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Well priests have direct heals and have a bigger weapon ( it is cool ) but right now i am lvl 32 with the mystic and i enjoy it a lot!!! Also the class is a mix of dps,buffer and healer,he uses a mix of white and black magic and i prefer over the priest cus the idea of be a "priest" i do not like it. Mystic is like a dark mage and i like it.
At the moment i had no problems in dungeons to maintain the party alive.
My alt class on Tera PC was an human male slayer till lvl 54,main class was an aman priest till lvl 58 and in my experience between those 2 classes and now with the mystic, i can say that the mystic well played can do more damage than the priest and equal to slayer. But i played the slayer two years ago,so no idea how is actually.
For healing i use the one that is a lock on heal and the one that dispel harmful effects lock on skill. If i arrive at the case, i use motes in front nose of the friendy player with the luck that he pick them.
But i still need to learn a lot of the mystic.
You have 4 Thralls as a Mystic, Thrall of Protection (ToP), Thrall of Vengeance (ToV), Thrall of Life (ToL), and Thrall of Wrath (ToW).
Protect is the mainstay for solo play and such since, healers don't tank for crap and does respectable damage for the overall dps of the player.
Vengeance is just your auto-fire turret that shoots everything in range one at a time, I don't think it hits as hard as ToP, but it helps to do additional chip damage/other targets nearby.
Life just...heals, you and allies plus has a bonus cleanse to make use of, but it only lasts like 10s and heals in a self aoe a couple times before leaving.
Wrath hits like a monster, but the drawback is a *very short* duration of either 3 attacks made by it or like 1 minute. I know the description says "3 attacks or until it dies", but it has a timer attached to it as well.
your reasoning for not liking priests is just plain stupid, you aren't tied to some church while playing the class... you lack the experience at end game to even say which is better if all you have done is played a mystic up to lvl 32. when i have actually played both a mystic and a priest up to level 60 before the cap was raised to 65. just remembering how it was and how the dungeons are now i can clearly say that mystics will be struggling to even survive.
He's a new player, I am too and if I used mystic I wouldn't have known not to use the thrall unless I heard it from another player. I'd expect newer players to use the thrall until they gain the experience to play properly which may come in at level 65
Try playing an end game hard mode dungeon with a shield mode on boss where you have to kill the shield or everyone gets one hit KO’ed. Now I’m not saying we could not clear it. What we could not clear back in the day in early +12 gear was Shandra Manaya’s walk stage where you have to deal enough damage as she slowly walks away, otherwise she will go all out nuts at end of walk and jump all over the place at insane speeds, which was difficult as hell to do anything about with anything but a ranged class that cold randomly throw down puddles of damage on her. Try bosses with attacks that one hit KO basically anyone but tank, meaning yo have to dodge basically everything and your healer would be eye candy if it was not for the tick down HP loss already inherent on a boss, and the attacks you HAVE to take to get debuffs from that kill you if you don’t have them on.
This was top level PVE before I stopped playing PC, that and abyss hard mode basically REQUIRED mystic for the crit bonus to deal out way more damage. I mean you could do it in priest, sure. But when we’re talking PUG groups, and I do NOT mean PUG groups from instance matches, you would never IM hard modes - i’m talking PUGs you pick up from round the area after doing a dungeon clear check. Those groups would often refuse anything BUT mystic.
For Shandra Manaya’s walk, my husband ditched his priest after we cleared a handful of times with LOTS of wipes and levelled a mystic all the way to 60, back when this was a huge chore to do. We went from constantly wiping to clearing almost every time.