MoP Beta - Group Composition viability (ongoing process)

[Shodokan]

These are terrifying for a multiboxer in arena. Far worse than the crap we dealt with in Wrath, like shadowfury, aoe fears, pet nova, fan of knives. These MoP aoe abilities sound like complete gamebreakers, and you're likely to face teams with two or more of these abilities to screw you with. I can't even imagine doing 5s against this.

Not many classes are getting MORE aoe cc than they had before. You are forgetting that so many of these baseline spec talents are going into the talent tree for all specs instead.

The only class i see getting even more AOE cc than they had before is warriors, druids and hunters. Mages only had ROF before as AOE CC... and paladins didn't even have AOE cc, but in 5's with dot cleaves AOE blind isn't going to do much.

Some of these choices are same tier as well IIRC.

Like right now you can have

Fire mage (dragon breath, nova, ring of frost)
Spriest/disc priest (aoe fear)
Warlock (AOE fear)
Druid/boomkin (no aoe, aoe silence)
Paladin/Shaman (no aoe)

So they gain...
Mage: Nothing
Spriest: Nothing
Warlock: Nothing (choose between aoe fear and aoe stun)
Druid: Gain aoe roots/knockback (use to be baseline for boomkin) and disorient (breaks on damage IIRC)/stall you from getting on them
Paladin: Gain aoe blind but thats useless for a dot cleave, so it would be a 3 second throwdown glyphed.
Shaman gains no AOE cc.


Warriors gain the most: AOE throwdown, AOE stun, and still have their AOE fear.

So i mean in general there isn't a whole lot new to the fight, maybe 2-3 seconds more of not fighting if that due to DRs, and deathknights and shaman can either get out of most of it or negate it completely with totem that absorbs it. Paladins can get themselves out of roots/slows etc... Not much is going to be effected really, sure there might be another clutch thing something can do. But we can make comps that abuse some of these abilities as well.

EX: AOE death grip > AOE stun > AOE throwdown > Single target split silences.