Cleric abilties

The clerics seem to be missing an array of buffs and debuffs portrayed as curses and blessings. Buffing hp or in creasing resistances to certain types of attacks. Weakening or buffing damage against undead/evil creatures. Roots and snares for undead/evil entities.

Initial spells are single target that grow in power with levels with high level clerics getting group blessings and aoe curses.

There can be even more verity based on the chosen religion and status within the religion. Very high status clerics should be able to add a permanent curse or blessing effect to weapons and armor. Amor could be blessed to reduce damage from undead or a weapon blessed to reduce the strength of a target.

I played a cleric in Everquest for years. I has a very good array of standard and situational spells to use as a model.

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bloodprophet

We have only seen skills up to level 10-15 for any archetype so far.

Hopefully see more and varied skills in the next 6-9 months as A2 progresses.

Azherae

Intrepid is still working on the core concepts of Archetypes at this time, with the Bard being the most fleshed out so far.

In my opinion they also haven't designed many of the abilities that will be available later, since their Alpha Test will not level past 25 until later next year probably.

Some of the other things you mentioned are actually available, though, or probably will be available in Augments to stuff like Barrier and Bless Weapon (if you don't know much about these, full list is here: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Cleric).

I think they weren't so obviously shown in recent showcases, so you might want to check the Cleric Showcase from their YouTube channel if you haven't seen it.

nanfoodle

I am not sure if the Cleric falls on this list but classes are being reworked to have the level of depth we saw with the Bard. Thats why Rogue and Summon did not land in A2 Phase One.

SmileGurney

Some dps skills from Alpha1 seem to be missing also.

Halae

I'm not too worried about it. Alpha is the game period that's for iteration; stuff gets added, stuff gets removed, stuff gets reworked. We're only going to go into beta when everything is available to be tested and refined, and not before; until everything is in the refinement phase, it's still subject to changes, removals, and additions.

If you want more DPS skills added to a class, the best way to handle it is to join the alpha and provide proper feedback to the devs. That's why we'll be testing later this month, after all.

Hutchy1989

Clerics should have a bunch of death themed skills in the future, they just wanted to focus on getting the healer ready for alpha 2

Gizban

Hutchy1989 wrote: »

Clerics should have a bunch of death themed skills in the future, they just wanted to focus on getting the healer ready for alpha 2

I hope they don't pull a Blizzard and have a Death Cleric spec/path.

I like their current direction:

The Cleric uses light to not only restore their allies, but also to damage their enemies. While not as effective as dealing damage as other specialized archetypes, a cleric can be offensively dangerous in the right hands.

If someone wants gloomy death dark emo they have the Summoner and his Void powers.

Taleof2Cities

Azherae wrote: »

Intrepid is still working on the core concepts of Archetypes at this time, with the Bard being the most fleshed out so far.

In my opinion they also haven't designed many of the abilities that will be available later, since their Alpha Test will not level past 25 until later next year probably.

Yep.

The Archetype does not have it's advanced skill repertoire yet. Crossing fingers summer 2025 maybe?

We did have to dispel fears of one agitated Forum-goer who called the class "boring" ... after participating in a siege test where characters were capped at level 15 and had vanilla weapon skills.

Lodrig

Why do people keep holding on to this myth of 'more' abilities being in the pipeline.

They have made it very clear that the ~20 active abilities is the INTENDED TOTAL and your skill set is complete, after level 25 you will be augmenting, not adding new abilities.

Is cleric rather one note, yes. Could it use a slight broadening of effects, yes, I would like to see more debuff and status effect removals, some long duration 'bless' type buffs maybe that improve a characters healing recived.

IustinusShiva

pyreal wrote: »

Hutchy1989 wrote: »

Clerics should have a bunch of death themed skills in the future, they just wanted to focus on getting the healer ready for alpha 2

I hope they don't pull a Blizzard and have a Death Cleric spec/path.

Cleric secondaries are known to have death augments (that's how you get the classic necromancer)

If it exists in the secondary then it probably exists in the primary too, at some level.

IustinusShiva

Lodrig wrote: »

Why do people keep holding on to this myth of 'more' abilities being in the pipeline.

They have made it very clear that the ~20 active abilities is the INTENDED TOTAL and your skill set is complete, after level 25 you will be augmenting, not adding new abilities.

Before the combat revamp, they said that each archetype will have 40 skills, of which 15-20 will be active depending on whether you go deep or wide.

While this intent may have changed, it is still the last known information we have.

Temijin_DeathStalkyr

Go to the Everquest wiki and look up all the spells they have available. There are heals, hots, buffs, shields, debuffs, general offensive spells, undead offensive spells and utility spells. This list would be a great source of ideas for the cleric and augments. I hope they do take a look.

Hutchy1989

pyreal wrote: »

Hutchy1989 wrote: »

Clerics should have a bunch of death themed skills in the future, they just wanted to focus on getting the healer ready for alpha 2

I hope they don't pull a Blizzard and have a Death Cleric spec/path.

I like their current direction:

The Cleric uses light to not only restore their allies, but also to damage their enemies. While not as effective as dealing damage as other specialized archetypes, a cleric can be offensively dangerous in the right hands.

If someone wants gloomy death dark emo they have the Summoner and his Void powers.

As someone already said, Clerics have Life and death themed secondary classes, they are also quoted as being "Masters of Life and death" in the past. They could easily change that, or maybe they already have because the Alpha 2 overview does makes it sound like they are exclusively healers and holy smiters.

Lodrig

IustinusShiva wrote: »

Lodrig wrote: »

Why do people keep holding on to this myth of 'more' abilities being in the pipeline.

They have made it very clear that the ~20 active abilities is the INTENDED TOTAL and your skill set is complete, after level 25 you will be augmenting, not adding new abilities.

Before the combat revamp, they said that each archetype will have 40 skills, of which 15-20 will be active depending on whether you go deep or wide.

While this intent may have changed, it is still the last known information we have.

Yes I know, I was refereing to a long running and grossly incorect interpretation, aparently even up on the wiki which has interpreted that same statement to mean 35-40 active skills and which people refuse to give up dispite all evidence to the contrary. They will strait up claim that Intrepid is just going to whip out 15-20 additional active skills for every archetype sometime between Alpha II wave 3 and launch.

Temijin_DeathStalkyr

As the bard already has more abilities, my guess is the cleric will be given a broader range of base abilities in the future.

RedLeader1

The bard is more of the all-rounder Archetype in Ashes, as well as being the man buffer-debuffer.

If you want the full cleric experience like a cleric in Everquest, you will probably/possibly want to go Cleric-Bard (Scryer).

There are going to be 64 classes and we haven't seen any of them yet.

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