Eirr wrote:
This assumes the sheeper will always have a reaction time and not miss the fact that the sheep has resisted. I am assuming that mages who repeat sheeping generally get into a flow of reapplying the spell every so often, so that the maximum possible time of a loose mob is the interval between reapplications (in the case they do not notice), regardless of whether they are watching the mob or not (use of focus macros).
The only way this makes sense to me is to have your mages just spam sheep and doing nothing else. This way you don't have heartbeat resists -- you just have the initial resist.
A mage who doesn't notice his sheep target has come out of sheep is a dead mage.
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I noticed a significant increase in the persistence of our CC in Kara once our priests started intermittently reapplying their shackles using a focus macro. Fewer loose mobs, and fewer deaths. The routine preventing the player's attention from wandering. Not mathematically provable perhaps, but an observation.
My solution to this problem in Karazhan was to:
1) maximize my spell hit (via gear + 6-8% from talents)
2) carefully position myself far from the shackled target so that if it heart-beat resisted I could reshackle before it hit me once.
3) use max-rank shackle, which has a nice, long duration.
4) use a focus macro to reapply without losing my target
I had no trouble. The one thing I didn't do was re-shackle every 5 seconds, not even on Moroes adds. Yes, I am intermittently reshackling, but like every 40 seconds instead of every 5.
I believe that if you can't maximize your +spell hit, you should fall back to the spam-shackle strategy:
1) maximize your mp5
2) use Rank 1 shackle, short duration but very cheap to cast.
3) use a focus macro to reapply without losing my target. Re-cast every other spell cast. (i.e., shackle, mind flay, shackle, mind flay, etc)
This is far less effective than my first approach because you spend all your time as a shacklebot, instead of 95% of your time as a shadowpriest or as a healer.
That's my opinion, as represented by Stercus.
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