Even with all these buffs to the priest, the mystic is still far superior.

It can drop infinite mana and health on the ground, and heal and replenish mana with those pre-dropped balls the whole fight without doing anything.
It's rez link also allows another player a free rez without the mystic doing anything.

So mystic can basically bunny hop around and stay alive and not heal or do anything important at the same time. WAY!! OO!!!!PPPP!!!!!

Mystic needs some major nerfs, still. I'd say don't let anyone in combat use any balls made before combat began. Force the mystic to make these during the fight. Teleport is too strong, nerf mystic combat speed to 50% normal to make up for it. Limit the amount of balls to 3 on the ground at any one time. Not 3 of each kind but 3 total.

Even with those nerfs mystic is still way op, but it's a start.
Take the nerf bat and sitck it up the mystics butt, and pound all day and night, and get this class at least back close to reality...

Quote: tormeanted on 07/05/2012, 06:04 PM - view



HELLYEA~!

Mysticz so OP that we can toss our balls of love right next to the melees dpsing on an end game dungeon boss with our eyes shut! A single orb would out heal any burst dmg from any boss any days of the weeeeek~!. Mysticz don't needs to cc or heal or debuff evar! The balls of love do all that and more, plus mysticz have an infinity mana pool cuz their 2 auras actually regens mana instead of draining it from the mysticz. Good observation their Tormeanted!

I don't usually feel the need to post but its painfully obvious that several people don't know wtf they're talking about. From a 60 mystic who rerolled to lvl a 60 priest I agree with the op that the mystic class needs some work. More than any other archetype, as a healer your experience has less to do with you and is incredibly dependant on your party. for mystics this painfully true and I hated it. Dps love mystics crit aura but tend to be ignorant to the rest of the healers perspective. I've found that a majority of the casual, the misinformed, and the unintelligent players tend to be floating around the hell that is lfd limbo. You cannot count on these players to dodge massive damage or react properly when they dont. As a mystic I found myself having much more regular difficulties then on my priest simply because I couldn't keep people topped off immediately all the time. And when stupids are missing hp they will act erratically. seriously, the psychology behind this is probably deserving of study. Compound this with framerate drops and lag and Mystics just can't handle every situation and can't always keep people topped off. People will run away from you and the boss, their dps will slow or stop, and they will occasionally die anyways while frantically searching for you on their screen. Priest is just easier with more variety and more potency, and if anything mystics are in dire need of a buff. Even if its just quality of life stuff.

Mystic may seam underpower when compare to Priest. But they they can toss out mana and hp crystal that make up for it. This along make them a very Overpower class in the game already. DPS such as Slayer, Berserker can burst out crazy damage without fear of running out of Mana. Mystic can have unlimited mana pool with their mana crystal ball. Along with their massive critical buff make Hard Mode instantly better then a Priest.

I party with both Mystic and Priest, and I have to say Mystic are better support in party. They make Instance run a breeze and much faster.

Its clear all these people that think that mystics get a lot of mp from their own mp eggs have never played mystic before. Our eggs heal around 100 mp, and our mp regen aura does not affect us. Some hard mode bosses have a massive amount of resistance to crit making crit aura worthless when compared to what a well glyphed priest can offer to the party.

Because most mystics just reroll priests, and non-healer characters too unknowledgeable about the difference between the two classes (when both are played correctly), it will be a long time before Mystic gets the attention it needs to become viable compared to a priest. Squeaky wheels get the oil? All the mystics just rerolled or quit, there's no one left to squeak.

Signed,
an active level 60 mystic.

Quote: Alestian on 07/05/2012, 08:20 PM - view

You mean the mp balls that cost 500mp to cast and give you 638mp on a 5s cd? That's a net gain of 138mp for the caster every 5s which comes out to a whopping 27.6mp/s assuming the mystic is doing nothing but spamming them. Compare that to the priest's mana charge which gives 800mp on an 8s cd plus charge time, if you include the glyphs for it it comes out to something like 60mp/s and gives mp to the party as well, which a mystic eating their own mp balls can't do. Yet people say it's mystics that have unlimited mana.