i wanna make a dps cleric but i have no actual experience with one
as far as my research goes there is the full spr c2-p2-chap-pd2 build which gives u a nice autoattack and some aoe.
then there is the recent full dex bamboo monk build on youtube where he just double punch stuff and it dies.
Theres also the p3-m3-INQ build. Any experienced dps clerics wanna help me out here? which possible build would make me party friendly while maintaining high dps (HG, Dungeons and ET)
I have a C2-P3-Chap-PD2, had a monk in the past and I’m remaking it.
Can tell you PD2 pve wise is the best to go, you have survavibility with mass heal 10, heal, safety zone and everything, plus the base damage of PD2 is tick damage, so your blessing affects every tick and is a decent damage, plus being full SPR you will never have problems with SP even if you get the pandemic attribute that costs +200% SP, and that build also requires no gear to have a decent efficiency. Aaaand you’re an amazing support to people, your blessing is going to have at least 1600 of damage (you can go more if you don’t have any CON)
However it is not the best build for PvP, since your damage is base on ticks it takes awhile to kill people so inquisitor is the best to go for it. Most people go with monk 3, some go with monk 2 > kabbalist, and even some other people go with Paladin 3 > filler > Inquisitor, it’s up to you
bamboo has full solmiki gear and is very very geared
Chaplain PD2 is very valuable build in ET because of ress / revival.
Sadhu 3 PD2 has more dps than chaplain counterpart, but it’s overall less supportive. Possession + cryo’s frost tree is a mob eraser in ET.
PD2 has the best constant large-AoE dps of the cleric tree because of the easy spreading mechanic of Black Plague and it’s overheat.
Inquisitor builds have very strong burst damage in good AoE because of wheel but the cooldown on it makes inquis have overall less constant dps than PD2.
Taoist has good single-target damage which is somewhat balanced between burst and constant dps, but it’s very costly atm. Future patches will decrease talismans cost to 50 silver, though.
Druids have very good concentrated dps in a rather small area (carnivory) but overall it’s a very balanced class between support and dps. Not the best pure dps class out there.
In my opinion: PD2 is a “safe” pick. It’ll have high and easy dps in big area regardless of previous class choices (considering you’re either INT or SPR with chaplain).
thanks for the answers, made me drop the monk build. just wondering how C3-P3-Chap1-INQ would do. seems like a good support but maybe a bit weaker on the dps side compared to a pd2 seeing as inq scales of str (im going full spr). saw some videos on god smash, it hit hard.
C3>Chap>Inq here. Not really sure how well it does vs a PD2, but I do decent damage and it also provides some utility. My toon is specced as full SPR and damage-oriented. Meaning for priest skills, I took 15 Bless and 15 Aspersion. Having C3 allows you to put points off Mass Heal and invest it somewhere else because you already have 15 Heal from C3 (I still invested 1 pt in MH though).
15 Cure, though nerfed, is pretty nice as a damage skill as it stays for quite a while and does good damage (don’t forget to grab the Dmg Interval att).
I also grabbed 10 DM to ensure that all skills in my rotation have +1 skill level.
For the extra skill points I took: 1 SZ, 3 DZ (for the att) and 1 Fade. Pretty fun, and with Heal having the flexibility to either both do damage and heal at the same time or just do heals, you can immediately switch roles from damage-dealer to support.
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so u feel its worth going inq even as a full spr without monk/paladin?
Depends really. What made you drop Monk? Because if it’s pure DPS you’re after, I think you’d be better off with Monk. The C3>Chap>Inq route is a bit more versatile. It can suffice as a semi-support in ET runs because of Heal 15 (and other Priest skills), but at the same time, it is flexible enough to be viable in solo runs (heal bombs are also good AOEs, at least for non-flying enemies), and in dishing out damage.
With damage, as mentioned, you have a bit more freedom to reallocate points, which you would have invested in MH, elsewhere (like Aspersion in my case, as I wanted to max Aspergillium damage despite being SPR-specced).
magic dps
cleric3sadhu3pd2
cleric2bokor3xxx1pd2
physical dps
cleric2xxx2monk3inquis
cleric2xxx1paladin3xxx1inquis
full support
cleric2priest3miko1xxx1taoist
chaplain is a kind of hybrid
druid got bad scaling, it should work fine in some party
Hi!
I’m C2-P3-Chap-PD now, full SPR, and I can’t make a mind of where to go, PD2 vs Inquisitor.
PD2 seems to be all popular, and for the reason, but I’m really afraid of PD3 going way to deep into plague mechanics ruining the auto-attacking fun.
In Inquisitor 's case I doubt it’s ET usefulness, will I be taken to ET parties as Inq?
I saw several videos of Inq on youtube, and maybe I’m not getting something, but it looks like he is not doing too much of a damage comparing to PD2 (like 315 orange well geared Inq, was hitting 300k hp mobs for ages, very long, even my below average hop3-murmillo does it way faster) maybe I just saw some wrong video?)
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decerning evil from pardoner still gives 10 sec more to debuffs?
i myself have a C2>Bk1>Sh3>Pd2 very good for dungeons but for Hg farming i find the sadhu skills hard to use cuz of positioning and knockdowns so i was thinking of a C2>Bk3>Pardoner>Pd2 to add more time to dots on pd skills and more damage on effigy to finish mobs in one wave btw im mostly solo all the time.
or is it C3>Bk3>Pd2 better ?
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Nope. It just adds 50% of remaining time on applicable debuffs.
Example: Your target has 10s remaining of your Black Death Steam, you cast Discerning Evil, it adds 5 more seconds [10 + (10 * 0.5%)] = 15
It is preferable for you to cast Discerning Evil as soon as your debuff(s) are applied (and not later).
pd2 is certainly the safer class to run as chap for now… but inq is stronger because of high burst damage… i suggest going pd2 for now because it’s just more efficient to use for solo farming high level stuff for dirt cheap and low risk… i’m ceratin we’re getting a rank reset when rank 9 hits, so there’s really nothing to worry about (maybe)…
and does decerning evil spread with pandemic ?
Discerning Evil is not a debuff per se. It only increases the duration of the debuff(s) applied by 50% of the remaining amount on your target. So no, DE itself doesn’t get spread because it doesn’t get applied like a debuff.
then it applies in aoe or is it single target ?
I think the default is single target, with the attribute adding up to 4 more targets (5 total).
i see thanks for quick reply i think ill try C3>Bk3>Pd2 then i dont see much use for decerning evil if it only spreads to 5 targets.