Boy, the ignorance displayed in this thread is beyond belief! Or perhaps you would like to forget as to why we are at such an impasse with conj's and the rest of the RO community?
The truth is conj's leveraged their healing powers, back when the game was beta and a bit after, against the rest of the members in their party. That is to say most of the time, at least in the parties I was in (if they were not the big exp parties that included 25 people or more - ah the good old days) if you didn't let the conj lead the group, which basically allowing them to pick which targets to kill and where to go, or follow the conj - the conj didn't heal you.
Part of this stemmed out fact that most conj's back then were warjurers and saw their pets as something better than having party members around who were always asking (demanding) for heals.
Which didn't make sense to those who understood the exp trade off for a solo'n conj versus a grouped one back then.
Anyways, after the group exp narf (having to do 10% dmg or more) the exp gain from group conj's stuck out like sore thumb and soon most of the warriors, knights or 'locks were claiming that conj's were leaching exp, but surprisingly never heard those comments coming from marks, hunters or barbs.
Funny thing is, those claims were mostly true because most conj's back then still had the warjurer mentality that solo hunting was better in exp and also free from the demands of party members.
But to the few conj's that knew their role, such as me Spud, these cries represented the beginning of the end of their loved conj character. And soon came the conj heal, buff and mana narf - where no longer could a conj gain exp from being solely a heal, buff, mana bot whore.
For me it was a lot of work being one of these whores, even in groups that consisted of only one other player besides me. Reason was because adds would often occur or people would be deliberately trying to take on more then one mob, there was always buffs that needed to be replaced and there was always healing -
in short there was never any down time for the true conj (especially if the conj's goal was to always keep the people's health full, for adds were always a reality).
Which made this way of playing harder then hunting solo! But most never really knew how hard it was really, because the good ones made it look easy.
And now we see who won this tug of war (the conj's vs. the other players of RO) that has existed as long as I can remember. And surprisingly it was the conj, for
the conj has the best of three worlds: the conj has a pet, the conj has unlimited hp and the conj has unlimited mp.
No other class can say that!
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Originally Posted by Nikor
The glory in playing a conjuror is not expressed in RP. It's in the respect of the other players. When, after a good fight, people thank me either personally or even "the conjus", that means a lot more to me than a few points that can never really represent the true value of a player.
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Anyone who believes this statement is a
fool, for (1) very few people in real life are truly altruistic in nature and (2) NDG themselves have stated that RP's will allow one to buy things one day, or that there will be a purpose for RP's other then bragging rights.
What everyone needs to realize is that (1) people are going to play this game as they see fit, not how others want them to play. (2) things change in all mmo's and this one isn't any different. (3) NDG needs to stop listening to its player base on anything other than bugs because all vocal players that bich to NDG are only looking out for their own ass - not the good of everyone involved;
and the results from this narf to the conj's main way to gain exp and rp's in parties is a clear example. And (4) NDG really messed up creating the conj, for it took money out of their pockets (or else the hardcores would be buying mana and health potions).
The conj's have won - it's clear now. And if I were in the position of being dependent on a conj (almost every class - I take exceptions on 'locks and hunter, marks) I would seriously start to be kind to them or stop bitching about this problem.
And since this truth has now been exposed, NDG you can now lock the thread!