1. Curse doesn't give a message like "That doesn't work because the mob is already cursed, idiot!" so if 1 cleric is memming out, he won't know unless someone has a curse trigger... Also, curse affects items and mobs of the name name, i.e. water + water elemental, or any other combonation of items/names, so you end up cursing your item and aggroing the mob at the same time
2. How the hell can a cleric earthquake in a No Ground room like the Grey Green fight? The whole point is that there's no ground beneath you, right?
3. Blindness sucks. It's great for low levels becase mobs hardly hit when blinded, but the absolute superiority that power word blind has makes me wonder why I keep it memmed now. Not to mention the blind proc ebony longsword, as well as druids with sunray, making the spell almost worthless to cast at higher levels, whereas I still find time to use 1st, 2nd, and 3rd circle spells more often than 4th (summon is only one used often) I only use it to slow the switches on me in little fights when healing isn't a must. (see #5)
4. More of a professional jealousy than anything, but both shamans and druids have very useful area spells for the group, group heal, ancestral shield, sunray. Clerics get divine bless. That and plane shift are all they get for 9th circle. I'd dump divine bless for hailstorm, entangle, dessicate, group heal, or spirit walk any day, personally. I don't expect anything out of this complaint, just an observation that 9th circle lacks general usefulness. Plane shift is fun though.
5. Clerics = switch bait. I realize if cleric dies then tank dies, which leads to group spank, but same scenario with the enchanter. Clerics can't keep up the healing if the tank doesn't have prots. Same goes with no damage from say, invokers/necros. Can't kill the mob fast enough and if you can't mem out, then you're screwed, or if you can, then you generally scratch the mob and that's about it. And while they're usually the most difficult to kill, because of defenses, if tank dies then so does group, so it's really a collective thing (which is why we all specialize in our chosen profession) and I think it's unfair that clerics receive 80% of the switches. Except for rogues, they shouldn't die. *nod me* j/k
(P.S. put "Priests" where I put Cleric, because I'm too lazy to change it.)
Hmm, running out of things to say now. Probably because clerics seem generally okay. Yeah, they do have way higher natural hp than mages, but in some fights it doesn't even matter when you're bashed.
Also, I do realize druids can only sunray at night, though this fact avoided me for quite a while.
*shrug* Main note is #1 though. No message on an already cursed mob = wasted curses.
Grogu
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[This message has been edited by Grogu (edited 09-16-2002).]