Best Overall "Buff" Class?

[Vailene]

<p>Greetings,</p><p>  In my many years of experience dating back to the Original Everquest, there's still one journey I have yet to venture upon...  Creating a "buffs" toon.</p><p>  I figured I would call upon our experienced community to help me decide on the next class of toon to create.  I would like the class to have all (or most) of the traits listed below.  As I'm sure several class options exist, such as why I'm asking here on which is best:</p><p>1.) The most overall buffs to apply to a group that would be beneficial to most classes in the game.</p><p>2.) To include "Until Cancelled" Buffs mainly.  I hate needing to keep track of spells that are only for specific durations of time.</p><p>3.) A class that isn't a "paper-bag"</p><p>4.) A class that's at least moderately enjoyable to play.  Although, I'd prefer very enjoyable.</p><p>Based on what I *think* I know...  I've come down to Troubador or Dirge being a selection.</p><p>But again, I'm not experienced with these types of toons and so I could be completely wrong.  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p><em><strong>What do you all think I should go with?</strong></em></p>

[SacDaddy420]

<p>well I would of said chanter untill you said you hated temp buffs.</p><p>So I'll tell you troub and advise you to keep the faith that the devs will figure out why no one wants to play a troub by the time you get to max lvl.</p><p>course they may never and you'll hate that you werent a dirge</p>

[Vailene]

<p>Feel free to delete this post. I'm reposting it in the Class discussion forums. Thank you for your input Sacdaddicus. I'd assume people don't care for Troubys' because those people primarily don't play in "caster" groups?... But, that's just speculation. According to the research, Dirge's are very proficient in "Tank" and Mixed Groups.. Whereas, Trouby's are in "Caster" and Mixed Groups..</p><p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Should anyone wish to comment, my new post is at:</strong></span></p><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=501688" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=501688</a></p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>Vailene@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Feel free to delete this post. I'm reposting it in the Class discussion forums. Thank you for your input Sacdaddicus. I'd assume people don't care for Troubys' because those people primarily don't play in "caster" groups?... But, that's just speculation. According to the research, Dirge's are very proficient in "Tank" and Mixed Groups.. Whereas, Trouby's are in "Caster" and Mixed Groups..</p><p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Should anyone wish to comment, my new post is at:</strong></span></p><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=501688" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=501688</a></p></blockquote><p>Dirges do <em>far</em> more DPS than troubs while having more utility as well (ability to rez and heal somewhat).</p>