Firstly thanks for your comments Cytomel.
I'm not going to warrant mentioning names in this post, but some people here just woffle rubbish for no other reason but to be greedy. One poster in particular is just afraid and greedy, a bit like the idiot poster on the PvP formum begging everyone not to play rangers in a desperate bid for his class not to be nerfed and he be the only Ranger ganking everyone.
It's quite honestly pathetic. You see it's human nature to believe that if you don't whine about something then you won't get change. It's also human nature to believe if you don't say anything then all is fine. John McEnroe was a classis at tennis, he moaned and pi......ssed about every decision, making a big deal about EVERYTHING in order to effect EXTERNAL variables in the decision making process in hope of benefitting himself. Sometimes it worked, and more often than not it just made him look like a bad sport. Some people here believe that if we bag a certain class enough (EVEN IF IT DOESNT WARRANT IT) then certain changes to this class will be made for the better.
I've said it time and time again to the DEVS to not really pay that much attention to these forums and hopefully they don't. I read them purely to get feedback and ideas on how a certain class is playing and more importanly to perhaps give some tips to fellow players.
Coercers are a magnifent class and for all those people who have stated that they are the least popular class played, well yes, you are absolutely right. Statistics on all servers tell us that coercers indeed are the least played, followed closely by troubs. Why? Because we suck and are under powered like one suggests. Maybe, but I don't believe so. Most people are simple minded, and people who play these games generally are simple people. Coercers are far from simple, they are without a doubt the hardest and most annoying class to play, which ulitimately leads to the must satisfying class to play for a very limited few. If you want simple, go play a wizard. You just press a few buttons and nuke, throwing in the occasional root and power dump. What a crap class to play, really, that's just boring. Why not play a ranger and feel uber cus everyone tells you how big you Co....ck is and how uber your DPS is. Don't all those rangers feel SPECIAL? It's probably the second easiest class to play and for those two reasons alone makes it the most popular, along with that insanely easy class to play, the conjurer.
It's simple people. The coercer is working well in PvP and PvE. I don't know where you people are getting all this rubbish from. Not many people can play them well, and the ones that are whining more than likely suck playing this class. They probably have two other alts, either a ranger, conj or bruiser and complain how much easier it is to be uber at these classes than it is being uber at a coercer. Well I can tell you, I have a level 56 ranger, 60 coercer, 44 conj and 53 necro, 60 wizard and 60 Fury. Now I don't personally play them all as my wife plays the other ones with me, but I know how they all work. My most powerful combo in both PvP and PvE is the Coercer and Wizzy, [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] what a combo, It's unrivalled, we can freaken take Cazel Mesa down with the two of us no problems. Tell me any other class that can do that? Infact I've even heard rumours that some Coercers can solo the zone, I have come close but yet to do it myself. I can mince zones like the Roost, what a joke.
Coercers weak in raids? Lol, I think not. Most have not a clue how to play one. People whine again about us just being a power battery. Crap! Learn your power, we have the best burst DPS in game no contest. You just have to live with dying a few times more than others. Throw all your reactives up, watch 80k in damage go flying bye, get wacked by the main mob, die, get ressed, have your wizzy partner in crime power you back up and rinse/repeat.
We are the best at everything. We can crowd control, hold players in PvP better than anyone (well illusionist are pretty good also), charm the crap out of uber mobs changing the odds and have the most uber of DPS. We live on the edge and for that reason we are the best. Many can't handle this kind of life. Many can't handle the fact we are hard to play. And most of all many just don't understand the power of the Coercer. It's for these three reasons we are the least played class and it's for this reason that we are the most POWERFUL by FAR!.
Go stick that in your pipe and smoke it all you little moaners. Go learn your class before you cry will ya!
TheFluff.