Anybody tried an all-cleric team?

[lofblad]

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.

[Gomotron]

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.

[Gomotron]

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.

[lofblad]

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.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

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

[Gomotron]

Ugh, are you running Riftstalker and 4 bards?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

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.

[Apatheist]

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.

My question is, what's your DPS like with bards? I imagine 4x cadence spam would make you very hard to kill, even in PvP, but while you're using cadence you're doing next to no damage. So you can really only heal *or* DPS, not both. If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to have 1-2 dedicated healers and 2-3 dedicated DPS?

I'm only going by what I've read, though, I haven't actually played yet. Downloading it this weekend and I can't decide between a tank (Justicar) and either 4x chloro, 4x bard or a mixed group. Seems like stacking classes in this game loses a lot since many heals/buffs don't stack.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Seems like stacking classes in this game loses a lot since many heals/buffs don't stack.

Except bards. Everything stacks with them so far as I can tell. That may get nerfed someday but for now there are no restrictions on codas/etc like there are with chloros and clerics. I LOVE them for rifting and invasions.

like I said, they won't scale as well as holy trinity groups end-game but I'm not caring as I'm not a raider or big PVPer.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

My question is, what's your DPS like with bards? I imagine 4x cadence spam would make you very hard to kill, even in PvP, but while you're using cadence you're doing next to no damage. So you can really only heal *or* DPS, not both..

I sometimes fail to open the bonus rift stage for at-level major rifts, so yes DPS isn't uberness. I'm still not 50 so I'm still in the exploratory stages. We'll see how things go when i'm able to play again (can't really do much as I just got out of back surgery today).