Frank wrote on Jan 26
th, 2017 at 10:08am:
You probably blocked out the memory, but it was a turn undead Paladin build. So, you know, take an already crappy ability and paste a nice -3 on it just for flavor.
Wow that was 4 years ago {Around MoTU time!} and I was asking for someone to help me build a FLAVOUR BUILD!
Have you guys actually heard of FLAVOUR?
It's really pretty bad that everything comes down to "you have to play this way to succeed" in DDO and I gave up on TU Cleric a long time ago now! {Mainly because no matter how many times I asked I kept getting "You must play our way"!}.
It's the same today - Clerics aren't Clerics in DDO!
The Cleric Builds in game are literally ALL past life builds with multiple levels of something else!
You won't see a Cleric with a Shield or a Staff - 90% of D&D Clerics would have had one or the other!
Ask for a Cleric Build on the forums and it will all be Blade Barrier this, Blade Barrier that in Heroics and Spam Light Spells in Epic!
I'm fed up of it!
CLERIC
One Hander + Shield {Not always a Mace, Sword is allowed depending on deity}.
Undead Destroyer!
Viable Spellcasting
Viable Melee
Cleric is a Multi-Faceted Class NOT Specialized!
And the fact is that in DDO even Specializing you can only get just viable Spellcasting Pure, Specializing in TU Gimps you completely and Forget Viable Meleeing unless you have Multiple levels of a Melee Class!