LA or Robes

Draginx - Lost City wrote: »

So up til now, I have stuck with wearing all the best robs on my cleric. But now I am wondering if I should make the witch to light armor. I've heard that its a better choice, but I'm not sure.

The thing I am getting hung up on is I would have to add points to dex, which has so far been left at 5. So in the long run, is it worth devoting points to dex so I can wear stronger armor?

Thanks in advance.

Depends, have you put any points to vit? if yes then you should restat and then go LA, on the other hand if you haven't put any points on vit then you can switch to LA but still it will take you a long time.

Anyway, if you don't care about PvP then stick wth the robes.

Draginx - Lost City wrote: »

I have 30 Vit right now, and that's what i have left it at for a while. Other then that, I've just been putting enough on Str to use equipment, and the rest on Mag.

Then unless you wanna be playing with lower lvl light armors than you, you have to restat and build from scrach.

Mysticlifex - Heavens Tear wrote: »

PvE - Robed
PvP - Robed

Basically, well it's simple
Robed = Better Magic Defence + Plume shell all the Phy defence you need.
LA = bad Magic Defence and bade Phy Defence you can plume shell - not enuf mana for it

PvE - Most mobs are 60 are Magic - 1 ironheart blessing and you're good.
PvP - This is how a cleric kills, We sleep spark kill. we dont sleep spark tank tank kill
we can't tank why would you wanna be a tank you're not a tank don't try to be a tank just go Robed and 2 hit level 70 BMs if you can (Is possible if your full Int)

That's exacly what a short minded person would say. It's obvious you have no idea about LA clerics, ever fought one?
I rest my case. b:victory

LA is basically just nice when you're under spikes. In TW, you might as well assume you don't have any kind of buffs. Because the ones that tend to get you, involve a veno purging you. So the more balanced defense of LA will help if you're under attack by multiple sources. You're boned if it's all magic though. And the loss of possible magic or vit to dex to equip it means you're essentially hoping for the melee shwacking them.

So while stunned, purged, sealed, frozen, etc. having LA helps, only when under attack by physical though. It does weaken you against all ranged classes, as archers who are good should notice the not robey thing and switch skills appropriately.

Mikel_oru - Sanctuary wrote: »

What I have seen is that the loss of HP is easily dealt with (LA's dissadvantage), the loss of phy def is not (Robe's dissadvantage), especially if you're pure mag cleric, then you have to worry about both hp and phy def, you can't always have plume shell on, am I wrong?

The magic defence on LA is not as crappy as some of you claim it to be and the loss of magic dmg/heal is not much at all.

i would just like to say that i highly recommend using robes. use a build of like 7-8mag/1str/1-2vit per lvl. with that build the robe cleric would do more dmg, have way better heals (no crit heals), have higher mag def, and have more health than a LA cleric. The only advantage of the LA cleric is higher phys def which is easily compensated for by plume shell.

Mikel, you are correct that it cannot be on 100% of the time, but it lasts 20sec and only has a 30sec cooldown. This is only 10sec you are really vulerable to phys dmg. I think the benefit of robes outways those of LA for clerics.

Just my thoughts. hope it helps

Well I am a lvl 73 robe hybrid cleric. I have 2.7k phy def and have about 8k mag def fully buffed. I own EVERY SINGLE LA cleric that I dueled around my lvl. I socket PHY DEF because of the buff we all get. Although my gear is all legendary except for the cape which is 3 star. In my opinion LA builds are not for wizards or clerics.