Inquisitor Berzerker Duo?

[Amaran]

<p>Hey all, I know it's an often asked question if x class duos well with y class, but please bear with me. I am asking because my own research has not answered the specifics I want to know. Okay, I currently am playing a level 20 inquisitor. At 20 I haven't gotten a solid feel for the class yet, but so far I am liking it better than I expected. I am duoing with a zerker and it seems to be working pretty well. What I want to know, is will this duo continue to be viable to 80 and beyond. Almost everything I find about inquisitors says, "Go battle cleric!". I don't <em>want</em> to be dps. I want to be support. I want to be able to save our butts when we get in a nasty situation. I am fine with being able to smack our targets while I keep us alive, but I do not want my main job to be dps, if I did I'd have rolled a pure dps class. I want to be known as a decent group healer, and eventually to be able to raid in a healing capacity, along with my duo partner. I realize there are more solid healers out there, but I enjoy playing underdogs and hoped inquisitor would be the class for me. So, is a duo of inquisitor and berzerker viable for levelling, grouping and raiding? Or should I re-roll to something else entirely? My duo partner is also willing to re-roll with me if there is a better duo for what we have in mind. He is happy either tanking or doing melee dps. Oh, and if anyone knows a good guide for <em>non battle cleric inquisitor </em>levelling, please link me. My searching hasn't really come up with anything.</p>

[Grimfang]

<p>Inquisitors duo's quite well with any plate tank. The reason almost everyone says: "go battle cleric!" is because, that is the best inquisitor aa path we have (granted the end ability with +5meter range is quite good too). Inquisitor auto attack damage is well supported by the various aa's we can take, and only with the shadows aa trees can we actually boost our healing.</p><p>And for that guide... non battle cleric guide? I actually dont think there are any around nowadays. But to be totally honest... to me it feels like inquisitors are stuck in limbo. We are something between paladin/sk and healer and soe doesnt know what to do with us.</p>

[graxnip]

<p>play a templar</p>

[Amaran]

<p>Grimfist, thank you. I may just try battle cleric if it will still be a viable duo. I was just under the impression it was for soloing. I feel inquisitor is a very interesting class and I do want to give it a proper shot, I was just a bit disheartened learning that the current state of the class wasn't quite what I expected.</p><p>Graxnip, Thank you for the reply, but would you mind explaining why? I see by your sig you have an inquisitor so are you suggesting it is a bad duo with berzerker or something else?</p>

[graxnip]

<p>Inquisitors can heal fine in most situations, but a big part of our class is playing the battle cleric type at this point in the game.  You seem to be happy with the role of a pure healer, so I think you would be much happier playing a templar. They get alot more tools to help in the defensive playstyle - 'keep the group alive' game.</p><p>although the inq and the zerker will be successful as a duo, from a group and raid stand point you will be desired a whole lot more as a templar.</p><p>Back when they started taking this class down the combat cleric route most of the people who did not want anything to do with this kind of play style betrayed to templar, or just rolled new classes.</p><p>edit : in short an inquisitor who does not embrace the battle cleric side of the class is basically playing a gimped templar - so better to go play a templar <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p><p>but just fyi - inquisitors get better and better with levels and AA, most people get discouraged at some point. you need to have patience with the class if you find you are liking it and think long term.</p><p>at level 80, you can easily be doing as much damage as the zerker and keeping him alive. (depending on the encounter of course).</p><p>Most people who want to play the healer - just kind of sit in the back and toss out heals.. we are more of a class that gets right up to the mob with our CA's and auto atks - throwing a reactive out when necessary. but when the **** hits the fan, we need to work much harder than other healers to keep the group up.</p><p>it is never boring playing an inq, thats for sure.</p>

[Amaran]

<p>Thank you for the clarification, that's exactly the kind of information I was looking for.</p><p>My trediptation was less wanting to just throw heals from the background, and more being unsure if we'd be a good solid duo. I don't mind dpsing at all, and quite enjoyed doing so in the past when I duoed a warden with a guardian. I just don't want it to be my primary thing. So that part doesn't scare me. I think I was just reading too much into the "battle cleric" name. Like I said before, some of the most prevalent information I found was about how awesome battle cleric dps was and solo guides. I think it just gave me the wrong idea.</p><p>I think what I will do is stick with inqui for now, as I have been having fun with it. If it gets too frustrating I will betray and give templar a try.</p><p>Thank you both for the info, it's appreciated and just what I needed.</p>

[Calain80]

As Graxnip wrote a Inquisitor without Battle Cleric is just a gimped Templar. But we do not give up any healing capacity by going Battle Cleric as there are no healing options in the Inquisitor tree. I'm a well equipped raiding Inquisitor. I can solo heal any TSO instance and if there is the need I can go up to over 3k hps in healing gear. But if that is not needed I can change some gear and do a substantial amount of dps helping my group to take the evil guys down faster. Is it harder to solo heal a group with an Inquisitor instead of a Tempar? Yes Is it possible? Yes, if you know your class. The thing you might change for the duo is, maybe to duo with a rogue, if you intend to raid later on. It should not be a big problem getting an raiding spot as an non druid healer, but it is a lot harder to get a raiding spot as a tank esp a Berserker as Guardians are currently know as being better in almost any way. It is a lot easier to get a spot as a rogue. Your duo will do fine up to lvl 80 as a small group and even to build a full group. Just for raiding it might be harder to get a spot, esp for the Berserker.