2011-03-20, 01:42 PM
iamflip Wrote:No love for healer discussion here? xd
I mean, ya I know that essentially Priests and Bishops shouldn't be more powerful than our other mage counterparts (except towards holy-weak monsters) and that in the end, we're supposed to be a supporting role. But because of this, we don't get much EXP like everyone else.
So while all of you are discussing trying to improve damage, I feel like we need to be better rewarded for being in a supportive role. Like... oh I dunno... major improvements to Holy Symbol to net us more EXP so that essentially we get the same amount of EXP like everyone else. A smart Bless that won't override better buffs would be nice too.
First of all, Nexon has to make up their mind on what role they wanna give to bishops, Offensive or Supportive, being in the middle has never worked no matter what they do. If they wanna make bishops supportive, then they need much better party buffs, at this point paladins are much better buffers with combat orders and threaten, or even battlemages. I consider bishops should be buffers but they need a lot of changes for that to work, here are some suggestions:
- Give all their buffs the range of an ultimate
- Give them a seal skill that works on bosses and has a cooldown
- Change the weapon attack on bless to % attack and allow it to stacks with other skills and increase speed and jump.
- Change Dispell so it can dispell any abnormal status (seduce, pot lock, potential lock) and give it a short cooldown (5 mins?)
- Change doom not to require summon rocks and work on bosses (put exceptions like maybe a size restriction? so it cannot be used on zakum, HT and such)
- Allow them to get more exp from holy symbol than other party members
- If Dispel gets changed, then change Holy shield for some other skill that turns more usefull. Maybe a Threaten like skill called "purification" to be used on monsters reducing their PDR and movement ala slow.
Bishops need a lot of work in either path, the offensive and supportive route, but please Nexon stop trying to make them both, there is no way to make this work without making them either underpowered or overpowered. Look at paladins, they try to put them in the middle of Defense and attack and now they are like..... something deadly that cannot be stopped.


, I feel like we need to be better rewarded for being in a supportive role. Like... oh I dunno... major improvements to Holy Symbol to net us more EXP so that essentially we get the same amount of EXP like everyone else. A smart Bless that won't override better buffs would be nice too.