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Is there a heal/buff slave class?

Class and Rank
#1

For those who’ve played Ragnarok Online (RO), we all know that having a heal/buff support class can tremendously speed up leveling. This is more so true for low levels where what would normally take a week to advance to 2nd class in RO can take just one day with the right support group.

So, is there some sort of class/build combination that does a superb job at boosting low level characters? I know from my limited experience with cbt2, classes like Priest have a couple of damage buffs, but I don’t know just how big of a deal those will be when paired with a freshly made character.

#2

Those skills probably work best on a low level character. If you wanted to be a heal/buff slave class, I’d probably do:

You can even just leave it in town, afk, and people can buy buffs off you.

#3

Neat. Thanks. I’d just like to point out that I don’t mind if it’s not an afk buffer. The biggest reason I struggle in convincing my friends to play with me is we can’t really play together until they catch up to my level. At least this way, I can create an alt buffer and be their buff slave to help them catch up with my main.

#4

Hey at least when your not on, you can sell buffs to them.

I’ll have to say that you’ll pretty much be auto attacking for a majority of the time with this build, and it really serves no purpose outside of buffing and healing. If you wanted to do something like earth tower with it, there’s far more optimal builds.

#5

Of course I plan to have my main character have an actual build. I was just mostly wondering whether there’s a benefit to creating a purely buff/heal character. Now if the optimal cleric/priest variation can take care of buffing as well - ie no significant difference compared to going pure buffer -, then I guess there won’t be a need to create a pure buffer.

#6

There is a problem with buff characters. Not all buffs scale. For example, would you rather have a buff that grants 48% def or a buff that adds 170 flat damage.

Just something to think about.

#7

There isn’t any benefit if you forgo damage entirely.
However if you incorporate dmg then it’s quite good. And priest3/chaplain has no lack of damage.

There are also a few decent cleric debuffer builds, either via paladin or via chaplain/krivis spr builds.

Aside of that cleric lacks potent offensive buffs, meaning thaumaturge/chronomancer tend to be more desired by parties for that role.

And i don’t recommend pardoner atm because it’s expected it’ll get reworked soon. Simony & Spell shop don’t serve much of a purpose with the few remaining spells that work for those.

It’s also heavily recommended to grab cleric2 for the improved healing, due the nerfs to healing a while ago. Which might change if more mobs have reversi in difficulty content.(they’ll steal your heal tiles asap, which is evil)

psshh:

Blessing is already quite op due to how it reacts to multi hit auto attacks. Granted it’s still niche.
Aspersion isn’t that good in pve, esp since dmg scales quite high and def can’t keep up. It’s a lot better in pvp though, esp since crit is more common there.

#8

Meh, it was the scale vs non-scale buff that came to mind quickest. I would have used a flat def buff to compare to, but I don’t think there is 1 in the cleric tree ([guardian] on the swordie tree is a flat def self buff though).

IMC kinda dug themselves into a whole with this discrepancy (like other games have dug themselves in). I hate using “back in RO” comparisons (they usually summon the “This isn’t RO” army) but woe damage was scaled down because skills were generally designed to hit large monster hp pools. You get the idea I’m going with.

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#9

It is already scaled last I heard it was 50%.

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#11

Thanks for all of the suggestions.

Honestly, I was thinking of creating a buff character that would be great in helping a brand new character level up from say 1 - 70, or maybe 1 - 100 (basically around where damage buffs drop off due to poor scaling). I’m definitely not looking for an end-game buffer since I know how horribly they scale at later levels. Again, I just want to create a character that can potentially greatly speed up the leveling process for freshly made characters.

With that said, I’m probably not going to invest in a max level buffer as well. Maybe around rank 3-5? Unless they become godly at higher ranks.

#12

Actually yeah, you might be faster just going pyro for the true aoe and mobbing like a madman while basically “leeching” your buddy.