Kibannu

Well I did it, I made the switch from coercer to illusionist I'm only level 64 atm so I'm not raiding yet...

It's amazing just how different these two classes are.

I have noticed, however, how little burst damage we have vs the coercer.

I'm still going through all my spell lines and learning everything but I have a few questions.

1) What buffs do you have on ( you and your pet )? Do you use the Synergism (or equiv) buff on yourself and drop one of the group buffs? Do you always use your pet?


2) On a typical solo mob what spells do you cast in what order? My coercer had 2 major reactive damage spells that would give me amazing burst damage. My coercer has none except for the Synergism line if I choose to use it and it's not every time of course. Here is my current spell casts ( again, I've only been messing with it for about 2 hours once I finished the betrayal last night and got new spells ):

Pull with Brainburst ( long range, have improved verion of this [AA] so it does all damage in like 8 seconds )
Root
Devour Hope ( arcane resist debuff )
Tell pet to attack ( ranged )
[ If target is a caster ] Drain Thought
Construct of Reason
Sap Will ( long stun ) - This is to let the Construct of Reason get some good attacks in before he's obliterated.
Shimmering Beam
Brainburst
Shimmering Beam
Embolism ( DD + mez )
Shimmering Beam

Repeat as necessary and when CDs are up.

If target is a solo ^, this method does indeed take a bit of time. My coercer would just wreck things by now even without a pet.

What am I missing?

Dailon

Prismatic adornment spell line. Our reactive spell. Plus youre missing you can melee solo mobs. Youre talking about burst damage but youre slowing your dps. Look at your spells again and rethink your cast order from pull. Being an illu, solo mob is matter of seconds.
Just a little hint: you can precast Prismatic havoc (T6 version of Prismatic adornment) b4 pull.

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Kibannu

After last night and spending some time playing... I have definitely discovered the ability to go up in their faces and melee ( my stuns + pet stuns ) with Prismatic Havoc ( improved with AA so it comes back really fast now ).

I was also specced wrong as I was taking a route similar to what I did with Coercer (stuns / CC / support) since I duo a lot with my wife (wizard). I used one of my free respec's and I'm now 4-4-8-6-2 AGI and 4-4-6-8-2 INT (from memory, may be off) and have TC and working towards IA now. Would you recommend I go for STA or STR next? I was considering STR for solo'ing but I haven't really put a whole lot of research into those two yet since I need to cap out IA first.

Thanks for the help btw.

Dailon

im going 4-4-5-8 str. on solo you dont have aggro or healing issues so no point going sta.

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