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x_rast_xx_rast_x Member Posts: 745
in Age of Conan: Unchained
Hello!



 I've looked over the information I can find at ageofconan.com and I have a few questions that maybe you all can answer...



Will healers have any significant capabilities *other* than healing?  Will using or developing these capabilities make you gimp?  Will healing characters function more as healers or as buffers?  Will they be required in order to do anything in PvP or PvE?



Thanks!

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  • DowieDowie Member Posts: 280
    From what i have heard from some video-interview is that priests are damagedealers with priesty abilities.
  • AelfinnAelfinn Member Posts: 3,857

    There are zero pure healers in this game, every last one of them has some combative ability. The closest you've got is the Priest of Mitra, and he/she still fights up close with blunt weaponry while using concussive AOE blasts to keep people from crowding up on him.

    One thing you ought to know, most healing is done by touch, so the classic sit back and spam heal is impossible even if someone wanted to set his character up that way.

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  • McGrath2004McGrath2004 Member Posts: 38
    Sounds much more realistic!
  • tfwarlordtfwarlord Member Posts: 216
    Accualy ashame theres no Pure healers, because it is truely something unique...



    i remember from AC2 that the healers was very treusured (the healers there had no really combat poweres, they had very few, but not enough to solo at all) and always very selfless... to me a DD healer make no sence at all, to much double moral (both heals people and kills alot of things...)like a crafter that destroys items...

    None DD healers (pure healers), had only 1 object to keep a group alive and well..

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  • AutemOxAutemOx Member Posts: 1,704

    I think I prefer no 'true' healers.  The second there is a true healer, all the half healers become incompetent, and people consider them unneeded and unwanted in groups...

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  • tfwarlordtfwarlord Member Posts: 216
    i wouldent say that... theres differnt kinda of healing other than the eccenciel health healing... theres also Vigor/magic/mana healing, Desise healing, Poison healing etc... you could just keep health healing to a true healer class, and give delegate the other healing poweres to the other healing unpure healing classes...

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  • x_rast_xx_rast_x Member Posts: 745
    Originally posted by Aelfinn


    There are zero pure healers in this game, every last one of them has some combative ability. The closest you've got is the Priest of Mitra, and he/she still fights up close with blunt weaponry while using concussive AOE blasts to keep people from crowding up on him.
    One thing you ought to know, most healing is done by touch, so the classic sit back and spam heal is impossible even if someone wanted to set his character up that way.
    Hmm..  I may actually give this game a try then.. 



    I like to play in supporting roles because they're usually both essential and woefully undermanned but after two years of healbotting in WoW I'm sick and tired of being totally defenseless in PvP if I'm not surrounded by allies (even in good DPS gear) and staring at a screen full of health bars for hours at a time.  There's some raid bosses I can honestly say I don't know what they look like, despite having had them on farm for months.



    When a game feels more like a chore there's really not much point in playing.  I quit when Burning Crusade came out and it was obvious that all my gear didn't count for jack anymore - they can get some scrub for the expansion content and be just fine, I'm playing Quake 4 and having a blast - but it's not the same without the community element so I'm really hoping a new game comes along that can capture my interest.  This might be it - still looking forward to WAR though, no reason I can't get into this in the meantime though.
  • tallhall33tallhall33 Member Posts: 10
    Yeah it seems Funcom is aiming to please everyone and make it less routine.  Besides I don't think a full all out healer would go with the story of Conan.

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  • LuftwaffenLuftwaffen Member UncommonPosts: 101
     ok  thats good but i think everyone needs to be able to heal in one form or another  in a PvP oriented game just my opinion like UO and RYL had ways to heal and made PvP better
  • SturmrabeSturmrabe Member Posts: 927
    Originally posted by tfwarlord

    Accualy ashame theres no Pure healers, because it is truely something unique...



    i remember from AC2 that the healers was very treusured (the healers there had no really combat poweres, they had very few, but not enough to solo at all) and always very selfless... to me a DD healer make no sence at all, to much double moral (both heals people and kills alot of things...)like a crafter that destroys items...

    None DD healers (pure healers), had only 1 object to keep a group alive and well..

    There is no moral conflict at all, unless you are in a Tolkien good-good fluffy bunny world, where the good is sickly sweet and the evil is pure and unredeamable...

     

    THIS IS NOT THAT WORLD!

    Hel, even the real world isn't anything like that!

    You must crush your enemies or be crushed, if you serve Nature, Shamanic spirits, or Mitra or Set, its doesn't matter, those that oppose will take you like and you MUST respond in kind! there is NO pacifism in Hyboria, well not any that lives very long, and even the mages can jump out and wade into the thick of combat!

     

    Heal over Time will be the primary method, and touch and "cone" heals will be the delivary system, cone meaning you have to aim it actively, no clicking a name in the group list and spamming a button!

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  • tfwarlordtfwarlord Member Posts: 216
    shit... im not that type... accualy many persons would call me Immoral, corupt and desitefull.... im just saying a dd healer is like a crafter that destroys peoples items, ...  2 total opersites neutralizing each other..

    I just think it would be  good for the game to have 1 true healer type... because like in real life, theres always a complete opersite to everything (in science as well as the human psyology), so if we have one class that does nothing but krush kill and destroy (which we do)((good old rts game :) no phun intended), we need one class that does nothing but healing.. this isent really a conspet of good and evil, both are good and evil, depending on the point of view, its a conspet of opersites, like yin and yang, its a consept of balance..

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  • SturmrabeSturmrabe Member Posts: 927

    Google "Catholic Church", "The Inquisition", "The Crusades" for refferances :D

    Also with Druids, killing people that harm the Earth (from your perspective) is doing as much good as healing those who are helping you protect it!

    You just have to see things in a more multifaceted light...

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  • tfwarlordtfwarlord Member Posts: 216
    my point is if we have classes that Destroy and cant heal (which is like 70% of the classes), we need a class that cant destroy and only heal..



    i dont think you completely undertand me.. i dont belive in any consept of good and evil, only in allies and enermies.

    im saying like in the real world theres a complete opersite to everything...... its accualy scientific... like -e and +e, like up and down quarkes, Like to me as a Athist, technocratic socialist, there other people who are  religius, Konservitive, rightwinged radicals.

    There is always a complete othersite out there

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  • SturmrabeSturmrabe Member Posts: 927
    Originally posted by tfwarlord

    my point is if we have classes that Destroy and cant heal (which is like 70% of the classes), we need a class that cant destroy and only heal..



    i dont think you completely undertand me.. i dont belive in any consept of good and evil, only in allies and enermies.

    im saying like in the real world theres a complete opersite to everything...... its accualy scientific... like -e and +e, like up and down quarkes, Like to me as a Athist, technocratic socialist, there other people who are  religius, Konservitive, rightwinged radicals.

    There is always a complete othersite out there

    I understand you, but the problem is there is no lore basis for that in the Conan world, even having healers at all is pushing it!

    The Scions of Set, one could argue, should have no healing talents at all! Just all badness!

    But having healers is a MMO necessity, and they are going a decent job in working in healing without breaking TOO MUCH with REH lore...

    If you break it down only Priests of Mitra would be a good healer class, and not everyone wants an ARAC Clan so it just wouldn't work out...

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