Hello all,

So, I do like playing cleric (healer - I do like the aura, burst, etc.) but playing a healer nowadays is boring as hell since everyone is self-healer.

So I've been trying some alternatives to my cleric, so he can be useful when not healing.

DPS, trapping, whatever.

Suggestions? I'm actually a PDK with high CHA for Greatsword damage with some pally/fighter splashes, but it SUCKS.

Not sure it can be saved, but if not, I can use a +20 Heart and start over.

Cheers!

NO...u cant do anything as a cleric in end game contents beside piking....

You definitely can play any cleric build like warpreist,but they are...flavours..

DC casting is only thing divines are any good at but you're not as good as Wizard cause no Mass Hold or Danceballs. Not even really as good as Druid cause no Earthquake, no Mantle of the Icy Soul (effectively +4 DC's), and you don't do as much damage with Burst of Glacial Wrath which is a pretty neat spell.

You can go for spell DPS but you're not as good as sorc, let alone Warlock or pretty much any melee build.

Just max your WIS, max it to all hell and hope for the best. Clerics are not useless, they're just kinda not optimal.

Perhaps wait for u30 cause deep gnome will be +4 WIS. And we'll eventually get a caster/cleric pass but than could be a long time from now.

Wait for the next Lamannia weekend. Some builders are working on healer+AA+Shiradi builds that look quite promising.
You can build a WIS based elven Cleric or Soul and use paralyzing arrows, nerfe venom and pin between heals. The elemental arrows can be used for a moderated amount of damage when no CC is needed. Heals + LE CC + any non trivial amount of damage is better than a plain healer.

2 druid 5 ranger 13 cleric swf twf wolf

Heal +Amerliorating Strike built in.

DoD, balanced attacks, sense weakness + LD for dps.

Also works for FVS past life.

But you are screwed, since you are LG.

You could use the repeater proc idea. Ranger/Warlock/X.

DC Casting on a divine can be really fun. My FvS can get an Evo DC up to 88 at the moment with temp stat buffs.  Implosion is still the best spell in the game.  (Unless you count Hurl thru Hell).  Because it works on everything.  You take Greater Command and Destruction too.  Destruction for when Implosion is timered and Greater Command to attack High Fort/Low will save mobs that you are having a hard time imploding.  Greater Command is almost as good as hold, except it doesn't generate helpless state.  But with a high DC, they will be sitting down for a long time. 

You need to get some light spell power going as your boss DPS option.  Divine Power is really strong and there are some SLA's that really lower the spell point cost of doing DPS. 

Your boss DPS is the biggest weak area, imo, for a divine.  Unless you want to say screw the DC casting and go full Light Spell Power.  If you do that, you can get your spell power up in the 700-800 range and really bring the hurt, but, as mentioned, it will still lag behind Sorc and Warlock.  And you won't have the DC's to CC or insta-kill anything.  (Assuming you run EE and LH/LE.  If you are running EN/EH/LN then your DC's may still work).

string table error, tableDID wrote on Feb 9^th, 2016 at 6:59am:

You are doing god's work, sir. Wait, is The Undying Court a god? It's kinda confusing. Maybe you're just making it easier for Auberon & Titania to keep fucking with people.

Wipe wrote on Feb 9^th, 2016 at 11:15am:


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Wipe wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2016 at 12:32pm:


Heheheheheeh. Proof people know how to play, they just don't fucking care enough to do so.

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Touché. But I' ll be always trying !

string table error, tableDID wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2016 at 1:11am:


3 Monk doesnt get you PLs

no one said they're going to fix the imbues anytime soon

BOY DO I HAVE A SHITTY BUILD FOR YOU

6 levels of warlock, take everything in ES but the top row (yes really) so your aura hits every 4 seconds. Go fiend pact, make sure you have light damage on hit.

5 levels of Bard for Blow by Blow, swashbuckle using shortswords and a buckler. CHA to damage, fuck dex/str/int/everything that isn't Cha/Con.

9 levels of Cleric, play a Drow and choose Vulkoor for the shortsword buffs, take the shortsword buff feats and SWF, go up and down Warpriest for that fire/light spell power and that shortsword shit.

So you see where this is going? Shortswords work with swashbuckling and with warpriest, fire pact works with warpriest and with ES Aura and cleave DMG.

Your damage should be on par with warlocks in heroics and so far is working very well for me. I've literally never seen it before, either, but I needed a cleric past life and well here we are.

5 Foot Step wrote on Mar 5^th, 2016 at 9:45am:


If you want to see it in action* pm me, I have a level 11 running around with the core of this done. It's a variant on the Warlock/Bard/Fighter ES mix that does similar things, this just uses cleric instead of fighter because past life.

*hahahaha

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Really? With the non-winter wolf? Is that good enough for epics?