Spells: Aoe mez not being over written by higher level mez

[Isic]

The level 16 AoE mez cannot be over written by the level 39 or 49 mez. It simply says "your spell did not take hold". Makes group crowd control tough. On live, single target mez was able to over write AoE mez.

[Malrubius]

I can definitely corroborate that. Single mez should always override AoE mez (barring a resist).

[Splorf22]

http://wiki.project1999.org/index.ph...le_.2816-19.29

It does not appear to be that way.

[Malrubius]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://wiki.project1999.org/index.ph...le_.2816-19.29

It does not appear to be that way.

Interesting, but incorrect. Maybe it was that way in beta?

Anyway, the behavior described by the OP is incorrect. During classic, single mez would always override AoE mez. Pretty sure this is common knowledge among enchanters.

[Isic]

Originally Posted by Malrubius

Interesting, but incorrect. Maybe it was that way in beta?

Anyway, the behavior described by the OP is incorrect. During classic, single mez would always override AoE mez. Pretty sure this is common knowledge among enchanters.

I am saying that single target mez should always overwrite AoE mez but it currently does not and it is a bug.

[Splorf22]

Hey, I'd love to see this change because it would make my life easier.

But generally speaking, the devs are going to believe the guy writing in 2001 over the guy writing in 2012 about how he remembered things. So if you want to get it changed, dig up some posts talking about how you can overwrite AE mez with Dazzle.

p.s. I could be wrong, but I bet you can overwrite mesmerization with both another mesmerization and with L4 mesmerize.

[kanras]

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.g...dd4775df3391fd

A lot of enchanters swear by this spell, I personally don't like it
very much. Now, if you could overwrite the ae effect with a better mez
spell, it would be great, but that I suppose isn't ever going to
happen.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.g...86a2ddbabc8a49

While it works really well, and stops everyone cold, you can't overwrite it
with single mez, and (most importantly) it wears off on all of the mobs
simultaneously.

[Malrubius]

I stand corrected, as the evidence is pretty overwhelming that single mez did NOT override aoe mez.

This must have been changed somewhere around Velious, but it is not explicitly mentioned in the patch notes. I wish I had kept logs back then.

[Brimacombe]

I spent months AOE mezzing trains my groups began trusting me to handle. The rotation was AOE mez followed by single target fixing each individual mob followed by debuffing every mob followed by the tank taunting before breaking mez and maybe a caster rooting them. This would have not been possible at all had single target mez not overwritten AOE mez.
This is, of course, assuming one enchanter is running the show. In the case of multiple enchanters, the lower level enchanter could not overwrite the higher's spells period because level of caster trumped other stacking considerations.

-Brimacombe

[Isic]

AoE mez should be overwritten by single target mez. It is why it was put in the game. Large pulls, AoE mez then single target mez. Please please fix.