What skil should a cleric spec in?Follow

What are you going to be soloing and how? Undead and using nukes and dots? Normal mobs and letting them die on DS and Reverse DS, while HoTing yourself? Some other mob / tactic?

Most of your spells will be alteration, including rezzes, heals, hots, cures, pacifies, fears, transport, and some others. Primarily buffs are abjuration; nukes, stuns, undead dots are evocation; and summon spells are conjuration. Divination is miscellaneous sense type spells.

You definitely don't want Divination or Conjuration, and it's unlikely you'd want Abjuration unless you were going to be a buff box. So your pick is Alteration (about 75% or more of your spells), or Evocation. Personally, I'd go with Alteration no matter how I played, since heals are your primary focus, and making them better only improves your performance, and gives the benefit to the widest range of spells.

Yther Ore.

1hb and shield are weapons for the long run as well. My 78 clr does have a 2hb skill of 200 however. Mostly from groups when I wasnt healing. )

Fizzling a nuke will rarely kill you.

Fizzling heals will.

Fizzling and running oom in the group game will get you known for the wrong reasons.

The spec question is a good one, but most classes truly don't have a debate if you concede the primary role expected of you and the weight of the spell balance as done by the devs.


So I agree completely with Jonwin and Yther, and your choice.

aye i specc alteration and with aa's i'll use my 2nd spec choice as evocation, atm im lvl 41 and using jt merc tank, we both just plowing thru red cons with np, but i also have awesome gear, all my stats are maxed out for my level, all my spell skills are maxed out as well, and so is 1h blunt, dodge, offense and defense maxed out. I am having the most fun i ever had in an mmo and i been playing mmo's back to the beggining of when computers came out and started playng M U D D over the old baud system, some of you youngsters will not know about the early days of M U D D ( first mmo type game) ask your parents to explain them to you, rofl, the good old early days of computer online playing, M U D D way it was and started the mmo's, good old late 1979-1980's and ever since then i played every single mmo ever made, yes im old, im disable and homebound so my world is online gamming, but i have to say Everquest is a BLAST :)

Have priests always spec'd and I just don't remember it or is this something new?

I don't think I ever played a WIS caster past 20 and that was years ago.

I'm absolutely sure you're correct. It's been a long time since I played and, for whatever reason, I always associated spec'ing with INT casters.

That could be. Also, I guess there was less threads about what a cleric should spec in vs. a mage or necro.