Need some help choosing a cleric build

Aneemah - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Full int gets you fast up till 60 PvE-vise, where you start getting TT weapons, and can afford the extra points in Vit to boost HP (that is, of course, if you stay loyal to the arcane robes), which helps you surviving and running the AoE stuff till 90 (though the 80+/-90 are the physical levels, so LA wil certainly fare well). For 90+, where everything goes by the myth of refinement and sharding, it is "advised" to go full int again, and enjoy the content once again...

Now, from 30+ constant PK condition, ypou either adapt to vit build to survive the dmg (yet suffer on defense), or to LA to sustain the phys dmg (yet suffer on health), but what you really build there is your own creation, and shouldn't be standardized by someone else thoughts and ideals...

Aneemah - Heavens Tear wrote: »

1) Honest answer = "depends"; in PvE, there isn't much to begin with LA, as you either kite or spam heal Ironheart to sustain your life, therefore LA helps you "only with" physical (especially archer) mobs, but anything else AA does as well (if not better) than LA. For PvP, I have no real experience in it, but from the experience of others, it can save you from melees and archers for a few more hits, drains less on plume shell, and when refined gives more HP bonus than AA. If I has to choose between these two, I'd go for vit as it helps you endure both magic and physical, while LA grants you superior phys def and limited mag to 3 per lvl for heal/attack.

2) Again "depends". Generally if you are satisfied with what you have, you won't be needing it. But, chances are big that you will have to adapt at some point, and reassign between vit, mag and dex (as I said, full int till 60 is best for leveling, there you either gain some vit or go LA for open PK, therefore restating is needed if you follow this case).

3) Did you mean here "zen as currency" or "z(h)en as method to level"? If it's the first, no, you won't be needing external money to buy from the Cash Shop, as you can buy Gold (currency that zen turns into then transferred to PW) from Auction House, thus in theory "you won't be needing zen". as for Zhen leveling, that is a leveling option, and not the only "effective" one after 70+.

4) Problem here is, you need 3 mag per level to keep with the current magic weapon. For armor, it goes 1 str 1 dex every lvl for LA, and 1 str 5 mag every 2 lvls for AA. An effective LA build is 2 str 2 dex 6 mag every 2 lvls, and for AA its 1 str 6 mag 3 xxx ( xxx meant you can distribute them the way you like between mag and vit ). Thus, no, gimping mag THAT much will gimp your damage to the point where you have to fight with lesser weapons, and fall much in heal/dmg output against your fellow clerics of the same level.
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4a) Yet, hypothetically, when you reach 60+, you'll go with one woapon for about 9 or 10 levels, and at that point, such a build could be possible, but still under the label of "Experimental"...

My apologies if I am again not clear on these points, but I intentionally avoid to say "this is right and this isn't", so make up your mind and choose for your own good...

Best of luck, and have fun before everything else!!!

P.S.
@Mikel, please enlighten us about the LA conditions in the range of 20 to 60 leveling experiences, as that's the only part where I don't understand the survivability of the LA build...