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Originally Posted by Rathi04
I'm sorry, but there is no way you can say what our roll is as of now as most of if any of us are in beta. What if you have a decent cleric and everything is running smoothly, are you going to just sit there watching buff timers doing nothing else? Any added damage is a bonus if you're not being stupid about it.
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Yes, I can. You are a support class and that obviously leads to the conclusion that you won't be a DD class. Buffs won't last forever and according to the skill list, Chanter will be capable of healing, even if not as efficiently as a Chanter. The point is that during PvP you won't, most likely, have time to be dealing damage to your opponents. In fact, you can even become a weight to your party as you can be waking up mobs or just messing with the crowd control.
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Originally Posted by Tareith
That's what will seperate a good player from a bad one, the more things you can do in addition to your base role (while not neglecting it), the more skilled the player. This is the way I think NC is heading with them. Now granted, you wouldn't want to be doing the same or even close to the same DPS as a DPS class, that'd be unfair.
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Even if you're extremely good you won't survive if you rush into a group of people to deal damage. Since you're a soft target, you'll be top priority to go down, so, if you insist in going melee DPS you can call yourself a candy to the opponent's DDs. I know how most of you feel, because I myself have played support classes for a long time, but you will end up not making damage neither healing your party because you'll die really fast, even if you're good. From my MMORPG experience I can tell you that everytime i've parties with Rambo supports, not only their damage was pointless since it was pathetic compared to the damage dealing classes, but they would also get distracted with the mobs ending up not giving decent support, failing with buffs, or missing heals.
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Originally Posted by T3ngu
Agreed. I'm guessing the offensive skills on clerics might possibly be there for a reason, like BEING USED. It's pretty dumb to tell people what to do when they don't even know the details on the classes or game mechanics, only the things they read about.
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And what was the level you needed to learn that skill? Usually, in lower lvls, all the classes get those general skills since their job is yet to be specifically developed. Do you really think that in end-game you'll have any decent DD skill?