Do as little as you can get away with yourself. This is the main difference to warlock I guess.When soloing, get high quality charm, sick your pet, and assist through it sparingly. Hold back casting AEs, pets suck at AE aggro, but are usually quite decent at single targets (use demeanor or +DPS buff on pet, drop resist buff for it). When doing heroic group encounters, start with AE mez and pick them off singly with root and charm pet. In general this makes killing a heroic group of 4 quite easy at the expense of a long fighting time. Do not expect to gain exp faster than doing solo encounters this way.In groups, it very much depends on the situation. If your group is gimped, CC and damage prevention via mez, stuns, roots is useful. If your group is good, charm something and concentrate on pet handling, this is more DPS than you yourself could manage, because reactives work slow with a good tank. If your group is in between, just try reactives, dots, nukes and wail (lvl 50+) etc. for a little riskless DPS, but beware of mass AE reactive procs.In big raids, you are most likely a mana battery for a DPS group, or buffer for MT group (mana cloak is your friend there). Rule #1 is to not die and keep your buffs up. Think twice before using reactives, and forget charm. Chain casting our nuke with dots intersparsed is a good tactic. A few raids benefit from CC, but always follow the official lead doing this.Furrfoot60 Coercer
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