<DIV>Since they increased solo exp last time I have done extensive soloing.  Pushing the envelope.  As a 35 wizard I soloed a 36 sullen centurian group mob.  Took  me 3 tries but figured it out.  While playing around with this I noticed something funny.  My roots broke everytime I cast harvest.  And if I cast any spell that gave me mana they had a chance of breaking.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This does not seem right.  It is almost like a trap.  Cast harvest stun yourself and mob automatically breaks and comes and beats on you.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All of my spells are adept 3 thanks to the hours I spent Tradeskilling before the nerf.  Now I am broke but I have my spells bought through level 42.  So, I may have an edge over others trying to take on mobs out of our league.  My challange is to take on pairs of group mobs my level.  I could I think except for one thing.  They break root.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have learned that if I just hit with stun then cast root they stick well, and stay stuck till time on root runs out.  But if I throw in a dot this seems to increase the chance of them breaking before time runs out.  If I dont mind being slow I stun, root, root, root, stun, root, root, root etc.  till it is dead.  One problem is I run out of mana this way so I have to cannibalize and harvest.  Both tend to break root.  It seems to me that this is a bug.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Maybe it is in there to specifically keep me from doing what I am doing which is kill big mobs.  But I am maxed out wizard and even with much practice I prolly die enough it is not worth the risk.  I am mostly doing it as a challange.  The technique has come in handy on occasion when we get an add so I pull agro then root it away form combat for a while, but mostly it is just for entertainment to test what I can do.  I have learned not to do it on casters they just stand there rooted and kill you with a few zaps.  Plus if they are healers my damage can not keep up, I run out of man way too fast.  But for taking out fighters or scouts it seems to be a good method.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I was experimenting with a few blue^^ mobs testing the system and it seems that indeed harvest auto breaks the root and cannalize spells have a chance to break it.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any other thoughts of what breaks roots?</DIV>

<DIV>It may only be my imagination, but it seems to happen too often to be coincidence... I find that triggering an HO (just Arcane Augur, not the first spell in the chain), has a chance of breaking it.  A good chance, at that.  /shrug</DIV>

Damage breaks root. I've found that DD breaks it more frequently than DoTs, but any form of damage (either inflicted by you or another) has a chance to break it. Never tried to harvest while I had a mob rooted, but I would wager that it breaks because of the stun component.

<blockquote><hr>Renynzea wrote:Damage breaks root. I've found that DD breaks it more frequently than DoTs, but any form of damage (either inflicted by you or another) has a chance to break it. Never tried to harvest while I had a mob rooted, but I would wager that it breaks because of the stun component.<hr></blockquote>But it stuns the caster, not the mob. Doesn't make sense...

<DIV>Stun> root> replensih mana>break root>die.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wizzards are great!!!</DIV>

<DIV>I've stopped using HO's while soloing because the starter (even before i cast an actual damage spell) seems to break root ever single time.  this just started happening the patch before this one and i wish they'd fix it.  can't imagine that's intentional but then again who knows.</DIV>

<DIV>Yes, the HO breaks root too, I stopped using HOs a while back because of this and forgot to include it in my original post.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And I have considered that it could just be coincidence.  But I have tested it too many times.  You stun yourself the mob breaks root and attacks.  The control setting was to take a mob and do nothing but stun and root and time how long it stays rooted.  Each time I did this the mob stayed rooted the entire time.  It would not break root unless I added some other spell.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I think it is a bug that spells you cast on yourself break root</DIV>