Is rev your last priority for leveling?

I come from playing another version of pw for over 2 years, I have a holy lvl 100 cleric and a dark lvl 95 cleric (and a 94 barb and 94 veno) there. I actually had to pay about 200mil for dark res which gives 0 exp loss, and I won't buy holy res because it's currently at 350mil - people on that server are insanely greedy when it comes to pricing - partly because less and less people are playing there now. Unfortunately when pwi came out we lost people, when other games came out we lost people, etc... so our server there is dying out. I did buy dark res so that when I'm in a party situation, if someone dies they can benefit from 0 exp loss. In some situations though, I bring my 100 cleric instead because she's got much better armor and can tolerate a lot more hits from bosses, and has faster casting.

Anyway, I started on PWI about a month ago, with intermittent time to play here (since I also still play the other server) I currently have a lvl 51 cleric. I love playing cleric, it's my absolute favorite class - except for when it comes to resing people. In higher lvl parties clerics are expected to carry res scrolls so if we die we can get back up (which of course we have to do in party situations to keep the party alive) but at my current lvl here if I die, I go back to town, I lose exp. Going back to town if I die isn't a big deal yet because I'm mainly doing bh29 or bh39 with similar levels, with lvl 40-50ish people any of us can regain the exp back fast.

My biggest pet peeve regarding res is: when people go out questing and die, then expect a cleric to go res them. I see this a lot especially with low levels and I won't go res someone below at least lvl 50 because they'll regain that exp back quickly and will gain more sp while doing it, so it's better for them in the end in terms of getting skills faster to go back to town. Unfortunately few people will listen to me and accept that but those people can find another cleric if they insist on a res. The exception is if I'm nearby of course I'll res, I'm not a mean person - I just won't fly or teleport all over the map to res because we clerics have other things to do, too. Higher levels should really carry res scrolls if they're worried about dying, I'm not a fan of going all over to res anyone, of any level. I see res as a great skill in parties but people expect us to go to them any time, any place when they die. I've been busy in TT or an fb when someone has said in guild they've died and want a res, and the dead person has even said "fine, I'll lay here dead until you're free". No thanks, just go to town, I don't want to go res you anyway.... And I can't begin to count the number of times I've teleported or flown across the map to res only to get there 1/2 a second after some random cleric just res'd that person - or worse yet, the dead person called 2 clerics and didn't bother to tell either of us. So no, I won't be making house calls to res.

As far as maxxing res on this char, I've got it at 5 right now and it's not going any higher until I have my heals and buffs and puri maxed, because with my limited sp I'm more interested in the skills to keep the party alive, if someone dies and my res isn't high enough for them at this level, they can find another cleric (and don't forget that when I die, nobody res's me so don't even bother complaining to me about my res level - you lose far less exp than I do). Eventually of course I'll max res but right now I'm more concerned about staying alive myself and keeping people alive than the lvl of my res.

Skybelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

I got lv. 1 res until lv. 75, so I think anyone would be fine, really. b:chuckle

i win! lv1 till 80 rofl >>; pple expect so much that they dont ask what lv res it is b:laugh

why oh why don't they just eliminate this skill from the game
They'll get my vote

I really wish i hadn't leveled mine sometimes. Unless i'm squadding with strangers, I rarely use it anyway. Anyway, lvl 10 is plenty high enough. Certainly not gonna fork out 20 mil for demon rez (gonna assume it's around same price as sage). Gonna have a hard enough time raising money for my inks for my 79 skills. b:infuriated

ClericNico - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I really wish i hadn't leveled mine sometimes. Unless i'm squadding with strangers, I rarely use it anyway. Anyway, lvl 10 is plenty high enough. Certainly not gonna fork out 20 mil for demon rez (gonna assume it's around same price as sage). Gonna have a hard enough time raising money for my inks for my 79 skills. b:infuriated

You can also make the random Cleric skill books with tokens from the packs, unless it's demon Blessing of the Purehearted it should be worth it to make a random skill book.

I bought one for 375K and got my sage res, so honestly I think it's worth it.