To force trinkets?
Bait kicks?
How to not punish myself with diminishing returns
I’ve been learning in skirmishes but priest is like Chinese to me
really good priests use it on kill targets after a go to delay healing and bridge gaps between cc on their healer
can also just be used as a normal cc on healers or off target
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Wouldn’t using it on the kill target mess up the rotation and potentially give the target time to get CDs back ?
Using it on a sac target so they can’t receive heals. Could use it to stop Cocoon from going off, they could end up putting it on themselves instead.
Stop Mage polys, re-polys to break up cc chains. Any dps that’s attacking a low teammate to peel them off.
If someone is super low and you have no stops for the enemy healer, they could die inside the MC.
When a Mage uses Ring of Frost, you can MC their healer into it.
You could also pull a target out of position to swap to. If you play with a Rogue you can pull someone behind a pillar and drop it into a Kidney Shot.
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Holy crap I didn’t know you can use someone’s teammate and make them set off their own teammates traps
Yeah, when Survivalist misses his traps, which is often, I have to MC them back into it and drop them off. If an enemy Hunter misses theirs you can also walk their healer into it.
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situational. thats something id account for before doing it. Or your partners can just tell you to drop it.
a good place to start is to just start mcing defensives like ironbark, cocoon, sac, etc.
I havnt had a chance to 3s but in 2s i love making dhs rage whisper me after i MC every meta
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there are macros to prevent people from using externals on mc’d players don’t always count on that working.
Depends on comp you play but you can do any of the ways above, or you can use MC to help your partners get cc. If you run RMP and you’re fighting a melee team it can sometimes be obnoxious to get polies off. So you can MC the target with kick to secure your mages CC.
If you play Disc in 2’s you wanna use MC a lot. Especially if you play with a rogue. You usually MC the kill target after every kidney to get as deep into dampening to just do as much damage as possible since you’re a disc. If you q into a DH that is especially.
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what are these macros?
#showtooltip Life cocoon
/cast [nomod, @target, help, nodead, exists] Life Cocoon
One of the best ways to use it is when an enemy puts down an AOE defensives such as AMZ, darkness, some, etc and making those defensives become your teams. This is super good if someone is low and standing in it and might allow your other dps to finish off the low kill target or force more cds
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can also be used with dots to allow affliction/spriest etc to rot without heals.
im surprised no one has mentioned mind controlling people off of cliffs, by far the funniest way to use it.
All of the above are great. Personally, I love when priests use them to:
Stop casts like gpy or poly
Mc when low and let both our (I’m a boomy) dots kill them from 15% down.
Simple peels
Allowing enemy defenses to become ours (or usually just walk them out of it).
Wasting time during enemy cds.
All of those are what spriests typical do when I acknowledge them. Most priests don’t make good use of mc at all and it’s a shame. Super powerful ability. Playing owlplay and rotating MC/clone and all our cc is soooo good.
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Ya mind controlling poeple into a mages rof and even your own shamans link is pretty pro. But I’d say it’s pretty standard to use is on sac/ caccoon to delay partners getting topped and help with dr”a . He’ll just using it on melle or non mobile classes and running them off blades edge bridge is pretty great.
force trinkets, bait kicks, stop greater pyros (chaos bolts if you’re fast enough), low hp targets (same way a rdruid cyclones a low hp kill target), move people out of dome/darkness/rop/spirit link/earthern
there’s so much you can do with MC, and as far as DRs you really only have to worry about your Psychic Scream - so before MC’ing try to consider if you may or not need a full length fear
mc is also useful vs rogue/dk comps where you’re permaslowed and can’t get to the range/healer for a fear
To prevent heals during sac or between cc drs, or when you can walk them off bridges and bad positions. When you need a few seconds to land kill. When dps is so low and has dots you can mc and they will naturally die. Mc dps so heals without stuns or interrupt cant free their dps like a Dh. Mcing instead of pumping out damage can make you lose pressure and momentum and can act as a cc against you so be weary. Hope this helped.
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Doesn’t it also turn off things like darkness?
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