Need Gameplay advice for Support Cleric

I'm a support cleric and have no problem killing things. Monsters don't get near me most of the time and if they do I use ironheart on myself and I'm set. I put plume shot and cyclone as high as I can get them and the rest of my spirit and money is only on my heals and buffs. I have 20 vit, 30 str and rest on magic. Adding vit as I go.

I really don't see the need for a squad. When I'm in one though you see me sit in the back spamming heals on everyone because thats what I like to do.

I guess for Veno, the lvling strat may be pretty different.

For me, up until now the Lv40s, I spammed quests and I mean tons of them. During the quest that had "kill xxx mobs", I practically soloed all the way just so I can keep the exp and drops to myself, and did not go in a squad unless the other person invited.(invite was rare for me too) Just those got me the lvls(solo exp+reward exp) extremely quick at least until 39 or so. (I would accept 15-20 quests at a time)
As for the downtime for HP and MP, the drops that I got from hours of solo made up for it, got a crapload of meds that I couldnt even use up fast enough. Just also pick up every money that drops and harvest every weed you see and youll get another surplus from making apothecary items.
That was my experience up until now, it was pretty easy going without the squads.

After Lv40 the number of quests dropped drastically so I might have to find a different way to lvl. At the moment Im still trying solo exp which is not THAT bad, just a tad slower than the times I had multiple quests.

Also I wouldnt worry too much about KS's during that lvl. Competition is high on mobs sometimes and alot of times you lag. Its no surprise if 5 pple hit the same mob 3 times in a row. I myself had a hard time canceling out a macro once it accidentally turned into a KS.

First off, Veno's definitely level a lot easier than Clerics. My girlfriend and I leveled up together. She was a veno and I was a cleric. Veno's spells do almost as much damage as a full int cleric, but their pet more than makes up the difference in damage. Veno's also have a pet to tank for them, so they take less damage and they don't have to waste time/mana self healing. Also later on, they get a skill that switches health/mana bars. Whenever she'd get low on mana, she'd use the skill, her health would be low, her mana max. I just heal her and she'd have both bars full. Meanwhile I have to go meditate for 3 min to get my mana maxed....

That said, I had no trouble leveling my support cleric. Always make sure you keep plume shot and cyclone maxed for your level. Go with a full int build. 9 mag, 1 str every 2 levels. There's a lot of debate on the forums over full int vs vitality builds. Full int definitely levels a lot faster as you get more mana and kill quicker, so go full int for a while. You can always restat to a vitality build later if you want to PvP/TW.

My advice to you to speed up your leveling is ... buy spirit charms! My mistake in leveling my cleric was I decided I wanted to do the Dragon Quests, so I saved all my DQ items for use there. BIG MISTAKE! Sell all of the DQ items you get and buy Spirit Charms! You can get a bronze one for 80-85k these days. In the time in takes you to fly all over the map to do a DQ, you can stand in 1 place grinding air mobs and make more exp and a ton more cash in the same amount of time.

I didn't catch on to this until my mid 50's, but it has drastically sped up my leveling. By grinding, I make enough money to buy skills, a gold spirit charm every time one of mine runs out and a bunch of experience scrolls, plus have some money left over.

You're still lower level, so definitely do all of your quests first, but as you level, quests alone won't be enough to get you to the next level. To finish your level after your quests, just grind air monsters. This will get you all the money you need to keep getting yourself charms. With charms, clerics can kill just as fast, if not faster than veno's.

if your really having trouble as you say getting groups, killing, etc...
---find a good guild---
they can help you or let you in groups that u need u can help in guild fb runs, all that good stuff. Thats some good exp and yes as stated before crazy stone later on is a must-do once the quests run short with the exp.

also you should level plume shot and cyclone even if your support, because those are your 2 main attack skills for any type of cleric. they will help you for soloing when group seeking runs dry. Good things for clerics to grind on for leveling are flying magic mobs. Preferably poison.
-easy kills and not much damage if you have good purify (later on your gonna need it at least at lvl 7+)
and later on down the road don't worry about squad finding problems. Clerics are looked for on the clock for high level squads (zhen TT high level fbs etc)

-my final words are tough it out, get plume and cyclone up, find a good friendly guild (dont be afraid to look around) grind on poison or magic flying mobs and enjoy the cleric class-b:bye

I have never had a problem finding help on LC. I constantly get invited to random squads and everytime I ask for help with a boss I get it within a few minutes. As far as leveling, do quest they are by far more rewarding and less tedious. That said I can only vouch till level 40, I find myself grinding alot more now because my quest are alot more time consuming and less rewarding. I hate grinding but, sometimes its your only option. As a cleric Vipons are really easy to grind. Even if your 8-9 levels below the mob.

Some people do not listen to common talk. The game can turn that off for you if you select some other chat tab.

If you turn on your slogan, that can help you get into squads.

You might also try sending some invites, yourself. If they do not want to, try inviting a different person. If you can not invite them, you could try whispering and asking to join their squad.

People might deliberately turn off common chat when they were talking with their squad or faction in west archosaur. (For example!)

Also, if you do not want world chat, you can reconfigure another chat however you like.

Personally, I have trade configured without world or trade, but with all other chats, for when I do not want to deal with gold chat. I choose trade because I am such a poor haggler -- I always want to give things away. I just have to remember to replace that initial $ with !! or !~ or /Name (or nothing) before I type my message.