Question - Heroic and growing SK & Bard Plus what to optimize kissassist grouping for XP

[Jax]

I'm leaning towards a druid for portability and backup heals. I've died a few times while mostly AFK from presumably bad pulls where the bard gets resisted on AOE mez while my SK is also getting hammered.

I'm thinking another healer with some utility makes a lot of sense. Damage, damage shield, port, a couple buffs, and backups heals.

Is my logic sound? Should I just go shaman for the slows and buffs and worry about getting around the old fashioned way?

I really just want to improve overall survivability and increase DPS a bit.

Thanks!

 

[saar]

clr druid or shaman, you need a healer thats not a merc. Can trade the healer merc for a wizzy merc for more dps. clr has good hp buffs, great heals and best rezzes in the game. druid you have evac if things go bad, decent heals, ok dps, and damage shields. Shamans have decant heals, great buffs, a strong root for extra crowd control,and can slow mobs.

 

[Incognito]

I like to have a backup healer (shm or dru, both have benefits), but make sure you have a real cleric. I lean SHM for haste, slow, buffs, but mainly for the grp melee proc (talisman of the lion etc), I tend to be melee heavy and the proc doesn't get resisted. Its like giving a pet to each grp member as far as added DPS.

Also remember there are mobs immune to mez, so it may not be a resist issue. Try to identify them and add them to MezImmune list. That way KA can deal with them (I assume first). Double check your [Mez] settings:

[Mez]
MezOn=1
MezRadius=50
MezMinLevel=75
MezMaxLevel=98
MezStopHPs=80
MezSpell=Slumber of Kolain
MezAESpell=Wave of the Conductor|3

The highest lvl mob your mezzer can mez will dictate where you can camp. Double check your spells and tell KA what the highest lvl is. The AE has a long cool down iirc so KA will AE first, then single mez adds or wake-ups.

Sometimes its a named that causes wipes, double check your [Burn] settings, and BurnAllNamed=1. Set your [Burn] like you would your [DPS] but here you can use your AA/Discs etc that have longer cooldowns because not every mob is a named. I include things I otherwise wouldn't use due to cooldown.

 

[Maskoi]

If your group does not have a porter always go druid.

 

[GPS_Soldier]

If your group does not have a porter always go druid.

Of course, those of us who love our wizards would disagree with Maskoi! If you don't need additional DPS, then druid is probably a good choice.

 

[Zensai]

After my crew, I can't imagine running a group without a Cleric and a Shaman. The Malo line is very nice, healing slow, debuff the resists so you get the most out of your Wizards...
Tank, Cleric, Shaman, Enc/Bard, DPS, DPS is what my ideal group setup has been.

 

[toots]

Its tough to run a druid with KISS though. I have played around with the ini on my main a bunch and its hard to strike the balance between dps and healing in the ini.

 

[Jax]

Its tough to run a druid with KISS though. I have played around with the ini on my main a bunch and its hard to strike the balance between dps and healing in the ini.

Anyone run a druid in their group setup with kiss and disagree with toots? I don't want to add a druid and find out it isn't effective with kiss!

 

[saar]

its not that its ineffective with kiss its just toots is saying that from his tests that he would either have more healing and not much dps or having dps with not much healing. But ini tweaks and aa's will make a difference aswell.

 

[Meistro]

Its tough to run a druid with KISS though. I have played around with the ini on my main a bunch and its hard to strike the balance between dps and healing in the ini.

Yes this can be an issue if you aren't running a live cleric. Had a similar issue with my shaman. It just takes time nd patients to find the balance for your group . Note, if you have healing on at all you will lose dps...its just a fact.

 

[Jax]

How much more effective are real clerics being run by kissassist than a J5 merc healer?

 

[Incognito]

Jax, Razkle would point out that merc healers cannot combat rez. A real cleric can. This is huge. I can't tell you how many times I have walked up to my PC with the grp just doing its thing, scrolled thru the EQBC spam, and seen on-the-fly in combat rez's by my cleric. It happens so fast, so elegantly, that if you aren't watching at the time, you'd miss it. With a real cleric, the grp just keeps on pushing on...

 

[Meistro]

BATTLE REZ!!!!, other than that not alot other than...you get to chose what spells it uses, the possibility of DPS while ALSO healing (intervention/contravention), cures, clickies, AA's.....J5=whimpy FTP NON-AA cleric (in my opinion).

Now, use the Auto-cleric mac, and/or the MQ2Heals plugin..J5 merc vs real cleric is as A1 merc vs J5 merc......Also, your "real" cleric will never "hide in the corner" cuz you pull 30+ mobs...

 

[Jax]

Damn it ... I'm going to have to make a cleric!

 

[Incognito]

So true Meistro! My cleric will wade in and bloody perish with the best of them! He no coward! Well, except he a high Elf...