Mez Duration

Garakk · 07-05-2007, 08:32 PM

Greetings. I'm a new Illusionist, and am somewhat concerned about the duration of mez. I'm currently lvl 15, and while trance provides a significant upgrade to sleep, I still find it hard to keep more than 2 or 3 adds mezzed. Is there any way to increase the duration or recast time of trance? thanks in advance.

ThyMajesty · 07-06-2007, 04:50 AM

at this lvl i had a hard time too, but don't worry, just go on your way.

with progressing into next tier(s) you will become much more efficient. at 24 orso you'll get your first grp-mezz, which will make your life MUCH easier. also, when you're lvling up, the duration of your mezzes will increase with every spellreplacement. plus, in mid-tiers you'll get an additional mezline + a pbaoe-shorttime-mezz, which will help you at least, keeping things under control.

can't remember exactly, because i started in KOS with spending my AAs, but there ARE in illusionist-tree AAs that increase duration for some seconds (+ resistability i believe)...but i actually never had any issues on that. i was just looking foward of hitting mid20ies, knowing that i get my first encountermezz there which makes the enhancements of the singlemezz-line (not useless, but) not really needed

Controlor · 07-06-2007, 12:09 PM

Garakk wrote:

Greetings. I'm a new Illusionist, and am somewhat concerned about the duration of mez. I'm currently lvl 15, and while trance provides a significant upgrade to sleep, I still find it hard to keep more than 2 or 3 adds mezzed. Is there any way to increase the duration or recast time of trance? thanks in advance.

Each upgrade gets longer and longer and yah can hold down more. If your concerned with the mez duration you can spend 5 pts into the EoF tree to increase your primary mez duration by 7.5 seconds and 25% harder to resist. This should add an additional mez for you. ATM I have sucessfully chain locked 5 creatures down using mostly primary mez. But theoretically should be able to lock down 7-8 (this is really hard to manage tho). And thats w/o using any group-mez tricks.

Mihos · 07-06-2007, 01:36 PM

Good news is, the higher you level, the less you will mez. I might mez something once a week at 70.

Jayby · 07-08-2007, 12:06 PM

Is that the case even with soloeing Mihos?

Controlor · 07-08-2007, 01:22 PM

Ignis@Venekor wrote:

Is that the case even with soloeing Mihos?

Nope while soloing mez is extreamly valuable and is used OFTEN. Enchanters are one of the few (if not only) classes that can take on 3-4 seperate groups of heroic^^^ and come out alive.

07-06-2007, 12:09 PM	#3
Controlor Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 767	Garakk wrote: Greetings. I'm a new Illusionist, and am somewhat concerned about the duration of mez. I'm currently lvl 15, and while trance provides a significant upgrade to sleep, I still find it hard to keep more than 2 or 3 adds mezzed. Is there any way to increase the duration or recast time of trance? thanks in advance. Each upgrade gets longer and longer and yah can hold down more. If your concerned with the mez duration you can spend 5 pts into the EoF tree to increase your primary mez duration by 7.5 seconds and 25% harder to resist. This should add an additional mez for you. ATM I have sucessfully chain locked 5 creatures down using mostly primary mez. But theoretically should be able to lock down 7-8 (this is really hard to manage tho). And thats w/o using any group-mez tricks.

07-06-2007, 01:36 PM	#4
Mihos Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 211	Good news is, the higher you level, the less you will mez. I might mez something once a week at 70. __________________

07-08-2007, 01:22 PM	#6
Controlor Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 767	Ignis@Venekor wrote: Is that the case even with soloeing Mihos? Nope while soloing mez is extreamly valuable and is used OFTEN. Enchanters are one of the few (if not only) classes that can take on 3-4 seperate groups of heroic^^^ and come out alive.

07-05-2007, 08:32 PM	#1
Garakk Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3	Greetings. I'm a new Illusionist, and am somewhat concerned about the duration of mez. I'm currently lvl 15, and while trance provides a significant upgrade to sleep, I still find it hard to keep more than 2 or 3 adds mezzed. Is there any way to increase the duration or recast time of trance? thanks in advance.

07-06-2007, 04:50 AM	#2
ThyMajesty Loremaster Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 83	at this lvl i had a hard time too, but don't worry, just go on your way. with progressing into next tier(s) you will become much more efficient. at 24 orso you'll get your first grp-mezz, which will make your life MUCH easier. also, when you're lvling up, the duration of your mezzes will increase with every spellreplacement. plus, in mid-tiers you'll get an additional mezline + a pbaoe-shorttime-mezz, which will help you at least, keeping things under control. can't remember exactly, because i started in KOS with spending my AAs, but there ARE in illusionist-tree AAs that increase duration for some seconds (+ resistability i believe)...but i actually never had any issues on that. i was just looking foward of hitting mid20ies, knowing that i get my first encountermezz there which makes the enhancements of the singlemezz-line (not useless, but) not really needed

07-08-2007, 12:06 PM	#5
Jayby General Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3	Is that the case even with soloeing Mihos?