Haunting Visage  

I just looked back over this spell and noticed the low duration.

At first, it seems like a great spell. Cast it on the tank/tanking-pet whenever you buff for group/solo, then go hunt, and it'll just help the tank hold agro, right? Well, yes, but for thirty-six seconds. Just 6 ticks. And, for those ticks, its only +5% agro, which, though it helps, seems a bit costly. You sacarfice two seconds (or four, if fizzle), plus the recast delay between normal spells, while holding still for the cast time, and 100 mana for a mere 5% increase in the tank's agro ability for 36 seconds.

I mean, a spell is better than no spell, since there may still be cases when it'd be useful, such as before a major pull when agro is hard for a tank to gain, 5% is a help.. even if not that much. Still, it seems to handicap an elsewise great spell. Should this spell have had a duration of 36 minutes as opposed to 36 seconds, it'd still be balanced.. I mean, after all, its a small increase in agro ability... frankly, a Haste spell provides more agroing ability than this does.

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I know this is a good spell to cast on the tanks in your group but they should make this spell line 'cast on others' only. I can not envision any situation where an enchanter would want to cast this on himself. We want to shed aggro, not pile it on even faster. It might be good to cast on your pets, though. It might be a sneaky thing to pull on someone in PvP, though, if they are using their pet to tank something, cast Haunting Visage on them so that the mob they are fighting comes after them instead! :-D

This spell is also sold in the library in PoK. I can't remember which merchant it was, either a Mystic or Illusionist.

What is the beneficial use of this spell

increase not a decrease