How do you manage Mage CC

[kett73]

I am running war, pal, mage, 2x lock and was wondering how you guys use sheep? Do you have a macro of some shorts setup to cc targets without attacking them? My setup is very simplistic right now with isoboxer. It has been a few years since i used it and it's going to take awhile to get it all down.

[fenerous]

There's a few ways you can do Sheep. If you want the easiest way you can have a clickbar with the macros on it, just simply tab over to the mages, target what you want. Then when you're ready to pull click on the macro and both mages will sheep their targets, then you just have them come back to assisting you before they cast spells.

I did that for a while and it works just fine. If you don't want to tab, just add in two more macros on the clickbar, #1 would assist your main char on mage #1, then you click the next target and hit the second marco, then mage #2 will target that one. Then you hit the sheep macro.

[xandorz]

I think 2-3 people have said they use targetlasttarget macros.

So they target their CC target, then target their kill target, then they press macro that uses targetlastarget -> Polymorph then they use their dps button to assist leader -> frostbolt.
This breaks when they change to a 3rd target since the last target would then be the kill target not the CC target (killing the kill target or changing who they attack).
Could probably be fixed by having a manual button that does "targetlasttarget -> assist leader" when changing target, so the CC target is still the last target instead of the old kill target.
Not sure how well this would work but I think it would work fine.

Some have the ability on round robin and assist leader with just the CC character. (saw a video of priest + 4 warlocks sending voidwalkers to tank individual targets by targetting them then pressing key to assist and petattack, this would be the same thing)
I don't know how he managed to make it work so well, I have a delay on assist so they get my last target if I press so fast, but it looked like he changed target 4 times in <2 seconds and voidwalkers all went on correct target.
I need to wait 1 second or they get my last target with 39ms latency, so idk really how it worked so well for that person.

[Peregrine]

I just target each mob with specific lock and swap to main lock and then press numpad 1 2 3 4 for each voidwalker (not using imp). That way i can tank up to 7,8 elite mobs and down them all at a same time.

Sometimes I preshield vv for bit easier managment during pull process.

So far, I am really happy with 4x lock 1x disc.Takes me 12 min to kill princess while at lv 51 so i suspect 4 mins at 60.

Brd bosses are piece of cake so far with really bad gear.

[nodoze]

I just target each mob with specific lock and swap to main lock and then press numpad 1 2 3 4 for each voidwalker (not using imp). That way i can tank up to 7,8 elite mobs and down them all at a same time.

Sometimes I preshield vv for bit easier managment during pull process.

So far, I am really happy with 4x lock 1x disc.Takes me 12 min to kill princess while at lv 51 so i suspect 4 mins at 60.

Brd bosses are piece of cake so far with really bad gear.

Nice!

Do your Voids hold aggo or do you ping pong between the voids & warlocks or are you soul-link tanking?

What specs are you running?

[Peregrine]

My voids generally always hold agrro without problems. On bossed in entire game i had no issues apart lord incendius in brf(took 10 tries to kill him due to him being higher level 4x). Generally,i wait 5,6 sec before shadow bolt spam but i apply 3x agony ,recklesness asap on all trash mobs. I am full demo aff. I dont ping pong aoe taunt since generally each void holds aggro until trash is dead. I just wait 3,4 sec before hellfire-ing.