TOP cleared with no healers

[IDontPetLalas]

I agree the game is dead and for good reason. Aion had so many unforgivable practices to me, I'm glad it's about dead. They deserve it. *snip*

That doesn't mean Clerics and Chanters were a "majority" as Rehayem claimed. They never were. As a frequent player I actually regularly tracked the numbers on ALL classes, as I wanted to see who was top level. Certain expansions levelling was really slow so you got a sense of how many were levelling quickly and who they were. While Clerics were common classes, and Chanters were improved from "no one wants to play this" to middle of the road, the two simply never had more players than all the DPS classes combined. They just didn't. Rehayem wants us to believe that in most other MMOs, Healers are more popular than DPS. That's laughable and makes me wonder what MMOs he played that this is the case. It wasn't even the case in Aion, which had more healers than most games.

That's not to say that healing here is perfect. I was MT healer in the #1 world-prog raid guild in EQ2. My healing at times single-handedly saved raids, sometimes being the only person alive out of 24 people due to failed mechanics and recovering for a win. My skill expression mattered. I don't feel like it matters here for 95% of my time healing, and for most content a healer is very replacable with a lot of other players with little to no notice.

If we ever want to get into your issues with Aion p2W, just going into the the difference between gearing in the subscription years and the F2P years would likely be one complete discussion in and of itself, as well of a number of the issues that you're discussing, such as the events and the candy, they aren't relevant to the class design. I could easily find a number of poor decisions that were made in that game. It had some excellent years, i don't know who the "they" is that you're referring to- if it's NCSoft I understand how you might feel.

I would agree that if we added up the number of clerics and chanters they would not outnumber the total of all the number of DPS classes however they were quite popular , it's hard to say now but maybe clerics and chanter = 50% of the DPS population- that's a very rough estimate and it would depend upon the expansion,

[ZephyrMenodora]

If we ever want to get into your issues with Aion p2W, just going into the the difference between gearing in the subscription years and the F2P years would likely be one complete discussion in and of itself, as well of a number of the issues that you're discussing, such as the events and the candy, they aren't relevant to the class design. I could easily find a number of poor decisions that were made in that game. It had some excellent years, i don't know who the "they" is that you're referring to- if it's NCSoft I understand how you might feel.

I would agree that if we added up the number of clerics and chanters they would not outnumber the total of all the number of DPS classes however they were quite popular , it's hard to say now but maybe clerics and chanter = 50% of the DPS population- that's a very rough estimate and it would depend upon the expansion,

Sorry, by "they" I did mean NCSoft. I feel bad for all the players that loved and spent time in Aion. It was a very amazing and special experience over time that they butchered with greed and some truly bizarre decision making. My first 4/5 years of Aion or so I'll always cherish.