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• • Hybrid Healing Classes?

  • Originally posted by Jackdog
    

    Originally posted by Meridion
    

    Though minstrel is NOT a hybrid. Minstrel is the main healing class that got some love during the early balancing period and was blessed with powerful solo-capabilities at the expense of 50% of his heal power.
    

    So a minstrel could be played as a hybrid dps/heal-character, BUT 98% of the cases people expect the minstrel to mainheal, as there is no other fully capable main healer in LotRO.
    

    I'd roll a runekeeper with MoM if I was you, if you want to start now, captain is a tank/heal-hybrid, not a dps/heal hybrid.

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    x2. If in a group a minstrel should be healing , not DPS'ing. I have been in PUGs where there were 2 or even 3 minstrels and on occasion one  or even two would use the Tale of Battle skill ( solo DPS stance) and function as DPS'ers and even tanks, but that is the exception and not the rule. Normally in group a minstrel should be in full healing mode and using Tale of Warding or Tale of Heroism so he/she will have 100% healing output and be buffing the group. As Meridon pointed out when you activate Tale of Battle it will increase DPS but cuts your healing by 50%.

    I would recommend Captain over Rune keeper even. Rune keepers will not be able to switch mid battle very easily from what I have read. They will need to plan ahead on each fight on whetehr they will be DPSing or healing that fight. I was not in beta so I cannot speak from experiance though.

    They mean war-speech instead of tale of battle to debuff healing 50% and increases dmg skills available in case you hunt for the skill to read up on it before making your class choice.

    Here's my breakdown for ya.

    Always considered the main healer -

    Minstrel - instant attacks-in dmg mode aoe, cast time on heals-has single target,group,and emergency heals, uses a tiered ballad system to buff- use 1 tier, tier tier open up for use etc. up to 4 when an athem can be used and reset the tiers to 1, can stun and fear, can wear up to med armor, has a built in feign death

    Has been used as main healer in confident groups -

    Captain - instant single target attacks, can pick a buddy to protect, armored about as well as a tank, can have a pet or banner, no cc

    Loremaster - one heal for others that can be traited down to 20s cooldown but its large, most skills have cast times, pets for dmg and buffs - each type of cc skill- roots- stun- mez, has 2 self heals with pet alive, strong percentage debuffs to enemies, light armor

    Unknown if they fit main yet -

    Runekeeper - some instant, some casted attacks, heal over time instead of chunk healing, short term cc, has an attunement system that increases healing or dmg depending on which are used more during each fight, light armor

    The thing about lotro is that there is a group feature that comes into play, fellowship maneuvers aka conjunctions. These are randomly gained or popped by a class like burglar. You can either get dmg, healing, power out of them and more. With a good amount of "fm"s - you may never need a healer since you can all choose green and get healing from the fm. So technically, the burglar ( who pops them often) could fill in for a healer yet they have no healing skills for other players. FMs are freakin awesome to help in good groups but must be set off quickly so they take practice. FMs are a big selling point in lotro to me - I like to get small groups together and try crazy things and these make it possible, other games lack this.
    

    http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Mechanics:Fellowship_Maneuvers

  • Posted: 11/04/08 8:42 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • Oregon Trail style Sandbox MMO

  • Wow, oregon trail, you went farrrrrrr back. Remember playing that in school when computers were pretty new to the midwest regular joes. I could see an oregon trail type working. Some of the simplest things are fun. I do wonder if less work was put into graphics and more into content, what kind of amazing things would we have.

    One of the funnest games I ever played I swear was turn-based ghengis khan on a nintendo. You never saw 4 roomates so excited to get home from work just to take their turn trading and warring each other. It wasn't fancy graphics but the play was strong enough to engage us all.

    wow, found a link

    http://www.nintendo8.com/game/563/genghis_khan/

     

  • Posted: 10/14/08 12:56 AM
    General Discussion
• • Proposing for a New MMORPG Genre

  • If you save progress or items client side, they are open to exploit. You can't just send someone out to quest for 4 hours then bring them back to the server and them tell you the quests they finished or worse their rewards. To become totally disconnected from a server you would have no spawns, no view of other people in the world and probably no chat unless they put in some irc connection. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but it seems impossible as stated.

     On a side note, what is the reason you want to connect and disconnect from the server?

  • Posted: 10/13/08 6:22 AM
    Developers Corner
• • warhammer, would you still play on it?

  • I would have tried war but not now. Whether right or wrong I believe I was lied to by them. They said everyone that signed up would make beta - that was a promise. They didn't follow through after waiting a year. I just don't give money to people that lie to me. That may be petty to hold it against them but it put a big old red x on trusting them in the future. Besides I hate being patient, one year was way too long. I mean they could have said SOMETHING after they saw they weren't getting everyone in. I wouldn't wait for an answer on a job or b/f that long, what makes a game so special to play with my head, bet they don't again lol

  • Posted: 10/13/08 5:49 AM
    General Discussion
• • Option To Instantly Reach Level Cap A Month Before Expansions?

  • You can pump out 12 levels in 12 days or less. I swear to you that you can easily level once per day even solo. The only levels that may take longer are 46-50.

    If your intention is to whip thru content I'll give you some hints. Don't stop for crafting or harvesting. Don't stand around and chat, be grinding something during. If you have a goal you just have to be steadfast in it. Don't be afraid to look up the quest objective locations online if you are having trouble finding something. Wasting 1/2 hr running around solves little when it comes to time. Oh and stop grinding your traits if you are stopping for virtue traits. Yes, you could do them now but you can also do them max lvl when you're much stronger.The xp gain is not really worth the effort unless you were doing it on all rested exp. If you find a good group milk it for all its worth. I once found one and we got 5 levels in one day.

    Also, don't do a quest and run back to turn in unless it's a kill quest. More than likely you are just wasting time since you could turn in many more at once and make one trip. The reason I exclude a kill quest is usually there is a follow-up to kill the "king of that mob" after you take out some underlings. Also, put it on auto loot and don't even glance at the loot unless your bags are full, that also is more surprising than staring at each individual piece. This way you can take one pause to clean and organize, mail/barter instead of stopping at each kill to check what you got

    Your goal of being max level at the expansion is actually more exciting than the ppl already lvld that are just waiting. If you don't believe me, look at how many ppl have alts running around even now.

    Myself I have 2 over 40 that I am trying to get 50 pre-expansion. I believe that's attainable but keep in mind I know some of the quest locations from doing them before and an idea what "group" ones that I can pull off solo. 

    Since the moria content is going to be 45-50 or just flat 50+, be sure you have found a kin that groups with you. Come expansion you are going to want someone to be buddies with to get group quests conquered.

     

  • Posted: 10/06/08 4:12 PM
    General Discussion