Party Roles and Composition
When looking at party roles, we have three main categories:
- Frontline: Initiate fights, capture points and create space for the team.
- Midline: Consists of two specialised sub-roles:
- Assassins: Single target damage, focusing priority targets and protecting our backline.
- Bombs: High burst damage with long cooldowns - high risk, high reward. Used to break through enemy lines or follow up on frontline engages.
- Backline: Our core DPS, focusing on sustained AOE damage and crowd control.
We will obviously not be expect you to reroll your character to fit the doctrine, this is more about utilising the resources we have, it may be a case that the people who are playing at the time dictate the composition, other times we may be able to ask our tank group to swap to more dps focused builds in order to break through and then once the objective is capturec switch back to more tank focused builds for defending the objective (boonstone).
Example party compositions:
Frontline
Name: sns ball (come up with better name) Role: initiate fights, capture points and create space for the team. typical coposition
| Role | Class |
|---|---|
| Tank #1 | SnS/GS |
| Tank #2 | SnS/GS |
| Tank #3 | SnS/wand |
| Tank #4 | SnS/Wand |
| Support #1 | Bow/Wand |
| Support #2 | Bow/Wand |
Midline
Assassins
Role: Single target damage, protecting backline and eliminating priority targets
| Role | Class |
|---|---|
| DPS #1 | xbow/dagger |
| DPS #2 | gs/dagger |
| DPS #3 | staff/dagger |
| DPS #4 | gs/dagger |
| Support #1 | dagger/Wand |
Bombs
Role: High burst damage, breaking enemy formations
| Role | Class |
|---|---|
| DPS #1 | xbow/dagger |
| DPS #2 | xbow/dagger |
| DPS #3 | xbow/dagger |
| DPS #4 | xbow/dagger |
Backline
Name: AOE Ranged DPS Role: AOE damage and crowd control
| Role | Class |
|---|---|
| DPS #1 | bow/staff |
| DPS #2 | bow/staff |
| DPS #3 | bow/staff |
| DPS #4 | bow/staff |
| Support #1 | staff/Wand |
| Support #2 | staff/Wand |
Name: Single target DPS Role: Single target damage, cordination within group to snipe/focus single targets
| Role | Class |
|---|---|
| DPS #1 | bow/dagger |
| DPS #2 | bow/dagger |
| DPS #3 | bow/dagger |
| DPS #4 | bow/dagger |
| Support #1 | Wand/Staff |
| Support #2 | Wand/Staff |