Is it good to be a cleric as your main account?

My first character was a cleric and i did just fine, but if this is your first mmorpg ever, i would go for something less stressful right off the bat.

Pro and con time

Pros:

As a cleric you will find it very easy to get into parties ,if a party is held up its usually looking for either a kitteh, or a cleric

Despite what some people who fail at the class would lead you to think, we are GREAT at solo grinding/questing, we only need tanks for the big melee type bosses, but every robe class needs that.

Later on in life we usualy get second pick of valuable drops in places like twilight temple, second only after the tank

Cons: We BLEED money. Our skills are expensive and we have a lot were expected to max, along with extremely costly potion costs(take up apothecary to reduce this) until we can use mp food at 75(life saver)

People are dicks to our class in many ways. IF a squad is wiped due to fail tanking rather than fail heals, rather than the kitteh getting blamed, the cleric is usually flamed, this gets better in higher level parties ive noticed, once everyone knows more about the game. You will also get bossed around a lot by people who usual have no idea what the hell they are talking about, i once got yelled at by a party for not healing with pure hearted...fail

People will often be your best friend if they need you to rez them or heal as they do a boss, but wont give you the time of day if you need help, just unfriend and black list these leeches lol.


My 2 cents

Everything Konaria said is true. People will friend you just so they can ask you for shiit. Don't play cleric if you can't say no to people. It is expensive to play, very expensive. It's a great class, with a great squad, it's the worst class, if you're in a terrible squad.

KanariaRose - Archosaur wrote: »

Cons: We BLEED money.

b:chuckleb:sadb:cry

ugh i messed up on that quote =/

Lol, my cleric is my main, level 70 xD

hm i have a cleric as my main char for about more than a year now ,i think at first its hard and annoying sometimes but by time when you start understanding how things work it gets easier and if you kno what your doing dont let plp command even at my lvl i get commanded around i just tell them to shush and let me do my job xD be patient

I would say if you play a healer class in another game then yes it is ok but if you haven't and still want to.I would suggest getting into squads as much as possible around The Arch.

Frijolero - Sanctuary wrote: »

If you dual comp, a High lvl cleric will help you to lvl up fast your alts. an 8x cleric can almost all 1x~4x bosses & FBs.

What is in it for us?

Im_A_Healer - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I don't know if anyone wrote this already, but you MUST try playing a cleric to at least level 60, no matter main or alt. That's mainly so you wouldn't flame and swear at clerics who accidentally heal someone wrong or with wrong spell. It is NOT as easy as it may look from the sides.

i agree people always yell at clerics if they they did something wrong b:cry. Cleric isn't an easy class to play like how others think. I've been playing the healer role in other mmorpgs so been a healer for about 5 years now (dayum that's long O.o) I've been a cleric in pw for about a year now but took many breaks xD. My first class ever was a healer in another game. I enjoyed healing other people and I find it very challenging which I like b:chuckle. I guess I stuck with cleric ever since. Everyone should try to play cleric in my opinion so they can at least get how clerics work. Clerics are also expensive. The skills are just in such high prices x.x. Then you buy mp pots/food whenever your in squads so u won't have to meditate during boss fights and mobs. Anyway if your the type of person that enjoys to heal and support your team then cleric is the one for you. But if your not I would suggest maybe try another class b:thanks

Frijolero - Sanctuary wrote: »

What I meanis, a high lvl cleric can solo almost all bosses from 1X to 4x without the need of a tank. So if you play with 2 computers, you can have your cleric on one and the other char (on a separate account) on the other set on follow and/or let it DD on boss.

Ummm...more bosses then that. Hell I solo'd my 99 culti bosses. Many would be surprised what Clerics can tank b:chuckle

I recently started playing a cleric, so far lvl 39 and aiming to 40 so i can start doing BHs and get a grip of what it really is to be in charge of a squad's survival, yet i've helped a few folks since i joined a low level faction mainly to have people to talk to as i quest (i had forgotten how boring low level quests are), also as a side note he's a pure-breed, the neccesary strenght for a cleric (trying to cap it soon to wear a good helmet but giving mag priority), no dex and no vit, just magic and a +10 magic tome i found for 2,5m and here's what i think about the class so far

-Very weak at the start, gets stronger as time goes by (most melee creatures won't be able to even get close to you before they die)
-Relies HEAVILY on the weapon, little on the armor (but it's nice to have backup in case something actually hits you)
-Very, and i mean VERY spirit and mana hungry, spirit because there are many important skills at the beggining that you must level and are expected to, buffs, revive, IH, plus your own attack skills like plume shot and cyclone (a cleric's bread and butter) and mana because my bar depleted after killing 5-7 mobs, getting less expensive as time goes by since i get to shoot with more strenght
-Requires a lot of micro-management, a cleric's nightmare are those "musical aggro" squads, and yes sins can be annoying when they steal aggro, but are actually useful if they can take the beating with you healing them
-Arcane gear is not really THAT expensive and mold stuff will do the trick most of the time, your weapon however is gonna cost you quite a bit

Would i recommend playing a cleric as your very first and main char? not a chance! my small cleric is doing good because of all the backup he's getting from this guy, basically what he needs he gets without questions, but at lower levels being a cleric is really expensive both because of the mana pots and the many many skills you must level in order to be a competent cleric

Moreover, it requires more concentration that the other classes, since you have to watch:
a) the tank
b) whoever steals aggro
c) the mobs
d) yourself

So i would say roll a BM, we're fairly easy to understand, have a decent firepower and can become really good tanks around lvl 75, being a tank is a great way to understand clerics, actually most of the cleric stuff i know is because i'm used to be a tank, thus me and the cleric are strongly dependant one on each other, if he dies i die and vice-versa

BeingHope - Raging Tide wrote: »

If you roll a pure AA cleric (9 mag, 1 str), do note you will have to restat later for more HP.
I was a pure AA cleric, then had to put in 100 vit points just to survive in TW, FC, TT, etc.
I recommend getting vit in early on.

Anything else I should add?

You might choose to add vit but you don't have to restat to do those instances successfully. Lots of high level clerics do all of those with 3 vit.

I'm not saying people shouldn't consider a vit build, but I am saying you can survive just fine with a full magic build if that's what you choose.

Vit is a waste on clerics, since it barely adds 10 hp per point, you're much better sharding with citrines, that's of course if you have the cash, however finding ornaments that have +hp as adds tends to be less expensive and usually does the trick, clerics only need around 3,5k hp most of the time tho, that's if they have decent physical def (some garnets or physical ornaments, or both)

You might come across a time when you have to choose between leveling an attack skill, like Plume Shot or Wield Thunder, or leveling a party skill, like Revive or buffs. Go with the attack skill if you generally grind alone. It makes your life so much easier when you can take down grind mobs with 2-3 hits. I also like to suggest ALWAYS carrying at least one res scroll. When you're the only cleric in a party and you get creamed, it's bad news. Res scroll will put you back into play and then you can res your squad and try again.