Heh no offense but all classes can melee early on. Neither of the priest
classes can come close to dealing out the damage of SK's, Paladin's,
Rangers, and yes even a bard. They all outdamage all those classes. Even
early on the hybrid classes deemed by verant can outdamage any of the priest
classes in melee. Even at high levels what do most priest classes use?
Observer Staff. But guess what so do the pure casting classes except for
Necros. Priest classes can not melee that well they are the healers of the
game, pure and simple.

Naeeldar

-----Original Message-----
From: Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) <kblair@...>
To: eqbards@onelist.com <eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 9:29 AM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Hey this sounded interesting..

>From: "Blair, Keith (Keith Blair)" <kblair@...>
>
>> by definition you can not classify shaman, cleric,
>> or druid as hybrids. this is not an opinion.
>
>You're incorrect. That *is* an opinion.. And it's not
>one that some people on this list share with you.
>
>> SHD, RNG, PAL are hybrids. the priests are not.
>
>Why aren't they? They aren't pure caster classes and
>they are not pure fighting classes - they do both and
>do both fairly well. What is a priest ability? There
>isn't one. There's not "casters, fighters and priests".
>There are "casters" and there are "fighters" and there
>are a mix of the two.
>
>>