Dont have anymore patience to be cleric

Playing a cleric isn't that hard.. You just have to know how to play it. True, we are squishy, but we can heal ourselves, we can slow down the target and we have seals.
I also put some points into vit so i can survive a bit longer. And guides are usefull, but you have to create your own playing style because some people can't play exactly how a guide says to play (like me, i don't follow the 'cleric-playing-rules' but me and my squadmates still survive ^^)).

Good luck ^^

Mrvate - Heavens Tear wrote: »

^ agreed

Honestly I don't know how anyone really has any trouble with any class... cleric is very easy to solo with, the only time I had problems in the 50's with the tourac mobs. other then that I found the cleric to be mostly a cakewalk.

Oh my God yes. I HATE the Taurocs. Once my LC cleric is 59 and I get Tempest, I'm going back and nuking every single one of them.

The only time my cleric died <29 was when she was ganked o,O

She's equipped with much more defensive moves to survive than my archer was, who died a lot more b:sad

Yup, cleric fails massively! Only can heal buff or revive, when comes to Pvp all classes can one shot him, low Hp poor resistance, plume shell is also fail, if dueling someone strong, he takes my 6.2k!!! Mana in 4 seconds and not able to use skills, what the f*ck is this a fairy elf? How many cleric's in PK do you see? You always end up at being someone's slave b*itch, and don't reply to me with ''all squads needs cleric'' im talking about Pvp, if you try to be mean or dont heal in squad trying to defense yourself, they will kick you and find another. Wizards can heal too.

sinead777 wrote: »

I have tried every class and i have to say the clerics class is ridiculously hard to play and not at all entertaining as I had hoped. They have the worst defence and I cannot count the amt of times my cleric has died up to her level - 29. My psychic who is also supposed to be squishy has not died quarter as much.

Its ridiculous bout the way the clerics are created! And please dont tell me oh ive done this and that wrong. I did research i did the whole 1 str and 9 mag for every second level. some of her gear is still npc but there is some good gear there too. Ppl tell me i shud farm for mats to buy epic gear but i dont fancy holding back leveln for bout a whole month or more just to farm. Id rather watch paint dry.

I only use plume shot as my main attack right now and cyclone now and then and the ironheart blessing. I was advised to use the ironheart blessing as skill number 1 before hitn monster and to spam it on my cleric 2/3 times before using my plum shot AND to use hp pot while in the fight.

Now my cleric died 4 times in the space of 15 mins doing a normal quest. What is up with that? Or do you just have to have ridiculous patience to be cleric. Ive been so frustrated with this class that i have stopped playing to be honest.

Why make it ridiculously hard to play cleric?? On top of the abuse I see some clerics get off insensitive ppl in a party, they are the hardest class to play, I think the clerics shud be looked at properly..... My bf's level 72 veno pwned a 90+ cleric from a very strong faction... I mean come on!

Yeah I'll give yah that they are a challenge solo wise, but they come with there perks and without them this game would need a serious re-balancing. If you like to solo then don't be a Cleric, it's just going to drain your pocket book more and make you frustrated. Clerics should only be played by people who respect the class for what it is.

Lynore - Sanctuary wrote: »

Yup, cleric fails massively! Only can heal buff or revive, when comes to Pvp all classes can one shot him, low Hp poor resistance, plume shell is also fail, if dueling someone strong, he takes my 6.2k!!! Mana in 4 seconds and not able to use skills, what the f*ck is this a fairy elf? How many cleric's in PK do you see? You always end up at being someone's slave b*itch, and don't reply to me with ''all squads needs cleric'' im talking about Pvp, if you try to be mean or dont heal in squad trying to defense yourself, they will kick you and find another. Wizards can heal too.

Wizards can one shot most things that breathe in this game a lot better than they can heal, I'd rather have them nuke someone threatening the squad than heal someone dying, tbh. They make mediocre healers and clerics can heal and support better than any other class out there. If you're aiding people in PvP it's understandable that you need to defend yourself, but your defense doesn't have to amount to offense in way of protecting yourself; that's an archer's forte. You're much more useful keeping your squad alive than you are taking down your opponents, imo, in the end the same result is achieved. That's not to say that clerics aren't good in PvP, I've met some very good players. However, I don't understand why so many clerics choose that class, and then complain about having to heal and not being allowed to DD, honestly there are better classes for that if that's all you want to be doing.

Lynore - Sanctuary wrote: »

Yup, cleric fails massively! Only can heal buff or revive, when comes to Pvp all classes can one shot him, low Hp poor resistance, plume shell is also fail, if dueling someone strong, he takes my 6.2k!!! Mana in 4 seconds and not able to use skills, what the f*ck is this a fairy elf? How many cleric's in PK do you see? You always end up at being someone's slave b*itch, and don't reply to me with ''all squads needs cleric'' im talking about Pvp, if you try to be mean or dont heal in squad trying to defense yourself, they will kick you and find another. Wizards can heal too.

LOL at the PvP sucks=Massive fail.And i just posted on his thread about him saying sins sucks and r squishy.

Most clerics after 90+ or 80+ have about 4k+hp and 7k~9k mana.I dont think thats pretty squishy when they have Plume Shell on with a charm.Pluem Shell isnt as fail as you think.it prevents the cleric from being 1-shotted unless you can burn off all his mana n hp with 1 atk.

and obviously u dont know the power of buffs/revive/heal since u're still low lvl.At end game that buff will make a big diff in the dmg u take and i'd like to see you run instances w/o a cleric and w/o ticking your charm so many times.Revive isnt just to minimize exp loss FYI,imagine if you die at the last BH boss u have to do.You'd have to run all the way back and ur squad will have to wait for u to get back.

Clerics are a hard class to play already,so stop saying they fail unless u can do better than them.

Edit:Cleric do have sleep u know.

Dractonis - Lost City wrote: »

PK isn't restricted to this one situation, this doesn't prove anything and it's pretty reasonable for any class to experience some difficulty when they're stunlocked and getting beat on b:sweat

I agree I would rather have Wizards do damage than heal with Morning Dew I can 5 IH off before that. .That makes my jop easier.

I was just like this person when I started but on Harshland. I rerolled my Cleric on HT and had so much more fun with cleric. I did learn everything I needed to know from the cleric forums which came is real handy, good and bad info. So I do enjoy the helping and healing when in squad. I loved my cleric way more soloing after Lv.44(wield Thunder)b:pleased. Must do what is fun for you though, for now and later endgame.

When I was a noob, the only reason I had difficulty leveling was because I leveled the wrong healing skill (Blessing of the Purehearted instead of Ironheart Blessing). Teeki is my main character, arcane build on a pve server and for me, the easiest class to play.

Some things I did to keep my character strong, level skills when I had enough coin and spirit, also keep her equipment as updated as possible. The other thing that helped was healing before whacking a mob. I would cast Ironheart Blessing between 1 and 3 times before attacking (3x for harder mobs). Also, I would reapply Ironheart during the battle if needed.

Example of what I cast: Ironheart Blessing, Great Cyclone, Wield Thunder (or Plume Shot), Great Cyclone, Plume Shot and Great Cyclone.

If by the end of that cycle the monster(s) isn't dead then I reapply Ironheart Blessing.

My character grew up in a faction filled with lots of clerics so I could always ask them what they would recommend in a particular situation. If that didn't work I could always look through the cleric forum for help b:laugh

P.S. Some points on Vitality never hurt either, or shard your armor with a few Citrine Gems b:victory

Wizards can heal? @_@

(sorry new, haha. And in the gaming world this is a highly unusual ability for a practitioner of the arcane)

I have two clerics now that I play, and at first it was just for fun that I made one and it's become the character I play the most.
The only time my cleric ever died was during a bad FB 39 run when we hit HerculeTrioc and that's only because we went in with only 4 in the squad so I don't think it was a total failure.

IMO, there's no reason at all why a cleric should die ever - even when soloing - any quest before level 40.

There is a lot of give & take with a cleric - for one, you need to decide if you want to be more of a squad player or a solo player when deciding which skills you want to level. My main cleric is all about healing and not so strong on DD, so pretty bad at soloing even mobs at the level that cleric is at.
The reason why I rolled a second one was to see how I could do with focusing more on DD skills.

I love playing cleric and I think it takes a certain mindset to play one.

BTW, I think Thunderball is a useless skill - it takes too much time to channel and the only time it's really useful is for DoT if you can throw it in while in a squad. I'd rather max out plume shot and cyclone than to bother with it. I would skip that one altogether and go for Wield Thunder and Siren's Kiss.

lvling a Cleric is not harder or easier then any other class in PWI...I also have tried other classes..but at the end i see no real difference in lvling a class.i think you need a bit more patience, when you are around 50/60 its somewhat easier.b:bye

just a couple things....

Im level 79 and thunderball is level 1 I never use it

Kiting with cylcone is awesome, I have killed many bosses that others my level couldnt get by just doing the ol' hit and run.....

Using Plume Shell takes practise and saves my a.ss regularly

Even though I have high level in many skills my main combo is cyclone-plume-cyclone-plume with an ironheart or sparks used when necessary

Another combo for real hard buggers is IH-cyclone-plume-IH-IH-cyclone-plume-etc

I dont use wield thunder if I dont have to because its less efficient with mana then the cyclone and plume combo

I dont care about getting killed because I dont power level. By trying things that have gotten me killed, I have worked out good combo/survival skills. Its a good practise I think.... Dont worry about getting killed, levelling is so easy now with all the dailies that you need to build up sp and cash to get skills/armour etc - levelling aint required. I think a cleric without current level armour and skills is BAD.....

Apothecary skills are pretty essential - I have 15 different remedies; but Ill be investing a lot in yuanxiaos from here on I think.... Look carefully at what remedies you want and only farm those mats or youll run out of inventory space very quickly

There are a few guides telling u to keep purify at level 1. Mine is level 10 and is much better when the aoe monster de-buffs starting kicking around in dungeons.... or like Slitt - that mana drain de-buff sucks big time.....

I dont PVP and I still get killed pretty easily when someone PVP me - I have no hp shards and havent practised PVP so I can't advise you on that, but it seems correct genie skills are essential from what others have told me....

Thats all for now. I love playing the cleric still by the way... good luck....

You are doing something wrong XD
I died like twice... anyway keep with other characters.