I miss my Spears of Lagaciousness Doom through the doors. One on keep raid, I think I had upwards of 20 Runecarving Spears show up while people were beating on a door. It's because of this that Mythic put in LOS to cast through walls and doors. They try real fixes to problems in their game. As sad as I was to lose the Spears through the door, I knew the change was coming.
And for the healing part, Shaman > Healer. I actually got into a few long discussions about who was the primary healing class of Midgard. Healers are a CC class. Shaman are the primary healing class. Healers could heal, but just because the name said Healer, didn't mean that was their role. CC is a huge part of DAoC and any Healer that neglected their CC spec line hurt the team in small group encounters. If you compare the healers across all 3 realms, the primary healer in each one has the Heal Spec Line, the Buff Spec Line, and some form of damage line.
That's like saying "If you compare the music classes across the 3 realms, the primary role of them is as a melee support." Do you really believe that bards are designed to be played as a melee support? That minstrels got stealth purely by accident? That it makes sense to compare 3 hybrid support classes with the same abilities across the realms?...
Clerics in Albion have Rejuv, Enhance and Smite.
Druids in Hibernia have Regrowth, Nurture and Nature.
Shaman in Midgard have Mend, Aug and Cave.
Um you mean, "You can tell the primary healer classes by the fact that they are the one class in that realm that receives Divine Intervention and/or Perfect Recovery."
Healers match up much more closely with the Hibernian Bard.
Bard has Regrowth, Nurture and Music and Bards are the primary CC class of Hibernia.
So given all that, CC isn't really all that great in keep raids. Whenever I had a healer hit me with any kind of stun or mez, I would already have been moving out of LOS so it didn't allow for enemies on the ground to kill me and it activated my 1 minute CC immunity timer allowing me free reign for a minute to drop some nukes on the people on the ground.
When I played in Midgard, our Shaman was the primary healer backed up by the Healer for spot heals since his heals were never as good as the Shaman.
Did you just say that shaman's are the main healing class in midgard?... Leads me to wonder if you've ever played midgard... Lets check the specc that most people that play shammy's play. 43 aug 31 cave 10 mend. Hit me up with your Healers specc so i can laugh about your post. And in the meantime please go watch a shaman video and tell me how many of his 30-40 spells a minute are heals that equal up to the amount a healer can heal in one cast. I just want to say thats the most confusing post i have ever read about DAOC. Shaman's should be buffshearing, rebuffing and spamming ae interrupts. If the group is suffering they should start spamming group heals but never in the amount any healer can cast. The two primary speccs of healers are pac healer and mend healer. Sure a pac healer focuses on CC and Healing, but any even remotely intelligent group gets two healers, one for pac and one for mend. Please give me the statistics of how many shaman's in daoc that go mending get accepted into groups as a base group plan. ^_^ thanks
P.s. if you're to the point of relying on a shaman for heals, you have already lost and the group should be kiting.
I always ran in organized grps,and after the major heal patch a ton of midgard healers went 42mend/33 aug.42 mend gave midgard healers the new red major heal which hit for 600+ and was fast and if setup right u could pump out 100+ of them easy.I could keep someone alive with 3 assist casters on him easy,and that was on a toa server,on classic ive seen a whole caster group have to dump on a tank(not in rr5 mode) over 2 power bars to get thru a midgards healers heals.
the drivers were the cc,and secondary healer.
if we had to use a pick up shaman and they started healing instead of aoe disease,and shears we promptly re-formed group.That's basically a soft kick from grp of the shaman.
if u ever look at /stats heal shamans are rarely on it.There are a few rr11 shamans that have enough realm abilty's and can perform there main funtion's and heal,these are rare and i have grped with one.But she(Kayp of midguard,name got nerfed from kneepad's,hence kay-p) could only at best heal about half of what my r9 aug healer could.
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Did you just say that shaman's are the main healing class in midgard?... Leads me to wonder if you've ever played midgard... Lets check the specc that most people that play shammy's play. 43 aug 31 cave 10 mend. Hit me up with your Healers specc so i can laugh about your post. And in the meantime please go watch a shaman video and tell me how many of his 30-40 spells a minute are heals that equal up to the amount a healer can heal in one cast. I just want to say thats the most confusing post i have ever read about DAOC. Shaman's should be buffshearing, rebuffing and spamming ae interrupts. If the group is suffering they should start spamming group heals but never in the amount any healer can cast. The two primary speccs of healers are pac healer and mend healer. Sure a pac healer focuses on CC and Healing, but any even remotely intelligent group gets two healers, one for pac and one for mend. Please give me the statistics of how many shaman's in daoc that go mending get accepted into groups as a base group plan. ^_^ thanks
P.s. if you're to the point of relying on a shaman for heals, you have already lost and the group should be kiting.
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the drivers were the cc,and secondary healer.
if we had to use a pick up shaman and they started healing instead of aoe disease,and shears we promptly re-formed group.That's basically a soft kick from grp of the shaman.
if u ever look at /stats heal shamans are rarely on it.There are a few rr11 shamans that have enough realm abilty's and can perform there main funtion's and heal,these are rare and i have grped with one.But she(Kayp of midguard,name got nerfed from kneepad's,hence kay-p) could only at best heal about half of what my r9 aug healer could.