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You're right, enchanters don't get atone spell. I was referring to the line of spells rather than a specific one.

I started an enchanter after I'd already had a few characters, and was pretty set in my ways, and the first time I ever heard of a memory blur(or atone) type spell was when my friend(who happens to be a cleric), was telling me about the spell she had called atone. So the whole memory blur/atone line kind of got stuck in my head as atone, and I've always referred to them as such.

Also it's so much easier and faster to type atone than it is to type memory blur.

And yes, I am a lazy enchanter

/agree Patrician

Gating makes you unreliable. I do not want to group with gating clerics or any other class for that matter.

The only times you should ever gate are when the main tank calls for evac/gate OR as he states the situation is beyond hope.

On many of my guilds raids things have looked beyond hope but our clerics have stayed. Our Rangers have tanked down mobs once all the plate tanks have died. Our chanters have mezzed adds and been healed by the Weaponsheilding and tanking rangers (I kid you not ).
Our guild in many cases has killed some things we should not have looking at how bad some things were during a raid. This is because our clerics and others classes do NOT gate but stand with us all and we all fought/died as a guild.

/memories

I remember a 2 group clr epic attempt in Chardok. Corbulo was there

We killed the epic mob, the clr looted and then we tried to start makijg our way out. We had 2 well balanced groups with an evaccer in each. We cannot die! So we thought ....

Adds pop, an evaccer in my group goes ld ... the other evaccer (druid) in the other group dies from heal aggro. The one clr standing (Corbulo) is healing myself while I tank 3 or 4 sarnaks. People are dying all around us. We call evac/gate etc. People try, they all die! It is left with pretty much myself and Corbulo in the ugliest situation almost alone in Chardok with 10 or so sarnaks trying to kill us. Corbulo says 'running oom!'. I disced weaponshield and gated (situation hopeless). Corbulo died, only myself and one other survived from the mini raid

The moral of this story is that Rangers should always have /weaponsheild up and always carry a thurg gate potion I must have saved myself a hundred times with gate potions ....

Ohh, yes they do. Not only that, they share the list with their friends.

I have been on many a 4 and 5 man LDoN where the group would absolutely not invite a player sitting there in front of us LFG.

And what is more when trying to help the group leader while recruiting for group say to me , "ah no, not him, that's an alt of xzy". So people even keep track of who your alts are.

Have to agree with Pat and others about bad reputation - I also have been in LDON groups forming where one person will pipe up not to invite someone who just /ooc LFG as they had a very bad experience. In my experience, you generally progress along at a similar rate as other characters at your level and it is now fairly rare that I get in a pickup group where there is not at least one person I have grouped with before. I often get tells from those I have recently played with wanting to know if I am available even when I don't have LFG on.

As group leader, I have also had a number of occasions where the response from a tell asking if they wanted to join our group was " ... is XXXX or XXX in your group, if so forget it".

Actually had that happen onetime where the answer was yes, XXX was in the group - we eventually got 6 and headed off to BB LDON where XXX proceeded to break mezs, trip a trap, and then complained that the group sucked before dying and never came back even though we had 50 mins left on time. We finished in time but everyone said they would never play with XXX again.

As someone pointed out, if clc gates out and group survives somehow without them, it is going to be a very uncomfortable group going forward. Also, since my chanter dies often lately (did a POI pickup group for the first time this weekend was a real eye opener), I seem to be getting 96% rezs frequently these days - not sure that 4% lost exp is worth getting a rep.

Also, I don't have room to keep gate up in my spell line, so even when they call evac, I usually hang in there mezzing to give rest a chance since I likely would die before sitting and rememorizing and then casting gate.