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Originally Posted by Rayzor84
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Except that when every class does everything well, all distinctions are lost. Playing a shaman over a druid becomes negligible, making classes less valuable and unique.
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False.
Clerics retained Rez, CH efficiency, Reverse DS, Symbol
Druids retained ATK debuffs, skin buff, SoE/FoE, 2nd tier nukes and heals
Shamans retained Slow, Malo, Avatar, Canni, Melee stat buffs, Focus
Having a shaman as a group healer and a druid as a group healer in Luclin or PoP was very different. Shamans healed through Slows mitigating damage, Torpor/Quiessence healing over time, and crappy single heals. Druids healed through inefficient CHs, ATK Debuffs reducing DPS (this was never as effective as it should've been IMO for grouping), and solid patch heals. Clerics had CH remaining awesome as well as solid HoTs and patch/fast heals, and reverse DS.
Every guild wanted multiples of each class and every group could fit in each class somewhere, Clerics were almost required in some of the harder camps, which was unfortunate but if you had a solid group otherwise you could make do with a Shaman/Druid combo or an Enchanter/Druid combo.
Clerics were terrible at DPS and preventing damage.
Shamans were terrible solo healers and DPS
Druids were mediocre solo healers (bad without slows) and mediocre DPS.