Melee priest class cloaks... with doublecast?

vote here https://dgcissuetracker.com/browse/EQII-481

In DoV they tried to kill the melee priest with at total lack of itemization for them, maybe this (along with the lack of a 2-handed weapon with early advantage most priests can use better then the advanced solo version) is part of their way of trying again?

Tried to kill? DoV is the reason for years of mele priest domination. Introducing special mele stats and items were the hugest mistake that eventualy lead to the the inflation of stats and the bad shape of the game mechanic.

And before DoV mele priests had the same toolkit as other priests.

No, in DoV, spell weapons were introduced.. and haste, dps and MA were split into spell weapon haste, and regular haste, etc.. and all the priest items just had the spell weapon stuff. Plus there was no 'forced' melee' option so if you had a focus item equipped, every time you cast a spell (even a debuff or heal) it would turn on your spell ranged auto attack.. and since it turned on AFTER the spell finished casting, we couldn't even use the ranger trick of macroing it to turn on our melee auto-attack.

They did fix it later in the expac, but at launch it was horrid for melee priests.

At least you get some benefit from the stat, even if it's not the one you'd prefer.

Bruiser cloak has Focus, Disruption, and Subjugation on it.

Double cast doesn't help with heals and melee priests use combat arts, not spells....

It's obvious they wanted all priests to be spells based this expansion anway.

Clearly you are correct. Unfortunately it currently makes little sense for actual intelligent players to do so on the previously stated archetypes.

At this point any response on this issue would be nice. 23 votes on the issue tracker and many posts on the forums since the problem was seen in beta and nothing has been said by Daybreak. The bad part is I am not surprised that nothing has been said.

Agreed

Waiting...

Didn't see this fix in today's notes. Must have been an oversite?

Was missing from this week hotfix as well. Maybe next week.
Vote here https://dgcissuetracker.com/browse/EQII-481

LOL billy, what a trooper you are! <3

You know, I actully like double cast, and I would like to get more on my inquisitor. Three of my four aoe/encounter abilities are spells.

How much of your damage comes from those spells compared to your auto-attack?

So since they went ahead and put the kitchen sink on the Zek belts, can we go ahead and have both flurry and doublecast now? Or even just putting two separate cloaks to accommodate both playstyles as suggested on the issue tracker would be great.

Dang DB, you guys forgot it in this weeks update again. I'll check next week.

Nope not this week. See ya next Tuesday.

Unfortunately, I don't think they care. In their minds, apparently, all priests are casters