INQ abilities are overly narrow

Meskr

INQ abilities are overly narrow on anti-caster. Class looks barren when compared to Shadow Knight and Paladin. Any word on when they might give the class a second look?

Raybane

Meskr Personally, I am more bothered with that the anti-caster tools are too weak making that role not even a real one. Still CC tools are nice, so the class isn't terrible. But it does look a bit less fleshed out then SK or Paladin.

rabbi

Inquisitor was the class I was most looking forward to throughout M&M's development. My top 3 EQ classes are enchanter, warrior, and bard, and Inquisitor was setup to be a fun mix of the three. As it is, I don't really even consider it a viable choice. The numbers all seem too weak, and the kit itself isn't impressive even if the numbers were good. I think they'd need to retool it to be a melee DPS that actually does decent damage alongside its CC and anti-caster tools to make it worth a look. It also needs more races; only giving a class medium-sized races should be a crime.

Meskr

rabbi

Similar here. I was looking forward to INQ, but right now it feels uninteresting and weak.

defixio

Meskr i've always been disapointed that they left key abilities from enchanter completely off of inquisitor. some have surfaced (like the rune break slow) but others like illusions are vacant how am i supposed to be under cover without illusions?

I personally love inquisitor because it's a CC tank, which is my dream configuration. i don't actually care all that much on it's dunking on caster stuff. also the dunking on caster stuff is kind of bad. mana burn is meh, the shield slam is sort of worse than just kick for the cooldown (but the damage is nice). the spell runes (and real runes) wear off absurdly fast for how long you'd want them up to be useful. I'd rather have more CC/tankins than (currently medeocre) anti caster stuff.

i think it would be fitting of the inquisitor theme of "tyranical enforcer" if they made SOME Of the 'anti caster stuff" just work on people all the time. make the mana tap just do mana damage, and if mana is empty (or no mana) it does HP damage. then does the mana restore all the same. why? because it's based on causing pain not on siphoning mana.

I'm still planning to go inquisitor, but reading over the other tank reworks and comparing to current state inquisitor does not spark joy. (i made extensive notes in my thread about the test of the rework).

Meskr

defixio

Agreed. INQ really needs some personal utility and flavor. I expected to see illusions, at the least. As for the spells they do have, you spend more time in spell pushback trying to cast then in doing melee. The class is in a weird state.

Noyoureroll

The design feels frustrating, especially with how it fits into party gameplay. You're a CC tank that is hungry for mana, you fix that by bringing a bard or an enchanter into the party which do what you do but better. And then what are you? The worst DPS, threat, survivability. The anti-caster tools are nice but they also mean filling your ability bar with 3ish abilities that only counter a rare mob type. Kick feels almost equivalent to having both silence and reflecting bash on your bar, and that's one button vs. two. At least silence is ranged, but even there a SK can pull and interrupt a mob at the same time AND pair that with kick.