Crowd Control Predilection
This is the most exciting thing for me right now. I am by no means good at it or perfect. I am constantly looking for ideas to make myself better. I cannot reinforce how important it is for you to have some type of cooldown timer for mobs.
Warlocks have Seduce, Banish, Fear, and to a lesser extent Enslave demon. (I am still reeling that I couldn’t enslave a boss demon. Pfft.)
Locks can control 3 mods at one time. Crowd control (CC) is a skill that is desired by groups everywhere.
You must practice in a group. Yes, the tank can take all three mobs. No one is chagrining the tank their brawniness, but why? Think if it as a reduction in repair bills. CC one and help dps the other two.
Seduction:
Make the humanoid mob to be seduced your focus. Cast Curse of Shadow to reduce early breaks and resistance to re-seduce. Then cast your seduce macro.
My Macro:
SeduceFocus
#showtooltip Seduction
/clearfocus [modifier:shift]
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus, noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Seduction
This lets me assign my focus to my target to be seduced, plus later lets me reassign my focus to another target to seduce. Typically moving from my initial seduced mob that is being picked up by the tank and take over to the Rogue’s broken sap.
Our group is learning to move fluidly through mobs. On the occasions that things go “wrong” we can easily modify. I can seduce as long as Demora has mana. So I keep tabs on her mana use. This will determine how long she can keep the last mob seduced.
Banish:
Banish is only for demons. This is pretty much an unbreakable CC. I use the above macro modified for Banish if no other CC is needed. If focus is Seduce I use the Banish right out of my spellbook on my cast bar.
If the last mob is the banished one, call out the time till the banish breaks. Also, banished mobs for warriors create rage and agro when the mob cannot hit back. Which is nice since the demon most likely will be going for yours truly.
Fear:
I have talked about Fear. I only use in very rare occasions (read above the easily modify bit). I lead off with an instant Howl of Terror (HoT). Any mobs near the healer area get the first HoT. Then pick a mob and use the below macro.
WarlockFear
#showtooltip
/castsequence [nomodifier] reset=20 Curse of Shadow(Rank 1), Fear, Curse of Shadow(Rank 1), Curse of Recklessness(Rank 1)
/cast [modifier:alt] Curse of Recklessness(Rank 1)
Since you are not trying to deal damage, you conserve mana by using Rank 1.
Enslave Demon:
It does exactly what it says… enslaves a demon. For a nice long 5 minutes. I pull it directly from spellbook to cast bar. You should be an expert in directing demons by now.
One last note to help our CC brethren, remember warlocks, our friendly mages polymorph is an arcane spell. So hit that sheep with your Curse of Shadow to reduce breaks and resistance to re-sheep. CoS doesn’t break sheep. So slap mob when you get done with your own CC duties or before if you are able.
