The Gaming Lizard

Ever wonder what the different classes are capable of? When you need some dispelling, who can you count on to save your rear? When the tank "accidentally" pulled a Heroic thrash mob, who can help to keep them under control?

Know Your series will answer all your questions and more! Every week we'll take a look at a different aspect of gameplay be it crowd control or dispels. Hopefully this will help you be one step closer to mastering Cataclysm Heroics!

After a short New Year break, we now return to another topic in the Know Your series: Controller. The art of crowd control is hard to master and vital to the success of a heroic group. Having another healer mob up means fighting an eternity since Cata heroics are harder than WotLK.

Absent from WotLK, CC is now back with a vengeance and more classes have joined in the fun since the ole days of Burning Crusade.

Each class has been color coded to be more visible.

Deathknight

Frost: Hungering Cold - All - 10sec - Melee Range

Druid

Entangling Roots - All - 30sec - Useful only on Melee

Hibernate - Beast, Dragon - 40sec

Hunter

Freezing Trap - All - 60sec - Able to affect more than 1 target

Survival: Wyvern Sting - All - 30sec


Mage

Polymorph - All - 50sec

Paladin

Retribution: Repentance - Demon, Dragon, Giant, Humanoid, Undead - 60sec

Priest

Mind Control - All - 30sec

Shackle Undead - Undead - 50sec

Psychic Scream (Glyphed) - All - 8sec - Melee Range

Rogue

Sap - Humanoid, Beast, Demon, Dragon - 60sec - Only Useable out of combat

Shaman

Hex - Humanoid, Beast - 60sec

Bind Elemental - Elementals - 50sec

Warlock

Banish - Demons, Elementals - 30sec - Unbreakable

Fear (Glyphed) - All - 20sec