Possible Peacebringer modifications?

The way it would have to work is that it summons two pseudo pets. One heals you and one casts a heal aura.

The heal self part would have to be smaller than current because the heal aura would also hit you, but from a players point of view you would still get healed for the same amount, and there would be a heal aura.

So technically it is possible (They use this mechanic a few times). I still don't like the idea, but it is possible.

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis PrincessDarkstar: "RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE IS *WRONG* ON THE INTERNET!"

Truer words have never been /bolded. I only had time to skim the article, although I've read Geko's comments before when they were on the actual boards. Back when we were debating mez protection solutions and kheldian buffs I went back and read all of that exhaustively, and from 2005 forward I never found one deviation from that vision in anything the developers said or did.

Sure, changes have been made to the archetype - but in every case they were made to enhance the archetype with respect to its versatility. They added damage, sure (most recently); but that was because kheldians had been shown to be unbalanced toward the support/tanker role. Had Castle intended to change the archetype's role to one of pure damage, I'm inclined to think he wouldn't have worried so much about mez protection obviating dwarf form. More importantly though, I'd think he would have said something about a change in the "Kheldian Role."

Let me see if I got this.

The current Kheldians do not do enough "support" so your assuming thats an oversight on the developers part and not a strong indication their not really ment for support and you want the AT changed to better reflect your views on Kheldians?

Once again I find it odd that this sort of thing only happens here.

The developers will not ever come out and state the role of Kheldians no matter who wants them to or how badly, but in my opinion the fact Kheldians do not have enough control powers to be truely effective controllers or enough buffs/debuffs/heal others to really take on a support role effectively but DO actually have enough damage to make formidable damage dealers to me points the way. Just as it does for each and every other AT.

We can do effective damage, we can effectively tank. This is built into the AT for a reason, and the fact we lack other abilities commonly attributed to other AT's I believe is also for a reason.

Again, just to be clear. I do not care how anyone builds their toons, more power to ya, but assuming the reason Kheldians dont have more support is because the developers never thought of it and it's some tradgic oversight I believe to be nothing but wishfull thinking on the part of people who as Darkstar said so well "claim to love Kheldians but do not actually love them because they want to change them into something their currently not."

If originaly we were meant to be jack of all trades and they buffed our damage enough to make people think that we are a class meant only for dmg. I think that a change towards our controller/protector abilities should be buffed in some way. Hard thing to do yes but it doable.

you keep saying we are not effective enough as controller to control... thats exactly the point. The devs should be trying to find a way to make those abilities a bit stronger. It would only give people more options as to how they play.

So far our tanking if fairly nice and our dmg output is really good. But the control and protector elements could use some love.

I was gonna not too much love but is there such a thing ?

I know people don't like to hear this but when I was playing WoW I was playing a shaman the jack of all trade of the game. and for many years only the healing spec was viable. But i was one of those hard headed who wanted to deal dmg. I could have said like the others '' we are clearly meant for healing our other abilities are not strong enough'' But I didn't and eventually they buffed them do be able to dmg fairly well. You just have to keep believing in the devs

And yet if you exclude tanking and damage dealing, what role can a Kheldian truely fill on a team? None. They simply are not designed to as they do not have enough of the powers used to do the roles your talking about. This is not in my opinion a developer oversight but a planned level of performance.

Giving Peacbringers a weak AoE heal on top of their personal heal, and allowing them to create a safety zone where teammates can benefit from +End;+Def will only turn them into support characters if the player playing them will allow this to happen!

In other words, I trust most Peacebringers out there to decide for themselves when to swoop down and heal their surrounding teammates and when to focus on fighting the enemies.

If augmenting one power in the whole Peacebringer power-set equals making the Peacebringer a support-character, then perhaps Peacebringers never were anything other than support characters, because quite frankly, how can one power define a role, right?