Lvl 70 Iksar Coercer (Antonia Bayle) Xizor - Lvl 67 Dark Elf Brigand(Antonia Bayle)