Kyuubil

As is, seems my server needs healers, badly, no matter if i'm playing my swash or bruiser, we are always stuck waiting on healers.

Now, I've decided if i'm rolling a healer alt, it's gonna be a melee healer, I have to be able to solo, life just isn't so kind to give groups 24/7, n' all.

Now, personally, i'm leaning towards inquisitor, don't want a druid,and mystics just never sat well with me.

Issues are simple:

1.) Worried about healing, maybe it's just the people I team with, but seems like every inquisitor i've ever teamed on with my bruiser was entirely to dependant on reactives, they'd cast them, then wait for me to get hit twice and dip to 30% before casting another heal.

.. Is this a class flaw, or a player one?

2.) DPS, I know, healer class, but i'm not a raider, and 50-70 is alot of soloing right now, maybe after TSO, who knows -- will I be able to at a decent rate? I notice alot of whining on the forums, but, mostly from raiders who got replaced by a templar, and my guild isn't even going to touch raiding for a while so..

.. Is this soloing a INQ like stabbing myself in the hand?

Thanks in advance.

Calain

1st A Brawler and a Inquisitor do not match well. Druids and Shamans work much better with a Brawler Tank. We can debuff attack skills to reduce the number of hits, but for healing we are stuck to lessen the impact a bit with reactives and direct heal the rest.

2nd Inquisitor can solo quite well for a healer esp. at low level. The uborness of Templar DPS starts quite late and is highly gear dependent.
If you choose the CAs (Battle Cleric) followed by the 100% Melee Crit (STA line) followed by the DPS Buff of the Shadow priest line you will rule from 20 to 50/60.

Healing will be harder on an Inq then on almost any other healer, but it can be done.

Kyuubil

Not so much that, as i'll be fighting, get lucky and sit at 30% for like 10 seconds and not get a heal until the end of that 10 seconds, or drop to 7% and have to blow my self heal to stay standing before they notice and cast a heal.

Maybe it's just the ones that I team with, but they seem entirely dependant on the reactives, and it takes me almost dying to go "oh fsck" and start gap healing.

Etain

Playing an Inquisitor is both a blast and very frustrating at times. Soloing as a 'quis was never any sort of problem for me.

1) Yes Inquis are dependant on reactives, and if they're playing their class as it's designed, they're probably running fanaticism and dpsing. Takes time to click it off and cast a heal. Not so much a problem with plate tanks, and at least on my server, there's far more plate tanks than leather. It's a cast time issue. Like Calain said 'quis aren't the first choice for a brawler tank. Trying to heal all that spike damage is a bitch.

2) Get a bigass two-hander and solo play is np! Till ROK. Then mobs hit a lot harder. It's definantly not impossible, but being a non-raider, things are going to get difficult. I always found 'quis to be very gear dependant, both for healing and dps modes. Took some effort to lvl from 70-80. Nah, you'd hardly be stabbing yourself in the hand rolling an inquis. It's a great class, especially if you like a challenge.

That said, I betrayed at 80 to a templar a few months after ROK was released, which is always an option. If you intend to lvl a cleric, definantly roll an inquis. At the time things were looking pretty bleak for the class as a whole, however things have improved a good deal in the meantime. At least for the raiding aspect of the game.

Foggy

Healing any tank is easy if you dont fucking suck. Reactives suck on certain tanks. Guess what dont waste your time casting them. I have never, ever had a problem healing any well geared or shitty geared tank. Adjust to your tank. If you have to sacrifice dps to heal do it.

It takes time to toggle fanat? wtf are you crazy. Make it your #1 hotkey! it takes a millisecond to turn it off and start to cast another spell. The inquis community makes me fuckin sick. Learn to fuckin play the game and then learn to play your class.

Albtraum

Brawlers are avoidance tanks, which means they aren't going to get hit very much, when they do get hit, they get blasted. This means, when you throw a reactive on a brawler, he'll rarely use any of the ticks, and when he does get hit, he's getting hit WAY more than the reactive is going to heal for.

I, for one, refuse to solo heal pugs with brawler tanks. Mostly, this is because I'm spending my time single-target healing them, and when the dumbass assassin, swashbuckler, wizard, fill-in-the-blank, takes aggro - someone is going to die. (Usually me as well)

But, TBH, I love the Inquis over any other healer for sheer power (and maybe because they remind me of my dirge in utility efforts).

And off topic - the 75 frogloks you have to kill for the epic blows ass! Just saying.

Samijo

Inquisitors can solo through just about any quest you will be doing, and can do some instances as well if you can get the order down right and play him right.

As far as healing goes, an Inquisitor is still a healer, bottom line. If you are solo healing in a group instance, or raid you shouldn't have a problem no matter who is in your group. You can throw some debuffs in there, and dps if you can - but once again inquisitor is a healer... So suck it up really and heal. No reason why an inq if played right can't heal a certain class. IMO i would say you have just played with shitty inquisitors. Depending on our reactives is stupid. We have at lvl 80 2 reactives, 2 single target, 1 group, 2 emergency, and Inquisiton group/raid wide heal depending on distance. So, if you play w/ an inq who is depending on reactives while solo healing your group you should find another healer.

I perosonally think Inq is the funnest class to play as far as healers go. I love mine, but it's a play style you will either like it or you won't i do not think there is really an in between, you either suck or you don't. They are great dpsers and healers / solo healers. Just learn to play it right.

Talduke

just wanna throw this in there, I started with a pali, moved to a wizard and am now workign on an inqy alt. when it comes to soloing i wanna /wrists every time i go out and quest. this may be in part to my crap gear but im so used to either pulling 8 mobs with the pali and aoeing them to deaht for updates or one shotting everything but heroics on my wiz that 1-2min fights feel like ages. i only bring this up because if your bruiser is pretty good gear/solo wise it may seem alot harder for you to solo then some of these inqies that have been playing since the game launched. They probably done know what its like to kill a mob in 3 sec.
Like i said though my inq is a noob so feel free to tell me im wrong if any of you are actually able to solo pretty fast.

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grahsa

edited myself

we can solo very quickly - it just takes gear and aa (and skill) to excel at both healing and dps.

with flurry we can do this on occasion (vs a wild sokoar in moors for some random quest)

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but the class cannot do that if you have a 1 hander and a shield in hand with your full healing set on.

get several sets of armor going and collect different weapons to break out depending on the need.

Phrozen

Yah we can, just depends on if you where lucky enough to get the Cyclone, harbringer of the tempest from RoK avatars, hits like a truck! Obviously not as much as most 2handers, but I've had 7k parses on the stuff around the Innothule swamps, and I never 2hand