Ellay,

I didn't think it was boring at all. You confirmed several things that I thought were good ideas, but wasn't really sure of. You also pointed out a few things that I have struggled with. If I sit in one place for very long, I start to feel like I should be doing something. Patience patience patience.

I have two major problems that I haven't found good solutions for so far. My gear has increased 10 fold in the last two weeks, so one of these may not be as big of a problem as it used to be. First is mages spamming arcane explosion while bouncing around inside my group or worse yet multiple mages doing this. We had two games this week against 5 mage teams. 1 or 2 would stand back and blizzard while 3 rushed in and arcane explosioned like mad. Any tips to counter this?

Second (this one may not be nearly as big of an issue now as I've increased my HP/Armor/Resilince dramatically in the last two weeks) is rogue(s) getting in amongst my guys and bladefurying the living crap out of me while I'm trying to shock/nova/magma them down.

Part of my strategy has been to use EM/NS early to try to kill one person quickly. I see that this is probably not a good idea. I've used it numerous times only to have a mage/paladin/rogue use their "oh shit" abilities to prevent the kill. It looks like waiting a bit to make sure you've got them low enough so that a EM/NS chain lightning is enough to gib them instead of just drop them low enough for a 4xfrost shock or 4x lighting bolt volley is enough to kill them; thus giving them a chance to bubble/iceblock/vanish and escape death.

Anyway, thanks for posting what you have done so far and I look forward to hearing more from you and seeing more tips.