a dracoliche  

Hehe, I noticed you said use a 60 mage with MALA to debuff him. On the raids Ive been on, we usually have members from 3-6 different guild with very few level 60's ( thankfully an enchanter with KEI was among them ). Since MALA can be bought for less than 1k easy in the Bazaar now on Luclin ( take your pick from ateast 10 copies of it, I even got a copy for my GL for just 125pp ), and MALO *IF* its for sale is 60kpp+, mages usually do the debuffing on the raids Ive been on. Enchanters usually dont Tash, as If they get aggro with their crap AC/HP they are dead very quick, which means crowd control just went out the window=major CR's for all. Shamans job is to try to land Turgurs or Plague of Insects asap ( and buff when possible/required ), and I can tell you that gets me summoned quite a bit, but with my own buffs/gear/Aegolism I can take the hits till the mobs taunted. I guess all 60 guilds dont have this problem, but the "invitational"raids Ive been on , most mages debuff and the shaman slow, and enchanters do crowd control/mana buffs. Last PoF raid I went on we had 7 full groups with only ONE mage and ONE shaman ( my GL and me ) both level 55, and things worked quite nicely, with him doing Malosi and me Turgurs. Dracholiche is bad *** but not an "uber" mob by any standard, I'm sure tactics change quite a bit for upper level encounters and top level guilds, but thats not 80-90% of the raids to PoF, PoH. Ive read people say that you can "just wear BD gear for resists". LOL!! BD gear has **** stats other than resists, and the shawl Draco drops for example easily replaces 3-4 BD pieces, where I could pack in major AC / HP increases. Im sure if he's slowed 70-75% hes pretty gimp, and to say that only class XXX should get a certain item ( unless its only for only class and no-drop or for an epic ) is weak. Yeah the puller is very important, but if he was SOO good then we would never need enchanters as we ( the groups ) would only have to fight one mob at a time. Many mobs you have to get into range to cast on so wizards, mages, shamans, and many other classes need resist gear. Example--Wizard gets hit with AoE and dies--no manaburn/quick damage spells. Mage dies--no debuffs so no ones spells stick worth squat. Shaman dies--mob ( now unslowed ) eats thru your raid party and total wipeout ensues. This is what is more than likely to happen on pick up raids or raids with guilds who may not even have but one or 2 level 60--the rest being low to mid 50. So the main puller isnt the most important person in all upper end raids ( even ones that can do Draco ), in this case it was the enchanters, follwed by pretty much everyone else equally.

55 Ogre Luminary on Luclin server--Chaotic Winds--Baron Aggrok