Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31297098-20170220151321/@comment-26484417-20170221192414

Lord Asriel Sew wrote: No rage everyone but : "One good lightbearer is better than 2 Fishermen" (S1C36 Blog Post) (#positionswarsincoming?) Actually, the real content of the cited blog post is: One good Light Bearer is better then two decent Fisherman of the team. The statement isn't as universal as you attempted to make it sound, and decent is commonly recognised as a lower quality than good. So the message here is pretty much "quality over quantity", and it doesn't say whether a good Light Bearer is preferable to a good Fisherman.

As for why Light Bearer might be considered more important to the team: Well, in the end, basically everyone who climbs the Tower--regardless of their position--can hold their own in a fight. Fisherman may be the best position to fit that job, but it's still a job that most people are capable of taking to some degree of satisfaction; same cannot be said for a Light Bearer that--if nothing else--requires a very particular piece of equipment.

Still, unless we're talking about a Light Bearer like Repellista, would you put your by far the most powerful melee asset (e.g., Zahard Princess) in the back of your team?