Stat build for solo attack cleric?

cairparavel

Hey,

I've read Cayeon's guide about the Full Attack Cleric, and it seemed a tempting idea to try an offensive cleric, so I made one. My problem is that Cayeon heavily suggests the pure 9 MAG, 1 STR build, which is not too fitting to my playing style, I like to feel myself somewhat safe. (I mean I made a light armor Veno earlier - instead of arcane - and enjoyed that I'm not that squishy.)

So, my question is that what build would you recommend me, regarding my playstyle?

I'm hesitating between pure mag and vit heavy build (6 MAG, 1 STR, 3 VIT), also considering the steps lying between these (I mean light vit build with 1 VIT and mid vit build with 2 VIT per 2 lvls). So what's your build for an offensive cleric, who could let's say endure 2 monsters hitting her for 20sec? Thanks!

Edit: Oh, and I've thought of using arcane armor. Is it worth to use any other armor for pve?

DeathBanana - Heavens Tear

Don't do it.

Paramedic - Dreamweaver

FAC cleric's life becomes miserable later so u gonna switch to 'normal' cleric at some point. Nobody cares about FACs in groups.


but for early solo game.. put as many points into mag you can, and just some in vit if u rly think u need it.
it s better to kill mob before he hits u, and for bad moments u should learn to use seals and p. shell. also spaming IH + WS on urself should do the trick


i guess

Grego - Raging Tide

I have seen many FAC clerics killed by one shot in the dungeons.
Like in BH 51 with 1500 (more o less) of HP buffed you are dead, and dead, and dead again.
For this case u may go to find the best citrine sharded armor and p.def. ornaments u can get, this will make u better than many.

Finra - Sanctuary

FACs are a nono (to me). - Biased comment because I always go the FS way

I'd definitely stay as a arcane, don't change to LA. On my veno I changed from arcane to LA for the fun of it lol (armor cheaper too) but I did realize my attacks weren't as strong. Therefore its the same as clerics, cleric's heals and attacks depend on the amt of mag you have; but you could also compensate that with additional mag attack soulgems or a better weapon etc. But yeah.. generally.. arcane is the way to go for clerics and mages. If you want to 'feel safe' yes I do feel safer actually, being a LA veno I managed to endure way more hits xD I suggest you soulgem your armor up; i used to soulgem it with phy defense, but my ex-director told me to soulgem hp so that I can endure both mag and physical attacks. Stack ironheart on yourself first before you hit a mob, and use plume shield. Mind you you'd need to use quite a lot of mp over time.. It always helps if you're a druggy (apo) and you can supply yourself mp medics b:pleased

ACLucius - Archosaur

I'd say don't bother with full attack, these blessings give us more than enough attack power to kill quickly. My Cleric is a Vit build (3 Vit every 2 levels) and I still kill in 2-4 hits.

Xoria - Sanctuary

Keep in mind, as a cleric, you will be expected to heal, buff the party, and purify when it's called for. Regardless of your build. If you're unable to, you'll find that not many squads will want you in them.

Miisa - Raging Tide

i looked at that guide once and was not at all impressed with the skills he suggested leveling or avoiding. and i can imagine that a FAC could easily be replaced by a wizard or psychic...or any other class, now that i think about it.

as far as the build, nothing wrong with full mag. it's been getting kind of costly for me lately with the citrines i've been having to invest in, but i'm happy with it.

Kawaiiiii - Raging Tide

Xoria - Sanctuary wrote: »

Keep in mind, as a cleric, you will be expected to heal, buff the party, and purify when it's called for. Regardless of your build. If you're unable to, you'll find that not any squads will want you in them.

///10chars

Decus - Dreamweaver

EDIT: My responses keep getting swallowed. Too lazy to retype :<

Euphy - Dreamweaver

Here's a simple fact: Support and Attack clerics follow the same build.
Both your offensive and supporting spells depend on your Magic. Your survivability still depends on Vitality.
The only difference between the two is the skills they know. Now in my opinion everyone should eventually master all useful skills open to them. Not doing so simply weakens you.

I'm a full cleric. I can heal my squads through anything. I'm fast at reviving and purifying. I seal bosses' defenses and my thunderbolts wreck hell on anything. I'm not a full attack cleric because there is absolutely not advantage (why give up all my healing and buffs?). Nor is their an advantage to "full support" (why give up my damage potential and debuffs?). There's a finite amount of healing needed in almost all situations (some TT:3-3 bosses your going to be stacking constantly). You wont constantly be purifying in most situations. So what're you going to do? Hide behind a useless healing macro (many do this, its just being lazy)? Go for you full potential and support your squad with your powerful heals, buffs, debuffs, and -yes- attacks.

Deceptistar - Sanctuary

cairparavel wrote: »

Hey,

I've read Cayeon's guide about the Full Attack Cleric, and it seemed a tempting idea to try an offensive cleric, so I made one. My problem is that Cayeon heavily suggests the pure 9 MAG, 1 STR build, which is not too fitting to my playing style, I like to feel myself somewhat safe. (I mean I made a light armor Veno earlier - instead of arcane - and enjoyed that I'm not that squishy.)

So, my question is that what build would you recommend me, regarding my playstyle?

I'm hesitating between pure mag and vit heavy build (6 MAG, 1 STR, 3 VIT), also considering the steps lying between these (I mean light vit build with 1 VIT and mid vit build with 2 VIT per 2 lvls). So what's your build for an offensive cleric, who could let's say endure 2 monsters hitting her for 20sec? Thanks!

Edit: Oh, and I've thought of using arcane armor. Is it worth to use any other armor for pve?

Cayeons build is pretty much 2008 story. Its a great basis to build your own tho. I followed his and became full mag cleric, cept i want everything so i also lvled all my support as well as attack too. A year later pple labeled these kinda clerics "full clerics" for some weird reason...
Anyway.
If your starting out and are not positive you will be paying full attention to the screen and the environment around you, OR may not have as much money to get potions, then yes the Light Armour build wont hurt. At least until you reach lvl......say about 80s?? You might want to convert to the vitality build arcane armour then. Remember to shard a balanced amount of HP and def gems as i see so many clerics with high hp and super squishy. (low def)

you can endure 2mobs hitting you for that amount of time even for arcane armour if you stack ironheart spells too.... use pdef ornaments neck waist.

Xoria - Sanctuary

Keep in mind, as a cleric, you will be expected to heal, buff the party, and purify when it's called for. Regardless of your build. If you're unable to, you'll find that not many squads will want you in them.

I stand by what I stated originally, thank you. Remember, there are those desperate squads that will take what they can get.

candymae

I'm a LA build lvl 91 cleric thinking about switching to AA. Do I at this time switch or stay LA? Please let me know why I should or should not switch! Ty

Lylfo - Dreamweaver

Depends on your wallet and what you want to do at this point.
If you are only doing Pve at this point, you do not need to convert and still be able to do PvE stuff.

If you want to convert now, shard accordingly.

Most people would suggest that you convert at lvl 90 because it is when you start refining for HP so you can afford to shard garnets.