A Guide to Mages comment thread

[mjdoom]

Minor nit:  Druids can remove curses, too.  As a priest player, I'd go into a rant about how mages never cast remove curse, but that's just my pet peeve.

I'd just like to mention this point again. I realize that this guide hasn't been updated for late game yet but I've come across this more at the higher levels now. Basically as a priest my first priority in any battle is to dispel any effect I can (even before healing because healing does no good if, for instance, my party member is a frog or magically stunned or some other such thing). This means that not only am I constantly watching health bars, I am also looking for debuffs. As a priest I can dispel most magic effects and cure diseases, but I cannot remove curses. It is very frustrating to me when I see this situation and there is a mage around not removing those curses.

Thankfully I have not run into this often partying with Lurkers such as Skan and Lochnar but I still think that when you revise this for higher levels it is important to point out the usefulness of remove curse as curses become more common (and hurt a lot more).

And even though this is a PvE guide, one of the situations that pointed this out even more to me recently was while PvPing in Southshore for a little fun. These raids on Stormrage are generally not well organized on the Alliance side but it was still very frustrating to me to be dying to high level Warlock curses in group PvP. If PvEers ever intend to go into Battlegrounds (when they are available) it will behoove them to be aware of the need for remove curse against those high level Warlocks.

Now that I've rambled way too much I'm gonna shut up. I'd just like to see remove curse given its proper treatment as you write up the later level part. I'm sure you would have anyway but I just wanted to make sure. B)

- mjdoom