> Be me, going to do the Awakening the Machine quest
> A bunch of enemies channel deadly rays on the NPC
> The enemies die immediately if you Interrupt them
> Go to interrupt the enemies, realize I don't have an interrupt
> The enemies die immediately if you CC them
> Go to CC the enemies, realize I only have one on a minute cooldown
> I have to run across the entire map to use it on something
Blizzard… Please… This isn’t even a problem with the content.
It’s just a problem with the class. Is there a reason Priest is as god awful as it is?
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Does Dominate Mind work on them?
Reminds me of the Grasping Bloods in that dungeon - but of course any CC works there to break the root, or you can kill the add.
It’s actually really jarring how often DBM calls for interrupts and CC in the new dungeons, and you can feel a bit left out on the party having only a 1 minute disorient/optional stun or a melee fear, or tendrils that barely restrain low level NPCS for like a second.
To see them foist that into WQs considering our lack of an interrupt is just mean.
Dominate Mind works on almost nothing. Even things that share the type it is supposed to work on. Source, been using it a ton in Heroics to see what can actually be mind-controlled. Answer is not much.
I’m a high IO player, it’s not like this event is difficult. But my goodness it’s just so frustrating when Blizzard designs content for you to push your buttons and execute mechanics. Only Priest has no buttons to push to do mechanics. And it’s only Priest who has this problem. Every other class has CC’s and Interrupts.
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I did it as Archon Holy and didn’t have too many difficulties… definitely way easier than the Mage Tower. I just tagged everything and nuked down most of the packs with Halo.
With PoM bouncing back and forth constantly I didn’t need to heal the npc that much.
With the adds that you need to interrupt I just used Chastise and Psychic Scream.
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Fair enough, i remember a few times using it from time to time as an “inturrupt” on some enemies in the past when there was nothing to heal haha
Way to miss the entire point of the thread.
Sadly nothing about this is new. Priest needed an Evoker for M Raza last expansion because without Evoker Rescue they just got blown off the arena being literally the only class without a blink.
Hell 2 freaking races got racial blinks/teleports before priests did.
There is no debate or discussion to be had priest is so far behind every other class when it comes to mobility, utility, and CC that anyone arguing otherwise may as well be telling you grass is purple and humans need to be carbon monoxide to live.
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Dominate mind works, it even lets you artificially prolong a wave to recover CDs.
Between Dom mind and scream you can handle every add wave all the way up to 20. There’s never more than 2 channelers up at once.
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Idk I don’t think it was too bad… For context I went in with my Priest at level 79 since I was missing like 2k XP for level 80 so figured I’d do whatever to get that last bit. This was my first time doing it.
Since I didn’t know what to expect I just went in with the same spec I had for running leveling dungeons (Voidweaver Disc)… And yeah I guess it was a bit annoying because I only had Psychic scream for CC but I mean the whole thing was easy enough so didn’t matter too much, I don’t think the guy ever dropped below 85%.
Now I do agree the lack of interrupts and CC is a problem for certain content like M+ and I think it might be a problem in higher level delves once they are available so not dissmissing that part it’s just that the Awakening the Machines scenario in particular didn’t feel too bad cause it wasn’t particularly threatening to leave the guy channeling for a bit.
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Really?
This would be unique to this expansion. Dominate mind has always had like limited use potential considering it completely annihilates the mob damage, but it at least consistently worked on anything that wasn’t a boss.
I actually have to do this again because I forgot to get the quest. 
Fear works and dominate mind works, but you have to kill them after with dominate mind. I did this as disc twice (cause I forgot to do the quest first time) and it was ez.
You don’t even have to interrupt as their health pool is tuned really low.
And doing this as holy or disc might be slightly slower, but you have Chastise as holy and can heal the npc directly on either healer spec if he drops low.
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You dont need an interrupt here at all. Psychic scream is up every time those mobs are up, and also kills them instantly. They are also easy to kill anyway, but yeah CC works on them and will kill the casted mobs.
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I just did this on my new 80 priest, as a Holy Oracle. I never even got close to failing. Nothing died super fast, but you can Dominate Mind the channeling guys and turn them into extra fodder, and Chastise works to stun the other one, and psychic scream also CCed a lot of the stuff in the room despite them being bots. This was a cake walk and my gear is only 552 on average.
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After reading this post I expected to encounter some difficulty. Turns out this thread is whining about something that is not an issue at all.
iLvl makes a big difference.