Classes: The Cleric

Clerics -- the premier healer in the game. A popular class for any group, the cleric brings the ability to heal the party and keep you from dying, and can even bring you back from death at higher levels.

What is the best way to play a cleric? Can a cleric be soloed, and if so how? How should you play a cleric in a group? What spells are the best ones to buy and develop? what skills should a cleric concentrate on? What items should you seek out?

Post your strategies on how to best play and develop the Cleric and read, rate and comment on what others have to say.

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#1 Mar 08 2004 at 6:31 PM Rating: Good
I was main healing for a EW group in PoV the other day, but the tank kept dieing. I was lvl 57 at the time, and the tank was a 61 paladin with decent gear. Just wondering if i could be underskilled, or if i just dont have the right spells for that particular camp yet. Information or advice gladly accepted. Post herer or send me a tell sometime.

Aonelwen Truewind
57 High Elf Cleric
Maelin Starpyre
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#2 Mar 08 2004 at 11:02 PM Rating: Good
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Well, this kind of depends on a couple of things. First what do you mean by decent gear? If he was under 5000 hp with cleric buffs, I would say more along the lines of "Modestly geared".

Second, did you have a slower? and was he slowing? A level 61 pally, in average gear, would be chewed up fast by an unslowed poV mob.

Third, have you learned to adjust the point you start casting CH, for PoP zones? You cannot wait til 40% HP to START casting CH in PoP zones, if you have the average pickup tank. I usually START casting my first CH per mob, at 75% HP, unless the slower has already called the mob slowed. Once slow hits, I wil start casting Ch the first time HP drop below 55%, unless I know the tank is well equipped. From there, I adjust my CH cast pointas up or down, as the tank's equipment requires.

I will also note, as a 65 cleric, with HoV, I had a 62 paladin tank in PoS once, who ONLY had 4500 hp, WITH HoV. Its entirely possible your tank had really bad gear as well. Its easy enough to tell, look at % when CH hits, and the number of HP healed. Easy to figure from there what their full hp is. In the case of this tank, I gave up trying to Ch him at all, as even with the mob slowed, and chain casting CH (as soon as the previous hit, and I could recast), I lost him once.
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