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Originally Posted by danstaff
Gives the target a 30% chance to attack one additional time per successful hit. Duration: 5 minutes.
Thats going to be a popular one... the aion windfury. Im not looking forward to being in a siege with 50+ melee around begging for 5 mins rebuffs CONSTANTLY. lol
I hope they make an easy way to apply them or increase the length.
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I recon you did not play L2... Buffs are essential there and it's common practice for a party to consist in 50%+ of JUST buffers (keep in mind, that end game healers also use powerfull buffs that are class restricted). And the party in there is 9 people.
Buffing every 5 minutes? It's a joke really. Aion doesn't even come close to the sheer amount of buffs available in L2 (about 12 buffing/healing classes in this game, each with it's own set of buffs). General buffs duration time is 20 minutes, but the "must-haves" are either 2 minutes (dances / songs) or 4 minutes (prophesies).
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Originally Posted by danstaff
in any case i can at least hope chanters will be closer to overlords(l2) or enhancement shamans(wow) rather than prophets from l2.
all of the above classes were buff specialists
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Oh god... Overlord.
Sorry, but I have to shatter your dreams - OLs arent buff specialists. They never were. Warcryers are.
The Overlord class concept was superb - there we have an orc exlusive archetype class that is to act (RP wise) as a tribe leader, whose buffs effect ALL clan members within the range (regardless if they are in party or not etc.), with great passive skills and physique (OL and Warcyer have the highest Con/Str among all the buffers, they get skills for all types of armor etc.), with toggle skills that make them powerfull melee combatants (both OL and WC) AND give powerfull physical protection (OL only), who is a superb debuffer (all of them are MASS debuffs), who wields AoE DoT "nukes" (like aoe poison, aoe flame), who is a master of crowd control (mass root, mass skill to detarget aggro, sleep spell etc.), a class with very powerfull and usefull nuke (drain, that damages an opponent and gives 90% of the dmg amount to you as hp, thus healing you).
What DID we get? None of those. Well, in very early chronicles it might have been the case for some of those points.
But it all ended up in basically hardly anyone playing OL - they were and are a rare breed that's just a step from being wiped out. I won't go into details why it is so as it's not the point here. The point is - I sure a hell hope Chanters will NOT be castrated like Overlords are.
Why do I bother? Because I play OL (been playing for close to 3 freakin' years) and I intend to play Chanter.
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Originally Posted by danstaff
i wonder if +500 stats for 30 secs is overpowered or what...500 sounds like a lot.
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If fights will tend to last more then 30s (mass PvP) and given each side will have access to this type of buffs... It kinda looses it's appeal, does it?