Clerics!

[hangianix]

Tho you aren't a smiter Najwa.

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Killerbee lvl 50 Fekin' Smiter
Legendary Grandmaster Armoror
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[Meatballs]

Originally posted by hangianix


Nah, thats the truth. With lvl 25 heal (426 hp) I wasted 3.2 sec and it is too much if casters are in the grp also. With lvl based ones (much faster) you waste too much mana to keep alive tanks, cause a proper tank has 2k hp, and you can heal 288 with it.

But Im sure that you grped with me a lot, and know well how crap i am in healing

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Killerbee lvl 50 Fekin' Smiter
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If i specced to 25 in my nuke line i'd expect pretty shit damage, just as speccing to 25 in a healing line you should expect pretty shit healing :d

 

[Euthanasia.]

46 rejuve group heal pwns you.

 

[hangianix]

Originally posted by Meatballs


If i specced to 25 in my nuke line i'd expect pretty shit damage, just as speccing to 25 in a healing line you should expect pretty shit healing :d

Maybe thats why I wrote to Bell what did i write?

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[Shike]

/em hugs all of Hibernias regrowthspecced people that we actually have, if albs had as many clerics as we have druids that heal, omg....

 

[Tabasco_LoE]

Clerics rocks and can be alot of fun

I love my cleric, and I love it in RvR.
When it's good (we aren't outnumbered to badly) it is pure joy, even if you have to accept you can't save all the casters all the time.

Much of what has been described in this thread stands true about how to play your cleric in RvR. What you need to understand to fully appretiate being a cleric is this:

1. You are a GROUP SUPPORT character, meaning you need a group to have fun, and your role should aways be to support that group as best as possible.

2. Even if you don't kill anything you still get tha same amount of RP as the tanks/casters.

Some tips:

1. RA Wild healing = crit on heals. I have WH 2 and it is very usefull and is in that respect is saving me alot of pow (clerics have a poor power pool).

2. Body resist and purge. If you are messed you can't help your group. max Body resists and buy purge as soon as you can.

3. Stay behind with the casters. Look for tanks charging casters and stun them rather than heal the casters. If you try and heal a caster under full attack from a tank he will most likely die anyway and you will have wasted alot of power on it.

4. Stun is your friend, and can be used as an effectful weapon in battle. Don't be in the front line stunning though, you will only neglect others in need of healing/protection or get noticed and die, then your group will die = no fun for anyone.

Now, have fun...

 

[Jilly]

just try to keep em all in range Loch. buff em all as well as your concentration points will allow and hover over the heal button at all times ( particularly with the casters

cos if u don't they moan like hell

BTW if they die, rez em quick or your life will be hell

 

[hrodelbert]

sorry i didn't read the specifics on this thread but my view on cleric's is that they are still a great class and certainly more appreciated now than in the past BoF alone is uber and a cleric with a good S/S tank nearby can keep a group going for ages. Believe it or not i've even seen a few of them rack up smite frags

 

[andrilyn]

Maybe people will make more Clerics if a group atleast acted nice once in a while against a cleric...
A normal day in Emain with my cleric was like:

<Group leader> All stick to the minstrell and we are going to AMG!
*Minstrel runs to AMG*
<Infil> I need heal got 3 SBs on me!!!
Target is out of range!
Target is out of range!
<Me> Well where are you then?!
<Infil> On the hill near APK!
<Infil> Thanks now I am dead all your fault I am going to log now bye
*Infil leaves the group!*

Then half of the other group is being killed since 3 people ran back to APK to help the infil and the others are still at AMG, people start dying and leaving the group blaming it all on the cleric (most of the times in random RvR groups anyway).

And thats not all, every 1 - 5 min you get a rez request and that person is on the other side of Emain, then you say you cant come since you cant go through AMG then that person starts to whine and swear and the only thing you can do is /ignore.

Then you have also people who think that they know how to play a cleric better then that you do although they dont even got a cleric themselves.
Those people like to say things like "FFS dont smite/stun/DD only HEAL!
Some people only think about themselves and that they want to have fun and want to command people around, for those people I got 1 advice: Go play a single player RPG or something.

And to not go totally offtopic I do think that Clerics are able to turn a battle around but only in a skilled group, not in a group that has people scattered around in Emain/Odins/Hadrians etc.
A cleric can be very fun to play and thats why I also decided to remake my cleric and see whats RvR like now with one.