Looking for tank …. again
If there’s one class which I’ve really noticed a shortage of in Age of Conan it’s the tank class. While tanks have always been difficult to find in MMOs it seems more-so in AoC, particularly during the quieter play times.
I had a few quests in the zone next to Laceish Plains. I’ve forgotten for the life of me what that zone is, but it contains lots of level 45 epic mobs. My Tempest is currently level 46 so I’d been ignoring these quests, waiting for a good group opportunity. I saw someone trying to form a group for this very zone and, after about half an hour of trying, this person had some success and the call went from LFG to LFM. So I figured I’d join also and get these quests done.
Our group was comprised of two Tempests of Set, a Priest of Mitra, and a Demonologist. So we had a four man team made up of three healers and a mage. Unable to get a tank so far we decided to try our luck without one. We had three healers after all, right? Well, our group wiped about five times in 15 minutes. It was a massacre.
It’s not the first time I’ve been in a group with three healers, and it’s a rare occasion when I’m the only healer in the group. In fact, from my experience I could easily believe that the most popular class on my server is the Priest class. The only thing that makes me think otherwise is that I’ve seen a few “looking for healer” calls for the higher level dungeons i.e. 65+. Perhaps people tire of playing healers around the mid level range and as a result we see a shortage of them in the higher levels.
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Comment from Openedge1
Time: July 3, 2008, 8:32 am
The problem is, based on a discussion in the forums, the healers HoT’s do not scale. One player noted he was doing a heal of 35 hps at level 65. How that is suppose to work is not quite clear. The massive amount of HP’s players have at that level will not be able to keep up with the DPS of mobs if the HoT’s are less than admirable.
Also, the reason you see so many healers (and of course ToS) is they are 100% viable “solo” classes. The tank based classes are no good, and the DPS based Assassins are awful (Barbarians do not fare well either)
And note …this is all PvE based discussion. PvP has some different issues.
DT’s could be pretty good as tankers, but from what I saw, the taunt was not working on mine, and I had put a ton of Feat points into it
But, one group I was in, the Ranger kept getting aggro, and he was 5 levels below me. Just unsure of how everything is working…including the “stats voodoo”
I hope they progress some, because even though I am having fun in other games, visually and the overall combat appeal of AoC makes me jones.
But, Funcom is far from making me think of their product thanks to their antics.