Anybody tried an all-cleric team?

Did anybody try an all-cleric team, with a Justicar tank? I read something about it in another thread, but I don't know if it was a suggestion rather than somebody who tried it.

I have tried it.

Justicar tank works OK and I have read on other sites about how they are capable of tanking raid mobs. My personal experience is that it seems to work OK but you have to outwear/outlevel an instance for a reliable smooth run every time. If you are lower level or same level, I tend to wipe a lot. Once you are 2-3 levels above, you'll do better.

However, I found that once you reach the 30's, I had a hard time with DPS and boss mechanics. Honestly, I am a below-average skill boxer, so you might have more success.

Oh and FYI. I ran a group with 4 Wardens. Stacked HoT's are da bomb! Hard to deal with burst on the Justicar though. That was the main reason for wipe-age, once the Justicar went down it was game over.

Cool, nice tips! I was thinking of going with a group of three Cabalists, which seem like a lot of AoE damage. Might be fun. I'll probably go with a dedicated healer, it's hard in instances, at least at these lower levels to keep the tank alive.

I'm 35 now with my initial group btw. Warrior tank, Cleric healer, Rogue utility, 2x Mage dps.

I have a 5-cleric team at 29. Mine are Justicar/shaman with a couple points in druid for the healy pets. Problem with 'em is the group heals are kinda like Chloro: the DPS-while-healing doesn't stack for the whole group at the same time. You can redirect all healing to the tank but as soon as you start taking heavy AoE damage, the group just falls apart.

Back to my rogue group. :P

Ugh, are you running Riftstalker and 4 bards?

Eventually 4 ranger/bard split specs and 1 full bard spec. My newbie (26 at the moment) will be a ranger/bard split spec. Basically, gives you full pet/DPS abilities while getting most of the healing-via-cadence/Coda of Restoration from Bard.

Interesting.

Are you having your bard tank? Pets tank? I'd love to see some vids of you boxing an instance. I just can't see that group working... I don't mean to imply that I don't believe you, I just mean that my Warrior tank seems a little squishy when fighting 3+ mobs in instances. I am amazed that you are able to get it done with your group.

4x pigs does pretty good with all the healing the bard subspec puts out. I suspect it won't scale well enough to do expert dungeons but for normals it works pretty well so far. I'd record an instance vid but with 4x 47s in the group, it'll be a while before i'm doing at-level instances again.

Cool. Thanks for the info. I think I am going to try EQ2 again just for kicks. But I'll keep Rift in mind if I don't care for EQ2.