Regards,
Well I'm a level 26 Dwarven Cleric on Quellious.
Currently I run a couple of regular groups in the Unrest area (these are the
levels that will tell who to group with regularly in higher levels...if they
stay with the character)...
I had an incident last night where our 25th level monk got beaten into the
ground. I was medding nearby and someone trained a skeletal monk onto him.
Unfortunately I was completely OOM, and he was at 2 bubbles of health when
the Skel attacked....
Well he died, I did not...He was sorta pissed off and demanded to know why I
didn't help...I told him that I was completely OOM and did not have enough
to help...He replied 'Well you have a mace in your hand'..
Here's the clincher....I said "Would you rather I heal 100-150 points of
your health by quickly meditating...or inflict 30 points of damage on the
skeletal monk?"
Needless to say he apologized...he realizes that I am a good cleric..I like
what I do...I'm proud to say that I almost NEVER get the HEAL scream from
tanks that are fighting...because they trust me (unless its a new addition
to the party, and they quickly learn)..I have my tanks down to a single
bubble, and the cry never comes out...I do my job well, and usually have a
waiting list of people to get into the party.
If you are concerned about being able to fight and not meditating so
often..I reccomend a shadowKnight or Paladin...Sub classes of necro and
Cleric...you'll fight more often...have less mana to recover and inflict
damage with wards and such...
I still do engage in combat...genearlly not by swinging a weapon though..if
someone pulls heavily, I'm cancelling the damage shields on the drybones
(they fry my monks), and dismissing as I can..I almost never use DD
spells....As in the current zone (90% of the creatures being undead), its
kinda useless...
Its the wizards job to fry them. Its the tanks job to carve and bash them.
Its my job to keep them doing their job.
Regards,
Tkith Truefriend
26th lvl Cleric
Kaladim
Quellious
>From: "Cliff, Monty" <mcliff@...>
>Reply-To: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
>To: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
>Subject: Re[2]: [EQ-Clerics] Mana
>Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 09:00:20 -0400
>
>
>
> I totally agree that melee at high levels is useless. You may be able
> to get a decent weapon but when you only hit once every 10 swings the
> damage doesn't add up very fast. When I'm in a group it's strictly
> med and heal with maybe the odd stun thrown in.
>
> As far as soloing goes, It can be done by a cleric fairly easily once
> you hit L44 (power level for clerics imo). I pretty much soloed from
> 47 to 50 by fighting spectres in oasis and oot as well as a few other
> npc's. I personally have no trouble pulling spectres single, have
> never fought them in feerott though. Experience had really started
>to
> slow down from the dungeons and soloing was a nice change from the
> med/heal routine.
>
> As far as mana goes, my base wisdom is 105 and I am currently at 170
> and should be able to get it to 190 before to long (still need a
>paw).
> I can take out 2 spectres solo before I need to med and haven't had
> much problems with mana when grouped.
>
> Drogo Darkbane
> The Rathe
>
>
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>Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] Mana
>Author: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] Mana at internet
>Date: 1999-09-19 8:00 AM
>
>
>From: "Mikaela" <mikaela@...>
>
>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)
> >
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