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Another - Which Class Are You Going to Play? - Order
killerwig
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Okay... I know that there's been a couple of polls already for this, but you get to choose both Order and Destruction now (since you can play both anyway). The poll for Destruction is in this post
So which Order class are you looking forward to making when you first log in to WAR?
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Xxxxx Xxxxx, Witch Hunter, at your service.
Priest of Sigmar (aka Warrior Priest), of course! I've been playing healers all my life and this one looks to be extremely interesting. I'm so tired of following the group and constantly pressing heal-heal-heal-resurrect-heal-heal-heal buttons. At least there'll be some difference.
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The above post is purely my opinion. If you disagree, that's your right. However, don't be an ass about it.
It SAYs everyone wants to play a warrior priest but we all know whats going to happen.
The class is obviously going to be more support than leet pwn and damage, so everyone will quit it and play the highest damage dealing class. I predict 2handed Hammerers and 2handed Choppaz will be the classes everyone plays. Nobody will dual weild even though dual weild will prob have higher damage per sec, people want to see huge "1000" numbaz!! so expect slow 2handed weapons to be flavor of the month.
I predict in the end, I will be one of the only warrior priest around, just like I am one of the only holy priest around in wow, only aug healer around in daoc and white mage in FFO. people just dont like to heal and support for the most part.
which is fine with me, because i never have to worry about finding tanks
I have an aug hlr,cleric,friar,skald.Support is what differentiates the leets from the casual only play my favorite,who gets upset when his 70 year old aunt running healer for a fg cant keep them alive.
I'm not sold on the warpriest or a melee healer in general unless thier heals have range or a decent radius.warpriest will most likely be the first target dropped on contact.Ide rather go traditional 2 ranged healers in the rear kiting and assisting on overextenders with whatever offense they have after being support specced.
so far as usual, looks like best healer will be the dwarf runecaster,grp enhancements,range,dwarf durability.
Knight of BS looks like it might have potential,durable with a frontload self dps buff.
odds r the elf is gonna get a good dps caster.
Won't take long before the optimal caster and tank grp is figured out.Whats wierd is watching what class will own what slot.In Daoc if you were hib and wanted a heavy tank,u had to use a hero.In war you have basically 3 classes vying for 1 type of slot.im predicting leet setups will only utilize 8 of the 12 classes.The tricks is not to wind up one of the 4 left out.
Well WAR can count for at least two warrior priests then, because I'm not going to betray it no matter what! I always play "true healers", I even played awful templar in EQ2, that says a lot. As much as I'd like to kill someone occassionally in PvP, my true obsession is helping others to survive (I know I'm a pervert).
I cannot explain the sadness
That's fallen on my breast.
An old, old fable haunts me,
And will not let me rest.
Warpriest are gonna be prolly the hardest class to play.They do look cool and I love there lil rally of sigmar,then,for the empireee.....
thats hard to pass up.It could if given some cc ,easily be the driver/leader.Sounds like they heal and carry the buffs,besides being a 2nd tier melee.Wonder if they will get some decent defensive line,because there definately gonna be a target.There prolly gonna be mainly in melee heavy push grps i suspect.
but nevermind about that, the game will now have 3 healers
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I'm afraid the first one I'll likely try is a Witch Hunter. I'm worried they're going to be the Night Elf Rogues of the game lol
But I intend to try as many classes as possible and I like melee healers so it will be Priest of Sigmar once I get the Witch Hunter hat
Then I'll roll up a Dwarf Rune Priest. It will be weird being the only one on the whole server
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Perhaps in World of Warcraft. There was gaming actually before during and after warcraft, people sometimes forget this. I know that in dark age of camelot I played a healer and war treated like God walking. Infact I would say the temperment in daoc and wow are exactly opposite. In Daoc the name of the game was support class worship where as wow your support is a byproduct of the game and its about how much damage you can deal. I have seen many groups in daoc who had mediocre DD, but an absolute mastermind playing the healer and they win lots of fights.
I think back to my days of DAoC and most fights played out like so. Healer Casts CC. Other team chases healer trying to kill him, said healer runs for his life while Our warrior used shield to block for him and our other tanks Killed off their support classes and I kept the healing up and the shaman kept debuffs on the enemy tanks and spot heals on me and other priest. if the support played great we always won.
I like to have that much control over wins and losses. I had an ego 15 years ago when I started gaming and I wanted all the frags and kills I could get. I grew out of that phase though when I started to see how much power you weilded by supporting and healing. Think about it, you are just a bunch of people stanging around in a mob until you have some type of healing or support. then you turn into a TEAM after that. Im sticking with playing a healer no matter what, and I am going to spec it to support as much as I can even if it gimps the class to spec it to support I will still spec it and play it that way. The devs "claimed" that morale in pvp is group based, so even if I dont build up morale by hitting people with my hammer, I should be getting morale by by knights riping through the enemy and be able to access higher abilities if Im not mistaken.
Did anyone else think brother Gunther the warrior priest in "mark of chaos" was the coolest charachter since SHAFT?
On a side note. People like to deal damage, and bright wizzy deals damage and only deals damage so we should expect alot of rerolls to brite wiz shouldnt we?
Well noted. Though my experience with DAoC is very limited, this approach was used in a great number of good games, which is how it should be. In fact, I was deeply shocked when I tried playing WoW as cleric. It seemed to me that no one gave a damn about whether they were healed or not at all! Thus, to this day, WoW remains the only game where I played as a tank. I just didn't enjoy being a cleric.
It's not like I want to be worshipped, but every good healer wants to be appreciated. It's only natural, considering we actually sacrifice the opportunity to kill stuff to help other people. I remember being grouped in WoW and the group was absolutely horrible except for the healer who was excellent. After we disbanded, I sent him a tell (or whispered, whatever) and thanked him for perfect healing. He told me in reply that he had never been thanked for his heals in WoW ever. I felt really sorry for him.
I cannot explain the sadness
That's fallen on my breast.
An old, old fable haunts me,
And will not let me rest.
But Kraiden ,as usual ill wind up playing healer/support cause ill wind up getting sick of crappy healers and do it myself.
my question to you as a long time support class or any reader who has been.I dont think the priest of sigmar is are ticket,unless u are gonna bet on a love patch.Melee healer/buffer,can only work as a 3rd hybrid healer,like the warden.I need range,so far ruinpriest with his little rune enchancements and dwarf durability is the choice atm.although his tier4 armor is lame.Got a feeling the high elf is going to get a ranged armored healer.the armor will cost some other abilities but you can't heal when your dead.
Let me theorize as a fan and not as a reporter for a minute. k?
Right, so from what I have seen so far. Even though each realm has a healer TYPE and a mele TYPE they are not all ment to be the primary. Its not 6 individual sides, its 2 sides with 6 races. All different classes.
Think in terms of daoc. You could start as a troll and trolls only had shaman as their healers. But dwarves started up north and had Healers as their healers. This was not to say shaman couldnt heal, or where primary healers. But they where the healer of the Troll region. I relate this to WAR. Priest of sigmar can be the healer for his realm but may not be the most powerful healer for his side of the war. I can tell you the shaman sure enough cant keep 2-4 people in a group alive against constant damage, so there has to be a better healer out there. Warrior priest supports by being in melee combat and gaining RF. Abilities like, healing the party for % amount of damage you deal, and critical hits made raise the melee damage of all party members, An aura that lowers all spell damage by % to anyone grouped with the Warrior priest thats in the small radius. Things like that. Combine Warden with Aug healer would be the flavor of what you can expect. or if your a wow fan, think Enhance shaman combined with restorative abilities like shadow priest vampyric embrace and touch when they deal or take damage. Rune priest however is WAR less melee oriented than Warpriest. I didnt like my runepriest at all, but I would say he was closer to traditional healer than either shaman or warpriest. Runepriest had a buff that greatly reduces the damage your target will take, but its a focus spell. so its not something you would cast on the front line its something you would cast ON someone in the front line. Where as warrior priest has an chant which effects everyone within close proximity of him so they would have to be on the front line to make this work. Let me refer to daoc again, remember the aug healer? Celerity turned tanks into blenders and raised attack speed greatly cutting the delay time in half. But the draw back was the spell only had a range of a few feet so the healer had to actually be standing in melee combat with the rest of the tanks to cast the spell.
if you play mark of chaos, some of your spells cant be used while not fighting. you need to be in combat to use most of your best spells. War is similar. Think of Warpriest as the front line support who CAN heal, think of runpriest as back row healer and buffer. I would expect for elves to have the best healers.
However, do you as a fan have a feeling/or plainly see the following.The war priest will be ideally used in a tank group.this is going on the basis that were looking at 6man grps. where its evident a caster/ranged grp would consist of 2 ranged elf/drawf healers and 4 ranged classes.(kinda wish they stayed with 8man grps).
One the positve side the warpriest will be all but mandatory in a tank grp.And being a new game with lots of grps,being confined to melee grps(organized type) won't be an issue like post ToA Daoc.(wish mods could sensor out ToA from forum,makes me sick).
lol,ok guess I did a great job answering my own question.anyways do you have a similar take?