The Death Of CC

[Urthdigger]

The point of sleep is that it's a defensive measure. The reason why it's useless is because the current playstyle is all about all offense, all the time. Granted, this is mostly because it's easy enough to outgear most encounters in the game that there's no point in playing defense... and the fights where one DOES need to be careful, CC doesn't work.

That all said, in circumstances where they're useful, CC works great. Mark targets, sleep the group, take them out one by one... hell, from what I can tell slept mobs don't receive enmity from folks being cured but DO receive enmity from flash or DoTs which don't wake them (any that don't inflict base damage, or any already on the monster when it is slept), so it can help keep hate off the healer as well. However, outside of low level parties where folks don't have all their AoE tools and are better off killing single target anyway, it's just never necessary.

Oh, small side note: CCs are pretty useful and hilarious in PVP. So there's that.