The Death Of CC

[HyperiusUltima]

If you have access to sleep you have access to either a much better CC ability (holy) or you are starving yourself of DPS.

Or both.

He's a BLM, not a WHM. What he was saying was that he has lost his utility to stop damage from a pack of mobs for 30 seconds, and that in itself is a form of mitigation if the tank is either undergeared, or if the healer is undergeared and can't keep heals up as well.