When everything goes to plan, you have a cleric in every group.
When everything goes to plan, you have an adequate number of
tanks and enchanters.

Things never go exactly as planned, and buffing sessions take
a long time when you're getting ready for a dragon. Why? Because
you're not just getting the standard hp+ac and symbol buffs, you're
getting multiple resist buffs, clarities, etc. All of this takes
tons of time since everyone wants to be full mana when the fight
starts.

Ideally the pure casters will get buffed in hit points too. It just
varies from raid to raid. I was just trying to spread an idea of
how much damage those AoE's do ;)

> No he is write you always give buffs to everybody going on dragon raids or
> Plane Raids, at least that's my experience. At level 50 my DE Necro has 824
> hp unfbuffed with equipment on. I can get that upt to 980 or so by myself.
> If you get a cleric in your group I get up to 1500 easy.