Coercer is the most fun class in the game!

[Sigunn]

<p>I just want to say... I love my coercer, she is the toon I enjoy most of all my alts. I have a 70 warden and 70 assassin, 44 defiler, 42 inquisitor, and a ton of lower lvl alts of many different classes. None shines like the coercer. It is not a broken class.</p><p>I am so looking forward to RoK, because I can go with a group into a slightly too high dungeon or instance again and feel I am the reason the group makes it alive. Yellow/orange cons is where I have the most fun. Any lower lvl place, I don't use all my tools, if nothing unusual happens... just stun/daze/stifle etc. But then again, I can always grab a pet to keep myself busy and up my damage a little.</p><p>My healers are great and all, I like keeping people alive... but when there is an emergency I feel powerless as a healer. Some emergency buttons, heal heal heal... oh [Removed for Content] we died, or oh great we lived, that's all. As a coercer, I have real tools to deal with emergencies. I just grab the adds and hold them for as long as needed. (If you never get emergencies... you are fighting too easy content!) </p><p>I still smile at the memory of my first time in Fallen Gate with the coercer, with a pickup group. Some adds came, it was pretty chaotic for a while. After the fight, when things was calm again, the tank said: -Hey I think I am stuck in combat. Me: -Umm... could you kill this add too please? A little later, the group wiped except for me and the healer. I charmed one mob and mezzed the other two (yellow heroics). I started typing in chat to the healer to bring the group up... sadly the healer didn't understand the power of the coercer and started to nuke the mobs... LOL [Removed for Content] furys thinking they are dps /grin/. I think that now with all the tools I have, I could have killed the mobs and rezzed the group even with the fury down. No other class can do that in a cramped environment.</p><p>There have been quite a few threads lately about how the class suck and how broken it is. I disagree. I feel for you raiders, too bad that you feel worthless. However, I am in a casual non-raiding guild, I group and solo mostly, and I absolutely love the class. I am more powerful as a coercer than any other class. It is only half a joke when I say SoE nerfs us because we are overpowered...</p><p>(I die a lot in pvp though, but that's just my lack of pvp skill I believe... lol)</p><p>Ramborg, 70/100 coercer of Venekor</p><p>Guild leader of Norrsken</p>

[Obsidiann]

<cite>Sigunn wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>However, I am in a casual non-raiding guild, I group and solo mostly, and I absolutely love the class.</p></blockquote>Just as the coercers who raid have to realize like you do, not everyone plays this game the same way, and you have to respect the needs/wants of the other side when making criticisms.As someone who plays both I am sometimes very content and sometimes very discontent with my class.

[joshshift]

i cant decide if this guy is being sarcastic or not.

[Mystfit]

Well, I dunno about the OP, but I love my coercer.  I have all but given up my conjuror as I find her so not fun in comparison. I feel like I bring alot to the table and have more tools to address crazy situations then my other toons. I look foreward to the rest of the ride <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Turb]

<p>I would just say that the coercer has very different solo, group and raid playstyles and capabilities.   Not everyone likes all three.    </p>

[Flipmode]

Everyone is entitled to their opinions.  You like your Coercer.  I want to like mine but constant nerfs and messed up spell/game mechanics prevent me from doing much.  They fix charm and reactives and this class might be fun again.  Our damage needs to be active not passive.

[Jarod_Bladecaster]

<p>Part of me agree's with the original poster. Go into an instance that is going to be tough, either a bit higher than your group level or trying to do an instance with 4 players etc and the abilities of the coercer shine. We are kept busy, and I do find it the most amazing class in the game. Many times my guildmates have said "How did we survive that". That's when I feel that we are valuable to a group.</p><p>Go into an instance with a full group and a group that is balanced and thats when I feel we are lacking (applies to raiding also) We dont need to really mez anything (only adds that may wander into the fray) and then we end up looking like a poor dps mage. This is the area that SoE needs to fix, make a coercer needed in a full balanced group. Whether this is by adding more wandering mobs, I think castle mistmoor is a zone that is a good zone that makes use of a coercer, or by changing some of our abilites so we can nuke instead of relying on reactives.</p><p>But my main style of play is guild groups and solo, so I do feel needed as a coercer and I do enjoy the solo play. But on the few raids and out of guild groups I have done, i do feel as though we only use a few of our abilities...</p>