Ok, the thread about clerics from the other day sparked a request from a friend who just returned to DDO after a long hiatus to build a "useful cleric."  However, heavy restrictions apply, so it's a bit of a challenge.  I'd appreciate a second opinion.

I think this may be viable as a first lifer, too (which is why I'm sharing). Once you collect all your gear and unlock all your EDs, I think you could get the DCs within a few points of some of the other terror builds posted recently. 

This is NOT a top-tier DPS build!   There's nothing earth-shatteringly new in here.  It's designed specifically to meet these restrictions: 
1) He only has 1 character to TR, and it's a 1st life Rogue. 
2) He has no EDs unlocked or leveled. 
3) He wants it to be useful as it levels (not after 18 million epic XP and 10 lives).
4) Tier 5 radiant servant for aura & burst healing (yeah, I know), and
4) useful via ranged, not melee, because a dead cleric is a useless cleric. 

So, given all that, I put together a zen archery/AA 15 cleric/4 ranger/1 fighter - specifically for paralyzing arrows.  I tried to make the /3 monk and shuriken work, but it was feat starved and AP constrained.  Going straight DC-based caster would be a challenge with no spell pen PLs.  This at least allows paralyzing arrows at DC 60-ish, absolutely solid healing for raids, and better-than-nothing DPS. 

Again, not an uber build, but maybe you guys can find something I've missed or something to tweak to make it work a little better.   

Oh, the feats listed here are what he'd have to choose leveling up.  There are plenty of better epic/destiny feats, but they'd have to come later, after EDs are unlocked. 

"Useful" Cleric
15/4/1 Cleric/Ranger/Fighter
Lawful Good Human


Level Order

1. Ranger          6. Cleric         11. Cleric         16. Cleric
2. Cleric          7. Cleric         12. Cleric         17. Ranger
3. Cleric          8. Cleric         13. Cleric         18. Fighter
4. Cleric          9. Ranger         14. Cleric         19. Cleric
5. Ranger         10. Cleric         15. Cleric         20. Cleric


Stats
               32pt     34pt     Tome     Level Up
               ----     ----     ----     --------
Strength         8        8       +5       4: WIS
Dexterity       15       15       +5       8: WIS
Constitution    12       14       +5      12: WIS
Intelligence    12       12       +5      16: WIS
Wisdom          18       18       +5      20: WIS
Charisma         8        8       +5      24: WIS
                                          28: WIS

Skills
          R  C  C  C  R  C  C  C  R  C  C  C  C  C  C  C  R  F  C  C
          1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
         ------------------------------------------------------------
Concent   4  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  23
Heal      4  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  23
Spellcr   2  1  1  1     1  2  2  2  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1     1  2  23
UMD       2  ½  ½  ½     ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½     1  ½  ½  11
         ------------------------------------------------------------
         16  4  4  4  2  4  5  5  7  4  4  4  4  4  4  4  4  6  4  5
         32  4  4  4  8  4  5  5  9  5  5  5  5  5  6  6 10  6  6  6


Feats

1        : Point Blank Shot
1 Human  : Zen Archery
1 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Evil Outsider
2 Deity  : Follower of: Silver Flame
3        : Empower Healing Spell
6        : Precision
8 Deity  : Child of: Silver Flame
9        : Quicken Spell
12        : Spell Focus: Enchantment
15        : Greater Spell Focus: Enchantment
18        : Maximize Spell
18 Fighter: Improved Precise Shot
21 Epic   : Epic Spell Focus: Enchantment
24 Epic   : Arcane Insight
26 Destiny: Guardian Angel
27 Epic   : Combat Archery
28 Destiny: Epic Spell Power: Positive
29 Destiny: Deific Warding
30 Epic   : Embolden Spell
30 Legend : Scion of: Feywild


Enhancements (80 AP)

Radiant Servant (36 AP)

• Healing Domain, Pacifism, Positive Energy Burst, Improved Empower Healing
• Extra Turning III, Altruism III
• Efficient Empower Healing III
• Intense Healing III, Wisdom
• Incredible Healing III, Wisdom
• Positive Energy Aura, Cure Focus

Arcane Archer (29 AP)

• Arcane Archer, Morphic Arrows
• Conjure Arrows, True Strike III, Energy of the Wild II, Awareness III
• Force Arrows III
• Terror Arrows, Soul Magic, Wisdom
• Banishing Arrows, Paralyzing Arrows, Smiting Arrows, Wisdom

Human (8 AP)

• Damage Boost, Wisdom, Attack Boost, Dexterity
• Improved Recovery

Deepwood Stalker (7 AP) = 40 positive spell power

• Far Shot, Sneak Attack
• Increased Empathy III, Versatile Empathy II 

Wait, favored souls heal?

Has anyone told them?

The build looks solid enough, under those restrictions. Why aura when you're ranged?

6 ranger levels give you also Manyshot that can give you some nice DPS for boss fight (weak point of the build in general)

string table error, tableDID wrote on Apr 5^th, 2016 at 2:07am:


Thanks!  Wish I had seen this before.  Would have saved me hours of iterations in the character generator.  I like that radiant healer idea of swapping manyshot instead of maximize.   Should help with DPS, and the heals should be fine when in full RS mode.

nietzsche wrote on Apr 5^th, 2016 at 6:02pm:


I agree this was a weak point.  Like I said, probably swap it in for maximize.     

WeHaveLived wrote on Apr 5^th, 2016 at 11:50am:


Thanks!   As for aura, personally, I hate breaking DPS on my mechanic to heal or LoH.  This should take care of that, hopefully.   And I've actually seen aura used really effective in LE shroud endfights lately.  Back to the good ol' days of ranged guys gathering 'round the healer. 

Honestly, I'm just protecting for the aura.  The build has plenty of flexibility to throw the AP into DWS for DPS whenever healing isn't a primary concern. 

[] wrote on Apr 5^th, 2016 at 7:22pm:


Well, with such insightful comments as

[] wrote on Feb 8^th, 2016 at 12:18pm:
and [] wrote on Feb 8^th, 2016 at 12:39pm:


in the thread on healers, I can see I should have taken your build advice more seriously.  Although, I must admit, it lacked certain substance in the "helpful" department.   But thanks for actually reading my post that listed what I was working with... oh wait, nevermind.   

I dunno, it's fun to watch him wreck himself every once in a while.

Bigdickrichguy wrote on Apr 8^th, 2016 at 12:03pm:


Yes, but I have both (light caster and bowsoul) at the moment and I prefer the bowsoul for LE because CC matters and unlike light spamming the bow doesn't need any SP.

5 Foot Step wrote on Apr 11^th, 2016 at 11:44am:


Because niggas is stupid as fuck?

1        : Point Blank Shot
2 Deity  : Follower of: Silver Flame
3        : Empower Healing Spell
6        : Rapid Shot
8 Deity  : Child of: Silver Flame
9        : Quicken Spell
12        : Spell Focus: Enchantment
15        : Precise Shot
18        : Improved Precise Shot
21 Epic   : Spell Focus: Enchantment
24 Epic   : Arcane Insight
26 Destiny: Epic Spell Power: Positive
27 Epic   : Embolden Spell
28 Destiny: Doubleshot
29 Destiny: Elusive Target
30 Epic   : Master of Stances
30 Legend : Scion of: Feywild

1 Monk  : Zen Archery
2 Monk  : Precision
6 Monk  : 10k stars

Dropped Maximize, Guardian Angel, Deific Warding, and a spell focus. You gain half a DC because master water stance gives 3 Wis. Maximize is useless on the only healing worth bothering with (aura and the Heal spell). Guardian Angel is more or less worthless AFAIK. Elusive Target is simply better than Deific Warding because 5% less oneshot deaths.

If you're willing to drop to cleric 12 you can get maximize and SF back with fighter levels though.

wolff wrote on Apr 12^th, 2016 at 9:14pm:


You can go to Fred and respec once the prereqs are met.

[] wrote on Apr 5^th, 2016 at 7:22pm:


Lol.  Fixed that for you.

It's not October, 2015 anymore, dipshit.