An army of... healers?

[old.Burgess Prime]

I have this idea, and there's surely no way it'd ever work, but I'd still like to see it tried:

Healers working in groups. An unkillable army, harbouring the ability to ressurrect it's dead. Okay, so maybe a bunch made only of Healers wouldn't work, so toss in a few other types of attacker. But just imagine it? No need to worry about the healer dying. One of the other seven can ressurect him And while Healers are no warriors, we can still fight a little, so we'd not be utterly useless in the event of people staying alive (ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-stayin' alive, stayin' alive... my apologies).

Okay, stupid idea. But interesting to see.

WAKE UP! IT WASN'T THAT DULL!

 

[)nick(]

I think a group of clerics would work better seeing as they also have some great offensive smite spells.

 

[old.chesnor]

A group of 8 healers would be a scary group in RvR. Not much in the way of offense (8 unspecced hammer would still hurt tho) but imagine all those instas. 8 lvl50 pac specced healers, hmm, this equals..

8 x single target Mezz
8 x single AE Mezz
8 x single target stun
8 x single AE stun
8 x insta single target mezz
8 x insta AE mezz
8 x insta single target stun
8 x insta AE stun
8 x insta heal
8 x group insta heal
and each healer could fully buff themselves

I have grouped with just 1 healer (same level as me) and we were a great strike team. Mutual heals, mezz, stun and nasty 2h hammers for some /stick tonking. We were taking groups of up to 4 yellow cons (class mattered not), using suprise ambush tactics.

My personal favourte, and on my DAOC wish list is a group of 8 lvl50 spritmasters (with troll pets). 8 tanks, 8 nukers and mezzers. Now that would be a sight to behold !

 

[c0ngo]

If they met 7 Smite Clerics and a Minst or just 8 Smite Clerics the fight really wouldn't last very long

 

[Eblessair]

that would be a laugh
but as nicolas said, clerics would probably win

 

[c0ngo]

Originally posted by Eblessair
that would be a laugh
but as nicolas said, clerics would probably win

Probably ?

 

[old.Charonel]

at lvl 11 i grouped with 7 other void specced eldritches by just hanging around the mage school in tnn and asking any elds to join.

omg i'd love the chance to do THAT again! could you even begin to imagine the sheer damage that eight void elds can ram down a mobs throat!?

love to try that in rvr!

 

[Riddler]

Originally posted by Charonel
at lvl 11 i grouped with 7 other void specced eldritches by just hanging around the mage school in tnn and asking any elds to join.

omg i'd love the chance to do THAT again! could you even begin to imagine the sheer damage that eight void elds can ram down a mobs throat!?

love to try that in rvr!

shame if all 8 eld's got resist on the very same very purple mob tho "NEED A TANK"

 

[old.Charonel]

Originally posted by Riddler


shame if all 8 eld's got resist on the very same very purple mob tho

ROLF! dont even want to think about that situation

but the sheer speed with which the mobs went down though! was great fun.

 

[Riddler]

hehe yeah, wouldnt try to stand in the way in emain for that grp (not that i would have gotten time to come up with that idea if spotted tho )

 

[old.chesnor]

Originally posted by C0ngo
If they met 7 Smite Clerics and a Minst or just 8 Smite Clerics the fight really wouldn't last very long

You're right of course, 1 healer gets AE mezz out and the other 7 hammer on each cleric 1 by 1. Sure wouldn't last long

 

[c0ngo]

Originally posted by chesnor


You're right of course, 1 healer gets AE mezz out and the other 7 hammer on each cleric 1 by 1. Sure wouldn't last long

Then the mez wears off b4 the girly hitting healers manage 2 kill even one Cleric then it's A Cleric AE mez, AE smite, Smite, Stun frenzy and the healers meekly die like they're designed to do and the Clerics go off in search of a proper challenge

No need 4 hammers, what's the point of them ? Other than the +4 smite on the epic

<edit> that's assuming the Clerics don't just Smite/Stun kill the Healers from range or that 100's of Albs don't show up and kill them b4 the fight is finished

 

[old.chesnor]

lol right, my 'girly' healer hits for around 80 (self buffed) with my 2h hammer on yellow cons mobs. That hammer also procs a dd of around 100dmg reasonably frequently (it is named Hammer of Black Ice, and it a 44 quest reward for all hammer wielding classes).

So, 8 healers, hitting on each cleric will reduce said cleric to 0hp (I'll be generous and give them 1500hp) in roughly 3 hits each. Our mezz lasts 1min. I predict all 8 will be dead within a minute

 

[c0ngo]

Originally posted by chesnor
lol right, my 'girly' healer hits for around 80 (self buffed) with my 2h hammer on yellow cons mobs. That hammer also procs a dd of around 100dmg reasonably frequently (it is named Hammer of Black Ice, and it a 44 quest reward for all hammer wielding classes).

So, 8 healers, hitting on each cleric will reduce said cleric to 0hp (I'll be generous and give them 1500hp) in roughly 3 hits each. Our mezz lasts 1min. I predict all 8 will be dead within a minute

Thats assuming the 1st Cleric that's hit forgets that they have an AE intsa Mez and doesn't Mez the whole lot as soon as 1 of the healers hits them which breaks their 1 minute mez ?

 

[old.tRoG]

this really is a war of the messes

clerics would win. they can actually do damage

 

[old.chesnor]

You hot the nail on the head......its really quite simple (pre-1.50 hurrah!!!), he who AE mezzes 1st wins.....end of.