I played an older MMO, EQ, and there was is class that specialises exclusively in cc. Locking down mobs so the group can take everything down one by one. Does CC play any role in wow or is it strictly an aoe fest?
Stopping mobs from casting or sometimes moving is absolutely required to complete the difficult content in wow. It is also an aoe fest, and up to certain breakpoints is exclusively an aoe fest.
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Interrupting spells is considered crowd control?
Is crowed control mostly a solo thing?
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CC plays a role. But in 5 mans it’s general a response to things going wrong, like a caster mob not in the pack targeting the healer. Stuns are used to control damage/casts as well.
But you aren’t going to approach a pack of 5 mobs, cc 3, and burn 2 then rotate.
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Thank you, perfect answer.
Not as much anymore. You might see it in super high keys and maybe certain raid situations but it’s pretty rare nowadays.
Shame, feels like there’s a lot of room in this game for unique classes and play styles.
Unfortunately, meta game and eSports don’t mix well with unique.
Yeah, I don’t even remember the last time I sapped something outside of PvP.
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What does controlling the crowd mean to you then? If not damaging it, then what are you doing to it? You also stop casts with lots of things that aren’t strictly interrupts.
Maybe you meant to ask if in wow there are any situations where you take a mob out of a pull that you want to do? Most of the time if you don’t want to fight something you try to skip it, sometimes with CC abilities like mind soothe or imprison.
It was a legit question, I hear people call spells that are strictly interrupts cc abilities and that different than what I’m used to.
cc to me means controlling what enemies in a crowd are active and which ones are not, During a fight.
Nice character name
I made a thread about this the other day cause I did Voidstorm at Lvl 86 and it was the first time I found myself sapping mobs so I didn’t have to fight too many at once since probably TBC
Voidstorm felt dangerous as hell as a Lvl 86 and I was kinda diggin it
I also am still wearing my Conquest PvP set from TWW so my PvE iLvl maybe played a part in that too 
, i’m crushin battlegrounds tho lol
95% of the time you cc something itll piss someone off. use the cc as a pseudo interrupt instead 
I sap constantly with my rogue, to loot treasures and quest objectives that have hostile mobs near them since sapped mobs don’t have prox agro. If it wasn’t for that one little quirk I’d probably not even have it on my bars.
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OP is specifically talking about groups, not random garbage out in the world.
I honestly haven’t seen CC in any situation since Paladins were given AoE tanking skills in TBC back in 2007.
Blizzard gave classes strong enough tools to manage enemy abilities in combat, there is a lot of CC and coordination that goes into high end dungeon play.
It’s not about esports, it’s about dealing with the challenge mid-combat instead of removing the mobs you can’t handle.
Interrupt this one, stun this one, purge this one, at the right time.
Kicks are great and all but cc used in dungeon pulls hasn’t been a thing in 20 years.
Do you mean Cubic Centimeter, Content Creation or Credit Card?
Last time I asked it was Credit Card and I was reminded about how I must be a noob because I didn’t know.
The days of sheeping, sleeping, sapping, etc mobs came and went. Interrupts, yes. A blowback at times. Planting mobs happens, but having one out for a minute doesn’t happen. Most interrupts usually happen in mythic and raids.