Cataclysm Crowd Control?

[lightstriker]

I can't cc anything; I AoE everything. Every class has some kind of AoE ability; except Rogues who can at most hit 2 mobs at once with talent. Priest dont get Mind Sear until 70. what level is holy Nova?

Rogues get Fan of Knifes at 80

[Slats]

It was my understanding that Priests got Mind Seer at 75? I'm kind of looking forward to it as I'm 74 1/2 on my Priest. Though I havn't been back to the trainer at all haha.

I have been setting up ISBoxer so that I can use ClickBars to assign CC targets and mark and focus my CC. I think I would simple have a key that /stopcasting and reapplies all of my teams CC and perhaps a click button to apply individual CC.

3 or 4 Hex is still pretty decent. I highly doubt we will see Cataclysm requiring specific types of CC and I think you will see the restrictions on who can CC what being lowered so we dont see things like H MgT in TBC where in the beginning you really needed a rogue a mage a priest etc to have all the different mob types covered.

As someone else said this would perform poorly along side the Random Dungeon Finder and if they tried to add it into the queue system I imagine queues would be much longer.

[Ualaa]

Well, still looking at the random dungeon finder feature.

If you are randomly assigned a group like this:
Paladin - Tank
Shaman - Healer
Rogue - DPS
DK - DPS
Mage - DPS

That gets you, Hex from the shammy, Sap from the rogue, and maybe kite one mob with the DK.
The cooldown on Hex won't allow you to re-Hex once it breaks.
Sap requires the target to be out of combat, so it cannot be applied either.
A rogue could re-CC via Blind once, I suppose.

But this group could easily occur with the dungeon finder.
If you were in an instance with demon type trash, there aren't a lot of CC options.
If CC is basically going to be a requirement, then the dungeon finder needs to change how it builds groups.



From a boxing point of view.
We can create macros for /Cast [target=Focus] CC-Ability.
We can round-robin, via software, our Focus targets.
We can raid symbol mark our Focus targets, via the class that is focusing, to visually be sure each Focuses the correct target.

We're not likely going to be able to kite a mob, with a Hunter/DK, while playing the tank, healer and other DPS.
Our option will be the initial CC as the pull is made.

Depending on the difficulty of mobs... If they're as hard as heroics were in the early BC era, prior to SSC/TK, we might only be able to do 5-mans with mixed groups - ie, a large number of different CC modes.
But if the mobs just hit hard and are otherwise nasty but doable, then frequent eating/drinking - possibly between every pull - might be enough.

[Nolife]

/castsequence [@focus, harm] reset=combat Your CC Spell,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
or
/castsequence [@focus, harm] reset=combat/target/5 Your CC Spell,NULL

add this to your normal castingsequence

[Ualaa]

Nice idea.. with the click castsequence recasting it automatically.
That will depend on if a mob can break a CC early, or if they'll go the full duration.

[kernel.k]

rogues have fan of knives.