Group of three Inquisitors?

[Fael]

I always three box.  I always play the same class (excluding my recent Troubador and two Dirge excursion).Im wondering how the impairments would work with three Inquisitors in the group?Do they stack?  So that if I drop something that deals divine damage to a mob whenever it attacks, do it go off three times - like DOTs do?There is an augmentation that gives a chance of doing divine damage on 'their' hostile spells and attacks.This is a proc, not a damage shield, right?Is the DD that prevents movement and stifles still around, or did it get nerfed?Any comments on how well three inquisitors abilities stack?  (And please dont post anything about how I should have 1 Inquisitor, 1 Fury and 1 whateverthehellclass.  Or any other combination)Thanks,Mal<div></div>

[ericshaitan]

3 Inquisitors is 1 Inquisitor too much.  With buffs, here is how many concentraion slots you would need to cast everything 6 HP/DPSbuff 1 Mit/STA buff 1 HP/div/mag buff 1 Melee proc buff That comes to 9 total Concentraion slots.  So 1 inquisitor wouldn't have any buffs up and would be DPS.  None of the heals stack.  You could have 1 cast fanatasism and then everyone just Melee DPS, which wouldn't be so bad. Now if your just talking 3 Inquisitors and nothing else..... DPS is definitly needed here.  All your DOTs will stack as will your reactive DDs. but at top form your looking at 600DPS per guy and thats only 1800DPS total. and that top end gear.  <div></div>

[Fael]

Darn.  Yeah I am thinking about just three Inquisitors.Even though I keep hearing about how low the DPS is of Priests, I still keep trying for my trio.  Warden was too light on the DPS, and I guess that the second highest.  Fury is better Im told.  Mystic and is supposedly the worst.  Not too sure about Defiler.I read a post recently from a guy saying Inquisitors were better soloing than Furies.  He said it wasnt about the DOTs or DD, but about the reactives and procs.  He said he wanted the mob to hit him.So I figured my trio could find a nice size encounter.  Each could target one with the reactives and DOTs to pull, then switch to the main for nuking. Drop one, and the others all take damage, then just keep cycling through them while they hit your damage shields and take damage from the DOTs.  If one guy pulls aggro I could AE stun/deaggro to switch aggro to another guy.  Not to mention heals/group heals. <div></div>I really dont mind having extra concentration.  I'll trade that for having three identical characters, hehe.  But the DPS being too low might be a problem.Thanks,Mal

[HazlenutElf]

<DIV>3 of any priest class is silly IMO, but since you asked. If you really really want to you can do it, but the dots debuffs and reactive heals don't stack for the most part and its going to take you 8 years to kill one mob. If you really want to play three of the same priest class fury might be better, they have better dps. If you really just want to have 3 of the same class, necro might be better, the get a heal and eventually a rez, one can pet tank,  and one can pet dps. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>But 3 inquiz and nothing else? I think watching the grass grow would be more fun. /shrug</DIV>

[Fael]

<div><blockquote><hr>HazlenutElf wrote:<div>3 of any priest class is silly IMO, but since you asked. If you really really want to you can do it, but the dots debuffs and reactive heals don't stack for the most part and its going to take you 8 years to kill one mob. If you really want to play three of the same priest class fury might be better, they have better dps. If you really just want to have 3 of the same class, necro might be better, the get a heal and eventually a rez, one can pet tank,  and one can pet dps. </div> <div> </div> <div>But 3 inquiz and nothing else? I think watching the grass grow would be more fun. /shrug</div><hr></blockquote>Well Ive already got three necros, warlocks, wizards, conjurers, and coercers (and a troub/two dirge trio) (see signature).So now its time for Priests.Killing a mob with three inquisitors has to be faster than killing solo, so it cant be any worse, right?I dont know why, but I have been avoiding playing three Furies.  I know people say they have the best DPS of the Priests, but for some reason I shy away from that.  Maybe I will give it a shot.How do the reactives stack?  You cant have more than one on each priest I guess?And these impairments:1.  where they do damage to the encounter when they die?2.  damage each time they successfully attack for five times?Any clarification on what stacks and what doesnt would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,Mal</div>

[Fon]

<DIV>One single-target reactive on each priest and the group reactive is the best you can do.</DIV> <DIV>I'm pretty sure both the impairments you mentioned do not stack.</DIV> <DIV>Another stacking issue you'll have is the Inquest (cast it on groupmember or self, powerdrains on 10% of melee hits and gives power to caster..very important for inquisitor) line, which does not stack. If you have one inquisitor meleeing with all three Inquest spells on him, only one of the inquisitors will get any of the power drain benefits. So it'll be important to have all three inquisitors meleeing to get that full benefit.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You will have some things going for you, though. Solid heals and reactives, heavy armor, powerdrain, utility with root and fear, the melee (STA) AA line that gives you 100% chance to crit on melee hits. The STR/INT debuff and the repenetence lines (stun and damage when caster is hit by combat art) will be your friends, too.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If you're looking for a challenge, I certainly think you've found one. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> I think it's doable though. I'd be interested to see your results.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>EDIT: Thought of more <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV><p>Message Edited by Fonen on <span class=date_text>09-16-2006</span> <span class=time_text>11:47 PM</span>

[Spider]

<DIV>2 inquis + one zerker is nearly unstopable :smileyvery-happy:    we did this on my server and not only were taking down yellow to red ^^^  but fought off a full group of q's while fighting a whole room of red ^^^ heroics lol its nutsboth inquis just throwing alternating group reactives and single heals while keeping heritics on what ever were killing and throwing reverse damage shileds on attacking q's  while the zerker aoe's and goes all out in offensive stand witha nice 2 hnder lol </DIV>

[Zarkad]

<DIV>I'd probably make 2  Buckler+1hander Inquisitor and 1 2hander inquisitor</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>First one would be AGI line to get the 2nd avoidance check on the ''tank'' of the group he'd be playing group healer mostly also, whatever point after the agi line set up you want goes in STA line for criticals since he'll be hitting in melee when not healing or debuff cursing.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2nd one will be INT/STA line, you want full critic and spell critics since he'll be your dps and healer to keep aggro even with a 1 hander and shield, ideally a really slow hard hitting 1 hander. You'll be casting spells between hits on this guy and reverse dmg curses.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Finally you get your 2 hander, he's split betwen STR line for the maxed proc ( nice interrumpts dmg ) and STA for melee critics, his only use his keeping Zealotry (50) of fanasticism (70) on the group to haste em, he,ll be stiffled but that shouldn't be an issue, throw heals whenever required.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Every inquisitor keeps his inquest on himself and the trio shouldn't be running out of power early. Only thing, the whole setup is for post 50 inquisitor because you won't have zealotry before that, until you get the just use the 2hander has another nuker, dot, direct heals. Since you have a free AA respec and you want to trio i might suggest setting them up WIS line by grinding AAs, ( quest, exploration, collection, namds ) for undeads and keep to undead mobs till you hit 50 then respec to more defined roles.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Stacking 3 healers of anytype is never great ( since class specific heals just refresh instead of stacking )  but i think cleric should be doing way better in the end than 3 druids or shamans.</DIV>