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Will We Ever See CC in PVE Again?

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Rashomon
#0 - Jan. 24, 2009, 5 p.m.
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My main has been a Mage since old school WOW. Mages were always defined as having great ranged damage, great CC and great AoE.

Now every DPS class has AoE...annoying and bland design but whatever. The problem with this is Blizzard has designed the content to be group pulled and AoE'd down now. In BC that required a Pally tank and at least one AoE'er (which was usually a Mage or Lock)...plus it was only doable if you drastically outgeard the content.

Now every tank is an AoE tank and every DPS class has great AoE. So we might as well take any CC we have off of our toolbars unless we are doing Arena.

Will we ever see a Magister's Terrace style run again that required tight CC and careful pulls? BTW before people chime in that they don't miss the days of marking targets, having a kill order and requiring at least one form of CC......do you actually find the new content fun now that you have AoE'd through each run dozens of times? Wouldn't it be nice if there were one or two really challenging 5 mans to test our skills in?
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Ghostcrawler
#11 - Jan. 24, 2009, 6:01 p.m.
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There will be more CC in the future. We don't want every pull to require months of planning, and sometimes burning down large groups can be fun. But remember Noxromulus was designed to be approachable and puggable. It will get harder from here on out.