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jorifice1
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I am now playing at Level 60 with my Great Weapons Fighter in some of the last zones in the Story Missions. I find that I now tend to attract Clerics on occasion who follow me around the zones, sometimes for quite a while. They generally don't speak, even when spoken to. They don't tend to even try to pick up any drops. They do participate in fights, healing and damaging fairly well. They seem to be trying to get the numbers on the "Kill X Number Of Critters" missions and "Collect Y Numbers Of Dodads" quests. Is this a common tactic for partyless level 60 squishies or am I running into bots looking for Nodes? Or are they just a bit shy?
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Terry Pratchet The Thief Of Time
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As a cleric I can tell you I still haven't done the Whispering Caverns Storylines because it is basically impossible as a solo cleric. I myself have tried to follow random people there to clear the path for me not because I am trying to leach but because the zone is just monstrous for me alone.
Also if you are speaking in Zone Chat expect to be ignored by large portions of the player base. My Zone Chat has been off since day one of Open Beta. Sad but true.
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You still get credit for tagging mobs & your own set of drops if they aren't partied with you.
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As the others have said, I have all my chat options turned off too, so I don't see or respond to any chat. It's not because I'm trying to be rude, but I usually don't talk to my random 'friend' because I don't want to bother him. I figure if I keep quiet and don't get in his way, then he'll let me tag along with him
It's kind of sad that clerics have been reduced to the role of stalkers, but I just hope other players won't mind too much and will help us out when they can.
I haven't met a person yet who doesn't appreciate saving some potions.
I'm hoping the Whispering Caverns will be a bit more solo-cleric friendly after tomorrow's patch. I mean I don't have an overly hard time most times but it's extremely tedious at best and all the ranged attacks in Whipsering Caverns are brutal.
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Heh, I do that on my cleric whenever I see players fighting mobs. It it looks bad I pop in a heal and astral seal or two.
People walking around with some healthloss also get a heal once in a while. This isn't as altruistic as it may seem though, I'm building divinity
I'm just thinking when the Feywild is released, how many of those wondering clerics will go the fairy-god-parental-figure route and strut around on a unicorn healing people
i found it easiest so far to solo everything with cleric. and i have GWF, CW
Hogwash, there is nothing a cleric can't solo, and Caverns was as easy as the 15 zones before it. Put DPS abilities in your slots.
Wow, it's a good job that I didn't know that when I blazed through this zone on my first character, a very poorly-geared heal-specced cleric. It wasn't hard, and enormous fun. Very basic MMO l2p tropes applied about pulling back, not running forward, and not aggroing more than you could handle, but even then it was pretty far from challenging.
It's a really fast source of XP too, that zone. There are so many quests stacked up on the same area, if you put in a minimal amount of effort, the last few levels fly past. I died a couple of times in the Wrathforge, but that way due to exuberance, and missing some of those rogue-style Mindflayers- my own fault.
No, it's not "basically impossible as a solo cleric", at all.
Don't worry, the forums are overloaded with that guy. 'L2P' seems to be the default response for many. -_-
Whispering caverns is sometimes tougher than expected in places: if you get dogswarmed by those braindoggies (ustiligators?) you can go from full to 33% health in less than a second, and that's in an astral shield. I've not died yet, but I can imagine being out of dodges and getting temp-dazed by a mindflayer at the exact same time as being dogswarmed could easily be a campfire moment. It's certainly less challenging overall than the ebon downs were at 30, where I was hard-pressed to kill one gang of dudes before the last lot respawned. Oh, the trains of zombies I dragged back to the campfire...happy days.
Mind you, I'm using the exact same generic healbot skillset (SB/AS/FF) I've used since level 50 because I'm old and bad at handling change. It might be easier if I took some more deeps, but I think I'd miss the heals. Plus...see "old" above.
I was actually about to edit my post because despite not wanting to be that guy, I was being that guy regardless.
Now that I think about it, everyone plays differently, everyone has different reaction times, different builds and powers, so for some it may be more challenging. My personal experience, however, was that I found it easier to solo content on my Cleric than any other class I played before it, and the amount of money I saved by not buying potions and kits was almost ridiculous.
The funny thing is that I found that pots dropped faster than I used them on DC, CW and GWF. With anything that wasn't my DC I took the free cleric pet, which saves a lot. With the cleric, I used a combination of self-healing and just abusing cc/AoE. Popping a healing word on your companion also heals you a bit, as memory serves. This makes life a lot easier. The game was very generous with buff potions too, and it's a wise idea just to quaff the lower-level ones as you go, as you'll soon see more powerful ones drop.
A lot of folks seem to have a hard time getting out of the mindset where they're shocked at dying. I know it took me a while- but the penalties in this game are really mild, as there is no durability damage or similar to worry about- it just costs you a single kit. I actually think suspect that the risk/reward balance favours you being a little gung-ho sometimes.
I always say thank you when I can, but sometimes I'm in zone chat or group chat and mistype, combine that with being busy fighting and often times the cleric is gone before I have a chance to thank them. So its not always on purpose.
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Terry Pratchet The Thief Of Time
But yeah I tended to stalk a bit in the upper levels on my Cleric...especially when doing things like the Generals in Hotenow...I'd wait for someone else to come along and then help them out. I have zone chat open but hardly ever pay any attention to it while questing.
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