Clerical Help

I wouldn't say max iron heart asap UNLESS you are purely support. Otherwise,only level it when you feel you need to, For example,my ironheart is only level 4.However I'm a nuke cleric so supporting is NOT my role unless absolutely needed,but when I do need to heal my iron heart works perfectly fine due to it being stackable.

DEFINITELY max Ironheart Blessing as soon as possible if you plan on playing healer to your friends/faction. This is, simply put, your one and only healing spell for tanks. If you use it correctly you won't need any of the other direct heal spells.

For attacking, max Plume Shot and Great Cyclone. These are your primary grinding skills and are quite cheap to raise to level 10. You can also chuck a few points into Wield Thunder, if you wish it.

if you want to play as your class, a healer then you will still need to max plume and cyclone

Strongly disagree with that. Although cyclone does seem like a good spell, it will do the same damage as plume shot (plus the slow), and you will be wasting a lot of spirit that could be invested on heals/buffs.

Later on, Wield Thunder will easily out-damage cyclone and you will use it a lot more against wood monsters, even though thunder lv1 isnt mana efficient comparing to casting plume shot twice.
Im lv56 and my main attack 99% of the time is still plume shot. Only use thunder on these situations:
1) Mess around.
2) Wood monster, cast thunder+cyclone (lv1)+plumeshot+thunder again, target usually is dead now.
3) Monsters with increased Defense, takes a little longer to kill casting plume shot than switching between thunder+plume until they die.

Dont get me wrong, cyclone is a nice spell, but it will do the same as plume shot and your only advantage will be against "defense increased" and wood element monsters, so why waste points on it? You could just get your heals or defensive buffs better and take less damage from them or heal yourself after the battle.

The spirit cost to get cyclone to level 10 is ALMOST the SAME to get ironheart to level 10, so you see what im talking about...

after that max ironheart is absolute must ASAP!

Again, i disagree, did the math for lv9 and lv10 ironheart being casted using 4k mana (what i currently got), and lv9 is more mana efficient over time, at least until you reach 2-3k magic attack.
Lv10 will just add extra 5-10 hp per tick and cost 22 more mana. You can wait until lv60 or so to max it.

also max buffs, but i wouldnt bother with the regen HP/Mp buff, mine is lvl 1 still

Disagreed again, mine is lv8 and it is godly for grinding, blademasters and barbarians also love the extra constant mana on FBs, its 8 regen per second out of battle, 2 during battle (tankers are always in battle), and 16 per second when meditating. This will save you a LOT of money/herbs on mana potions.
I want to get it to lv10 as soon as possible, but the 200k+ spirit cost is a real turn off...
Right now i regen like 20 mana per second out of battle, meaning i can cast 1 ironheart every 10 seconds (lv9 ironheart costs 207 mana) without my mana actually going down.
Remember that extra hp regen is also a "passive" healing, keeping people that take only 1 hit health high enough so you dont need to heal them imediatelly, they regenerate that damage in 10-20 seconds.

While grinding, i sit for 2 minutes (go afk drink water or something) and when i come back my mana is full.

Now about pdef and mdef buff, yes, max it as soon as you hit lv30, both should be at very high levels already. the +60% all resistances will help you out a ton when doing Qinzi (FB29). At that level, a wizard with lv5-6 earth shield can reach 4-5k earth resistance, enough to tank Qinzi without much stress for the healer.

also you really should get your res up as high as you can, aim to max it

Most people leave it at lv1, some get lv2-3, i left mine at lv4 until lv50, then maxed it to the highest possible (lv8 right now), it saves a ton of experience lost, people will lose only like 1-2% when dying, that can be recovered in 5-10 minutes inside a dungeon, so the loss isnt really great for them. The best is that revive doesnt cost much spirit to upgrade. Lv8 costed me only 32k spirit, i get that in a couple hours or 2-3 FB39 runs.


Just my personal experience as support cleric.

Celestial Guardian Seal, a spell you learn on level 23, it increases your regeneration of health and mana.