Enc AoE Mez over-rated?

[SenoraRaton]

I'm a 30 enchanter, and I just can't find a use for AoE Mez, is it bad, or do I just not know how to use it?

The downside is that if I mez myself, I'm worthless for 24 seconds, it hits at most 5 other mobs, and I can just tab cycle targets and mez them one at a time. It is also chaotic because resists, or mez breaking means I WILL die, because now everything wants to agro me.

Does it become necessary at some point? It just feels like it takes up a spell slot, and I never use it, and when I do, I regret it. Tab targeting single mezzing seems much more effective.

[PatChapp]

I'm a 30 enchanter, and I just can't find a use for AoE Mez, is it bad, or do I just not know how to use it?

The downside is that if I mez myself, I'm worthless for 24 seconds, it hits at most 5 other mobs, and I can just tab cycle targets and mez them one at a time. It is also chaotic because resists, or mez breaking means I WILL die, because now everything wants to agro me.

Does it become necessary at some point? It just feels like it takes up a spell slot, and I never use it, and when I do, I regret it. Tab targeting single mezzing seems much more effective.
When you get a bit higher and you group,you'll mostly be grinding blue mobs. It's super useful, you can just target the puller and mez most of the mobs they bring in.
Need a good puller that brings in 3-9 at a time.
If 8+ mobs, land the first mez and have the puller move. This gives you 2 piles to maintain, just like keeping 2 single mobs mezzed.
The biggest thing is keeping people off the mobs until their locked down, p99s greatest challenge.

[branamil]

Its "ok" until you are mez immune 56+ or so (?). Then you can never mez yourself. Under that it's an "oh-shit" button and single target mezzes are often better.

[PatChapp]

Its "ok" until you are mez immune 56+ or so (?). Then you can never mez yourself. Under that it's an "oh-shit" button and single target mezzes are often better.

Yeah you definitely need a skilled puller for it to work well
They need to stop far enough from you that mezzing yourself isn't an issue

[Jibartik]

I kept that spell on my bar all the time. Keep decent MR and you can lockdown any train. just standup target something and start casting. MR buff and a couple MR items is all you really need.

After 57 you dont get hit by it as far as I can remember and it's basically like aoe stun at that point that lasts what, 45 seconds? 30?

I love that spell!

yeah like the other says, when someone pulls like 5 things and bam you just lock em all down it feels good :)

[eisley]

It's also critical while charming because when Charm breaks, you can then pbae stun and AoE mez and mez both your pet and the enemy. Then simply recharm. Keep your enemy rooted for even more safety.

[Jibartik]

at level 30 maybe grab a couple +13mr rings and some other MR items to see how much you need to resist it, maybe 2 rings and an eoe or something would be all it takes? If you like the way the spell works without the danger of self mez.

[Jimjam]

Keep a corpse nearby to use as a target for the aoe so you can position the mobs close to the target, but keep yourself out of range.

[Tann]

Pbaoe stun into aoe mez has saved me a corpse run on many occasions.. A+ would recommend

[Jibartik]

Keep a corpse nearby to use as a target for the aoe so you can position the mobs close to the target, but keep yourself out of range.

I seem to notice that if you aoe mez or slow a group

hit escape

take a step back

auto targeted whomever just hit you because you had nothing targeted

cast it again, it hits all the other awoken creatures

thats my simple little trick

[Toxigen]

remember: level 4 mez is the only mez spell that is interchangeable with aoe mez

[Kawhi]

AoE mez is awesome and feels kinda busted at times. And yes it's way better once you're level immune. Also when you get higher level, the mana difference between the two spells starts to matter a whole lot less. Most situations I find myself in at 60, I don't even keep a single target mez on my spell bar because the AoE mez might save my ass, and I don't care about the difference in mana.

When soloing a tough summoner at higher levels, it keeps you from having to switch targets to mez your pet. If you have the enemy targeted and charm breaks, just cast the AoE mez with the summoner targeted and it catches your pet. These are spots where fractions of a second matter so not having to switch targets is great.

In a group and 2 or more mobs pulled at once? Just mez them all and don't worry about trying to figure out which one the assist is on so that you can then switch to the others to mez.

[Vivitron]

I used it a ton levelling up, even keeping my MR up for it before I was immune. I liked to stun->ae mez to reset after a charm break solo. Also nice to lock down a pull quickly in an xp group, but it's a bummer that it is likely to blur the mob your group is killing if you can't exclude it from the ae area.

Lately though I find myself memming it less and relying on color slant+skew more heavily instead. That may be in part because I haven't done a lot of soloing against mezzable targets lately, though. You have the option to slant then memorize ae mez, but if things are going smooth enough I tend to just recharm on the stun.

[Elizondo]

No

[Ravager]

Way back when I was leveling in a regular group our enchanter was king at locking down mobs with aoe mez. Our puller would pull a dozen mobs at a time and they'd be locked down while we cut everything down one after another. With a good enchanter and good puller it's a whole lot of fun and great exp.

[Clearmind]

low mana and with chance to blur it owns.