These clerics ain't no clerics, they're wizards!

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TurboWolf - Harshlands
TurboWolf - Harshlands Posts: 38 Arc User
edited March 2011 in Cleric
When I started playing this game I picked cleric as class for these reasons:

Jump into fray with blunt weapons, shiny plate mails, holy fire magic, disrupt the undead, blessings...

Just the opposite of what a necromancer would be:
Cowardly attack from behind a summon, powerless robe defense, twisted dark magic, summon the undead, cursing...
Venomancers are somewhat close to these.

But what are "clerics" in this game? They're just squishy wizards who attack from afar in their robes. I do not like. What I like is smashing skeleton skulls while they vaporize to holy fire :(


In case someone's still wondering.

This is a cleric:
http://i52.tinypic.com/25pu9ok.jpg

This is a sparkling white mage:
http://i52.tinypic.com/2jazsxf.jpg
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  • MoonUsagi - Heavens Tear
    MoonUsagi - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,377 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    Damn mouse make me type again . . (b:angry)
    Actually Cleric is a name given for international and some other english version.
    The previous name is Priest or Yu Ling for the original.

    Just like how i prefer to call venomancer = Lady Fox / Yao Jing and BM = Warrior / Wu Xia

    And to mention these game culture o.0 undead isn't a favorite enemies for in China . .
    Have you heard how some mmo have to alter their undead looks specifically for China community ?
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  • Jellytoast - Sanctuary
    Jellytoast - Sanctuary Posts: 1,295 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    Whaat? Clerics are healers. XD
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  • TurboWolf - Harshlands
    TurboWolf - Harshlands Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    nu! Healers are healers and clerics are clerics... which can sometimes heal.
  • Jellytoast - Sanctuary
    Jellytoast - Sanctuary Posts: 1,295 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    TurboWolf - Harshlands wrote: »
    nu! Healers are healers and clerics are clerics... which can sometimes heal.

    What is a cleric in games you play? XD In the game I used to play, the healing class was an archer.
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  • TurboWolf - Harshlands
    TurboWolf - Harshlands Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    Well, pretty much what I described when I made this thread. I got a picture, check it out!
  • Jellytoast - Sanctuary
    Jellytoast - Sanctuary Posts: 1,295 Arc User
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    TurboWolf - Harshlands wrote: »
    Well, pretty much what I described when I made this thread. I got a picture, check it out!

    Is it melee? D:
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  • TurboWolf - Harshlands
    TurboWolf - Harshlands Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    Yes, clerics are melee who usually cannot use pointed weapons.

    They're like a weaker version of a fighter which can also use holy magic (not just heals, that's secondary).
    They do not rely on magic to deal with their opponents like wizards, they smash them with blunt weapons.
  • MoonUsagi - Heavens Tear
    MoonUsagi - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,377 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    Easy example is pilgrim, basically just use blunt weapon + a bit alchemy + pray (non magical)
    or acolyte on Ragnarok that want to be monk (b:shutup) smash people with mace
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  • Meyki - Sanctuary
    Meyki - Sanctuary Posts: 222 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    Forget about the name of class, in this game Cleric = Healing Mage.
  • Flickerfae - Sanctuary
    Flickerfae - Sanctuary Posts: 351 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    I get what you're talking about... I'm a D&Der (all 4 editions), and that game's definition of 'cleric' is pretty much exactly that: the blunt weapon-toting back-up fighter who can also throw out heals and other support spells, including undead-destroyers.

    But as you've no doubt noticed if you're that highly leveled... undead aren't treated any differently from other mobs in this game. They can hardly be counted as undead at all. you'll also notice there are no necromancers, so that balance doesn't really work. But then again, D&D does not have pet-tamers with as varied an arsenal as the Venos, and their cleric heals are generall on touch... which means they have to be in melee, jsut to be able to heal the tanks.

    That's the thing about video games. When you dive in, you have to be willing to accept the internal logic that each game works by. If you can't put aside your previous biases and just enjoy the game for what it is, rather than what you think it should be, perhaps you shouldn't be playing at all.
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  • TurboWolf - Harshlands
    TurboWolf - Harshlands Posts: 38 Arc User
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    Flickerfae - Sanctuary wrote: »
    That's the thing about video games. When you dive in, you have to be willing to accept the internal logic that each game works by. If you can't put aside your previous biases and just enjoy the game for what it is, rather than what you think it should be, perhaps you shouldn't be playing at all.

    Woah, please don't attack me!
    If I got to lvl91, maybe I enjoy playing white wizzies too, don't you think?

    I just wish this game had a cleric class...
  • PotatoHeadQR - Dreamweaver
    PotatoHeadQR - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,507 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    I dont see why the word cleric should be used to describe a holy warrior class.

    when u say cleric, the first thing you think is robes, weak physical defense and magic/holy powers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleric

    what you said brings to mind a paladin..


    in any case, different games, different classes, different terms.
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  • Deceptistar - Sanctuary
    Deceptistar - Sanctuary Posts: 10,454 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    TurboWolf - Harshlands wrote: »
    This is a sparkling white mage:
    http://i52.tinypic.com/2jazsxf.jpg
    my you look lovely in that sparkling skirt of yours :D just look it how dainty it is
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  • TrueHarmony - Archosaur
    TrueHarmony - Archosaur Posts: 332 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    If you have nothing better to do than start a ***** fit about semantics than i really pitty you lol.

    Anyway perfect wold can call whatever they want whatever they want, if they want to call the healing class super attacker sword doom doom, they can and we as players have to accept it. And as for them not being "true clerics" the word cleric pre dates D&D or any other game, its an old English word that simply means a man of holy orders.
    Yeah my sig doesn't match my name...i would say im being all clever and trying to confuse people...but im really just too lazy to make a new one
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  • Arocus - Archosaur
    Arocus - Archosaur Posts: 97 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    I know what you mean. I thought the same thing when I saw clerics... Never much liked playing them in D&D though, so I wasn't all that disappointed.

    I went with ranger. so playing (very infrequently) the BowMaster works for me. b:cool
  • Equin - Dreamweaver
    Equin - Dreamweaver Posts: 260 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    Turbo stop it before you make me think mystics are clerics! b:cry

    WHERE ARE YOU CLERICS!!! WE NEED YOU IN BHs!!!
    (I'm being abused with res buff requests T.T)
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  • Sereneai - Dreamweaver
    Sereneai - Dreamweaver Posts: 351 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    TurboWolf - Harshlands wrote: »
    Just the opposite of what a necromancer would be:
    Cowardly attack from behind a summon, powerless robe defense, twisted dark magic, summon the undead, cursing...
    Venomancers are somewhat close to these.

    b:sad a Veno is NOTHING like a necromancer. They charismatically charm animals into helping them in battle b:cute

    MYSTICS are like necromancers! They summon strange demonic minions to attack for them, and even come back from the dead when you kill them!!! b:shocked
    Things said during a Twizted faction PK session:
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    Twiddzly(fac leader): no, sere killed me already.
    Slayer_of_Souls: he's out there waiting for us, isn't he. i'm gonna die.
    Sereneai: b:sin why don't you come find out.
    Kinglkaruga: you go first dule.
  • VenoAtHeart - Dreamweaver
    VenoAtHeart - Dreamweaver Posts: 25 Arc User
    edited March 2011
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    That's actually what I was thinking when I joined this game. I'm from EQoA and on there the clerics used blunt weapons and plate armor, they typically still stayed in the back though, mainly healing and dealing massive damage on undead mobs.

    Mystics kind of remind me as druids from that game...

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