Offensive Cleric

Of course it's possible, but kind of unnecessary to me. I never really had any problems maxing all the basics (buffs, IH, plume, cyclone, purify)... in the 70s and 80s you'll have some trouble balancing attack and support skills, but in the end there's no reason not to have both.
If you aren't going to stay up to date with your heals, then I guess you'd probably want more vit in the lower levels. The standard vit/pure mag builds should be fine though.

In other similar games character build dictates the role (support vs. attack) but here in PWI it's all a matter of having enough coins and spirit to make both attack and support roles equally powerful. While it defeats part of the role-playing experience, it makes planning easy and enjoyable to players not used to RPG.

Kyrss - Raging Tide wrote: »

How do you have enough spirit for all the skills because doesn't the game stop giving so much spirit eventually??

Dustin

after 90++ you will have spirits more than enough to max up all skills.

Many playrs still playing even they reached 3 digits level (100++). It is possible to reach 90 w/o spend real money on cash shop. Cash shop is just to make your game easier and not stressful, but u will be more stress in real life if you spend all your real money for a game, right?
I myself a level 90 cleric and stil play PW for fun ^_^

FatherTed - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Any decent cleric is as good at attacking as they are as supporting. That's half the point of the class. Our limited number of skills allows you to max both attack and support skills moderately early.

Clerics do not have a limited number of skills. They have the most skills in the game. And an offensive cleric would just be one who levels their attack skills before their heal skills, instead of the usual heal/buff skills before attack skills. Also the build would be more VIT focused, since you're now leaning towards DD, so it would be 8/7 mag, 1 str, 1/2 vit each odd level.

i'm a pure mag build and i've found no problem with keeping up with my skills
all my buffs (except for celestial seal) are up to date, as is plume shot and cyclone. purify is levl 6, and WS is levl 8. everything else is levl 1 or 2 :P
res is 3 i think..lol
but i can grind and fight mobs my levl +2 (archers are a little tricky though) as long as i cast an IH then i just plume, cyc, plu, cyc until they die, and i rarely die from this.
my mag atk when buffed is around 2.6k-3k, and most of my gears are phys or hp sharded (the ones i'll be keeping for a while, that is)
yu have to know how to play yur class, and even being super squishy with 1.4k hp, i can do my quests fine. i know its probably because i have not hit higher levls where it'll become more apparent, but up until now i've been faring fine.
as a full support cleric, its really easy to find squads, and they won't mind if yu need them to help with a boss or two as long as yu help with their bh or whatever, but that bh could also be the one yu need to do, so its a win win situation either way.
if yu think about it , to be the most offensive yu must put most points into mag, and 1 every other for str. the highest healing clerics are this build as well. if yu want to deal a lot of dmg, yu have to sacrifice survivability. its the reason why we're usually in the background, healing tanks during bosses, and after about 3 IH's are stacked, do a plume, IH, plume, IH and the tank'll never have to worry about his health dropping, and as a high dmg cleric, yu'll be fine as a dd. at levl 53 i do probably about 4k dmg

iluvprpl wrote: »

Clerics do not have a limited number of skills. They have the most skills in the game. And an offensive cleric would just be one who levels their attack skills before their heal skills, instead of the usual heal/buff skills before attack skills. Also the build would be more VIT focused, since you're now leaning towards DD, so it would be 8/7 mag, 1 str, 1/2 vit each odd level.

That's just . . . well I'll say it nicely and say you are wrong.

Clerics are on the low end of overall skills. There's no good reason why you can't have all skills, even the "useless" ones maxed by mid to late 80's.

Add to that, a FAC cleric would not go with a vit build ideally - vit for a cleric is mostly useless on the PvE end. I see no reason why a PvE FAC would be anything other than a full magic build.

King_Solomon - Heavens Tear wrote: »

clerics aren't expensive in terms of skills. psychics, assassins, blademasters and wizards are much more expensive.

o.o

BMs are allowed to choose any amount of weapon paths they want, and have many almost-useless skills (Tiger Maw, Draw Blood, Steam Strike, etc.)
Wizards have almost-useless DoTs, Emberstorm, Hailstorm, Pitfall, etc.
Psys and Sins I don't know much, other than Sins auto-attack alot

Clerics, on the other hand, have to level almost every single skill except for Blessing of the Purehearted (still useful for a more MP-efficient Stream of Rejuvination-type purpose), Thunderball (slightly useful in PK for ticking someone's charm), and Flight Mastery (useful if you want to go fast)

I'll have some spirit if you don't want any b:mischievous

Razor Feathers and Siren's Kiss are great b:surprised

Thunderball, however, is an awfully awful skill. I only use that for lolfactor.

FatherTed - Dreamweaver wrote: »

That's just . . . well I'll say it nicely and say you are wrong.

Clerics are on the low end of overall skills. There's no good reason why you can't have all skills, even the "useless" ones maxed by mid to late 80's.

Add to that, a FAC cleric would not go with a vit build ideally - vit for a cleric is mostly useless on the PvE end. I see no reason why a PvE FAC would be anything other than a full magic build.

I never said that some skills would be left unleveled. All I said that the leveling priorities would be reversed, so the attack skills would be maxed before the buffs/heals. And the vit build adds more survivability, which is good for an offensive cleric, especially since they would be more focused on attacks and less on heals.

Aydamn - Lost City wrote: »

Razor Feathers and Siren's Kiss are great b:surprised

Thunderball, however, is an awfully awful skill. I only use that for lolfactor.

I would take Thunderball over Siren's kiss anytime. It may not have awesome damage, but it's good if used properly, i.e. linking attack combo's when other skills are in cooldown. I actually got this skill to thank for quite a few kills in the past. Funny thing; I use the latter for lolfactor myself.

iluvprpl wrote: »

Their useable skills depend on what weapon they have equipped, so what I say still stands.

BMs can have the most skills in game because they can swap weapons and use related weapon skills to their best advantage, especially during PvP or duels. So what I say still stands.

ArchAngel - Dreamweaver wrote: »

BMs can have the most skills in game because they can swap weapons and use related weapon skills to their best advantage, especially during PvP or duels. So what I say still stands.

Yeah, but if they don't have enough money for more than one weapon (or if they decide to invest in only one), the number of skills they can use is immediately quartered.

iluvprpl wrote: »

Yeah, but if they don't have enough money for more than one weapon (or if they decide to invest in only one), the number of skills they can use is immediately quartered.

most decent bms are going to level some skills in all paths, use some others at level 1 for their secondary effect, and not level all skills in any one path right away.

I have a fist bm but I carry 5 weapons...fist, pole, axe, sword and bow. I have the ultis for sword and axe, axe aoes will be leveled, shadowless kick will be leveled. there are priorities from other paths then your main path that are higher then some skills in your main path when your a bm.

however this is a discussion about cleric damage so.......thats all abt bms

ArchAngel - Dreamweaver wrote: »

BM class has the most skills in game lol

I really doubt you will use all the weapons available for BM plus get all of the skills. Clerics do get the skills sooner or later b:victory