A *different* guide to cleric builds…kinda…not really

[Eru]

Your guide is completely biased against me =/

sry...it was not intended to offend.
it was only a *guide*, not a gospel … and a rather tongue-in-cheek guide at that!

The bottom line is it is a game, so you should play to have fun. So play/build/do whatever that gives you the most enjoyment out of this form of entertainment.

ok. So I have to disagree with this here...

1) You CAN PvP with a cleric effectively. Pure STR with a +9 and high STR gears will take your damage high enough...

PvP intense people are a little rediculous though. They +9 everything... and a lvl 79 mage I fought had more DEF than the 70 Cleric the other day... with all my stuff, I was only hitting like 50~60 on a mage with over 4k hp. If you want to PvP with a cleric, prepare to do so with people that don't +9 Max END every piece of gear they have.

Uhm…I never said clerics can’t pvp effectively. I said I don't do pvp so i dunno about pvp builds.

I also solo nicely. Not because I want to, because no one has parties anymore. I can clank very effectively... run around, collect mobs, then Recover. AoE heal = cleric mock. I heal myself and that pulls more aggro. I also deal enough damage that I can hold the mob there, and kill it reasonably fast with my high STR.

If a cleric can be an effective tank in a party of similarly leveled players then the game is unbalanced in my opinion.
This is not to say clerics cant/shouldn’t be able to draw agro away for a moment, but i think clerics shouldn’t easily be able to hold agro effectively over time, otherwise what is the point of the warrior class?

^False. You get to lvl 79 on Teva, and tell me how few parties you can find because of the "I want an AoE pt with my guild//friends" mentality.

So no one parties at lvl 79, or just no one aoe parties? The whole game dynamic changes then? If so could this be because the game is unfinished? Could it be because there is little to do in any game once it’s “cap” has been reached?
Also, I believe I mentioned I was only lvl51 and my opinions may change later.

Because an average of 350 per hit is such low damage, and my 1038 DEF at the same time is so low I'll be healing constantly? Nö.

…because a DD cleric will deal less damage than any other class built for DD?
Also, I didn’t say you would be *constantly* healing, but you will be healing more often as a full/mostly STR cleric compared to an full/high END cleric.