What classes are Albion short of?

[sweetleaf.]

Played hib/excal from day one and need a change.
Looking to have a go at getting another 50 on Alb with a view to RVR.


What classes are albion short of in rvr groups?

Please help, will play almost anything.

 

[ilum]

Clerics and Sorcerers.

 

[old.windforce]

minstrels too

fun class

 

[ilum]

Olez you must have the best collection of group friendly chars ever Sorc, Cleric, Minstrel

 

[Shanaia]

Originally posted by old.windforce
minstrels too

fun class

We have plenty of minny's .. they just all solo in emain

 

[-Nxs-]

Id have to say clerics and sorcs too

There are loads of minies, and yeah most solo - but you can generaly find one without too much trouble.

Clerics are becoming hard to find, unless you look around the portal keeps, but they dont seam to want to move or heal, this is also a problem while leveling, people are still creating buffbots and you will find it hard to level a cleric.

 

[hangianix]

Originally posted by Shanaia
We have plenty of minny's .. they just all solo in emain

We have plenty of cleric's as well ... they just all stay around apk.

 

[vestax]

myspacebarisbroke

 

[NeonBlue]

Originally posted by ilum
Clerics and Sorcerers.

Clerics i agree with

but we have more than enough mind sorcs...alb is flooded with em!

Could always be different and do a body sorc like me...oooh but hang on... your wanting to do RvR which means you wont get groups if your not mind...albs aint figured out how to use debuffs yet

 

[amuse]

Originally posted by NeonBlue
Clerics i agree with

but we have more than enough mind sorcs...alb is flooded with em!

no we dont!

but clerics is more needed though

 

[old.linnet]

We don't have that many active sorcerers in RvR. Besides which, you can never have too many body sorcs! (And there is no point debuffing unless you have wizards to debuff for, so if they don't RvR, your debuffs aren't useful. But team up with a spirit cabbie and you will rock.)

I'd agree with clerics, but they'll be very hard to level nowadays in regular groups. (Because of the buffbots)

 

[NeonBlue]

Originally posted by old.linnet
We don't have that many active sorcerers in RvR. Besides which, you can never have too many body sorcs! (And there is no point debuffing unless you have wizards to debuff for, so if they don't RvR, your debuffs aren't useful. But team up with a spirit cabbie and you will rock.)

obviously you need wizs etc to debuff for.....the point i was trying to make was...that alb lately has got this stupid melee only groups attitude...so most of the casters in the game dont even get to do RvR because noone wants them in their groups...this in my view is not only unfair on casters but also stops people from enjoying the end game. Unless of course they get a random pick up or guild group.

Many many times ive asked sorcs ive been group with, if they are body and 100% the reply is dont be silly am mind why would i wanna be body

 

[old.windforce]

Originally posted by ilum
Olez you must have the best collection of group friendly chars ever Sorc, Cleric, Minstrel

only way to get a decent rvr group

play the needed class and don't suck too bad at it (well i do suck a bit playing sorc, but don't tell anyone please)

Infiltrator are group friendly too these days (see sig)

 

[NeonBlue]

Originally posted by old.windforce
only way to get a decent rvr group

play the needed class and don't suck too bad at it (well i do suck playing sorc, but don't tell anyone please)

In my opinion all classes are needed in RvR...not just those some deem to be fotm!

 

[old.Hendrick]

I found it very hard to level my cleric, I actually stopped and waited for the /level command because there were no proper groups to find on the plains. Now he's 24 thanks to some nice UP fellows, but I'm scared of not being able to take him much higher.

Which annoys me a great deal because after two days in Thid I have to say that playing a cleric is propably the best fun I ever had in DAoC ever.

 

[The Real Redi]

Cabalists and Earth spec Wizzies...

 

[The Real Redi]

Originally posted by old.Hendrick
I found it very hard to level my cleric, I actually stopped and waited for the /level command because there were no proper groups to find on the plains. Now he's 24 thanks to some nice UP fellows, but I'm scared of not being able to take him much higher.

Which annoys me a great deal because after two days in Thid I have to say that playing a cleric is propably the best fun I ever had in DAoC ever.

have to agree - Dil is a Rejuv/Enhance split cleric at 28 now after soloing since 20th virtually. I woke him not long ago, messaged a few people looking for groups, and was turned down in favour of a Paladin, PBT theurg or Ice Wizzie.

What happened to those begging for more rejuv/enhance spec clerics?

 

[NeonBlue]

Originally posted by The Real Redi
Cabalists and Earth spec Wizzies...

i respecced my wiz to earth hoping it would make me more group friendly from fire...didnt make a difference...and when i do get groups...ppl just break my aoe root...and then cry where was the CC...cant win !

/shrug

Now am stuck with a pretty crap spec..what can hardly do any dmg...and that consumes way too much mana!

i want my fire back !

 

[Garaen]

We need some more FoTM Merc's, we are very low on those atm

Seriouslly though, Mini / Cleric / Sorc are needed.

 

[old.ivan]

Rejuve Cleric
Earth Theurg
Body Sorc


.... otherwise try Hero/Chanter/Mentalist/BD etc in good realm of Hibernia cause honestly thats what Prydwen needs

 

[sweetleaf.]

cleric it is then.


Buff n heal


Thankyou all for good advice.

 

[Juiliet]

Any groups that turn down clerics should be poked thoughroughly(unless they allready have one, no need for more than one in pve), id never make a group without a 70% rejuvcleric if i planned to do anything approaching exping with it!

Personally i gotta say i never had that problem, leveled my cleric to 50 in 7 days /played without no powerleveling, but i suppose i were exping in a time when there was few clerics to be found maybe.

 

[accollon]

Got my cleric to 50 in about 18 days played, stopped at various points along the way, but again that was in a time when clerics were wanted. I will say I found 40+ hard though, as someone said there is really no need for more than one cleric in PvE and when the exp slows in the 40s and all levels bunch up, there are more clerics looking for the same number of groups.

But what is all this about can't find clerics in RvR? I find it really hard to get pick-up groups in Emain, and have to wait ages normally.

 

[hangianix]

Originally posted by .Asmo
We need some more FoTM Merc's, we are very low on those atm

Seriouslly though, Mini / Cleric / Sorc are needed.

Some minstrel are rather playing with their reaver what I've heard

 

[hangianix]

Originally posted by accollon
But what is all this about can't find clerics in RvR? I find it really hard to get pick-up groups in Emain, and have to wait ages normally.

If you haven't got buddies there, or not too many ppl know you, you won't get any non-random RVR grp. Easier to go out with guild grp or just whine all day like me

 

[The Real Redi]

Originally posted by accollon
But what is all this about can't find clerics in RvR? I find it really hard to get pick-up groups in Emain, and have to wait ages normally.

<coughs>feckin'bots<coughs>

theres one of your reasons... oh, and RP hungry Friars don't help either - you can beat down virtually ANY tank in the game, but you still have to scream about letting you rez the next one, so you get the RP's... yeah, i love that :lol:

Oh, and the comments about fire and earth speccing your wizzy - Team is Fire spec, my baby alt Heather is Earth spec, mainly for Thidranki that ickle lady though - nice GT's make a lot of difference to a keep assault. People breaking roots and mezzes is something that we just have to deal with though, as no amount of screaming will stop it, and in large scale battles when most have to go /effects self, you can't see the little ZZzz's above the heads. In PvE however, it's pretty much punishable by a big sloppy kiss from Shaeffer or something equally as slobbery and odd heh! you know i jest Scheaaeaeaeeeaeafphthruthphgrrrrrrr! :great:

 

[Graknak]

only good RvR cleric spec is Rejuv and rejuv is fecking boring to play, alot of trouble saving ppl's asses and not getting any rp's for it. Like the RvR TL report said, heals need to give rp's to get all the now PvE-ing clerics out of their hideouts...

 

[NeonBlue]

Originally posted by Graknak
only good RvR cleric spec is Rejuv and rejuv is fecking boring to play, alot of trouble saving ppl's asses and not getting any rp's for it. Like the RvR TL report said, heals need to give rp's to get all the now PvE-ing clerics out of their hideouts...

surely RvR is about fun and making sure ur group survives and not just about Rps?....saving ur groups arse will get u rps from the kills they make...in my opinion i dont see why clerics should get rps for healing...that is their role....a good group with a good cleric will make enough rps..without extras for healing.

Going on that note...does that mean everytime i give out a dmg buff/shield with my wiz i should get rps? because it allows ppl to do extra dmg?...nah dont think so.

Clerics role is healing and keeping their groups alive...in PvE you got xp for keeping ur group alive...in RvR you still get rps from the kills ur group make.

 

[old.ivan]

They did that with rezzes.... even buffbots ran around giving ghetto rezzes for free rp. Giving RP for ghetto heals <from smiters/bots> is pretty much just as bad. As someone said above, the rp gained by your groupies should suffice.
I bet what you really meant was 'everyone wants killspam'

PS: Cuth, you know you wanna be my buffbot

 

[old.linnet]

Originally posted by old.ivan
They did that with rezzes.... even buffbots ran around giving ghetto rezzes for free rp. Giving RP for ghetto heals <from smiters/bots> is pretty much just as bad. As someone said above, the rp gained by your groupies should suffice.

It should, but you don't get them if you die first. IMO, the advantage of giving RP for mez/heals etc is that the group would get them before the support class dies, as opposed to afterwards.

(As a sorcerer, I guess I usually get about 2/3 the RP of the rest of the group due to being first target so often ... and it doesn't matter how good the tanks and clerics are, they can't stop that happening. One can get a bit tired of hearing the rest of the group excitedly counting up how many RP they got for a fight when you died immediately after casting the spell that helped them win it )