Hi.
For INT nuking cleric I’d recommend Sadhu C2 and/or Druid.
Possession deals a LOT of damage and it has a tiny cooldown.
Carnivory deals pretty nice damage but it’s better against single target (hits get divided between targets in AoE).
I would recommend:
Cleric 2 -> Diev 3 -> Druid -> ?
or
Cleric 1 -> Krivis 2 -> Sadhu 2 -> Druid -> ?
or
Cleric 3 -> Sadhu 2 -> Druid -> ?
or forget druid and get some paladin 3 for barrier (more support-ish tho).
I put a question mark in the final rank because kabbalist, plague doctor or druid 2 are very solid choices for INT nuker builds.
Also something really nice I’d like to mention:
Blessing (priest skill) adds up for EACH HIT of a skill. This means getting one circle of Priest and maxing Blessing to 5 with max attribute gives you +130 dmg per hit of cure (max 38 hits), zaibas (max 19 hits per overheat) or carnivory (max 40 hits). I can’t remember how many times Possession hits but it’s also a considerable buff to it.
And I also BELIEVE the damage from blessing multiplies by 2 if used on cure or possession against holy-weakness mobs (so 260 dmg per hit I think). I’m not 100% if it does become holy damage, however.
Blessing does scale badly into end-game content for most builds, but these type of builds with high multi-hits skills are pretty good together with blessing.
So one circle of priest gives you a decent damage buff (with all skills) and the ability to ress. If you go Krivis 2 -> Priest 1 instead of Krivis 3, for example, you’re losing on:
- Difference between Zaibas 10 and 15: 95 dmg per hit, and 5 additional hits per overheat;
In exchange for:
+130 damage per hit for ALL skills and not just krivis’ ones. Plus ressurection skill. And the ability to wear a cafrisun set, get sacrament buff from pardoner in town and abuse blessing being overpowered with basic-attacks for leveling up until lvl ~130 ish (then the damage starts falling off hard if you don’t add STR due to mobs defense and blessing flatness). But of course if you have a priest in your party then your Priest C1 choice was useless.
Now, between Cleric 3 or Krivis 3 I prefer cleric a lot more. Cure alone is as good or better than Zaibas. They deal about same amount of damage (if you consider the use of the two zaibas overheats) but cure is actually holy element which makes it superior. There’s no holy resistant mobs in the game yet and the highest number of weakness among all mobs is holy. Zaibas on the other hand deals lightning which is sort of “meh” since some mobs are resistant to it and you won’t have much else to do as a krivis. Not just the thing cure is really good but Cleric 3 also gets insane amount of heals to deal damage as well… The biggest downside to cleric is the fact you don’t hit flying mobs (which can be really annoying if you only rely on cure/heal). And ofc you get Cleric 3 at rank 3 and Krivis 3 at rank 4.
PS. Get arde dagger asap. My INT cleric 3 explodes bosses with arde dagger + Cure lvl 15.
