Lunator

Its been a great couple years playing the Illusionist, and I thought I could stick it out till the xpac, but tbh I'm getting way tired of spamming those same spells in the same zones on the same mobs.

Alot of good Illusiionist left the game already and I thought that I might finally be able to get in a guild and get the uber gear that has been eluding me all this time. Finally got in a top guild too, well app'ed for 3 weeks anyway, and never set-out once and killed miragul too. But /sigh i don't have the beast skills... so maybe I would make member, and even then maybe some new app will take my spot, or maybe the guild will collapse. Alot of maybe's and then there is the next xpac changes so there will no doubt be alot of talented illys running around looking for a open slot.

So i see no point in playing this toon full time (yeh i know, no great loss to thw Flames community) But anyways, think I'll play my Necro and Warden for a while (hehe do some slow casting) and get them some AA so they rdy for Feb.

nemesizzz

The wording isnt clear to me. It sounds like 2 illusionists will mean 2 time compressions in each group. Unless 1 person having tc applies some restriction. This sounds pretty useful to me.

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daw4888

Unless they make coercer manaflow raidwide again, or make illy myth proc raidwide.. or replace those abilities with a raidwide version, guilds will still run 4 enchanters.

SirAmoel

From what I heard (unconfirmed rumours, ofc), is that there will be some sort of limit precisely preventing raids from running, say, 6 illies, and have the whole raid TC'd and IA'd. Apparently, the buffs will be limited to 1-per-group, no matter how many illies there are.

But, as I said, unconfirmed rumour, just tossing it up in case someone knows better and can correct me.

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nemesizzz

Im hopeing the allow us to unattune our gear at least. I figure illu and coercer number 2 would be replaced with a conj and necro.

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Sadari

Agreed. Raid priority is tanks (1-3, depending on targets), healers (5-8, depending on targets), regen (4 chanters), dps buffers (varies depending on DPS, but typically 3-6 bards and a few more illusionists), DPS. Mucking with 'chanters DPS buffing abilities won't change their role as a prime regen class.

Furthermore, the big advantage to running multiple Illusionists is doubling up on the temp buffs Peace of Mind (+1k dmg proc for any attack) and Destructive Rampage (+10% base CA/spell). If they don't touch these, raids will still double-up on illusionists. If they make these raid-wide (like the troub's CoB), you'll get enough illusionists in the raid to guarantee these buffs are up 100% of the time.

Sadari
80 Illusionist
80 Inquisitor

Heal

All this talk of making buffs raidwide makes me wonder how much this will gimp RoK and even TSO content.

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nemesizzz

Well raidwide changes wont really affect groups that much. 10 levals will though, apart from bastion, which should make almost everything 1 groupable.
Almost everything is 1 groupable in rok and thats just aa's and gear.

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Orani

Yeah, RoK is already gimp if ya are TSO raid geared; ya can one group about half of RoK content already. Unless there is changes to those temp buffs and regens mentiond by Sedari, every group is still gonna want an enchanter.