I keep wondering...

[Tallo]

Is the grass greener on the other side of the melee priest system with either an Inquisitor or a Mystic?Anyone with a melee warden and a melee mystic/inq care to comment?I do love the speed of warden healing, our melee CA's, and various other knick-knacks about our class, but as RoK didn't bring anything to the table, is there something better?I want to be a face crushing, melee healer. Is warden the top, or is something else better.Please none of this rot about "What you enjoy is better, and what do you think, it's all about personal preference, blah blah blah" That isn't the question, please post what you think.Thanks.

[branvil]

I think Inq might have us beat..  they have a lot of melee buffs that seem to benefit them more.  I'm melee speced and go head to head with our inquis every week when we raid.  We both sit right around the 1k mark but some fights he just seems to blow right by.... 

[Mwahaha]

Inquistors may have us beat with their 100% crit and self haste/dps buffs but with the druid str line you can melee and heal at the same time which is why I'd stick with warden.

[xandez]

<p>well well... i kept wondering too... till i rolled both of em <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />only played my inqu to lvl 31... got bored of it *shrug*lack of SoW and stuff sucked bad after gotten used to wardens high mobility (ports + evac + good sow)... also wasnt impressed of the dmg either. Granted, i was ONLY lvl 31 but it just didnt feel good. Also i constantly struggled with my power, but that was due to fact i concentrated too much on STR gear.</p><p>Mystic... very nice buffs to STR and HP, also quite nice debuffs... Downsides what ticked me most: - totally useless pet (yes even with the new updated imo, white con solo mob still kills it on few hits)- SLOOOOOW wards and heals compared to warden- Not very power efficient... i had power issues until i started to close lvl 60Mystic i played to lvl 63 so far. Its nice, but i still like my warden better. Dunno about the dmg numbers and such, but the feel of my warden is just... better. I also love the warden mobility + fast heals very much, too much maybe?  But i solo quite a lot and when you do, those kind of things just gets the appriciation.</p><p>*edit*oh 1 more thing about mystic... if i got surprised with my "pants down" i usually died or it was very close. (Mobs spawned or got wandering adds etc etc). With my warden its just much more easier to handle those things since the heals are fast + proc heals are really nice.Of course if i got prepared to a fight with the mystic, then it was very very good. Both wards (single + grp) up before fight, throw in couple of debuffs to start, then summon your healing pet + use HoW (Heal over ward: Torpor i think it was) and it was golden. ++Xan</p>

[Arielle Nightshade]

<p>My Templar was an Inquis from about 60ish to 70 - just for this very question.  I wanted to see if I could melee pwn face.    Yeah, I could, but after pwning some, I realized what I really wanted to do was be able to heal really well, so I betrayed back to Templar.   Warden STILL heals really well - too bad we can't buff as well as the other heal classes.</p><p>I'm kind of waiting to see how the additional 40 AAs help our melee situation.   We might be able to have our cake (such as it is) and eat it too.   That said, I'd really like some milk with that, too.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>