If you’ve viewed the Getting Started Section You’ll see my other guides. I decided to post in the class sections this time b/c this isn’t really getting started. You should know how to play fiesta when you read this guide.

Ok if you’ve read my guides so far you should be able to have lvl 40 +9′s if you can’t. I’d suggest reading my money making guide also the getting started section. Make money for lvl 40 +9′s as it’s not really needed for clerics of lvl 40+ but, they’re good to have.

Ok your just starting lvl 40 you’ve got your +9′s shield and hammer or mace whatever… you use. When you first start out don’t do any quests or kq’s they you’ll want to save quests for lvl 49 the lvl with no quests.

If you have high lvl friends like in guild or etc,. Get them to power lvl you in Uruga or AEW.

”A quick way you get from 40-50 is duo in abyss for the first 4 lvls., then have a higher lvl guildy plvl you from 44-50 by AoE Blue Trumpies . There’s almost always someone out there trying to finish a license for them anyway…..

For those that don’t like being plvled, then I suggest saving all Concealed Peak Quests, the Goblin King quest and probably the Honeying KQ sidequests as well. That’ll will set you up nicely to blow past lvl. 49 without a problem.”

Tip submitted by "lordhatred6665150"

Clerics for the lvl 40 abyss

Clerics are the easiest class to lvl no question about it. All clerics have to do is heal and if you get a pty with good argo holding dd’s and tankers it makes you job all the easier.

So all I really have to say it find a person or persons that needs a clerics help and do what you do best HEAL OMG You’ll hit 50 soon enough asa you jsut keep trying to find people who need your skills.

It should be noted that clerics can duo with mages and archers in the lvl 40 abyss rooms this is great xp and drops. As long as you set to FOLLOW and stay with them you should have any agro issues as they keep attacking and you healing they’re hold the argo nicely. The only hard part about this way of lvling your cleric you mite get finger cramps OOO poor cleric getting finger cramps from pressing the heal quickslot key

The basic layout of the lvl 40 abyss it has 9 rooms.

The two side rooms big ones having money spwans but also they’re full of archers and npc mages.

The side top left and right rooms have more xp than the bottom right and left rooms it’s up to you what one you’ll lvl in. These rooms are the best solo fighter rooms.

The top room has many clerics and goblins mages but, is fairly easy to lvl in with a cleric mage and fighter pty etc,.

The bottom room i’d suggest staying away from it’s "full of mages archers npc"
It’s also packed with goblin mages whice are the goblin clerics. If you wanna do that room bring at least a pty of four with two good dd’s.

After about a week you should have hit lvl 49 if you play faily offen that is.
Than jsut do you quests and there you have it done with lvls 40-49 your now lvl 50 XD.

So sell them old junk lvl 40 +9′s and bring in some nice lvl 50 +9′s XD

I’ll write a guide for lvl 50-60 after I learn more tricks of the trade.

Credits go to General_Roland.

I’ve been planning on making an update to the clanking guide for weeks now, ever since the Famous Maiya picked up her new spells, and when Lord Alden came and asked to use the old guide in his, I figured I really ought to get my finger out, since I’ve almost reached the level cap already. Whoever wants to read it, the old cleric tanking guide can be found at http://www.outspark.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18001, and covers the basic principles, and how to clank from level 25-49. In an effort to keep all information in one place, there will be a certain amount of the basic concepts repeated here, which veteran clankers can skip over to get to the new stuff.
This thread will not only explain how to clank and hold aggro at higher levels, it will also go into luring, stealing monsters from lures, and other advanced techniques for clerics, such as kiting.

Clanking 101

First off, what is clanking?
Clanking is cleric-tanking, using the aggro from the cleric’s healing ability to retain aggro. It can be used against bosses, single monsters, or massive groups of enemies to take all the hits and damage on yourself.
If done right, not only can a cleric serve as a party tank in groups without a fighter, they can serve as the main tanker in kingdom quests, against those pesky dungeon boss monsters, and if you get good enough, go for gold(en exp) in a two man AOE party with just you and a damage dealer. It’s expensive, it’s tough, and it needs you to have a very good grasp of cooldown and monster attacks, or you are going to die. A lot.

Why would anyone be crazy enough to want to clank then?
In the early stages of the game, archers and mages are made of paper. In the later stages of the game, they are still made of paper. Clanking keeps the hits off of them, and on you; which is nice, since you’ll be taking aggro and casting heal anyway. Typically a cleric will take less damage than either squishy class too, so in the later stages of the game, where the best exp comes from AOE parties (AOE parties depend on the mages and archers to use their area attacks to kill multiple enemies at the same time, which is more efficient than just killing one monster at a time), not only will the cleric be able to hold more enemies than a mage or archer can, there will actually be less risk of the cleric losing aggro than the squishy.
This is nice, because it’s when you have to start switching heals to various targets that people start dying.
Once you’ve learned how to stay alive against five monsters at once without hitting any of them, you’ll find surviving solo to be a lot easier too, thanks to the skills you’ve picked up from clanking.

How does clanking work?
The monsters in Fiesta have an unnatural attraction to flashing lights. Like moths, they will quickly home in on the cleric, who generates the shiniest lights, and begin trying to break him like a piñata to let all the lights out.
Seriously though, each Healing spell generates a fixed level of aggro, more if it’s cast on the target that a monster is hitting, less, but still some, if it’s cast near any monster. With every new level, this amount of aggro increases, and at high levels, the cleric rivals even the archer for the amount of aggro they can generate in a short time.

Building a Clanker

Stats
The most important stats if you want to be a dedicated aggro holder?
Spirit and Endurance.
Spirit boosts critical hit, and a critical hit, even from a cleric, will generate more aggro against a monster than a non-critical, even of higher damage. So you’ll want to perform crits as often as possible. Extra magic defence against monster special attacks, and extra SP to use slightly fewer stones each combat is just gravy, 5% crit is the meat.
Endurance boosts block percentage, you might not think that a +5% block percentage is much, but when there are five enemies attacking you, and with your shield and stone skin you block 10% of all incoming hits, you’ll be stopping on average a hit every second time they attack you, and when that hit makes the difference between staying alive and dying, you’ll be appreciating your Endurance points more than ever. Points in endurance will also be decreasing the damage you take from every hit. The more endurance, the more monsters you’ll be able to take.

I don’t have a 2:1 build, I’m currently only 38 Endurance, 25 Spirit, and I can still clank five blue clover trumpies without a backup cleric, so don’t worry too much about your stats, the majority of your survival will come from healing. Once you reach 60, you should be able to get 50 Endurance, 25 Spirit with points to spare.

Skills
It’s actually surprisingly easy to set yourself up for early clanking, you probably did it yourself without realising it: Max cooldown on Heal.
Most of the cleric’s aggro will be coming from Heal, so being able to cast it as often as possible will not only help you stay alive, it will help keep you as the main target. No other empowerment does as much good for the cleric.
Since you’ll be casting Heal more often than the mage is casting magic missile, lowering the SP consumption of Heal will also be vital, even fully empowered, clanking is an expensive technique, so lowering your SP use as much as possible is going to save you gems in SP pots and stones in the long run.
Since single target clanking will allow you to keep dealing damage, upgrading Bash cooldown and damage will cut down heal costs, because you’ll be able to heal yourself less frequently and still hold aggro. Later, with heal getting more and more expensive, and rejuvenate becoming necessary, holding aggro with bash and normal hits together with heals can actually save you SP.

Later on, you have 4 points left at level 59, after max empowering both Bash and Heal. If you didn’t, or only partially empowered Bash, you may have anywhere from 9-19 points, which you can add to any other skill, which I’ll go into below.
Restore does not generate any appreciable amount of aggro, and is frankly good enough on its own. Invincible is not a clanking tool, in fact, invincible is only useful to a clanker when they’ve pulled too much aggro, or they’ve lost it to a squishy, something I’ll go into later. None of the cleric’s buff spells, lasting for an hour as they do, needs any upgrading, and trip and bleed are currently broken.
So this leaves you with Rejuvenate. Rejuvenate is to Heal, what Mock is to Sneering Kick, it generates much more aggro, and is required to hold aggro off archers and higher level mages, but costs an absolutely horrific amount of SP, and has a long, ten second cooldown.

Putting points into cooldown will drop the time from 10 seconds to as low as 7 seconds, or, in clanking terms, three casts of heal compared to five. This will make it possible to generate a lot more aggro, which makes it good for clanking. However, only four points will reduce it to 8 seconds, which, though it sounds good, the 0.8 second casting time will delay your heal, which you cannot afford to do, making it just as good to put three points as it is four points into cooldown, since both come out to four Heal spells in effect. If you’re going to leave it at three points however, be sure to upgrade it to five as soon as possible, your total damage healable will improve dramatically, which again makes for larger mobs.
The other choice is to upgrade SP consumption. Five points will halve your SP costs, cutting easily 100 SP off every combat, and so much more from regular combat. However you choose to spend your points now, remember you can always add more points later.

What is not worth the trouble at this point is saving your points for the next level of heal-type spells. Even if Recover was a useful spell (debatable in its present state), 1.5 second cast time and a long cooldown, coupled with the sheer inefficiency of healing an entire party when you’re the only one taking aggro, prevent it from being a useful clanking skill, unless the aggro it generates proves to be large enough to take monsters off people with just one cast. Even then, the benefit you could get from 10 points of empowerment simply wouldn’t be sufficient to make this a worthwhile point investment.

Weapon

For clanking against a single target, the mace, rather than the hammer, will be your weapon of choice. The hammer hits hard, yet infrequently, and if you’ve ever watched an archer in action next to a mage, you’ll know that it’s not the size of your damage, it’s how often you deal it that matters to monsters, since they’ll attack the archer nine times out of ten.
Once trip and bleed are fixed, then the ability to stun might make carrying a hammer with you worthwhile for boss clanking, whilst the DoT from Bleed is looking to make the mace look even better for holding aggro. If and when this occurs, I’ll update this guide after checking out both skills and their impact, but for now, the mace is hands down the best tool for the job.

Now you’ve build your clanker (or even if you haven’t), it’s time to go into the basics.

Step 1: Know your tools.

The cleric has several key tools at their disposal for clanking.

#1: Heal.
Use it.
See how much health it restores?
Until you pick up Restore and Rejuvenate, that’s how much damage you can take every 2.1 seconds without dying, using a stone, or using a potion. A good time to start clanking is level 27, where you’ve just picked up your 500 HP heal spell, which generates a nice amount of aggro and is a big jump up in power from your earlier heals. Every time you pick up a new level of Heal, take some time to familiarise yourself with how much it restores. Get a feel of it, because it’s your number one weapon.

When you fight any monster, you should have a rough idea of how long you can survive without healing against it, so that you know when you can heal other people even whilst taking damage yourself. The only way to do this, of course, is practice.

Heal at low levels will be the signal to attack for your party mates, and even at higher levels, it will make up the bulk of your healing ability.

#2: Restore.
When I first got this skill, I really wasn’t too impressed with it. When I started clanking enemies which could out-damage my heal though, my opinion changed dramatically. Whilst you’re healing yourself, you can easily slip a recover in between heal cooldowns, and by the time it expires, you’ll have recovered 525 hitpoints. That’s more than an extra Heal already, and you got it two levels earlier than you got Heal[5].
Since Restore doesn’t need any more maintenance from you than the occasional recasting, it’s always worth having it active when you’re clanking, it’ll buy you time for rejuvenate to resolve, it will keep you alive when heal alone isn’t enough and stones are cooling, and you can sling it onto a party-mate who’s taking hits, and save their lives without breaking your own self-healing. It’s also cheap, costing only 86 SP for a max level Restore, which recovers more HP for the target than Rejuvenate[1], and has half the cooldown, which will allow you to recast it on several targets in quick succession.

#3: Rejuvenate.
Along with Heal, this leviathan healing spell will be your #1 aggro holding tool, and backup plan both. With a 0.8 second casting time, it should only be used while heal is in cooldown, but when combined with Heal, a cleric can recover 4000 HP in under 4.5 seconds.
At low levels, until around 40 or so, you won’t really need Rejuvenate; it’s expensive, it’s slow, and nothing much that you should be fighting out-damages your Heal. However, if you want to hold aggro, even when an archer is spamming their DoTs, and the mage is critting one hit out of five with Fireball, you’re going to need to use Rejuvenate, and liberally so.
As you gather more and more monsters at once, you’ll eventually end up needing and appreciating the massive dose of healing that Rejuvenate provides; once you’re holding five trumpies, each dealing 250 damage each, every second and a half, you’ll find that Heal really doesn’t do the job on its own, and you’ll be losing 150-450 HP after healing, and it’s with rejuvenate that you’ll be making up for the deficit.

#4: Buffs.
There is only one piece of advice for your buffs; keep them active. Recast them regularly, get into the habit of recasting your buffs every half hour or so. It might cost more, but the easiest way to die is for Endure or Protect to run out mid-combat, and you suddenly take 360 damage per hit instead of 250.

#5: Stones and Potions.
I appreciate, as a cleric, your relationship with stones may be shaky at best. You don’t normally ever need to use a health stone at all, but if you’re clanking a large mob, knowing when to use an HP stone or potion can save your life when all of your spells are on cooldown, or you need to help someone else in the party. SP stones will be your best friends in all the world, because if you ever run out of SP, you will die. Always be aware of how many stones you have, always keep a potion or two handy, in case of the unexpected.

#6: Invincible.
Invincible is, most of the time, useless to the clanker. You’ll be healing yourself anyway, so what would be the point?
However, there are times when invincible is worth using, whenever another monster spawns onto a party-mate, when it’s time to cut and run, or you need time to do something, invincible is the thing that’s going to give you the time you won’t have when you’re clanking normally.

#7: Recover.
I hate this spell, as a heal spell, it’s pretty worthless. It restores only 800 HP, it’s expensive, it’s slow, and its only time for healing the entire party is as a preventative measure, it can and will never be an emergency heal.
But, now I have it, it has a permanent place on my hotbar.

Why?

It’s a clanker’s dream.
Recover generates Mock levels of aggro, whilst at the same time healing everyone in your party. It can take enemies that have just started attacking (or even enemies a partymate has been hitting for awhile) off a partymate, and onto you with just one cast, it can cure all the damage on the person that grabbed aggro from one of the monsters you were AOEing, and reclaim aggro, all without you having to retarget.

For level 60+, Recover will replace Rejuvenate as the "go" signal for the rest of your party, but it generates so much aggro, even if some of them jump the gun, you’ll still probably hold the monster.
In fact, after a lengthy heal chain + Recover, you’ll have generated so much aggro that even if you stop healing for twenty seconds or more, the monster will still be hitting you, even if a mage has been shooting it the whole time.

When you get Quicken at level 67, with 0 cooldown time for one cast, this spell will be the one you use with it.

Note: Recover is such a bad healing spell, it breaks your heal chain, loses you HP and kicks your pet poodle.
Unlike all other cleric’s heal spells, if you are having trouble surviving, do not use the following chain: Heal, Rejuvenate, Heal, Recover, Heal.
Rejuvenate will restore your health slightly after casting time is finished (meaning the second Heal in that chain actually resolves before Rejuvenate does), but then Recover will delay and mess up your Heal Chain, resulting in quite possible death.
However, by casting Rejuvenate then chaining onto Recover, you will allow Rejuvenate to resolve mid-cast time for Recover. This will bump your health back to near full, then one second later Recover will resolve, bumping your health to full again. Do not try to chain multiple Recovers when you have Quicken.

Note: Now I actually have Quicken I can stress this fact: Chaining Multiple Recovers with Quicken does not work as well as waiting for aggro to start wavering off you, then pulling off the second Quicken again. The sheer size of a level 60+ AOE mob (potentially as many as thirty to forty monsters) combined with the excessive damage of a level 60+ AOEing mage will more than likely have at least one or two monsters eventually start hitting the mage instead of you, sometimes more, even after Recover is cast. This is more or less inevitable, thanks to the forces involved, but easily remedied by the second Recover once the mages start taking damage. This stops them going into a panic and stoning unnecessarily. Using the Heal Chain to sling a Heal at the mage(s) whilst you rejuvenate yourself will keep them, and you, alive.

Step 2: Preparing your party.

Some people, unbelievable though it may sound, don’t realise that clerics are awesome tanks. They are used to partying with fighters, which is fine, but a clanker works in a different way to a tanker. Whilst the tanker can immediately generate large amounts of aggro then faces periods of cooldown where that aggro dwindles, the clanker starts out slow, but just keeps accelerating, until their level of aggro is so high that no monster will be able to take their eyes off your sparkly lights.

Because of this slow build-up, if someone attacks a monster before you have built up sufficient aggro to keep their attention, the monster will lose aggro on the clanker and will start attacking the one who attacked them. Whilst Healing can build up aggro faster than someone attacking, and eventually take aggro back onto the clanker, this is expensive, painful, and risks the target being one-shotted.

Instead, make your party aware of the limits of clanking. Below level 41, a cleric will have a tough time holding aggro from an archer who uses DoTs, and will have to spend a few seconds building up aggro to hold a monster against the mage.
So, for the under 41 clanker, your party-mates will have to wait for you to heal yourself, and this is a sign that they can start attacking. This allows you the opportunity to get a few attacks in before you heal which will cement your hold on the monsters.
For the level 41 and over clanker, your party-mates must wait for your first cast of Rejuvenate, which is much flashier, and will allow even archers to start using all those DoT spells without having to spam nature’s protection at the same time. So long as your party-mates are patient enough to let you cast Rejuvenate before attacking, your chances of losing aggro from now on are slim indeed.

In case anyone doesn’t know what the two skills look like, Heal on the top, Rejuvenate on the bottom.

Note the markings on the ground with Rejuvenate, in case your feet are obscured, when the skill resolves there’s also a red light from above that doesn’t show up when you cast Heal.

So, now you know what to use, your party knows what to do, it’s time to start clanking!

Step 3: How to clank.

Basic Clanking up to level 40:

Move up to a single monster, and attack it. Whenever you can, cast your highest level heal on yourself. If at any point you lose aggro, immediately bash the monster, which is sometimes enough to regain aggro. Failing that, begin casting heal on the monster’s new target.

Since you have no extra healing skills, the strongest enemies you can face aren’t that much more damaging than your highest level healing spell, nor can you really hold multiple monsters for AOE yet. As such, stick to one monster at a time.

If you have a ranged attacker for luring enemies, have them attack only enough to draw the monster’s attention. As soon as they do, cast your highest level heal on them as the lure retreats back towards you, and once the monster gets close enough to you, use Bash. Most of the time this is sufficient to make you the monsters new target, if not, the lure must loop around the monster, and run back towards you, whilst you continue to heal them with your maximum level heal, and bash when the monster gets close enough, after two passes you should become the monsters target, even if you miss entirely with bash.

Because this technique wastes a lot of time and SP where the monster isn’t taking damage, the simpler, and cheaper method is for the cleric to walk close to the monster, aggro it just by standing near it, then pull it back to where the rest of the group is waiting, healing as you go. Once you get close, start attacking and self-healing normally, you should have gained enough aggro from self-healing on your way back that your allies can start attacking straight away.

There are more tricks you can pick up to make clanking easier, such as keeping recover cast on yourself and your allies, but it’s not until level 41 and upwards that you can start to make use of the heal chain.

Level 40+: The Heal Chain.

Not only is it at this level that Uruga trips start to become popular, it’s also when the cleric picks up their next step in both survivability and aggro control, the Heal Chain.

The basic heal chain comes into play when the cleric needs to heal any target that’s taking more damage than your heal can deal with alone. Since this is a Clanking guide, chances are that target is you.

As such, with an unempowered rejuvenate, the most efficient way to keep a target alive despite massive damage goes:

Heal: Restore: Heal x2: Rejuvenate: Heal x5: Rejuvenate: Heal: Restore.

Rejuvenate, when targeting a tank, can be delayed or accelerated according to how quickly the tank loses health between Heal spells, giving the cleric much finer control over how much they heal.
For clanking purposes, the idea is to generate as much aggro as possible, as quickly as possible, and so should go:

Heal: Restore: Heal: Rejuvenate.

From here, heal until rejuvenate has cooled, and repeat the cycle, using health stones if you have problems staying alive against the mob. By using this chain of heals, not only will you generate enough aggro to keep monsters off your squishies, you’ll also be able to survive taking the hits of all those monsters.

The Aggro Chain:

Extending the Heal Chain for clanking purposes, against a single enemy, it becomes worth throwing in as many attacks as you can muster, since the aggro of the mage against that one target will be higher than if they were AOEing against a large group.

This goes something like:
Heal: Restore: Heal: Rejuvenate: Heal: Bash: Heal: Bleed: Heal: Attack: Heal: Bash: Heal: Rejuvenate….

Note the use of Bleed in the aggro chain. Even though the skill itself is currently terrible, every attack carries with it a certain level of aggro. Bash and Bleed allow you to interrupt your spell animations, unlike auto attack, and lets you build up as much aggro as possible against a single target. It’s even more expensive than the normal heal chain however.

Step 4: Advanced Skills

1: Luring.
If you need to lure enemies, heal can be used to draw an enemy just out of aggro range, even if it’s facing away from you. This can be used to limit the number of enemies you draw at once.

2: Skip all animations.
Whilst the cleric has a lot of pretty animations, the fact is, if you waited for restore and rejuvenate to finish their animations, they’d actually take longer than Heal cooldown. Equally, interrupting Heal with Bash not only allows you to squeeze in some damage, if you press auto attack after either skill, you’ll attack faster than if you’d waited for your character to attack by themselves as well.

3: Skip attacking.
Sure, damage can help you keep aggro, but your attack animation can slow down Heal by a fraction of a second. If you’re facing an enemy and have it targetted, you’ll automatically attack it after you heal, even if you cancel target with escape. Against a large group of enemies, that time could kill you. Press F1 to target yourself, and you’ll no longer auto-attack, potentially saving your life.

4: Preemptive Healing.
Heal resolves slightly after you cast it, and continues to be active for a certain time after it’s cast. If you time the spell carefully just before an enemy strikes, you’ll be able to resolve the heal to recover the health you lost from the strike as well; perfect when you’re not on low health at the moment.

5: The Kensington Effect.
The aggro from Heal cast on a target can cause a recently spawned, or nearby non-aggro’d monster to switch target from a nearer character to the cleric, ignoring everyone in between. Use this to your advantage to take the hits a squishy can’t.

More tips, input and content as I remember it, or as people provide it. Also, Maiya’s ordered me to write a comprehensive cleric guide, so watch out for that in the near future. I’ll update this post with FAQs as and when they arrive, so keep watching this space!

Credits go to Kholai.

Well, there’s been alot of fuss over whether clerics should heal, or whether they should fight. Some people have argued we are free to play as we wish, and some have argued that we must maintain teamwork and heal when needed. All these arguments are valid, and have been bouncing around for some time now. So, in response to this, I would like to propose a compromise between the two halves. Thus, the Battle Healer is born. It even has a nice ring to it, Battle Healer ~cha!!

I can almost guarantee anyone you party with will LOVE you if you do this properly. At least that’s been my experience thus far XD

WHAT THE HECK IS A BATTLE HEALER?

The way I like to see it, a Battle Healer is cleric who fights while they keep their party alive. Your satisfying your own need to kill mobs while satisfying your party’s needs by healing them.

I would first like to say that being a Battle Healer requires great skill. It has taken me years of MMO play to get good at playing clerics, it will take practice to get this down pat. Also keep in mind that it’s not always possible to be a Battle Healer. If your party is on the threat of dying, you MUST save them! Know when to call it quits for a while. If your party is struggling, consider switching back to full healing for the moment. Remember, you’re a cleric and therefor the party is expecting you to keep them alive to a certain extent. Even if you are doing great, clerics are a support class…Always remember this. If we aren’t doing our job, other classes will stop partying us.

It is recommended you duo, or trio as a Battle Healer. AoE is much more tricky but can be done.

TECHNIQUE

Keeping a close eye on the party window is key. You must be aware of your partner’s health at all times, as well as your own. You will ‘bash’ and attack the monsters in between healing your partner(s). If your partner is taking too many hits, switch to full healing until some mobs disappear. If you get mobs on you, this is when you need to use stones. Instead of targeting the mob your partner is on, target the one on you. Heal your partner, bash the mob, use HP stones. If it’s just one mob you can usually alternate heals between you and your partner. Hopefully your friend will remove the mob from you, or attack that mob to kill it quick.

UPDATE: Now that Trip does a ton more damage you can actually use it instead of bash, while bash is cooling down. I don’t play my cleric anymore so if someone wants to write something up or make changes just let me know and I’ll update it.

My Technique

I shall call it M0J0 Healing!!! Heh, JK

This is how I personally do it when I’m duoing. Keep in mind, you don’t have to use all the fancy keyboard shortcuts, but I like to. You don’t have to use the assist function, but it really helps. Have your hotkeys setup something like this (assume this is your #1 slot, so not Ctrl+1):

To attack: Press F2, then 1, then 2 (this will attack the mob your partner is fighting)
To heal partner: Press F2, then 3 (this will heal your partner)
To heal yourself: Press F1, then 3 (or stone, or pot)
To cast invis on partner: Press F2, then 4
…etc

- F2 will select your partner automatically, F1 selects you.
- The ‘assist’ function will automatically target the mob your partner is targeting.
- You can adjust skills, and skill locations as you like.

As I mentioned, you can simply click your partner, or click the mobs…It really doesn’t matter, I just personally find this method the most efficient and simple to use.

Example of Chains

Basic Battle Heal
- F2, heal, assist, bash
- F2, 3, 1, 2

Restore heal attack (my fav)
- F2, restore, heal, assist, Bash ~attack until heal needed ~repeat
- F2, (hotkey), 3, 1, 2

Invis heal attack
- F2, invis, heal, assist, bash
- F2, 4, 3, 1, 2

Self heal, attack, partner heal, attack (if both of you are being mobbed, lightly)
- F1, heal, F2, assist, bash, F2, heal, assist, bash ~repeat
- F1, 3, F2, 1, 2, F2, 3, 1, 2

Not so hardcore Battle Healing

Again, keep an eye on health gauges at all times. You don’t have to use fancy chains or combos just do the main things. If you want, you can target random mobs and just keep bashing until your partner needs heal. That’s the basics of battle healing. Attack mobs until your partner’s health goes down, then heal, then continue bashing mobs. So this however you want. I’m simply showing 1 technique, I’m sure there are lots more.

AoE Battle Healing

I haven’t personally attempted this many times, but it’s definitely possible. Especially if you are duoing with a tank. You will probably end up taking some mobs as agro, I recommend you use a build with END because of this. Chains are very important, you MUST create your own as well to compensate for your partners habits and limits. AoE Battle Healing is more a personal thing. Once you have partnered with someone for a long time, you can work so well together that you can fight while healing them at the same time. They need high DEF and HP, otherwise you will be constantly healing them XD Arguably, battle healing might seem a bit pointless in an AoE party though. If you attack the mobs that will be left over, or have recently attacked your partner this is when it works.

Originally Posted by Thasmudyan

Finally, about AoE parties: There are times when you can fight, but don’t go into an AoE party (especially if you’re the only cleric) and think, "I’m gonna show everyone how awesome I am by fighting and healing at the same time." Most AoE parties require constant healing. If you’re looking for a place to contribute damage, it’s at the end of the pull, when most of the monsters are killed and there are just a few stragglers (or perhaps an elite mob that the AoEs didn’t finish off yet). Clerics are good for helping finish these off. Again, make sure everyone’s well healed before the killing.

SKILL EMPOWERMENTS (see post 3 for heal effect empowerment)

Priority
- Max heal cooldown
- Max bash damage
- Max bash cooldown

Secondary
- Max heal SP use reduction
- Max bash SP use reduction

Leftover points
- Where ever you like (invis cooldown, length…etc)

BUILDS

Pure = All into stat
Full = after other stat is met, all into stat

Pure STR
- Recommended if you plan to solo alot, or want to maximize your bash damage
- If you use this build, get as much critical as possible
- Recommended if you can afford cash shop critical sets and glasses, etc

Full STR, 25 SPR
- Good if you want to solo but don’t have much critical adding gear
- Good if you cannot or will not buy critical sets and glasses from cash shop
- As a rare plus, it adds onto your SP, and magical defense

Pure END
- Great for AoE battle healing
- Lots of HP and DEF, makes your job easier (you don’t worry about your HP as much)

Full END, 25 SPR
- Again, gives you some Magical defense, critical for your bash, and SP
- At the same time, gives you HP and defense

Variation Builds

*Basically, you can customize how you want to be a Battle Healer. You can chose to go 1:2 END:SPR , 2:1 END:STR ….There’s TONS of combinations you can chose from. Use these builds if you know what you’re doing, that’s all I have to say. They work great if you know what you want.

EQUIPS

You’ll want to use a hammer for maximum damage output. You won’t really need to worry about the speed of your attacks, bash will be your main attack.
Not much to say here really, but if you wanted to know…Just look for equipment that adds SPR, END, or STR. Critical earrings, high critical weapons, and even critical licenses if possible. If you can +9 your weapons or shield, GREAT! If not, don’t worry about it. From my experience, getting a hammer to +9 doesn’t really change that much anyway; maybe a difference of 50 damage on regular attacks at lvl 45 …..Ya, 1g+ for 1 less attack per mob XD…..Anyway XD

KINGDOM QUESTS

Ok, I know lots of people wanted this posted lately. First of all. Clerics. As members of an MMO in a free country you are allowed to do whatever you want with your character within the rules of the game. If you want to attack rather heal you are allowed to do that. However. There gets to a point where you need to wake up and accept the fact that other classes need you to heal. Especially at bosses, you MUST heal the tank. If the tank dies, the boss will kill mages, and clerics VERY fast. I’ve been in a few KQs where it just went downhill so fast because the tank died. KEEP THE TANK ALIVE.

Kingdom quests are designed in such a way that each class can perform a specific task to contribute overall to the success. Think of it like a table. There’s four essential legs that hold it up. If you remove, one of the legs, the table will fall. It can balance on three legs if nothing goes wrong, but it’s very hard. Mages need to deal damage and AoE, Archers need to poison and do whatever it is archers do ;P , fighters need to tank, and clerics need to heal. That is the foundation of all KQs. In the earlier KQs it is possible to get away with no healing, or a cleric tank. But later on you will learn that if clerics don’t heal the KQ falls apart in no time at all.

Good news though, you can be a battle healer in a KQ as well. As long as there’s no more than 2 people who need heals in your party you can still attack things. With 3 people, it gets very tricky. You never know when someone will need a heal and it’s hard to keep up while attacking. If possible, tell them to stop taking so much agro. Afterall, it is hard to heal 3 people at once anyway. If there’s two clerics in the party, you’re golden.

PROS & CONS

Pro’s

- Mobs die faster, more exp
- It’s hela fun!
- Your partner will use less SP per mob, while you use more. Perfect, clerics have tons of SP
- You can be an active part of the battle while keeping everyone happy and alive
- If you get tired of battle healing, you can just switch back to full support

Con’s

- It requires alot of attention and skill
- If you don’t do it properly it can become more of a burden to your partner than anything
- It’s possible to attract agro, and die easily if you aren’t careful
- Some people will spam you when you log in, begging to party again

TIPS

- Restore can buy you some time between heals and attacks, use it often
- Stick close to your partner, let them see when you have mobs on you
- Always keep your partners health up. Don’t expect them to use stones unless it’s an emergency.
- Remember, you can always go solo on your own, don’t let attacking take priority over healing
- Again, remember…If your party dies, you die.

Conclusion

I made this guide because after making a new mage character, I really started to see what people were talking about. Clerics aren’t healing nowadays. I can see why too you know, but you really need to fulfill your responsibility while your in a party. Clerics are a support class, yes they can fight, awesomely, but you do need to do your job when your in a party. This guide is showing you a great way to fulfill your need to bash monsters to a pulp, and fulfill your party’s need for heals.

I’m sure you’ll develop your own techniques and style, but in the end….My hopes for this guide was to deliver the main message here:

You can heal without being a healbot. You can fight without letting your comrades die. And most important of all, you can restore everyone’s faith in clerics by being a Battle Healer.

// Any suggestions are welcome. I’m sure higher levels clerics may disagree with some of the stuff posted, but I would also say that the problem is more apparent in lower leveled clerics, not higher ones.

A NOTE ABOUT EMPOWERING HEAL EFFECT

Originally Posted by Thasmudyan

I recommend similar empowerments to any battle cleric, as it covers the skills you use most often, both solo and party.

Credits go to yourmojo.