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Originally Posted by Phinger
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Oh and just one other tip to those enc's that didn't know - facination is a dumb AE mez. The level 16 one becomes level immune when you hit 56, so you have no risk of mezzing yourself while using it. I've never been in a situation where i needed to use fascination instead of mesmerization.
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I used fascination a bit (not a lot) and havent ever mezzed myself with it post 56 either. It does have its uses but they are certainly limited. It has a built in -MR modifier. Basically I had to use it when I was lower level and fighting things where I needed to AE mez 3-4 mobs at once and actually worry about the resist rate. If you get 3 out of 4 mez resists on an AE/initial pull of mobs that are high enough level they resist that much, you're probably looking at your bindpoint a few seconds later since they're gonna resist your PBAOE stuns and hit like trucks too. I still use the lvl 16 probably 98% of the time, but fascination definitely has a useful role to play in limited situations. A specific example I recall was doing CC in sebilis around lvl 54. The level 16 mez was pretty dangerous and would often have a 50-100% resist rate while fascination would generally stick on most(not all) things first try, giving time to get them tashed safely.
Agree with the rest people have said. The dots are pretty much useless. To put into perspective how useless someone sold me the lvl 59 chanter dot for 100pp in ec! I mean I'm glad to have them, I have used them at times, but in all those cases they basically fall into the "screwing around" category.
I don't think the level of the mesmerize you use has any impact on blur rates. I like to use mesmerize, mesmerization, and enthrall almost exclusively for mainline CC and I feel like they all dump aggro around about 33-50% of the time (off cuff estimates only). It'd be easy enough to test on a nonkos mob as you could just repeatedly agrro it and mez it (and then con it) to see the percent chances.
As to actual blurs I feel like reoccurring amnesia almost always works -- haven't used the higher level ones. As mentioned it is great for when you really want that blur to work. The other case is when you are fighting mobs that have a high chance to resist a normal mez -- getting 3 resists in a row trying to dump aggro just pisses things off more, while RA may fail at least you can count on it not resisting completely.
-Propo Fol