The Fanatical Swordsman

There was a Dev Diary today on Lore-masters and the changes coming to them in Isengard. For the most part, they are in line with the rest of the changes that have been mentioned previously. For a comprehensive list of all changes coming to Lore-masters and all relevant links, see this constantly updated post.

There are a few differences from what has previously been discussed. The pet gained at level 70 is going to be a healing-related pet, and it will not necessarily be an auroch (I have heard reports from people that attended Gamescom that the new pet is now a limrafn (the Dead misty thing from Evendim). It will be interesting if that is the pet we end up getting and to see what the skills will be.

I would like to highlight my thoughts about the change to Lore-masters’ cure skills. My first opinion that I wrote in the Lore-master changes summary was like that of many in the forums:

“This is potentially one of the biggest nerfs in all of the updates I have seen. Almost everyone that has seen it has hated it. A cooldown on the ONLY class that can remove diseases and wounds consistently will be horrible for the instances that put 4+ diseases on you at a time. I realize the resistances are being removed because of the stat changes, but the cooldown is just unacceptable. It is just very unnecessary. I would trade all the buffs to get this unnerfed.”

Then I thought about it for a good long while. Here are my post-dev-diary, post-much-reconsideration, and post-a calming-period-of-time-to-reflect-on-my-temper thoughts:

“This will simply make Lore-masters that are skilled more desirable, as well as forcing people to use their pots. After all, are Lore-masters really here just to feed you power and take the 10 second power sapping disease off of you at the same time? We have things we need to do to help the battle too, like DPS, debuffs, spot-healing, etc! I’m fully behind this change now.”

Let me know if you have any questions or comments!