What does an Inquisitor do?

[therearenonames]

I was thinking of making a bezerker or ShadowKnight and my wife some type of priest.....I heard that templars and inquisitors are good for plate style tanks but I dont really know much about them.  I know a lot about druids and shamans but not clerics....Any advice on the abilities of clerics would be greatly appreciated....things like debuffs or buffs and the type of heals clerics have....Thanks.<div></div>

[Einsteinb]

<DIV>It is definately true that I, as a cleric, prefer healing a plate style tank. This is due to the nature of our specialty heal, the reactive. It is a series of heals that are triggered as soon as damage is done. The reason this associates well with a mitigation (plate) tank is that the damage is reduced to begin with, and more of the heal goes towards increasing health rather than keeping up with damage. To illustrate: (hypothetical numbers) A monk gets hit for 500 damage occasionally, a bezerker is hit for 300 damage regularly. Your reactive heal, let's say 500, will fire the same number of times on both. But on the berzerker, each time it heals 200 hp above the damage. So you can wait until the berzerker has taken a few hits, then cast a reactive heal and watch the health increase pretty quickly. Whereas on the monk, your heals won't go through their triggers quickly and you may have to use spot heals to compensate.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Inquisitor is a particularly balanced form of healer. Just by numbers, the heals we share with a templar are equals (templars get a few unique healing spells though I think). But inquisitors can also cast a number of damage spells, including dots, [light] nukes, a kill proc, and counter-attack debuffs. So you can expect to contribute damage as an Inquisitor (even more if you focus on this in the later game). Inquisitors have a debuff that increases damage to an enemy, as well as several debuffs that lower and enemy's damage output. For buffing, Inquisitors increase health, mitigation, and DPS with concentration buffs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>By the late game, with AA abilities an Inquisitor may choose to focus on increasing their melee DPS rather than spell DPS. Inquisitors in the early, easier portions of raids can contribute to the DPS of a group by running a haste/intellegence buff that stifles them. In late portions of raids, I find my healing numbers make a huge spike with the large number of AEs that the tougher mobs use. Inquisitors can really make a difference when the group is getting pounded by heavy attacks by using their large, instant heals (though these are shared with Templars).</DIV>