Hate to discourage you, but at higher levels, you will melee VERY little.
Your value is healing and buffing. And the damage you will be able to do
against high level mobs is very minimal. You will be fighting mobs with
1000s of hps at high levels, and a lot of them have very high magic
resistance, so your spells are useless cause they are resisted most always.
And these mobs hit HARD...some for over 100 hps damage a pop. You can't
survive at melee with these mobs, only the big tanks can. You serve one
purpose mainly, and that is healing to keep everyone alive. Regarding
undead, clerics used to be able to solo specs quite easily with undead
spells, but they changed the pathing of them at the spec cave in Feerott and
now it's dangerous cause you can't really pull them solo anymore. You pull
one and two or three come, and that's BAD news.
Regarding the mana issue....you will need to get your hands on as many
wisdom enhancing items as you can, because you will need all the mana you
can get to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your healing powers.
The more mana you have the longer you can keep your group alive and the less
med time you have. So start amassing those wisdom items and try to get your
wisdom at least up into the 170s minimum.
Sorry to disillusion you, but high levels clerics are relegated mostly to
healing and buffing and medding. That's what your specialty is and at those
levels, the other healing classes can't come close to our healing powers
with our superior and complete heal. The good news is that no high level
group ventures anywhere without at least one good cleric. YOu are a MUST
have.
Mik
----- Original Message -----
From: Niomar <Niomar@...>
To: <EQ-Clerics@onelist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 12:11 AM
Subject: [EQ-Clerics] Mana
> From: "Niomar" <Niomar@...>
>
> Okay, I am now lvl 10 and really concerned about this. From what EVERYONE
> tells me (which I totally disagree with and the whole subject matter makes
> me sick) is that when older (25+) all we do is heal...no melee, no DD,
just
> heal and med. First...is that true or can we still melee..I know we won't
> exactly be able to solo melee...but as in a group or possibly as the only
> tank?..and while on that subject, can we solo undead up into all our
higher
> lvls or do we still need help then too? And finally the mana issue. I am
> dwarven cleric and have a 100 in strength and 103 in wisdom...will that be
a
> high enough wisdom to have proper mana to heal my group and such? Any
other
> tips would be most helpful.
>
> Niomar, Dwarven Cleric of 10 trainings. Xegony Server.
> Telikas, Dark Elven Mage of 14 trainings. Xegony Server.
>
> P.S. Any good cleric websites with detailed spell descriptions (like how
> much damage our spells deal, how much HPs our healing spells heal, and the
> exact numbers on our buffs, etc)
>
>