Best in Role(Healer, Tank etc)

[Gorwe]

Let's nominate best in roles. I'll open up with Healer. Truth be told, I'm half of my mind about these two, so I'll just list them both:

Healer:

WITCH DOCTOR
PRIEST OF BALANCE

(both are very good at healing, obviously. PoB can probably push out better numbers, but WD flatout cheats if you take Life Spirit, which you should ; this is QUANTITY vs QUALITY debate)

And I will nominate a candidate for best Tank too:

Tank:

HOSPITALER
(it's not that it's anything specially tanky, but it's tanky by default + all that self sufficiency... :I )

[Shoat]

I don't think any healer can compete with Life Oracle's "overheal to get temp hp" revelation.

Early and midgame channel positive provided big helpful shields (mythic channeling helped a lot) and lategame the heal and mass heal spells made people utterly unkillable even on core difficulty as they ended up with 200+ temporary HP stacked up on top of their max health.

Also I don't think "tank" is really a role in this game, since there is nothing that inherently controls enemy aggro and forces them to attack your most durable melee fighter instead of your less durable ones. Survivability is equally important on all melee combatants.

[Gorwe]

Originally posted by Shoat:

I don't think any healer can compete with Life Oracle's "overheal to get temp hp" revelation.

Early and midgame channel positive provided big helpful shields (mythic channeling helped a lot) and lategame the heal and mass heal spells made people utterly unkillable even on core difficulty as they ended up with 200+ temporary HP stacked up on top of their max health.

Also I don't think "tank" is really a role in this game, since there is nothing that inherently controls enemy aggro and forces them to attack your most durable melee fighter instead of your less durable ones. Survivability is equally important on all melee combatants.

Life Oracle's very good. But it doesn't have either the numbers of WD or quality of PoB. I'd put it slightly below these two.

[dwarner]

Originally posted by Gorwe:

Let's nominate best in roles. I'll open up with Healer. Truth be told, I'm half of my mind about these two, so I'll just list them both:

Healer:

WITCH DOCTOR
PRIEST OF BALANCE

(both are very good at healing, obviously. PoB can probably push out better numbers, but WD flatout cheats if you take Life Spirit, which you should ; this is QUANTITY vs QUALITY debate)

And I will nominate a candidate for best Tank too:

Tank:

HOSPITALER
(it's not that it's anything specially tanky, but it's tanky by default + all that self sufficiency... :I )

This isn't an MMO. There are no such roles unless you impose them on the game and your play will suffer accordingly.

Play Wrath. It's fun.

[Gorwe]

Originally posted by dwarner:

Originally posted by Gorwe:

Let's nominate best in roles. I'll open up with Healer. Truth be told, I'm half of my mind about these two, so I'll just list them both:

Healer:

WITCH DOCTOR
PRIEST OF BALANCE

(both are very good at healing, obviously. PoB can probably push out better numbers, but WD flatout cheats if you take Life Spirit, which you should ; this is QUANTITY vs QUALITY debate)

And I will nominate a candidate for best Tank too:

Tank:

HOSPITALER
(it's not that it's anything specially tanky, but it's tanky by default + all that self sufficiency... :I )

This isn't an MMO. There are no such roles unless you impose them on the game and your play will suffer accordingly.

Play Wrath. It's fun.

I'll bite. Suffer why?

[runningtargetzombiebait]

I use a fighter merc for tank, slayer for melee dps, and at least two characters with pets for duel smilodons--the remainder buff the tank to be tanky and the slayer/pets to be slay-ey. Smilodons are OP especially if its master is a divine hunter (smiting smilodon).

While I will bring a companion or two to learn their story, I actually prefer to roll with a custom crew.

[synnworld]

Originally posted by dwarner:

Originally posted by Gorwe:

Let's nominate best in roles. I'll open up with Healer. Truth be told, I'm half of my mind about these two, so I'll just list them both:

Healer:

WITCH DOCTOR
PRIEST OF BALANCE

(both are very good at healing, obviously. PoB can probably push out better numbers, but WD flatout cheats if you take Life Spirit, which you should ; this is QUANTITY vs QUALITY debate)

And I will nominate a candidate for best Tank too:

Tank:

HOSPITALER
(it's not that it's anything specially tanky, but it's tanky by default + all that self sufficiency... :I )

This isn't an MMO. There are no such roles unless you impose them on the game and your play will suffer accordingly.

Play Wrath. It's fun.

I play this game, km, and the bg trilogy all with characters fitting roles and my game never suffered, so your logic is unsound.