05-31-2005, 01:10 PM
Brista,May 30 2005, 01:13 PM Wrote:Pedantry aside, a hunter pulling an add off a healer and then soloing it is CC.
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I have to object to that statement. CC is taking a mob out of the picture so you can basically ignore it until it's his turn to die. If you're off-tanking it, you're not ignoring it.
Not that there aren't times when someone needs to off-tank a mob so the rest of the party can focus on one target, of course. But if you're off-tanking, you're reducing your party from five members to four for the purposes of dealing with that one mob. A mage who's got a sheep off to the side can still blast the main target. A priest with a shackle, a 'lock with a seduce, a rogue who's sapped something... same thing. Even a priest with MC working can still be contributing damage to the main target by using their minion -- and at the same time they're letting the minion take as much damage as they can draw. Off-tanks are busy dealing with a mob other than the main target.
If you consider off-tanking CC, then a five-man group encountering five mobs and each member picking one to fight is "crowd control." Not a good use of the term.
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