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Originally Posted by Grumpy Old Fart  And the comments about PoM above are total horse shit. PoMs are the #1 PvE class under 30 (and maybe over, but I haven't passed 29 yet) in my - and many others' - opinions. They kill fast, AE good, heal themselves and others wonderfully, never die, and are just all-around a fun class to play. I don't know what the fuck you're smoking, but you didn't play a PoM to 30. You might try leaving those ADD fingers off the melee buttons and try working out a good spell rotation (and re-spec to get the +mana-when-hit talents). AoC has a great spell/skill queuing system that makes everything flow perfectly once you get the hang of it. |
While I'll agree they get better, to be honest 5-15 is total shit, and there's no magical way to play a game that only has 2spells that have some crappy splash effect that doesn't even work most of the time when mobs are both in melee range unless you're lucky they're as stacked as possible. Heals are worthless at these levels, you run out of mana fast. Combined to low hp and low armor, usually anything over 2mobs and you'll have to kill one then sprint away. It is the same for many classes at these levels, but there's some that level much better for early levels.
However once you start getting decent feats, it gets much better. Getting the mana on hit AND good AE feats require you to be a tad higher than 30 though. You get saintly guardian at 21 maxxed, then you need 5points in imp smite, 1point in cleansing flames for a new AE, 4more points in holy vengeance or whatever the name is for more dmg, then you can get purification of mitra(I think), which would be lvl 31. So AFTER 31 the class starts getting really good, before that, not so much, you'll either run out of mana fast(which isn't too bad I'll concede, you can just rest, and respec at 31 for saintly guardian) or have no good AE.
But yeah it seems PoM is one of the best if not the best solo pve class. Demonologist is up there too, since while they can't heal, they can pull big pack of mobs and kill them before dieing spamming AEs. Everyone else suffer from a lack of very good AE, with maybe the ToS a good 3rd place because they get a decent AE around lvl 40 iirc.
Balancing around solo pveing, or balancing at all in the current state is pretty worthless though. If anything, they should balance around current demon/pom power instead of nerfing shit down into oblivion and be content with it(yay rangers). It's also hard to tell where classes could really stand when a good 1/4 of feats are simply straight out broken, or underpowered. I'm sure assassins wouldn't be bitching that much about pvp if their feats were working for example.
