Cleric

An ordained priest of one of the five faiths who heals and fights in equal measure, and who runs the ceremonies that hold a church together.

Clerics combine healing and divine attacks with the ceremonies of a religious office. Their Ministry abilities include conducting marriages, preaching sermons, receiving confessions and admitting worshippers to a faith. These give the class work outside combat as well as a place in a party.

The chosen god determines which divine abilities are available. Shared training covers restoration and protection, while the deity's branch adds its own attacks, rites and support. Changing faith changes that branch. The piety command reports religious rank, devotion and tithes; there is no active Faith resource bar to spend in combat.

Becoming a Cleric#

Nobody joins the clerics by walking in. A character first joins the healers as an Explorer of level 10 or higher, then joins a religion (open to anyone of any class). The High Priest or High Priestess of that faith may then anoint the healer, who accepts with raccept. The healer becomes a cleric and an Acolyte of the faith, keeps their level, and is handed their god's chapter of the quest path. Leaders anoint the people they have watched serve the faith through sermons, rites and roleplay; help joining cleric describes the road. Above Acolyte the ranks are Cleric and Priest or Priestess, then Prophet, with the High Priest or High Priestess at the head of the faith.

A cleric is never a remort target. To play a cleric again in a later life, remort into healer and be anointed again.

Resources#

The cleric spends SP on everything. There is no second combat resource to build and no charge bar.

A Faith bar is planned but not in play: nothing grants it, spends it or shows it. The ministry rites run on SP, reputation and standing. piety reports your deity, your rank, your devotion and your tithes.

Talents give you a point every ten guild levels, ten at most and ten at most in one tree, spent with talents spend <tree>. Each point in a tree makes every skill in it 2% better: it strikes and heals 2% harder and comes back 2% sooner, so ten points give 20% of each. Passives are untouched, and each point in Zeal also makes your own weapon blows 2% stronger. A creature your god sends strikes harder for your points in your god's tree. Cleric passives work differently from every other class: you never equip them. The gifts your god grants are always on once you reach the level for them, listed under the Deity tree below.

Talent Trees#

Benediction#

Healing, cleansing and the return of the dead, plus the everyday conjurations of light, water and food. It runs from bind at level 1 through orison and healingbreeze up to healparty at 47 and resurrect at 52. Almost everything here targets an ally, and it also holds three of the class's passives, which are always on.

Zeal#

Holy offense, ten skills. It opens with smite at 4 and stone at 7, unlocks the Bulwark style at 20, adds the control spells silence, fatigue and freeze through the thirties, and finishes with the heavy area damage of flamestrike and earthquake.

Devotion#

Blessings, wards and protection, nearly all of it learned in the teens and twenties. It holds chant, the battle chant that sharpens your party's aim while it runs, the absorb shield divineshield, the damage reduction of sanctuary and barkskin, the reflection of thorns, and at level 60 bloodofthemartyr, a ritual that consecrates body armor so its wearer can call on the martyr abilities.

Ministry#

Rites and ceremony. Almost nothing here is a combat ability: marriage and divorce, induction and excommunication, sermons, counsel, sanctified ground, speaking with the dead, sensing the faithful and the heretical, and a familiar sent by your god.

Deity#

The largest tree in the class at 33 skills, and the one that makes two clerics of different gods play differently. talents shows it under your god's name. Each god grants its own run of abilities from level 11 upward, locked to that religion; changing faith changes which run you can use. The entries at levels 58 and 81 are passives, always on, rather than abilities you cast.

Loralei grants Loralei's Warmth at 11, Gentle Hands at 27, Word of Healing at 30, Fortune at 33, Penitent Light at 45, and the passives Bounteous Hunt at 58 and Blessing of Trade at 81.

Sivaine grants Taint at 27, Dark Curse at 43, Infect at 45, Plague at 54, and the passives Agony at 58 and Feast of Pain at 81.

Kranos grants the passive Ready for War at 27, which lets a cleric of Kranos wear plate armor, alongside Warhorn at 27, Challenge at 43, Brandmark at 45, Standard of War at 54, and the passive Anvil of Kranos at 58.

Thalos grants Watersbreath at 11, Entangle at 27, Beast at 36, Undertow at 45, Tame at 51, Stormcall at 55, and the passive Greenwarden at 81.

Morbis grants Raise Dead at 11, Commune at 27, Summon Corpse at 33, Underworld at 43, Gravechill at 45, and the passives Deathwarden at 58 and Death's Tithe at 81.

A cleric never equips passives. Every passive your god grants is always on the moment you reach its level, so there is no loadout to manage and nothing to swap between fights. They are listed with the rest of the Deity tree above, alongside the three unaligned passives in Benediction.

Skills#

Benediction#

Zeal#

Devotion#

Ministry#

Deity#

Playing a Cleric#

Clerics begin with bind for healing and ordinary weapon attacks; smite at level 4 and stone at 7 add offense. After that, the choices depend on the party's injuries, the effects in play and the cleric's faith.

Benediction is restoration and Zeal is attack and control. Devotion adds protection such as divineshield, sanctuary and barkskin, and the party's battle chant. Most heals land at once, but healparty takes four seconds to cast, which matters when a group is taking steady damage.

The deity branch changes with religion. Loralei gives restoration and fortune, Kranos martial abilities, Thalos nature and water, Sivaine disease and curses, and Morbis powers over the dead. Their passives switch on at the listed levels without being equipped, and so do the shared Benediction passives.

Ministry is a priest's work outside combat: sermons, counsel, marriage and induction into the faith. Religious office has its own rules, and a ceremony or a rank gives no authority over other characters.

Before an expedition, agree whether the cleric will concentrate on healing, protection or damage. With a healer in the group the cleric can lean toward attack, but a second source of healing helps when that healer is busy or hurt. resurrect arrives at level 52.