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The MC priest spell says it will last up to 1 minute. I MC'd a 59 elite
ogre in Diremaul and it lasted the full minute. With his 2 buddies pounding
on him he was pretty much dead when the clock ran out. However in the same
instance on the same type of mob and level, 2 seconds and it broke an all
the mobs were aggro'd. In Sunken temple a lvl 50 elite high priest
consistently broke it right away. With a spell so unreliable what use is
it? In Sunken temple my group responded and took down the aggro'd mobs. The
Diremaul group when MC broke early (4 elite ogre's) pretty much meant a
wipe.

Is it just hit or miss or is there particular humanoids I should focus on
that are unable to break MC? If it is truly random bliz should ditch the
spell and give something else because then its only use is for amusement.

 

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"feides" <nothing@nothing.com> schreef in bericht
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> The MC priest spell says it will last up to 1 minute. I MC'd a 59 elite
> ogre in Diremaul and it lasted the full minute. With his 2 buddies
pounding
> on him he was pretty much dead when the clock ran out. However in the
same
> instance on the same type of mob and level, 2 seconds and it broke an all
> the mobs were aggro'd. In Sunken temple a lvl 50 elite high priest
> consistently broke it right away. With a spell so unreliable what use is
> it? In Sunken temple my group responded and took down the aggro'd mobs.
The
> Diremaul group when MC broke early (4 elite ogre's) pretty much meant a
> wipe.
>
> Is it just hit or miss or is there particular humanoids I should focus on
> that are unable to break MC? If it is truly random bliz should ditch the
> spell and give something else because then its only use is for amusement.
>
>

I believe it said it will last UP to 1 minute and a chance to break every 5
seconds?

 

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In <denm43$ca$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca> "feides" <nothing@nothing.com> writes:

> Is it just hit or miss or is there particular humanoids I should focus on
> that are unable to break MC? If it is truly random bliz should ditch the
> spell and give something else because then its only use is for amusement.

I've just started using MC regularly on my 40 priest, and I've found it
usually lasts the whole minute. I think you just got a few unlucky rolls.

I'm just speculating here, but MC breaking early is probably dependent
on several factors, one being the mob's magic resistance. Caster mobs
are more likely to have a self-buff that increases MR, thus MC is more
likely to break early on those mobs.

I nearly always cast MC on melee mobs, though, so I don't have any
empirical evidence to support my theory.

--
John Gordon "It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese."
gordon@panix.com

 

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you would be surprised how many mobs dont have buffs.
i have been detecting magic on almost every mob and i would sya 99%
have no buffs on what so ever.

John Gordon wrote:
> In <denm43$ca$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca> "feides" <nothing@nothing.com> writes:
>
> > Is it just hit or miss or is there particular humanoids I should focus on
> > that are unable to break MC? If it is truly random bliz should ditch the
> > spell and give something else because then its only use is for amusement.
>
> I've just started using MC regularly on my 40 priest, and I've found it
> usually lasts the whole minute. I think you just got a few unlucky rolls.
>
> I'm just speculating here, but MC breaking early is probably dependent
> on several factors, one being the mob's magic resistance. Caster mobs
> are more likely to have a self-buff that increases MR, thus MC is more
> likely to break early on those mobs.
>
> I nearly always cast MC on melee mobs, though, so I don't have any
> empirical evidence to support my theory.
>
> --
> John Gordon "It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese."
> gordon@panix.com

 

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"John Gordon" <gordon@panix.com> wrote in message
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> In <denm43$ca$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca> "feides" <nothing@nothing.com> writes:
>
>> Is it just hit or miss or is there particular humanoids I should focus on
>> that are unable to break MC? If it is truly random bliz should ditch the
>> spell and give something else because then its only use is for amusement.
>
> I've just started using MC regularly on my 40 priest, and I've found it
> usually lasts the whole minute. I think you just got a few unlucky rolls.
>
> I'm just speculating here, but MC breaking early is probably dependent
> on several factors, one being the mob's magic resistance. Caster mobs
> are more likely to have a self-buff that increases MR, thus MC is more
> likely to break early on those mobs.
>
> I nearly always cast MC on melee mobs, though, so I don't have any
> empirical evidence to support my theory.

Probably has a lot to do with the monster's level versus your level. If they
are higher than you, more likely to break short of the full 1 minute. Lower
than you, probby last the full minute. Many things dont' work nearly as
well when used against mobs higher (or even same level) than you.
-Marshall

 

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"feides" <nothing@nothing.com> wrote in message
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MC when it works is the best thing to use, but when it fails it can be
troublesome. We did Dire Maul and our priest MCd most of the mobs and it
made life so easy. In case MC broke we had a plan B to resort to so in
those cases we did not suffer a wipe.
Personally I'm a big fan of MC and even if it does break make sure you have
a plan to take care of it.

 

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"El Durango" <El_Durango@yah00.c0m> wrote:
> "feides" <nothing@nothing.com> wrote in message
> news:denm43$ca$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca...
>
> MC when it works is the best thing to use, but when it fails it can be
> troublesome. We did Dire Maul and our priest MCd most of the mobs and it
> made life so easy. In case MC broke we had a plan B to resort to so in
> those cases we did not suffer a wipe.
> Personally I'm a big fan of MC and even if it does break make sure you
> have a plan to take care of it.

Yeah, it's great fun for the priest, also. I finally got round getting the
amulett for Onyxia so I went with a random pickup to BRD for the jailbreak.
In the cell trakt, there are Tauren, Trolls and various dwarves to take
control of. It was lots of fun and we sliced through there very fast.
Sometimes MC holds the whole duration, meaning I break it manually. Other
times it can break fast. One way to break it immediately is if the priest
moves with automovement just before MC starts on the mob. Did that
accidentally.

CU

René

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