you waste 1 of 2 heal casts every 60 seconds on a move that can be stripped away, you also can be CCed by a Corsair for 9 seconds, now most of them don’t actually know how to play so they just do the combo of hook + … but if they do that in melee range, Kabba 3 or not, you die, it’s even worse if it’s from a Wizard and their sleep, stone curse, cryomancer skills, psychokino skills, Shadow Fetter. Also have you ever been shrink bodied? My 300k hp is whipped cream after that, and that’s with a 40% boost to m-def.
I play all classes and all I care about is PvP balance, I’m not saying Clerics aren’t #1 out of bias, this specific PvP mode is geared towards surviving so there is a lot of benefit to them but Wizards are the #1 class arch-type for PvP and afterwords is a close Cleric vs Swordsman, on one hand you have Guardian, Langhort/Cross Guard, Hook, Dethrone, Substitution Jutsu, Shinobi stealth, Sprint, Murmillo Helmet, Fencer evasion/blocking, and everything that Cataphract and Retiarius do, on top of just a plethora of stuns, vs protection skills like Safety Zone, Mackandal and Sterea Trofh, Priest, Heal, CDR/Melstis, Bloodletting, Transform, Golden Bell Shield, Barrier, Resist Elements/Forcast extremely nerfed Oracle and Revenge Sevenfold.
Both have a lot of great things, this Cleric circlejerk is spreading hard but it’s 3rd best in a competition of 4, arguably second, but IMO 3rd.
Let us also not forget Clerics are missing some extremely important skills in this map.