Clerics are not fun to play, mp cost is ridiculous

I don't have a Herc, so I can't say from personal experience whether a Herc is a game-breaker or not. Truth be told, I've not been in many squads with a Herc at all. Although one lady with a Herc doing mats farming practically stole my mat as I was trying to survive a blasted mob...

As for the "push a button and instant MP" commentary... Yeah, not exactly full MP. The Nature's Grace skill gives us what essentially boils down to 50% (when the skill is maxed) MP recovery, but takes 5 minutes to recharge so it can't be used often. Example: It can't be spammed during a boss fight, unless the boss fight lasts over 5 minutes -- and if it's lasting that long, if you're smart and not interested in dying, you'll have already broken out the MP pots.

The other skill, whose name I can't recall of the top of my head, has a very steep cost: It swaps your HP and MP at a max price of 100 Chi. But wait!, you might say, That's free MP! That's just an awesome skill!

Except when you time it wrong and wind up getting killed by a boss with AoE. Or an aggressive mob you didn't see sneaking up behind you to stab you in the back.

The only thing I can really recommend for you is to not rely on Charms or food that acts like Charms, and instead start investing in MP pots and/or MP-recovering Apothecary items. A lot of Apoth items give you a lot of MP back over time, so you don't need to break out the MP pots so often, which makes Apothecary a great skill to have.

And if you think Clerics have it rough with MP costs, you should look at Psychics! Not played one myself, but everything I've heard from those who have boil down to, "Look at that freakin' high MP cost!" And they don't have any buffs that can boost MP recovery time (like a Cleric does) or to boost their maximum MP (like Wizards do). Hey, maybe the game is biased against Psychycs...? /end bad attempt to make a point

so i aperently have no idea on how much of a burn a cleric is...b:surrender

Clerics not fun to play? Lies! My cleric is my favorite character.

yea mp costs can be scary

yesterday
i had something around <200 75lvl mp food
i ran 3-2 (as alone cler) and 3-3 after with another guy
and i had to borrow from him another 100 food to finish that 2nd TT b:shocked

i had few left after tho
and i also used 30-40 hp food b:shocked

and >80k genie's energy o0


and i can live with that - but cant imagine living on charms =0

(and i dont have 11lvl IH or AOE heal yet - just attacks and WS)
but runs were long =/

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m8, find some tokens in west

Clerics are very fun to play...and if u manage right..some may say its wrong but charge for bh runs to lower lvl....im lvl 77 and charge bh29 around 10k a person..i use less than 10 mp pots for solo run...just a easy way to get money and keep ur potions up to par..or a good way to buy the mats for the apothy items....just need to use some creativity to play cleric...alot may say so hard to play but i tell u clerics are the fastest lvl characters...ppl always need barbs and clerics

There are ways to conserve MP and regen.

1) Celestial guardians seal - +10MP regen; +20MP regen(in sitting);enough said; good for grinding

2) double spark - 10% MP. help full if you jumped by a mob while collecting drops or useful in dungeon to extend your mp for lower lvl bosses.

3) concentrate orbs - takes work to obtain, so use them carefully. +100MP regen is powerful when healing for bosses with high HP, high damage and no AOE.

4) Arctic orbs - Nice when BB you run out of MP and boss starts AOEing. Gives 90seconds of BB. Not bad.

5) Jade powder - 3k MP; easier to obtain; usefull when you just need a little more MP.

6) no debuffing or attacking: doesn't cut your regen by 1/4

7) +MP regen gear - good for grinding; yields wonderful results when stacked to something like +20(+40 in sitting).

8) don't over heal; heal to the amount that keeps the tank alive and well; but don't literally spam unless neccessary. I like to heal-1,2,3(mississippi) and repeat on mediocre bosses.

9) avoid wield thunder when grinding - saves some MP.

10) use purehearted blessing while grinding - slow but much much cheaper when @ lvl1.(and you get extra chi)

Raybeez - Lost City wrote: »

Use focus powders you lazy ****.. get up off ur batooka and up ur apoth. level and make some dam focus powders! I NEVER have mp problems because of focus powders.. so stop yer biaching. and if focus powders dont cut it that 100/mp/sec. shuld work. The other option is to stop blowing yer dam money on the lateest fashion and mount (which you dont need) and get a dam charm..

lol @ focus powders at lv101

wnight wrote: »

3: Doesn't work at field since at bosses you're usually fully buffed with your own buffs which are OVERRIDE effect of Regeneration overtime 10mins duration Apochs. As well if you buffed with Apoch only it yelds 1/4 of original value during combat.

While true that they don't stack.

Just pop the apoth after you buff, and you'll OVERRIDE your own buffs