Okay, forget the fact that his knockback root is Chromatic -30, which is far better than our VP's -30 disease check.
The thing that gets me is that his is a 3 second cast, with a 6(!) second recast. Since it lasts for a minute, he can easily keep multiple mobs parked.
Which is exactly what happened last nite. Our guild is one trial short of Anguish, so everyone's in a signet feeding frenzy. During a gruesome 6 hour grind in the RCoD Sewers, we were chain pulling murks passing time between the 21 minute re-pops of A Cunning Dragorn. When our pet-pulling beastlord wanted to take a break, the ranger took over pulls. He'd occasionally get 4 or 5, and I saw him in action keeping a few of those locked down with Elddar's Grasp. It was amazing. And I thought shaman put chanters out of a job with our being able to keep ONE add locked down with VP.
Sure, I've spammed root click pants to some success and somewhat controlled a crisis multi-pull. But root broke too often, and mostly only delayed the inevitable. I certainly didn't come close to the handiwork this ranger was doing last nite. And he just got the spell a week ago. I imagine EG will let rangers pull more effectively overall, especially indoors, but it sure makes VP yesterday's news.
