Hybrid range/healer team.

[Meshuggenah]

Hi,

Finally decided (sort-of) on a team. I'm going 4x Inq/War/Sent and one support class. I'll have a tanking spec I can swap to on one of the Inq's for PvE. I haven't decided whether I want an Archon/Chloro or a 51pt Bard for my 5th. I'm leaning towards Archon for ease of use and better damage, but I'm not sure what their ability to DPS while moving is like. A large part of why I'm going Inq is for the movement.

The Inq build I'm looking at I kind of made up myself - http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=10...0qz.EE0z0z.V0x
Notes on the build. I didn't take "Life and Death Concord" because managing procs while boxing is a pain. I didn't take Lethargy because Inq already has an off-GCD ranged snare that's basically free.

This mixes most of the important Inquisitor DPS talents, enough points in Warden for Ripple and Healing Flood and 20% critical/heal damage from Sentinel (stacks with the 20% you gain from Inq tree). Each Inquisitor has;

- Ability to wear chain armor and shield
- Aggressive Renewal (60 second mana cooldown)
- 10 second CD purge (removes 2 buffs)
- 2 single target knockbacks (can macro instant, off-GCD snare into all of them)
- 4 dots (Vex also heals for 90% of the damage done and Drown silences for 3 sec)
- 2 instant HoT's, one instant AoE HoT
- 3 instant nukes. 2 with good damage on short cooldowns and one spammable but lower damage one from Warden.
- 4-5x Fanatacism (auto-crit) plus Soul Drain for massive AoE burst. Pretty sure this will one-shot any player in range, awesome if used with bards AoE mez or some kind of Warlord/Cabalist to pull/stun before casting.


I figure the goal in PvP will be to keep 4x Healing Flood up at all times on group (plus the heals from my 5th support toon), plus single target HoT's stacked on any toons that get focused. Keep moving, spam DoT's on everything. I understand DoT damage is lower than nuking, but 12-16 DoT's in 3GCD's should be a solid amount of damage. Ripple seems like it would be an amazing AoE cooldown for a boxer. 4 stacks of your single target HoT on every character in the group in a single button press and only a 45sec cooldown! Macro Ripple into your Healing Spray and cast Ripple/HS > Healing Flood and you have 8 hots on every character in the group in 2 GCD's (9 including Vex). 12 seconds of godmode

I can't think of any flaws with this group? Solid consistent AoE healing, massive potential for single target burst healing by stacking HoT's. Massive AoE or single target burst damage, plus the option to do solid DPS and healing without ever having to stand still! I'm even thinking about adding a Cabalist as 5th for more AoE damage, except that I'm not sure how important buffs are in this game. Being able to AoE pull and stun 5 targets for 5 auto-crit Soul Drains would absolutely wreck in warfronts.

Anyway, this is all theory so far. Any comments or suggestions from people with higher-end experience?