2011-04-19, 09:32 AM
Hanabira.Kage Wrote:Why don't we just step away from discussing support skills for now, and focus on the matter at hand; the new skills?
Rebalancing of the mage classes is completely related.
Support skills of a Bishop:
-Heal: useful for seduce, pot lock, pot delay.
-Advanced Bless: plays a bit of the part of HB (specially useful for low-HP classes), though survivability post-BB is not that hard to achieve; helps with avoid (not that significant on BB, don't know the formula post-Chaos); other buffs are nice but nothing special.
-Shield Thing: blocking 10 hits can be useful to save some players from death or help classes without stance, can be useless if the no-delay misses are plentiful.
-MW: useful but everyone has it.
-Ressurrection: Wheels can replace it, but it's still useful as it doesn't change seduce order.
-Dispell: can be replaced by all-cures but it's nice when you are pot-locked/seduced or if the bishop knows when you'll have a status and can dispell before you potion.
Again, they are useful when the boss run is a hard one, post-BB that would be C-Zak, C-HT and PB (dunno about Van Leon, haven't heard much about him).
When most of the bosses the normal people do don't require a Bishop to be defeated a supporting class is not of much help. Most people will never do a cHT, cZak or PB.
They need to be useful outside those bosses as well, not just an HS mule.

