Should I be boxing a Defiler or Inquis with a Coercer?

[Hastur8]

<p>Hi all,</p><p>I am going to be playing a coercer - my friend a wizard. We are on a PVP server. For the most part we will be playing together and not grouping. I want to box a healer to make us a little less squishy. I was thinking originally to go Inquisitor for reactives and plate armour. In doing some reading though I see they get a lot of melee DPs buffs and DPs abilities of their own. I will not be taking advantage of this - no melees in the group and being that I am boxing I won't melee with the Inquisitor.</p><p>The Defiler on the other had appears to be better suited to my situation with wards - good buffs - good debuffs. I can use all of this. A question on wards - if a rogue unleashes a big damage attack the ward could potentially absorb the whole attack whereas the reactive heal will likely mitigate a portion of it - is this correct?</p><p>Anyway please give me your thoughts - thanks!</p>

[matthewsj11]

<p>I dual box with a wizard and defiler quite a lot. I find that as long as I get the defilers prewarding before every fights the wizard can tank most encounters. I only struggle with named heroics or when I get lazy and do not preward. At lvl 70 my defiler can preward for over 5000 with the single and group ward so you have a good cushion before you start taking damage and in this time you can recast your wards.</p><p> Main thing against this duo is that the defiler only debuffs disease and posion and the wizard does heat/cold damage so you lose out on this benefit. Stat and speed buffs are still handy.</p><p>Wards will absorb all the damage before your character receives any damage.</p><p>As for reactives I think you take the damage and then the reactive heal kicks in. I am not certain but that is how I think it works.</p>

[Hastur8]

<cite>Eyudu@Venekor wrote:</cite> <blockquote><p>Main thing against this duo is that the defiler only debuffs disease and posion and the wizard does heat/cold damage so you lose out on this benefit. Stat and speed buffs are still handy.</p></blockquote><p>Hmmm... that's a good point. I am really torn between the Inquis and Defiler. I don't really want a Druid as they require a little more maintentance than a healer with reactives and wards.</p><p>Any other opinions?</p>

[Crowflight]

<cite>Hastur8 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Eyudu@Venekor wrote:</cite> <blockquote><p>Main thing against this duo is that the defiler only debuffs disease and posion and the wizard does heat/cold damage so you lose out on this benefit. Stat and speed buffs are still handy.</p></blockquote><p>Hmmm... that's a good point. I am really torn between the Inquis and Defiler. I don't really want a Druid as they require a little more maintentance than a healer with reactives and wards.</p><p>Any other opinions?</p></blockquote>I would forget about the Inquis.  Reactive heals are great for plate tanks that take regular, heavily mitigated amounts of damage - not so great for squishy mage types.  Wards are definitely the way to go. 

[Hastur8]

<blockquote><blockquote>I would forget about the Inquis.  Reactive heals are great for plate tanks that take regular, heavily mitigated amounts of damage - not so great for squishy mage types.  Wards are definitely the way to go.  </blockquote></blockquote>Defiler it shall be. Thanks!

[RustyB]

basicly I believe you being told  that maybe a warlock would be a better choice  if you weren't dead set on the wizzy.  hell even a necro would go good with a defiler.

[Jesdyr]

I three box a coercer / Wiz / warlock and it is a great group. It does however have the problem of no healer which does get me killed sometimes. Honestly I think fury would be a better choice for Coercer / Wiz. Since you are doing a root and nuke, your only real issue is DoTs taking you out, cures and HoT will fix this. Fury also can do some magic/heat damage that fits better with the group. The fury buffs seem to work well with the group (int wis power). Oh and you get druid ring ports. If you said Coercer / Lock then defiler would be better in my opinion.

[firewolf]

With inquisitor as healer, it works much better with inquisitor tanking. The burst dps of inquisitor is quite impressive. Defiler wards and heals takes longer time to cast as compare to inquisitor. The str AA line gives inquisitor ability to avoid being interrupted which can be huge in pvp. If wizard is tanking then inquisitor might not be a good choice.