Cleric Aggro Guide

Best heal, Ironheart...always. Even at high lvls it has a low cooldown and it stacks. ALL clerics should know this.

I'm a newbie cleric and (somewhat) newbie mmorpg player. (I HAVE played them before, but it's been a looong time.)

Anyways, this if a very useful guide and thanks so much for posting it! b:pleased

Evryn - Morai wrote: »

For single target, yes. Chromatic Healbeam after an AOE hits your party is more efficient then casting 5+ Iron Hearts. But stacking/spamming Iron Heart on your main tank to keep it in one piece is the best way to keep it alive - even if you have to do something else for a few moments (such as Chromatic or Purify) you'll still have a lingering effect from the IH's you cast beforehand.

Not that I disagree with this, but lately it seems like the number one reason cleric's have been getting heal aggro is from chromatic healing a squad while someone is pulling.

And my technique is usually 1-3 IHs on the tank, 1 IH on anyone else who has aggro of only 1 or 2 mobs (ie. a barb pulls a group of mobs but the archer and sin have taken aggro off of a couple single targets). The beauty of IH is its often put one on and your heals for that person are covered for 15 seconds. Chromatics has its uses but if there is constant damage being dealt to the multiple people then you get stuck spamming chromatic to keep up since it has no lasting effect.

Watching which mobs one person has lured and has aggroed is simple enough. Watching what 6-10 have lured and actually aggroed is more difficult and chromatic isn't discriminate enough and will probably heal someone who hasn't aggroed the mobs. And with a 4.5 seconds cast time often people start luring new mobs while it casts and then you get heal aggro. Not saying it should be avoided, just be careful.