This is the Cleric based build I’m thinking of:
The aim of this build is to support and assist in grinding parties, as that’s where the bulk of my time’ll be spent in game. The Cleric skills are pretty straight forward in terms of usefulness. It’s once I hit Dievdirbys and beyond that I have some questions.
Carve: Seems pretty useful as it’s the sole way you can gather wood off of plant creatures without buying it from an NPC. My issue with it is it scales off STR, which is a stat that’s more or less useless for an INT based support build. Do you need to kill the monster with Carve to potentially gain wood, or just hit a monster with it? If I was going for a STR based build I’d consider more points, but I also don’t want to gimp myself you know?
Zemnya & Laima Statue: What’s the benefit of more points in these? Longer duration, better reductions? Is one particularly better than the other?
Austras Koks:Is this as awesome as it sounds?
Ausrine Statue: Is this even useful? Invulnerability seems nice, but its so gimmicky and impractical in a real battle.
As for the Oracle stuff, I know there aren’t many, if any Oracles in the iCBT but what are peoples oppinions on Arcane Energy vs Counterspell? I’m pretty set on everything else (Call of Deities for more mobs, Forecast, Clairvoyance and Resetting are the main reason to go Oracle). The two buffs on the other hand I can’t really see either being one better than the other. Maybe Counterspell due to negating spells, but doesn’t Austras Koks basically do that already? With people having pots the +SP and STA seems kinda lame.