How to win in CTF

[Quark]

First of all, while most people know that you can "bubble" out of silence (or almost anything), but not many know that you can't "bubble" out of school-silencing type of effect. So if you counterspell a paladin while they are doing nothing, it will not prevent them from using divinse shield. But if you counterspell them midheal, you get 10 seconds in which you can try to kill them, while all holy spells (including divine shield) go through 10 second cooldown.
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That would be great for Kick, which is generally not "Improved", but Counterspell is almost always improved. There's a bug with Improved Counterspell: you no longer get the 10 sec school cooldown, only the 4 second spell global. So mages most likely get no help from this.