What's your Cleric spell order for grouping?Follow

I mostly on box my Clr, so some may be different, but basically, quick heal, CH, promised heal, HoT, are the first four when get to a level to get all of them. In the 40s+, it was just Heal, CH, HoT for the first 3.

Rest of the slots depends on situation, but usually, a RDS, and Stun, then others depending on whether undead or not.

Yther Ore.

First are my buffs, and then Vow of Valor, Reverse DS, my summonable hammer to pull mobs, and root. Couple others I'm forgetting here, but usually buffs -> self only buffs -> stuff to harm the mobs/pulling mobs stuff

Miss Jackies set is close to what I use when I am tanking. However I do carry the delayed heal and my regular heal for those times when vow of valor is not healing, or the mobs are hitting harder than it can heal.

EQ really really REALLY REALLY needs to introduce a proper upgrade to COMPLETE HEAL. That name is laughable these days...

On raids the true cast time of COMPLETE HEAL was always a factor of how many clerics in the CH chain. If you had 5 clerics in the chain and they were on the ball, a COMPLETE HEAL would land on the tank every two seconds. That's pretty good healing even when fighting a tough raid boss. Throw in a few shamans and druids on spot healing duty with fast-cast heals and you end up with a tank who is essentially unkillable, as long as he can't be instantly one-rounded.

I don't see how the PROMISED RESTORATION family of spells is any kind of replacement for COMPLETE HEAL because PR cannot be chain-cast due to its very nature. Casting one PR on top of another just further delays the promised heal!

If they upgraded COMPLETE HEAL even just to 60k (the more the better)) it definitely could be used on hard-hitting named mobs as long as a large enough number of clerics were working together in a chain.

A COMPLETE HEAL chain was always a tedious task for clerics but when it was well-handled it worked literally "magic" on fighting boss mobs that could otherwise tear even a well-geared tank apart in seconds---as long as he had enough HPs to survive "instant death" in the form of a one-round attack.

No offense here Sippin but you didn't actually play a cleric as main during that period, did you? I did, and it was easily the most boring and monotonous experience possible in something that calls itself 'entertainment'. There was a reason the cleric burnout rate was so ridiculously high at the high end back then. During PoP, on several servers (Veeshan, Mith Marr, Tunare, Torv, Xegony, etc), when a cleric looted a Blackflame Sphere, there was almost a guarantee you'd see that cleric on PlayerAuctions in record time. Couple that with the typical 'none of the credit, all of the blame' attitude that existed in many guilds and it's no wonder everyone always found themselves short on that particular class.

Ever notice how when clerics burn out or switch mains, it's almost always to a DPS class? Going from the most boring class in the game at the time to one of the most engaging and exciting roles in the game, makes perfect sense to me.



On poorly geared tanks, you'd have to cast an elixir between CHs but yeah, this was pretty much it. You could use lights but then you'd be inefficient (and it still wouldn't be fun). They added the proc hammers and it still didn't improve anything because if you're meleeing, you're not regenning mana at a decent rate (and Yaulp was abysmal for anyone with a decent sized mana pool) and eventually the group has to stop because you're low on mana.

Yeah, CH chains were "like magic"......except for the people actually doing it.

EDIT to add:

More on topic, my 95 cleric's lineup is:

1) Promised Restitution
2) Fourteenth Catalyst
3) Zealous Light
4) Fervent Renewal
5) Word of Rehabilitation
6) Elixir of the Beneficent
7) Zealous Elixir
8) Divine Invocation
9) Shining Armor
10) Galvos' Retort
11) Unified Hand of Credence
12) Hand of Faithful Infusion

All Rk II except Zealous Elixir which is Rk III (she was on Tunare before I moved her and I've raided a little with her). The last two slots are the hot swap slots so can change, but most of the time, those two spells are there.

Edited, Oct 26th 2012 11:26am by Remianen

Some clerics took pride at hitting a button one time at set intervals? I mained a cleric for years there was literally no skill involved 90% of the time playing a cleric, and that goes double for raids. I hit my hotkey every time i saw my name in chat, thats literally all i did to heal the main tank.

I am playing a raid cleric in PoP right now on Fippy. I am the lead cleric during raids. We run a 5 cleric Rot on 12 sec pause in Time. I have 2 clerics out of Rot on patch heals and battle rez.

My lineup in a group is:

DA
CH
Group HoT
HoT
Light
Remedy
Pet hammer
yaulp

For raid:

DA
CH
Group heal
HoT
Light
Remedy
open for buffs/cures
yaulp