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Originally Posted by Sajan
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The Cleric mercs were tolerable in the expansions prior to UF, but quickly became obsolete when you couldn't upgrade past the Tier 5 version in the next expansion.
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This.
They used mercs as means to draw in a new playerbase whose complaints were that everyone was already higher level, and they had no means of leveling themselves. So to stray from even a shotty cross-server instance system like WoW, the mercenaries were the only alternative. As Sajan pointed out, they were really only viable in the expansion they were released, SoD ... and nothing more.
The capabilities of clerics on live is pretty tremendous. On Zek, they are incredibly good damage dealers in addition to healers, with their "Hand" line that gives their weapons procs and their "Wards" which do an absurd amount of damage to attackers. Not to mention the instant heals that can level out the life of their entire group. They are vital to raids just as they were in Classic.