Originally Posted by
Nayuaka
Alright, I cannot let this lay. I am a primal specced dragon with all my TP in power and primal, and all my spells teched to the nines. I cannot compete with pure melee dragons at all. I HAVE to use my melee abilities to kill. Up to teir 5 I could get by with mostly spells, aye, and I have no match when it comes to killing groups with a good healer. However, for pure damage a melee dragon kicks my tail each time. I can kill using spells, but it is a lot slower.
Teir 6 was another matter entirely. It is not viable for a pure spellcasting dragon. Seriously, go down into the Doom and try killing something with pure prime bolt. They will eat you up, spit you out, and be laughing over your ragged corpse. I had to make a set of scales with strength base and teched with various melee abilities/techs/crystals, and then use my melee abilities to survive.
Dragons are a hybrid of magic and melee. Without one we are incomplete. Melee will get a dragon through the game though. Spellcaster tend to get their tales handed to them. I speak from experience. If I am allowed to sit back and hurl spells I do well, but without gold rage and a stand in set of melee scales I would be screwed one on one.
I accept that this is the way it is, and as much as I want a dragon that is viable in all teirs with pure spellcasting I do not think that we should get more means to attain this as the class/race is now. To keep adding abilities and spells to one class would be unbalancing to all the other classes in the game. I would love it more if dragons had multiple classes as bipeds di. Then we could get the power we wanted, and have to work for it as the bipeds must. However, with the limited dev power that we have that is also not a viable option.
One more thing before I sign off. Drulkar's Wrath is a little sad spell wise. It has a long timer and does not do, in my opinion, nearly enough damage. But that is simply my opinion as a full primal specced Helian.