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what i see here is otium has never played wow, and danstaff and a few others of us have never played EQ. both games had buffers, wow had buffers that could also do other things, EQ had buffers that .. buffed and thats it. its really a mindset difference based on past experience.
whereas otium is, yes, very closed minded, the others need to realize that this 'dream' of going beyond our priestly stereotype very likely won't happen at least not to the extent you want. think back to wow, dan, priests had a buff called inner fire that gave them nearly 1000 attack power. this buff might have led people to believe that wow priests could do decent melee damage as well as smites at the same time they had a decent selection of heals. turns out that a melee wow priest is quite laughable.
my point here is to not get too riled up about the possibilities, but keep an open mind. the one thing that the pro-melee chanters have going for them is the armor, mail. mail has a higher chance of having melee stats than if our class was restricted to cloth robes and such.
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