Looking for a cleric/healer guide.

[Khull]

Ive been thinkin on a second character to make, and I decided it'd be diffrent to make a Healer/Cleric Pally. The problem is I'm at a complete loos of how to make this effective. Im not aiming to do dmg (obviously) but enough to at least mildley defend myself...

Also if possible I'd like the gear requirements to be...not through the roof if you understand: I'm definatley not rich enough for over 3/4 of the runewords...and most uniques. Some I prolly could mf eventualy however.

 

[Jason]

I'd say something along the lines of prayer, salvation, redemption, etc..pick what you want most out of an aura and max it's synergies..

 

[Kao]

Use Concentration, a point in defensive curses, and don't use a weapon. Be a monk.

 

[fl4shp0int]

lol i wus gunna post about who can give me a guide fer cleric... could you give a lil more In-Depth...? PLZ

 

[djnat]

I am thinking of the various possibilities for a build like this. L8er or tomorrow, I'll post something.

 

[Guru]

20 holy bolt
20 prayer
20 FoH
max hammers if you want to do good damage with holy bolt, or you could max holy shock for FoH damage
5 holy shield
1 on all defensive auras


enough str to use gear with str from other gear, enough dex for max block with holyshield, and everything else into vita


Sheild - Hoz, if you can't afford it try to get a splendor, or maybe a lidless wall
Helm - Shako, CoA or if you cant afford them use a rare circlet with decent mods
Armor - GA and if you can't afford it use durys shell
Ammy - seraphs or a decent rare one if you cant get that
Weapon - I went through the item page at the arreat summit, and the hand of blessed light looked very nice for this build, and it should be cheap
Belt - Verdungos
Rings - either duece SoJs, a raven frost and an Soj, or if you want some defensive you could get Bk rings. If sojs are too xpensive, get some decent caster rings with 10 fcr, stats/resist/life/mana or any combination of those
Boots - Marrowalk, Silkweaves, maybe sandstorm? Not really sure there.
Gloves- Magefist or frosties

I might elaborate more later if I feel like it, but I'm too tired now

 

[Jimbo]

on the boots guru,couldint they make caster boots , i forgot the recipe but its fairly cheap

 

[Guru]

you could, but I dont think it would be as benificial as the other options. Oh, and by caster ring I don't mean a crafted one as much as a rare one with FCR.

 

[djnat]

Guru's suggestions are very good. I would probably make something like this:

20 Holy bolt
20 Prayer
20 Blessed Hammer
20 FoH
1 to pre-reqs
1 Purification, Meditation, Salvation, Holy Shield, Vigor

Rest in Holy Shield for more defense or Holy Shock for more FoH lit dmg.

Stats as Guru stated.

Gear (rich or not)

Seraph Hymn (or a decent amulet with +2 skills and some nice mods)
Shako [Um] or a nice circlet with decent mods and some resists
HoZ [Um]
Enigma if you're rich or Guardian angel [Um]
HotO (or Hand of Blessed light if you aren't that rich, but you will loose cast speed using it)
Arachnid mesh
Magefists
Waterwalks or Sandstorm trek (or Silkweave for more mana)
2 SoJ or nice rings with good mods (a Raven can be useful too)

No runewords here, only some "rich items" are necessary, imho, like Zaka and Arachnid; the other gear options are all good, rich or not.

If you have an Annihilus, use it, and if you have to prefer some charms, use combat skillers or charms with life / mana, or just with life. It just depends on how rich you are.


Hireling... you need the Defensive merc from act 2 normal, it has defiance which adds to your defense (and your party's one).

It can be a funny build with a nice gear, and with holy bolt / meditation you will heal your party very fast, and make tons of magic damage to Undeads (like souls, oblivion knights, storm casters, skeletons, etc.).

 

[Guru]

Okay, I rethought the guide since before it was basically off the top of my head, and heres what I decided...

stats are the as same before. for skills i think it'd be more benificial to max holy shock as opposed to hammers since all hammers does is add damage to the holy bolt, which you can only use against the undead. If you were to max holy shock, you're FoH would do decent damage and be more effective vs crowds of undead. But if you want a 10k holy bolt, which is pretty cool, max hammers. It'd be you're choice as to who you want to hurt and how much. you might even consider spliting the two.

For gear use this:

Helm= coa with 2x um runes in it.
Armor= GA with a shael rune
Sheild= Hoz with an um rune
Ammy=seraph
rings= 1x rare ring with FCR and good mods...shouldn't be that hard to find and 1x raven frost ring
gloves=magefist
belt=Arachnid
boots=sandstorm
weapon=hand of blessed light

With a decent anni and 5 resist all charm and you will have 85 resist all, not to mention 90 FHR which hits the 3 frame breakpoint.

You will have 50 FCR for 11 frames casting which should be plenty.

Mana shouldn't be a huge issue since holy bolt requires almost none.

I doubt he would be able to get HotO, but even if he could its not all much better since the scepter gives 6 to holy bolt, his main skill. It would only have you casting one frame faster, which isn't even that noticeable with holy bolt.

The only somewhat expensive thing would be the coa, hoz, arachnids, and the ums. But shouldn't be extremely hard.

If that stuff is impossible for you, say so and I can go cheaper.

 

[djnat]

Originally posted by Guru
Mana shouldn't be a huge issue since holy bolt requires almost none.

Especially considering that his main aura will be Meditation, which gives him an insane mana regeneration speed.

 

[Khull]

Thank you all: most of the gear is doable. Shouldent be hard to mf hoz/ga from nm meph and frosties wont be too tough.

I think thats just about all I needed.

 

[Jason]

If this guide works out to do well in hell would you be able to write me up a full guide for the sticky? (Directed at Guru or Khull)

 

[fl4shp0int]

Yeah, I would love to see this stiCkied. p.s thx peeps. Im going to make on Right now ^.^


-Teh Uber Nuber Noob

 

[Kao]

Why doesn't someone test this out in Single Player?

Oh, and on another note, Blizzard NEEDS to make a claw (or runeword) have +1 or so to frenzy. That would just be damn cool.

 

[fl4shp0int]

where teh hell did that come from kao? lol

 

[Kao]

I just thought of my days on playing PKA. There was an elite claw with +6-12 to Frenzy, and at the time, I was the only character high enough (assassin) to use them. It was horribly fun, because I could run faster that 200% Teleporting Sorcs in a straight line, but after about 5 hits, I would get an exception error. *sniff*.

On another note, I really do think someone should test this on singleplayer to see if it is actually viable.

 

[Khull]

Kao quit talking about those lame mods and gtf back on BNet. I miss you...I'll even go so far as to forbid you to call me Khullio and take away your free autograph privilages!

*whimpers*

BTW: I'll make this tomorrow...or sometime.

 

[Kao]

I'll log on tomorrow, to make sure my mules are still there And If you are on, I'll play with you, but right now I started a new barb and he = pwn.

 

[Pale_Horse]

Ok i guess my cleric pally will help with this build. At the time I was really poor so I had all crap on this character, but to my suprise he was able to get to lvl 82 with no problem.

Gear:
Weapon 1 - wand + 2 to skills
Weapon 2 - Hand of blessed Light (shealed)
Shield 1 - 4 socketed Pally shield (perfect Diamonds)
Shield 2 - Sigons
Armor - Grizwalds ( 2 perfect Skulls)
Gloves - Frosties
Boots - Threads of Catan
Helm - Crafted circlet helm + to pally skills
Belt - Sigons
Ring 1 - Nagal
Ring 2 - Ravenfrost
Amulet - Highlords ( only good thing I found )

This might help for a gear list and how cheap it could be.
Skillwise I messed up but the things that worked for most characters were:

Prayer, Salvation, Mediation, Clensing, Purification, Might, Fanatasim, Thorns, Defience, and for you Holy Shield lvl 5 Zeal lvl 5

My skill lvls were all screwed up but I would Definitly go with these skills since you wont be attacking much you only need a little into a main skill and of choice and Holy shield.
Wow I just realized what a newb I was back then lol.