On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Wayne Sheppard wrote:

> > From: <kim@...>
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Wayne Sheppard wrote:
> > >
> > > And Bards have much better battle skills than a cleric. It isn't even
> > > close. Bards are much closer to Rangers than Clerics in combat
> abilities.
> >
> > Clerics are almost our
> > defensive equivalent. Their melee skill is weaker (4 pts/lvl
> > vs our 5 pts/lvl + dual wield), but their magical offensive
> > capabilities more than make up for it.
>
> We were talking melee capabilities, not magical. Otherwise you could argue
> that a wizard was just as good in melee.

My point is that a class whose specialty is supposed to be
healing is better at combat than we are. I suppose you could
argue that we're not supposed to be very good at combat
either, but still I'd like to be better than the class whose
purpose is anti-killing.

> > My L31 cleric friend
> > is easily able to solo battles using wrath, root, melee, and
> > heal that I wouldn't stand a chance in at L35 (aside from
> > using charm).
>
> Why not use charm? Or why not kite it instead. Root and shoot is just like

#2 and #1 on the list of ways to die quickly in Runneye. :-)

> kiting, except more dangerous. And low 30s Clerics are an aberation. They
> get Wraith at 29 but not another DD spell until 44. Wait until the lvl 31
> cleric is lvl 40 using that same Wrath spell and they can't solo anything.

Did not know that.

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John H. Kim
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