Do support classes get screwed over?

I don't play my cleric in NW anymore. In fact since NW arrived, I hardly play pwi anymore. Without the highest gear, an amazing squad (who can all get into the same place at the same time) and a weapon of mass destruction, I haven't earned a thing whether helping the barb with the flag or spawn healing/buffing or even dying repeatedly (thanks archers...sigh) b:angry

So I'm building a mystic for NW and staying out of the game for now to avoid the mounting frustration. Totally annoyed at getting letters of reprimand after using a ton of mana to keep other players alive who aren't even in squad with me. The "team playing" isn't a benefit for clerics unless you know the team and the people in your squad. Additionally unless you have a high ranking, extremely geared toon, NW is a lot like TW if you don't pay to play you spend the majority of the time dying excessively.

Don't get me wrong, still love the game but honestly without a toon that kills instead of heals, I really don't see the point of going into NW on a toon that is designed to heal. Unfortunately, I haven't played long enough to know how to kill anything anyway, I've spent all my play time learning how to heal, rez, buff and for the most part keep a team alive... perhaps that was a waste of time (although I've heard a lot of ppl complain about DD clerics in normal play, it seems that is the only cleric that will receive tokens in NW).

Being a "healing" cleric is certainly not rewarded in most areas of PWI, it's as if clerics are a charity case in this game. Unless the team likes you and bestows gifts upon you, rewards for effort are few and far between. In that regard, NW is just like the rest of the game so rather than complain about it, I'll make a fighting toon for NW and save my cleric for when my guild needs help. Makes sense to me anyway. Oh well.... that was my 13 cents on the topic

oh and yeah, I think the support classes are getting screwed over, but not just in NW, in the game in general. Of course, there's not a realistic way to determine the "weight" of a heal so I suppose the designers are doing the best they can considering it's a fighting game.

A smart cleric can get 10k+ contribution easily without attacking once. You just have to understand how contribution works.

Zsw - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Could you please elaborate your claim?

Probably cleric R999+12 full Jades that can survive everything by healing themselves non stop.

Is helping nation win important, yes. Buts it is all about the TOKENS!!!!!! Clerics, put all those heals on yourself and dd. If you want to be a heal and buff slave take your 30 tokens and go home.

there is point distubution thread somewhere but...hp healed and hp gained are two big factors. a healing cleric will not only gain conti for themselves but also for the person they are healing. also possibly the biggest conti gainer is dealing and taking damage from higher soulforce people.

when/if i fight someone like Sun i gain massive amounts of conti simply by being killed or killing him or dealing/taking damage.

deadwieght wrote: »

there is point distubution thread somewhere but...hp healed and hp gained are two big factors. a healing cleric will not only gain conti for themselves but also for the person they are healing. also possibly the biggest conti gainer is dealing and taking damage from higher soulforce people.

when/if i fight someone like Sun i gain massive amounts of conti simply by being killed or killing him or dealing/taking damage.

Really?

AshIynne - Sanctuary wrote: »

Uhhh Actually this IS true. I had well over 3k contribution for one nation war that I attended and fully participated in the full 2 hours but I received NO tokens. I even sent in a ticket to customer service to ask why I didn't receive any tokens and they told me that I must have not been in enough WINNING battles. I had this poor tendency to leave a battle that was 20 vs 0 because I wanted to be where the fights were, to receive points. I no longer leave the 20 vs 0 battles because I need to be in a few winning ones in order to receive tokens.

I never leave a battle, cause there's chance to get back in base and than you lose time to go back in a war, which actually by the time you arrive at the new war the one you left is done. Plus it's risky if you get back in base and base is lock you just lose a lot of time.

It's why in a 20 vs 0, people need to let BAR/VENO or fast class bring the flag to finish the war ASAP, some people think ''oh no enemy I'll pick the flag'' than they go wrong way, don't have speed buff or pots, so take 5 minutes just to bring the flag one time and make everyone lose a precious time.