Doubt about Skill leveling

yes it's true Thunderball does low damage. For AA cleric I can understand that it's pretty a useless skill. I don't use it a lot myself. But it does have some interesting undocumented effect. The skill usually does 1/2 initial damage then cyclone. But it can do critical has often has cyclone from my observation. Usually when it does a critical the base damage it does is 3x higher. My cyclone does around 5k damage right now and crit goes has high has 12k mostly 2x base damage. Thunderball does around 3k damage and crit up to 9k. Whit the added damage TB does around the same has cyclone. But it still cost more ! Yes but the best use I could find for it is in pvp vs charmed player. Just before a tempest or a weild thunder, TB will rarely tick a charm, but will put the player in the kill zone for the next skill if you can cast it. When Tanking a boss I use TB to get chi faster, it does same damage has cyclone except it's over time. And the timing seem to work good. I use it most now when I'm DDing on a boss. If metal does more I replace plume shot by TB. I have observed that I make more critical hit when the target is under TB bleeding. It might just be a coincidence. And I don't want to start a rumor here. It's just to hard to document it. But I did observed critical a lot of time right after I use TB followed by an other metal skill.

why not necro threads I found this thread a vary informative read, and if you have read the thread he was replying to a question he was asked earlier. Better late than never

This guide you're talking about sounds absolutely terrible. Level IH to 4-5? Wtf! Whoever thinks IH shouldn't be maxed is an idiot. Wizards do considerably more damage than a cleric, and remember, you're a cleric, your job is to heal. That is what people will expect you to do.

Max IH, keep res leveled, not because you need to, but when someone dies, they QQ less if you have a good res level.

Max Plume shot and all of your buffs, and max whirlwind. Get BB when you're a high enough level. Ignore all other DD spells in my opinion. I have Plume shot, whirlwind, tempest, and wield thunder maxed. All my other DD spells are level 1.

Edit: Damn necros. They always trick me!!

no such thing as a "pure damage" cleric, maybe when ur broke at lower lvls, then yea, i can see it, but, the only difference in "pure damage" and "pure healing" is the skills u get, by time u reach lvl 70, if u only lvling up 1 set of skills, then u will have them all maxed as high as they can go...so, what else will u lvl up? oh yea, that's right UR OTHER SKILLS

the idea of being "full damage" is only a temporary thing, and with how fast u can lvl up now-a-days, it doesn't really matter

also, lvl up your silent seal, when ur fighting a physical mob, or even an archer or magic mob, at a high enough lvl, your range is greater than a mobs, so, that gives u alot of time to DD, the whole -50% mag att....idk, its barley reduces mine at all, i only hit for about 1k less damage, and when your hitting for 13k at my lvl...1k, doesn't matter for the amount of time u can hit them w/o them being able to hit u, and if u really care...just purify it

(remeber though, the time your Silent and Chromatic seal stay in effect is UP TO ##sec's it can be from 1-## however, the mroe u lvl it up, the greater the range is, so, ur more likely to get a higher number, than a number so low its useless, and Chromatic is a sleep, it breaks when u hit them, its better if u just want to stall, or put some distace between u and the mob, or, if your getting attacked by 2 mobs, put 1 to sleep, kill the other 1)

as far as weapons go, yea, the patakas are good...but can SERIOUSLY let u down in a pinch, wands have the most consistent damage, swords are the next best up (and look really cool in my opinion) Glaives are nice to although, i would choose a sword if given the same add-ons as a Glaive (i use HH99 Glave for the -6% chan if HH99 Sword had that, i wold have gotten it instead)