So You Wanna Raid...

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Actually, we've had a LOT of boss wipes which we could directly attribute to not enough mages still being alive (in turn indirectly attributable to other causes, but still) to dish out DPS.  I have, on more than one occasion, said on TS "not enough mages left, it's a wipe."
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Ah, but you said that because it was the collective mages (all 6 to 8 of us) who were providing the dps in that raid. You could just as easily have said "not enough hunters left, it's a wipe", or even just simply "not enough dps left , it's a wipe".

Point being you didn't need mages specifically for the battle. Any class capable of chucking out damage would be fine.

I will concede, like many of said, that we are of a bit more utility in ZG with the need to sheep/resheep mobs to reduce large groups down to more manageable levels, and that sort of makes me feel a bit better because I'm doing something no other class can do. But again, the dps boss encounters have really been all about the rogues, the hunters and the warriors... and all our damage is really flattered by the warlock's Curse of Elements.

As for itemization, I am leery in that being used as a way of boosting damage as it currently is for both casters and meleers. It feels like D2 all over again.

But for casters specifically, I think they had the right idea with priest racial skills and warlock pet quests. I would love to see new spells and abilities for different races be made available post level 50 through quests, with maybe an epic long-drawn out one, akin to the current hunter and priest epic weapon ones, at level 60 for a really uber spell - maybe a fire-based one for Humans and Trolls in Searing Gorge, and a frost-based one for Gnomes and Forsaken in Winterspring.

Yeah, I know this has taken the thread off on a tangent. Sorry about that.