Shining Ray does not pwn Holy Arrow. Shining Ray matches Holy Arrow’s maxed Damage at level 11. By that time, it costs 31 MP per cast. And it’s slow as hell. So while you’re casting, you could be hit a few times before being able to get a heal in, causing your death. And yes, I do use Holy Arrow quite a bit. I use it as a finisher, or even to kill certian single undead things. I use it to slaughter DSGs, which are efficient training when you do have a maxed Holy Arrow.
And ANYONE who says Clerics are there only to support.
Screw. You.
Just because we have the ABILITY to use heal doesn’t mean we always need to utilize it. I am NOT going to be some random DK’s lap dog untill I’m able to survive at Grims on my own. I’m not going to rely on a party to level after I become a Priest. I’m not going to sit back and let my party do all of the fighting while I only heal, which isn’t needed half the time.
Holy arrow is a highly usefull skill that you can use in any way you see fit. And also, there are no monsters Strong to Holy in the game, giving us an advantage over other classes. Because there are more monsters weak to Holy and Heal more than anything else, and I am NOT waiting untill level 70+ to be able to use my skill, as a Cleric, as a Priest, to use Holy Magic to help my training process.
If you wait untill level 70 to have another skill in your arsenal, then you might as well do that for every class. “Oh, Fire Arrow? I’ll wait for Explosion.” “Why get Arrow Bomb when I can get Fire Arrow at level 70+?” “Savage Blow? Pfft. Nub.”
Now, onto Bless. If you are a Solo Cleric, it does nothing for you. The main reason people want it is for the Accuracy and Avoidability. Bless is not a useful skill for a Solo Cleric to have, because we do not USE either of these. If you are going to level up Bless, make sure you have a stable party set up for yourself. The 20+ Magic Defense and Weapon Defense are nothing. I tested something out, as a Cleric the other day. Normally, I have, what, 144 Weapon Defense with my clothes? I walked into a Leatty, naked, and it did around 50 damage to me. I used Bless, I took only around 45-48 damage. I went in naked, without bless, I took arond 90-100 damage. I blessed, I only got about 5 damage shaved off. And this is with level 11 Bless. More than half maxed. So maxed, you only get 10, 15 damage taken off. That’s nothing, really, unless you’re fighting things that hit you for damn near your full HP. But if you’re doing that, you should have Magic Guard on anyways.
If you are a Party Cleric, however, meaning you RELY on NOTHING but parties to level yourself, then max it. It will make you love for the Warriors, because they naturally have low Accuracy.
Anyways, this is just my little rant on Cleric Skills.
good job mate! som1 who understnads clerics arent the dogs in the dog house
we clerics use the others classes think we sit back and heal/holy symbol and we get % off there kills
yeah! i lvl up like 1 time a week because of all this healing. and the party always defame me when i quit just because i dont want to heal.
Well nice blog Shmooki.
People just think of Clerics as a way to get free healing and Bless. Ugh, I hate hearing ‘heal plz’.
I don’t know why people think Holy Arrow is a useless skill too. I only have it at 2 so far and it’s a great finisher for Jr Wraiths. And it is the only real attacking skill that Clerics have for their second job and most people don’t make it to Preist anyway.
a cleric w/o heal o_O
my arrow is at like 14 and im lv42. heal is 16.
im sick and tired of hearing ppl in party tell me to spam heal in crack in the wall, you got hp pots, use them ureselfs you leeches.
those ppl can kiss my @ss. bles does suck if youre all alone cuase if you got armor on and you bless yourself you get lik 1 damage taken off( i got lvl 11 bless). i pq all the time but it doesnt mean im obligated to spam heal at the end of the pq. its maxed so i get 24mp taken away, and to spam it i would waste so much mp, which the other ppl dont even want to give me mp pots. if ppl want spam heal from me they can kiss my @ss
Uh, why don’t you just leave tele at level one and max EVERYTHING else in the second job? That’s what I intend to do.
, HolymotherofGod. I made front page?! o_o
Anyways, I’m glad to have recieved so much support. xD;
DaMonkey- Because I’m lazy and decided to Max Teleport because it costs only 13 MP when maxed, which is nothing to your MP, really.
Yes! This is what I’ve been waiting for! But,
“there are no monsters Strong to Holy in the game, giving us an advantage over other classes.”
The Pixie class of monsters (Star, Lunar, blah) is strong against Holy spells.
DaMunky89 : “Uh, why don’t you just leave tele at level one and max EVERYTHING else in the second job? That’s what I intend to do.”
Hybrid Cleric! Whooo!
, ooohhh, now i feel torn between this and that, party? solo? parties are fun but solo gives you independance. well, hybrid i guess. But what dont i max for to be one? (no grammah Ntended) and what level do i leave it at?
You could do that but then you mage has no speed really and it sucks up your mp if you use a 60 mp teleport =(
hehe clerics rule now, however I am a hybrid cleric, so yea, but its all good
solo priests are very slow at lvling. holy symbol cannot work without party members. XD
yea fight for our rights
we clerics stand strong
just bcuz we got only 1 elemental skill doesnt mean we should be used only for heal and bless