I'm a healer! Also have a lot of experience being a healer in a party from many and i mean MANY game play hours in City of Heroes...

So if you need me, holla!

Veroes(AION toon)

I was originally going to be a chanter  as my main, but after reading this thread and a couple others, I'm having second thoughts lol.  I've had some experience as a pvp healer, but not enough to be so confident in my abilities that I think I could do well in the harsh environment Aion is going to provide.

I particularly liked the idea of Chanter, since I'd (in theory) always be useful to the group somehow (unless there is already another chanter).  I've always excelled more at dps type classes though, and wonder if I wouldn't be better off rolling one of the mage classes (neither of the scout classes particularly interest me, and glad I may roll later, but not as my main).

I've heard that chanters are really more about hots at the endgame, while clerics put out the direct heals and dispels.  I am concerned that most of the unique aspects of my class will come in the form of passive effects though, and that I'll be left with a very simple dps rotation that will be boring in pve and not do enough damage to warrant putting myself in the crossfire for in pvp.  So after the buffs are applied and pvp starts, will I be reduced to a second-rate heal spammer, or are my melee abilities actually going to see much use?  Atleast as a cleric, I could nuke from range and contibute both ways if needed...

They are easy enough to solo with and fun to buff/heal others while questing, but still...

Anyone gotten a taste of abyss pvp enough to see chanters in action?

I'm still going to stick with a chanter. I heard that they sort of stay still 30-40 and then pick back up. Healers are really OP at lower levels which probably will be why so many are going to roll one it seems. I think a lot of them will respec in the mid levels though once it gets more difficult.

Theres always a lack of healers in MMO's simply because nobody wants to be a buff/heal bot all day long with minimal combat skills. Unless of coarse the healers have pretty decent fighting skills, at least enough to be able to handle themselves well against mobs alone. We will see :P usually the most popular classes are Rangers, Mages or Rouges... tanks and healers are always in short supply because people like DD classes (damage dealer)

Originally posted by wowaquiles

Hello everyone,

I have prepurchased Aion and I have been in all the closed beta till now. I have also played on the chinese servers.
One of my concerns, till what I have experienced till now, will be there a lack of healers? I have seens many times groups looking for a cleric.

We have a total of 8 classes from wich only one is a dedicated healer. Comparing with other games, Warhammer for example, there are 12 classes ( on one side) from wich 3 are healers.Then in WoW there are 10 classes from wich 4 can be dedicated healers.

So the results will be something like this:
In Aion 1/8    ,one healer per 8 classes (ok, you will say that the chanter can be a backup healer, but still is he strong enough to keep up a group by himself?)
In Warhammer 1/4,  one healer per 4 classes
In WoW 1/2,5

I for one, was thinking to roll a spiritmaster, but analizing the situation I think in our guild will have a lack of healers  (me and a friend will start a guild) so I kinda feel forced to roll a cleric. I have experienced the lack of healers before in other games and I know that PvE and PvP can be ruined without a dedicated healer in your party.

Will Aion have the same problem?

OP has to remember that the healing classes in WoW only have one healing spec.
A straight out 3x10 (for each spec of each class) won't do since we already know that six classes cannot heal so it would be pretty useless in factoring in those classes in the overall equation. So four classes have one spec for healing, so...

3x4=12 (3 specs of the 4 healer classes) there are 4 specific healer as well as another one disc Priest would could also pass for being a healer. 5/12

Okay so lets say that HALF of all classes that can be healers are actually healers (even though mathematically it is less, the healing specs however may be as popular as the other specs).

In the end what I am trying to say is that while there are four classes that can heal, only half of those players who actually play those classes will choose to be healers.

So it is more like,

2/10 of classes are healers in WoW, or 1/5. Aion with 2/8 is comparable to WoW and TBH I think the game healing will be fine.