Another returning healer!

[Xannon]

<p>I have just returned and need some guidance.</p><p>Before I quit I had a level 50 Shadowknight.</p><p>Before I left, there wasn't much demand for tanks.</p><p>I decided I'd make a healer this time and start in Timorous Deep. So I need to be evil or neutral.</p><p>I guess that limits me to Fury, Inquisitor, Defiler, and Warden.</p><p>And while playing around with my old Shadowknight last night, I noticed there aren't many people around...</p><p>So it looks like I'll be soloing pretty much all the way to 80+.</p><p>Now, while I would like to group once I've reached near endgame, I want to solo level well. Very well...</p><p>Of the 4 which would solo the best while still remaining very powerful when they're finished?</p>

[mrsma]

<p>Ello and welcome back :o)</p><p>In the early lvls Fury = Spell based - End game -  End game - off tank / scout / mage group heals or MT if the raid leader knows you are awesome</p><p>In the early lvls Warden - Melee based ( need AA's to get full melee) - End game - off tank / scout / mage group heals or MT if the raid leader knows you are awesome ;o)</p><p>Defiler - never played so can't comment. They do have very slow casts times so in early game hard work.</p><p>Inq - Tried and got to lvl 45 and found the play style not to my liking. Basically I like my HoT's and not my Wards ;o)</p><p>Try some out, My experience was Melee Warden - and 2.5 years later is still my main ;o)</p><p>Good luck !!</p>

[Xannon]

<p><cite>mrsmall wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Ello and welcome back :o)</p><p>In the early lvls Fury = Spell based - End game -  End game - off tank / scout / mage group heals or MT if the raid leader knows you are awesome</p><p>In the early lvls Warden - Melee based ( need AA's to get full melee) - End game - off tank / scout / mage group heals or MT if the raid leader knows you are awesome ;o)</p><p>Defiler - never played so can't comment. They do have very slow casts times so in early game hard work.</p><p>Inq - Tried and got to lvl 45 and found the play style not to my liking. Basically I like my HoT's and not my Wards ;o)</p><p>Try some out, My experience was Melee Warden - and 2.5 years later is still my main ;o)</p><p>Good luck !!</p></blockquote><p>Thanks for the reply!</p><p>Melee Warden does sound pretty good.I like melee more so it might be a good choice!</p>

[snowli]

<p>Pick the priest you want for the endgame not for the levelling process.</p><p>When you level, if you wish to you could play the melee variant if that isn't your endgame choice and betray later. For e.g. if you wanted to be a endgame templar and very popular for raiding and healing/buffing tanks then you could choose to start inquisitor - get the Combat Art aa's as qucikly as possible, making it easy to solo up without really having to buy/find much in the way of spell upgrades because the aa's are always upgrade their damage every level. At the top end, betray to templar, and maybe learn templar via the solo lines in SF between 80-90 and get endgame spells at that point.</p>

[Tehom]

<p>Priests are better balanced now in the endgame than at any other time in the game's history, in my opinion. I think of those four, fury may have the strongest argument simply because there's so few of them around from the long (almost two year) period where they were terrible. But your chance of finding a good niche in any raid force is good with probably any of them and just based on what people need.</p>

[Xannon]

<p>This was why I quit last time.I couldn't decided on a class.</p><p>Too many choices!</p><p>After reading through more pages and looking at all the AAs I started an Erudite Inquisitor instead.</p><p>Got to level 14 and got 6 AA.</p><p>The 3 melee AA I have make him a killing machine! I feel like a tank!</p><p>And I love that I can just convert all combat experience into AA now. I've been gone for more than a year so I didn't know they changed that. It was too annoying to turn off experience to do quests for AA.</p><p>I decided on Inquisitor because my Shadowknight is a level 54 Armorer so I can make plate for him along the way. I don't have a Tailor so I decided against the Warden in the end.</p>

[Calain80]

Not a bad choice. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> My Inquisitor Guide is also mostly up to date by now. Only the new AA are missing, but as you won't get them until level 81, that should not matter.

[Xannon]

<p><cite>Calberak@Valor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>Not a bad choice. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> My Inquisitor Guide is also mostly up to date by now. Only the new AA are missing, but as you won't get them until level 81, that should not matter.</blockquote><p>Ya I am happy with the choice.</p><p>But now I'm back in an old bad habit, farming rare mats with my Deathknight for armor! lol</p><p>Gotta shake that off!</p>

[Pyra Shineflame]

<p><cite>Xannon@Mistmoore wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Got to level 14 and got 6 AA.</p><p>The 3 melee AA I have make him a killing machine! I feel like a tank!</p></blockquote><p>THIS. Inquisitor was one class I could almost tangibly "feel" it getting stronger with each AA point I spend but the main thing that I love about my inquisitor is that I could tank. Finding people in the higher levels that would want you to even try is a bit difficult lol, but I love answering to lowbie calls for healer/tank and just do both jobs myself.</p><p>Want to run Hole or Library without a tank? Call on the inquisitor!</p>