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Given what Curse of Shadows/Elements do, am I correct in my assertion that if only one person benefits from the spell it is not worth casting unless they're doing upward of 1500 DPS? I ask because I got into it with the ONLY non-arcane mage in my raid last night while we were doing A'lar. He's putting up 900-1000 DPS as Frost (a ******* feat, don't get me wrong), but demanding elements. The Elements lock, of course, was putting up Doom, as it provided him with about a 140 DPS increase (in theory). Thoughts? Theory? I'm just bouncing ideas off the wall here.

I used to CoE my mage while he was whining about me ODing him.
Since he started to OD me I never put up anything but CoS.

Hm I might reconsider it soon I get some decent crit on my new shiny destro :p

I'm only up to mid-Kara, so I'm not as experienced as many other posters here, but I'll throw in my thoughts.

I tend to not use either anti-resist curse for just one person, unless it's a shadow priest. They already have all their +shadow damage, but then another 13%, and a good chance for +20% more? They love me.

And when there's two of them in the healer group, the whole raid loves me.

A couple fire mages gets CoE; an extra lock, a shadow priest, or some arcane mages gets CoS. If it's just me, I finally get to use amplify curse. That ability is so underused, outside of fights like Curator, where I can do 25k damage if I time Doom right.




Just have to agree with Loki. If you're fighting a caster that can have CoT on it, that's either a straight out 60% damage reduction, or a +60% chance that the the spell will be interrupted completely. We made it through an entire Spell Shade pull with 0 damage because of my CoT on all of them.

Edited, Nov 25th 2007 12:41pm by Ehcks

Depending on the raid makeup in most situations, I'd say give him Elements. It spreads the aggro around (which may or may not matter depending upon what fight you're doing) and will give some minor benefits elsewhere like Immolate, Flame Shock/Searing Totem and Fireblast. If the overall loss is 40 DPS (1000 DPS * .1 = 100 DPS vs. 140 DPS) without considering side benefits then just toss him the curse.

For Al'ar specifically, forget it. Casters are out of commission long enough (between him flying between platforms in P1, to the Meteors in P2) that you'll get a larger DPS boost out of having Doom ticking the entire time than you will out of CoElements even if you spend the entire time on the boss... which you can't and won't. If you use casters on the spawns in P2 then it's even more lopsided in favor of CoDoom.

you are definitly doÃng something right using it in pvp on priests.

If we only have one mage in a raid there's no chance he'll get a CoE.
Of course, our mages suck so we're thinking of not using CoE when we have two of them either ^^