Clerics post Expansion

[taurean430]

Boo.

I REALLY wish they would reconsider this, at least for Heal scrolls. Just ran one of the new quests with one of my Rangers who can use scrolls. Bought a potency weapon from the vendor. With it, he could get down well below half HP and still be able to top himself off with just one scroll (was getting around 260HP+ out of them). Without the potency item, was getting around 110 or so, maybe a tad more.

Does EVERYTHING in this update have to be a NERF??

I used to run 8 different divine builds. I currently, post update 11, run 2. I kept one Cleric I've been working on alot, and one Fvs who has gear but needs more TR's.

Reading through a lot of these changes bugged me quite a bit. I was willing to attempt to respec my guys to remain effective as strong divine casters that heal raids easily. Then I read speculation this am in a thread stating that spells that have been added to the game under the divine sphere will not be available to them. That was the last straw. My feeling is that the development in this game is pushing me into a healing only role. This is not fun for me. And I've never had an issue healing groups. I've just become picky regarding what I volunteer for due to experience.

So, I'm waiting for the final build of the Xpac. If I see what has been speculated, I will be TR'ing my divines into builds that I am in the process of planning currently. Because I play this game to enjoy myself and have fun. If my fun playing includes being a primary raid/quest healer, that's fine. However if the message I am interpreting goes live I'll be fine and still having fun. I just won't be bothering to make healing a priority of any kind. I'll have better things to do.

[ShadowFlash]

I used to run 8 different divine builds. I currently, post update 11, run 2. I kept one Cleric I've been working on alot, and one Fvs who has gear but needs more TR's.

Reading through a lot of these changes bugged me quite a bit. I was willing to attempt to respec my guys to remain effective as strong divine casters that heal raids easily. Then I read speculation this am in a thread stating that spells that have been added to the game under the divine sphere will not be available to them. That was the last straw. My feeling is that the development in this game is pushing me into a healing only role. This is not fun for me. And I've never had an issue healing groups. I've just become picky regarding what I volunteer for due to experience.

So, I'm waiting for the final build of the Xpac. If I see what has been speculated, I will be TR'ing my divines into builds that I am in the process of planning currently. Because I play this game to enjoy myself and have fun. If my fun playing includes being a primary raid/quest healer, that's fine. However if the message I am interpreting goes live I'll be fine and still having fun. I just won't be bothering to make healing a priority of any kind. I'll have better things to do.

I agree with this to some extent...I love divines..melee divines to be specific, so I'm a "tad" better off, but of course, I splashed monk, so call it a wash I'll still play mine...I still like it that much..it's an awesome duo/solo machine. I do have some hopes for the ED's yet. The question is, will I run it with others.

By "forcing" me into the healing role...they are in fact getting the opposite reaction out of me...I simply won't group with PuGs...not that I do much anyhow I like to think I'm a decent "healer" and when the quest/raid warrants it, I'll gladly put aside melee and be your heal-bot...because I have that CHOICE. All this is doing is taking away the enjoyment I have outside of my healing duties....while not giving my cleric any incentive to be an OMG SUPER-UBER "healer" at the same time. Give me a "healer" ED, and I'd be less upset...at least I can be great at something

Just a late night, not well thought out rant
ShadowFlash

[Stillwaters]

You forget something. Implosion doesn't work like the rest of spells. It doesn't take the closest 5 mobs and roll checks to kill them like, say, wail does. It works over time.

Thus: Your first implosion check will, in fact, have no nerf. If it's successful (which it should be with no penalty), your next implosion check is made at a -2 check, then -4, and so on. So in fact, Implosion is getting a nerf, causing it to only really be reliable for the first couple kills, which makes it horribly sp inefficient.


(Oh! And did you notice how I managed to do that without being arrogant, insulting, or using color and capital letters and multiple exclamation marks to proclaim to the world how much better I am than the rest of you? You should try it some time.)

Point taken (if they implement it that way) implosion is a minor nerf then, still nothing on the scale of wail.
I expect its better in a "on-demand" and "targeting enabled" sense to use destruction anyway.

And i do tend to get carried away sometimes with all caps and colors to highlight points... especially when its late and im pumped on caffeine

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