Originally Posted by
thantos
Mages can counterspell seconds, on a 20 second cool down. They can blink every like what? 30 seconds? Ice block every so often, frost nova, polymorph, deep freeze, slow or dragons breath, spell steal your buffs and hots, amazing damage, mana shield, ice barrier, mage armor and ice armor, and good old evocation.
Priest. 5 second silence on a 45 second cool down, 2 second silence on a mage using mage armor. We have a bubble that absorbs 2,200 damage that mages can spell steal too, and can be easily dispelled, a fear on a 23 second cooldown, which I play alliance, so 90% of the people i face in bg's and arena stomp me cause of Will of the Forsaken, the fear breaks in two dot ticks no more then 3k damage, there is many abilities that many classes can get out of fear, such as tremor totem, warriors rage, undead racial, lichbourne, cloak of shadows, and others. Don't stack spell pen and your fear will get resisted.
Got mind control
, but seriously, who the hell uses mind control? Three second cast? Low range? You get to control your enemy player for 6 seconds, leaving you open for attacks for 9 seconds.
And we have grand old Dispersion, we take 90% less damage, regain mana, silence ourselves.
The 6 second silence we do to ourselves... hmm... a good time to dispel/purge or spell steal, good time to get 5 combo points, good time to start casting a long spell, good time to get some heals off, or reapply dots/fear and debuffs to the priest. Dispersion is life for 6 more seconds.