Lunch Wrote:I'm not avoiding the question, yet I can't answer it either, thus I will continue clearing at least a couple of possible misunderstandings.
Manifus Wrote:Saying Priests Excel as a buff class and then saying that people shouldn't think of them as a walking buff machines is contradicting! D: Sure they can heal too, but come on!~
(Clearly joking, don't hate me.)
To be honest, I see no contradiction in that. Yes, I meant what I said but in turn, thinking of them as buff machines is a different thing. By the way, I never used the words "Buff class". They are for obvious reasons the best buffers but they can do much more than that and they are not obliged to constantly buff random people who have no other respect for them.
Manifus Wrote:What I meant by that is that agi classes generally kill stuff slower/less efficient, than nuke classes / hunter classes. Not to mention priests can pretty much solo faster then they can party unless it is a really awesome group/dungeon.
I've been playing in combo with two knights for about 90% of my priest career and I never thought that I could ever level by myself as fast as we did together. Now I'm mainly playing with a LK, and I definitely wouldn't call that slow.. Sure, it might be a tad slower than playing with nuke classes maybe but agi classes have their advantages instead. I'm personally focused on working in combo with knights as you can see, so sadly I have no close experience with working with 'proper agi classes' like rogue and assassin are but providing enough flee and kyrie or assumptio, leveling shouldn't be that much of a problem?
Manifus Wrote:If you think your class could be replaced by an npc.
No, I'm not thinking it would. I just happen to like the idea without a buffer, healer, etc. NPC's. Yes, I'd even give away NPC healer if I could. At least them everyone wouldn't be obsessed with "Bragi" but Apple of Idun song would prove to be of the utmost popularity!
Oh god, I bet people hate me now. 
Just to state that question avoiding wasn't at you per say, just the utter lack of question answering in this entire thread! D:
I need to give the Buff NPC a proper burial is all.
Turn undead has become awesome that way...boring though, oh so boring. ;o Admittedly just about any class levels much faster than normal when a priest is involved, just for the shear amount of brutality they can take with a priest keeping them up.
Even so, watching hunters/snipers obliterate everything before you can even get within range of it gets to be a mood kill in big groups. Why is it all these priests decide that leveling with agi classes is okay AFTER I finally get 99. >.<
Back in the day the healer NPC used to be so freakishly expensive that we used the actual built in Inns instead, or was it just that the Inns prices were raised since then... Anyways. There is always that as a fall back. ;p
