Wow one starred for stating my play style. Very mature. Anyway. This will remove your ability to fight heroics. This is a good thing. Being able to do that was stupid. You enjoyed it while you could and now the party's over. When fighting a solo single mob do you really care if root holds? Soloing is all about speed for me. Frozen Manacles saves time and allows me to get at least a couple of spells in before the mob charges me. I have various stuns to deal with it if it gets close but they aren't usually necessary. Tanking solo mobs is easy. You can't fail to kill it before it kills you. Re-rooting and moving around wastes time. Bony Grasp also has the rather inconvenient side effect of aggroing other mobs wandering around the area you're soloing in. Root, debuff, burn, move on. Back to Splitpaw. You can still use Bony Grasp to open up with. It's advantage has been much reduced by the fact that mobs will now nuke while rooted anyway (say hello to the mass stifling other classes live with). 12 seconds is plenty of time to land an AE and burn down at least two of the mobs in the group. As it stands now I can Bony Grasp the entire group and just pick them off one by one. That's not fun or challenging. I don't even have Devastation yet. Regarding Frozen Manacles, who cares if it's grey. I use a lot of grey spells. So do other classes. The fact is it's a convenient, versatile and reliable spell. It's not a Warlock spell no. It's a sorcerer spell. Unless they add a level cap to it it will continue to be useful.