SuperFoxy's Guide to Clerics!

[Syntex]

I did not write this! Just linking so people who wanted to know how Cleric works might be interested!

Link to guide on AionSource.com

WARNING: This review may obtain curse words, racist remarks and may offend you. Reader Discretion is advised.

Updated on 08/07/2009 - New Video at Closing Statement.
Based off the content of Aion Version 1.1


Hello my name is Superfox. Others know me by the name Baby Jesus, The Second Fuking Coming or simply, Mike. I have been getting a lot of questions from fellow Clerics or aspiring clerics that want to be like me. Seems some of the reviews out there just aren't working for some people. So here it is, a review to be a useful Cleric.


Psalms:

Psalm 1: Leveling
Psalm 2: Manastones
Psalm 3: Food
Psalm 4: Equipment/Godstone
Psalm 5: Skills/Stigmas
Psalm 6: Party Healing
Psalm 7: PVP
Psalm 8: Titles
Psalm 9: Crafting
Psalm 10: Endgame
Psalm 11: Closing Statement


Psalm 1: Leveling

Leveling as a cleric is pretty easy. No downtime, just heal yourself, pop a MP Pot and your good to go. Anyone who says clerics dont run out of mana are blind. Only thing that pretty much sucks is it is mind numbing slow at the start. Lots of people roll a cleric not realizing how slow it is. These are the people you see pmsing on forums about how bad clerics dps is. You got to look at the end game for cleric. Many people /wrist themselves and reroll around lvl 30. At about lvl 35 is when you start to level just as fast as the other classes. Everyone needs a cleric. This is the level when grouping is a very important part of the game. You start to do group grinds like, for Elyos, Kaiden HQ, Fire Temple, and later on, Kishar. To sum it up, Quest then group later on and you will level fast.


Psalm 2: Manastones

Oh **** its about to get hot up in here with debates. Good old manastones. The stones that decide whether the person is a idiot or not. The stones that decide whether you will get 2 shot by the person or kill him, his family and all his guildmates. The one stone, to rule them all. HP. Ya I went there. Many many many clerics can agree that HP Manastones is the way to go lvl 35+. Some people find it cute to put Magic Boosting for dps. Those idiots should roll a Sorcerer. Remember your a cleric. Survivability is a must. Whats the point to have a little better dps when you can't survive a Rangers burst or a Sorcerer 3 hitting you. Magic boosting is good up to the point you start grouping to level. Magic Boosting DOES NOT increase healing. Being a cleric that has over 7k HP is amazing. I have killed every class 1v1.

Psalm 3: Food

As far as food goes Salad is your best choice. Your getting a little fat there =\... Oh ya I'm suppose to be talking about in-game food well.

For Grinding:
Delicious Moonflower Aether Sushi Roll
For PVP:
Delicious Wise Dragon King's Broiled Meat
For your DP its good to keep the 2 different types around:


Fennel Aether Jelly

Perer Aether Jelly


Psalm 4: Equipment/Godstone

Chain Mail with HP stones. Ya I know, fuking unheard of. Use a Mace and shield. You can use a shield after level 10 if I remember right. Clerics that use a staff in pvp deserve to have rocks thrown at them. As for Jewerly, MP is probably going to be the main stat on any piece of jewerly in the game. Your going to want to get the "Caster Type" Jewerly. HP is godly for a cleric but its better to at least get a few useful stats then 1 useful stat and 4 useless stats. So try to aim for caster type jewerly. If its HP with caster stats take it, if its mp with caster take it as well till you find a HP caster one thats better.

As far as godstones go. You want something with a high percent of proc rate. Since we dont do multiple attacks really quick when we dps, we need something with a higher proc rate. Anyone else agree they should add some healing godstones? What kinda bs is this. Just fuking dps? How about a godstone with like 20% chance to put a group heal that heals 100dmg on everyone every 2 secs for 10secs.... Just a idea that i think NCSoft should do. WHOS WITH ME?!?! *starts to sing Three Days Grace - Riot* Sorry getting off topic. If I were to choose a godstone thats currently in the game, Id pick the paralyze one though.


Psalm 5: Skills/Stigmas

Skill's is going to take to long to type out. I'm far to lazy to go over every skill. If you want to see what skills Clerics get go to: Cleric Skills. If you have any questions regarding any of the Cleric skills feel free to PM me or leave a reply. I will however explain how chains in this game work for all the noobies.. Ahh they are so cute!!! *pinches the little noobies cheeks* hehe um ya anyways.

Chains are basically like this. useing a skill unlocks another skill which unlocks another skill etc etc. There are ending skills to a chain that have a certain probability to Proc. The probability is completely random. Clerics have 1 skill like that which is Discharge. No not what comes from your peen or vag after watching Megan Fox in Transformers. This skill is the only skill Clerics get that have a Probability of going off.

Stigmas!!!! These are the 4 stigmas that are a must have for Clerics.


Festering Wound I

Splendor of Recovery I

Splendor of Purification I

Flash of Recovery IV

THE ONLY exception to these 4 stigmas is if you happen to be lucky enough to get the lvl 45 Gold stigma. If you do then replace Festering Wound I with:

Elyos
Yustiel's Light I
Asmos
Marchutan's Light I

Psalm 6: Party Healing

To compare healing to other games like WoW, Imagine if a Pally had sex with a Priest. Now imagine if their child had sex with a mentally retarded Druid. You would get a Cleric. Single Target heals of a Pally, Group Heals of a Priest and a retarded HoT that is pretty useless. Healing is pretty straight forward. You get fast casting single target heals to heal tank. The group heals is all about timing. 1 of the group heals has a 3 sec cast time with a 6 sec cooldown. The other has a 2 sec cast time with a 1min cooldown. So use your group heals wisely. Most 6 man groups need 1 healer when grinding unless that healer was hit in face by a shovel when they were a child and are horrible at healing. I have healed a lvl 47 Boss with a chanter as backup heals with 14 people in alliance. Clerics group heals only effect the people in your group, so the retards in the other group are screwed unless they got a cleric. SO healing is pretty intensive during boss fights if your the only healer. In group PVP its wise to have 2 clerics in party so if 1 cleric gets single targeted by all the enemys he can help heal while the dps rapes face.


Psalm 7: PVP

Ok I'm going to break this section up into two parts, PVP Healing and PVP 1v1.
Note: This is PVP at level 45. ALWAYS have a
Greater Running Scroll when PVPING. It can make the difference in a loss and win.

PVP Healing:

Lets me start off by saying it is hard as a 40yr old pedo watching Hannah Montana to heal your group in group pvp. Let me give you some reasons why:

Reason 1: Retards like to stray away from the group chasing a lvl 40 bot that gives 1 ap, then they cry like a 10yr old girl when they get ganked and are too far away for you to heal.

Reason 2: Everyone targets you first. It is hard to heal when you are being constantly stun locked and silenced.


PVP 1v1:

Sorcerer: Basically save your Blessed Shield Skill for when the Sorcerer does Aerial Thrust. Always have Abnormal Potions on you so you can break the Tree Curse. If you can survive a Sorcerers Aerial Thrust it is Cake to kill them. Once their Stone Skin is down the die in a few hits. Also, USE LINE OF SIGHT!!! If you see the Sorcerer casting a big skill, run behind a tree. =)

Spiritmaster: Try and get your DoT and your Divine energy up before the first fear goes off. When you get feared, Abnormal Pot out of it, Use your Blessing Shield and your HoT on yourself and start the Divine Slash Chain with Heavens Judgement as the finisher so you can get a stun. This is Probably the second hardest class to kill as a Cleric. Its all about surviving through the fears.

Ranger: Keep your DoT and Divine Energy up at all times!!! Rangers can CC like no tomorrow. If you can survive their 15-20 Secs of CC then they are easy. When you take your first big burst of damage and are able to heal, use your Blessing Shield and HoT. Once all their CD's are gone use your Divine Slash Chain. Let the DoT and Divine Energy finish them off while you wait for Divine Slash to recharge. This is Probably one of the strongest PVP classes and hardest to kill in PVP due to the amount of CC a Ranger has.

Assassin, Templar and Gladiator: Start off with your DoT and Divine Energy. NEVER STOP RUNNING when fighting these classes. Just run around in circles casting your Divine Slash chain, DoT and Divine Energy. Also use your restraint everytime its off CD. If restraint roots him, use your Smite Chain. As soon as you cast Smite start running again since every skill in chain after is Instant Cast and your Smite will break the root. These are the easiest classes to kill in PVP for a Cleric.

Cleric: Whoever gets Discharge off first, Wins. Its a stalemate till then.

Chanter: Keep festering Wound on them and destroy them. Easy class to kill.


Heres a video I made of some Cleric PVP

YouTube - Aion Cleric PVP

YouTube - Aion Cleric PVP

Psalm 8: Titles

I personally use hp and def titles. Use whatever suits your play style. <3 Simple review sections.


Psalm 9: Crafting

I recommend going Armor as a main and Alchemy as a Sub Profession. MP Pots get quite expensive at cap and you go through 200-300 on a good grind day =). Ya be prepared to drink more then the kids dad down your street that beats his kids.


Psalm 10: Endgame

Endgame for Cleric is basically Group PVP, Group Grinds and Bosses. Everyone loves you in the party. Everyone wants to sleep with you.


Psalm 11: Closing Statement

All my sections were based on what I have expierenced so far in Aion as a Cleric. If you got questions feel free to leave a reply and it will be answered.Think I need to add another section? Post and I'll add it.. Unless its a stupid question or section then you wont get answered. I will try to update this guide as patches are released and new content is added. Hope you enjoyed it and it helps you in 1 way or another. If you use this review on another website just give me a little credit =p. If you do repost try to keep it up to date. Please do not change anything I have written. Theres a reason it was written this way. If you don't like it find another guide or write your own.


Heres a video of how well a Clerics Survivability, how well we heal at level 45 and our damage as a full HP Cleric. Me and the Assassins main strat for the boss was to have me hold hate on the adds and boss. He kills the adds one at a time while I heal spam for hate. We then both attack boss while I throw heals when needed. Video is a tad boring but meh a boss kill is a boss kill. Enjoy
YouTube - Aion 2 Man Boss Kill

YouTube - Aion 2 Man Boss Kill

-SuperFox 69:69

Enjoy!

[SilverBreeze]

You should like, make a thread, and everytime you have an idea for a new thread, put what you want to say in there.

[Syntex]

Why

[Pooky]

Why

Because its a sub-par guide that was already mentioned in another thread, and didn't really deserve its own? This isn't AS...

Also, I don't know the guy, just throwing that out there.

[Syntex]

I thought it was informative.

And I thought you knew him a little more then that...

[Pooky]

Its a start, however:

No mention of alternative manastone sets, when Magic Resistance is currently the rage for PvP Clerics in C/K-Aion. No advice whatsoever about PvP healing besides "Its Hard." Terrible advice for 1v1 PvP, he obviously hasn't fought many SM's, Sorcs, or Rangers. (Can't pot out of fear, Rangers don't CC; they burst, iirc can't use skills while in air shackle). His PvP videos are of him ganking under leveled players, who aren't that good to begin with...I could go on.

[Syntex]

Well pooky you should write a guide about SM, you seem to know the ins and outs of the endgame PvP.

I mean it, I would love to read a guide of yours... :D

[Pooky]

I don't write guides; if you have a question, ask. I'll answer to the best of my ability. I don't feel the need to post up pages for eprops.

Nothing against Foxy, it was a good start (better than nothing) but he was missing information that's pretty readily available on AS.

Just saying.

[fishstix]

There's info on AS?! I only see QQ

[Veyron]

There's info on AS?! I only see QQ

This, lol.

[Purrrfect]

There's info on AS?! I only see QQ

It's all from the korean beta + a month after. Anything more recent is what you are used to.

[Katlan]

You should like, make a thread, and everytime you have an idea for a new thread, put what you want to say in there.

Why

Think what Silver was trying to [politely] say is that you make like 50% of the threads on the Aion Sub forum for every new question / idea / remark you have.

I don't know, but that "general question / helpful info" thread you made is a good source to post a lot of your stuff and it doesn't always need a thread. That, and you posted one random "guide" from a guy who sounds like a big douche and is trying to be biblical and start racial remarks. I am sure there are way better so-called "guide's" you can post that aren't so offensive

[Syntex]

So what? its a forum and you make posts.

Its not like our servers will overflow if we hit page 2 on the forums.

I would also rather have different posts for different things then lump them into one post like we did before the Aion sub-forum so people look through 50 pages to find out class info, how to play CAion, and find other useful info.

I thought this guide was a little entertaining but if it bothers people THAT much I can edit it and post the other one on AS that someone edited out the comments on there.

[Falisa]

For now I am being really lenient with the state of the posts in the Aion section of BG. Since the game isn't even out yet, it's nice to have some traffic for this area just to show this sub-forum is active. This doesn't mean to go and make a topic for everything you find, but don't be afraid to make one.

This might possibly change in the future, it just all depends on how many people post here. Hell... I personally hope we get enough traffic that I have to make rules for posting. XD

[Syntex]

For now I am being really lenient with the state of the posts in the Aion section of BG. Since the game isn't even out yet, it's nice to have some traffic for this area just to show this sub-forum is active. This doesn't mean to go and make a topic for everything you find, but don't be afraid to make one.

This might possibly change in the future, it just all depends on how many people post here. Hell... I personally hope we get enough traffic that I have to make rules for posting. XD

Exactly, we don't have to bunch up posts/threads because there isn't enough info to yet.

When we have a guide thread we can start posting in there, when we have a few other well established threads we can have those stickyed and post in there, until then Falisa is right.

[Lebzile]

Maybe we should just have 3 stickied threads with titles like "Ask a Gladiator/Templar Question", "Ask A Cleric/Chanter Question" or "Ask a Spiritmaster/Sorcerer question" threads. Just to get those out of the way for the newer players that way C-Aion players who have gotten far(ish) into endgame could answer some of the basic questions early on then once NA comes out we can start answering the harder questions like best gear and such.

Or just a la FFXI general a "Random Question" and "What's Better?" threads.

[Falisa]

That's a great idea Leb. I'll make one of those.