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.

The Cleric is the only class where the roleplay is the mechanics. You are ordained to one of the five gods, and that ordination gives you a working priesthood: you marry people, hear confessions, preach sermons, induct new members, keep vigil and bury the dead, and every one of those acts feeds the resource that powers your strongest magic. A cleric who never leaves the temple is still progressing.

In a fight the cleric sits between the healer and the paladin. You have a full healing kit, from a cheap instant bind at level 1 through to massresurrection, but you also have a genuine offensive tree in Zeal that punishes undead and demons very hard. The class is deliberately not the fastest healer nor the hardest hitter; what it has instead is Faith, and the four apex abilities that Faith unlocks are among the biggest single effects any class can produce.

Resources#

The cleric spends SP on the everyday kit and Faith on the apex rituals. Faith is a 0 to 100 devotion bar, tracked per character and shown on the client class panel alongside your supplies. Read your standing with piety.

Faith builds from devotional acts rather than from combat performance, which is what makes the ministry tree mechanically relevant rather than decorative.

Faith decays once it goes unused: after roughly 90 seconds of neither building nor spending, it drains at about one point every 8 seconds. That is slow enough to survive a long fight and fast enough that hoarding a full bar overnight is not a strategy.

Four abilities spend it, and they are the reason to care.

Miracle is the odd one out: it consumes everything you have and scales with the amount consumed, so it rewards banking a full bar before a hard fight. The Devout Heart passive increases every Faith gain by a quarter, which is the closest thing the class has to a resource talent.

Alongside that, passives are equipped two at a time with passives, and talents give you one point every ten levels up to ten, spent with talents spend <tree>.

Talent Trees#

Benediction#

Healing, cleansing and the return of the dead. It runs from bind at level 1 through the cure line, the single-target and group heals, and out to resurrect and massresurrection. Almost everything here targets an ally, and most of it has a short cast time, so Benediction is the tree that punishes you for standing in the wrong place.

Zeal#

Holy offence. Smiting, judgement and the scourging of evil, with a strong anti-undead bias. Zeal is what makes the cleric a real combatant rather than a healing turret, and against undead and demons it does damage well out of proportion to the class's reputation.

Devotion#

Blessings, wards, chants and protection. This tree holds the two toggles, chant and hymn, which run continuously and buff the party while active, along with the absorb shields, the damage reduction wards, and the Avatar capstone.

Ministry#

Rites, ceremony and the social fabric of the church, and deliberately the largest tree in the class. Nothing here is a combat ability. It is prayer, communion, marriage and divorce, confession, sermons, inductions, ordinations, excommunication, corpse sanctification, group pilgrimage and, at the top, Miracle. Ministry is how you build Faith outside combat and how a cleric becomes a fixture in other players' stories.

Deity#

Two signature abilities per god, at levels 36 and 72, locked to your religion. Changing faith swaps which pair you can use.

Passives#

Five equippable passives drawn from the shared passive catalogue. You may run two at once.

Skills#

Benediction#

Zeal#

Devotion#

Ministry#

Deity#

Passives#

Playing a Cleric#

Your first few levels are bind and a weapon. Bind is cheap, instant and on a 6 second cooldown, so at low level it is both your heal and your entire out-of-combat recovery plan. Take pray at level 2 and get into the habit of praying whenever you are standing still, because Faith idles away if you do not touch it and 25 points is a quarter of the bar for no cost.

From the teens onward the loop settles: keep the party topped up with the cheapest heal that will do the job, use turnundead and later smite to contribute damage while nobody needs healing, and let ordinary melee hits trickle Faith in. Cast times matter here more than for most classes. Almost every heal above bind has a one or two second cast, and getting hit while casting is the most common reason a cleric loses a fight, so position behind the tank and let them hold aggro properly.

Prioritise Benediction early, because a cleric who cannot keep a group alive will not be invited to groups. Zeal becomes worth investing in around the time you get exorcise, at which point undead content becomes a genuinely efficient way to level. Devotion is the tree to take when you start doing organised group content, since chant and hymn are always-on party value and the absorb shields scale well. Ministry can be picked up at any pace; it costs you nothing in combat power and it is where the class's identity lives.

Manage Faith deliberately rather than passively. Decide before a hard fight whether you are saving for Miracle or spending on Wrath of the Deity, and pray up to a full bar beforehand. Equipping Devout Heart while you are banking Faith and swapping to something defensive for the fight itself is a legitimate use of your two passive slots. And remember that ceremonies build Faith too: officiating a wedding before a raid is not just roleplay, it is 50 points on the bar.

In a group you are the flexible one. You will not out-heal a dedicated healer, so ask what the party is short of. If they have a healer, run Zeal, keep chant up and treat yourself as a damage dealer with emergency cover. If they do not, you are the healer, and the fact that you can also resurrect and massresurrection means the group can afford to fail once.