2010-07-04, 09:59 PM
Yup, I really like the supporting aspect of Bishops. I made one with the idea to become a Priest and train with my girlfriend (Marauder) all the time. Well, before the leech sucked, anyway. At least I could do that with the old leech ratio until level 110~ish. I also really love the supporting aspect of Bishops at places like Targar/Scar (healing), Zakum (healing, bless, holy shield, holy symbol), and DrPQ is just a house of fun (keeping everyone alive on seduce at first stage, and you're just the party's heart at second stage, if you got no HB you gotta dodge the rocks with teleport to keep yourself alive, and whatnot).
I remember getting MW20 as soon as I could as Bishop because I still play with my girlfriend (Bucc now) 90% of the time, and it helps if I have it so she can focus on other skills. What other support could I offer? Heal at 4th job training? Now having Bless to be better support for my party is just sweet. Either if I party with melee or other mages, I can buff them better than their attack pots (in case they don't stack) or their own buffs, that just sounds like what Bishops would do. It also will boost my own damage a little, which isn't bad for the weakest mage. The new Bishop training playstyle sounds like buffing with HS to increase exp and Bless to increase damage, and just help in stunning and Big Banging everything for faster spawn.
If anything, it would be really cool to have some sort of 4th job skill that works like Regen from Final Fantasy. So we don't have to be stuck to the attacker healing them all the time. Instead let them receive little heals while we're away and full heals when we're close to them. Sticking to someone to heal them just doesn't work for 4th job training. A regen-like skill would probably also be cool for bosses, in case we get stunned at Targar or Zak, and whatnot.
As for gaining less exp at bosses than everyone else, I guess we'll just live with it.
I remember getting MW20 as soon as I could as Bishop because I still play with my girlfriend (Bucc now) 90% of the time, and it helps if I have it so she can focus on other skills. What other support could I offer? Heal at 4th job training? Now having Bless to be better support for my party is just sweet. Either if I party with melee or other mages, I can buff them better than their attack pots (in case they don't stack) or their own buffs, that just sounds like what Bishops would do. It also will boost my own damage a little, which isn't bad for the weakest mage. The new Bishop training playstyle sounds like buffing with HS to increase exp and Bless to increase damage, and just help in stunning and Big Banging everything for faster spawn.
If anything, it would be really cool to have some sort of 4th job skill that works like Regen from Final Fantasy. So we don't have to be stuck to the attacker healing them all the time. Instead let them receive little heals while we're away and full heals when we're close to them. Sticking to someone to heal them just doesn't work for 4th job training. A regen-like skill would probably also be cool for bosses, in case we get stunned at Targar or Zak, and whatnot.
As for gaining less exp at bosses than everyone else, I guess we'll just live with it.