I’ve come to a conclusion that playing a STR/SPR - DPS oriented Chaplain is utterly impossible. We can’t play as pure STR, because none of the skills scale with it, we can’t play as pure SPR, because we are missing the 10% stat bonus STR and INT get on every rank up, and frankly you need to reach rank 5 to unlock Aspergillum anyway. Not going for SPR also means that Stone Skin becomes kinda meh. That leaves us with INT, which has an OK scaling with Aspersion and Blessing, but has no scaling what so ever with Sacrament and Last Rites. Going full INT also means that Paladin and Monk are out of the window and we are left with Druid and Plague Doctor, which brings the question, why are we even playing as melee?
Skill Explanation:
Scales with both INT and SPR, but is only viable after you reach rank 5 and unlock Aspergillum. Attribute can boost the damage by 100%.
Scales with both SPR, INT and Skill Level - (70.1 + (SPR × 0.06 + INT × 0.02) × 14). The lowest damage with maxed attribute is 177.94. It triggers on Auto Attack, Sacrament and Aspergillum and added elemental damage, such as Arde Dagger and Cafrisun set.
Has no scaling, adds +40 Holy and +40 Damage on max rank, triggers on Auto Attack, the holy damage counts as an additional hit, that triggers Blessing.
Bread and butter of auto attack based Cleric, applies the current level of Aspersion on every auto attack which triggers Blessing.
Scales off Sacrament only, seems to boost the damage of Auto attacks and Skills by about 40% on max level with level 10 Sacrament.
Overall, some testing has to be done, because I can’t seem to find a decent video explaning Last Rites (people using Cafrisun Set and Arde Dagger when trying to determine the damage -.-). As far as I’ve seen, Last Rites seems to increase the total damage by a % based on Sacrament, I’m not completely sure if it applies only to auto attacks, or on skills and buffs such as blessing as well.