Anybody tried an all-cleric team?

[leroyreborn]

As of a few minutes ago on my cleric team:

1) Reparation does indeed heal the entire team, regardless of tooltips to the contrary.
2) Macros still fall-through. All mine are setup with decreasing cooldowns and they work like a champ.

dose look like the tool tip for reparation is wrong or its buged and it dose heal others with it on. but keep an eye and patch notes they may change/fix it.

[Apatheist]

This planar essence is awesome with a full rotation. It's pretty much up constantly. I can't wait to see what it's like with all toons logged in.

[Lyonheart]

So i canceled my wow accounts.. took a chance and am going to try Rift 5boxing on my laptop. I edited my files to the suggested setting for helping performance and lowest settings in game. Well see how it goes 8)

I'm in game now and so far so good. What spec do I want up to the point I can start running instances? I thing ranged is easiest right? as far as questing and rifts before 17-19ish for the first instance? ( 5 clerics of course )

[Smedbox]

#show
cast Sanction Heretic
cast Obliterate
cast Curse of Discord
cast Bound Fate
cast Vile Power
cast fanaticism
cast bolt of judgment
cast bolt of depravity

For anyone that''s interested. You could take fanaticism out, but I usually can't be bothered micromanaging outside of PvP. Just have to reapply vex and your magic debuff every 15/60s. And, as jca said, jump whenever your depravity procs to skip judgment and use your proc, instead.

Hmm, will a macro skip abilities with a cast timer if it would fail because you're moving? That's one big reason I haven't been using macros very much in the past....

[leroyreborn]

Hmm, will a macro skip abilities with a cast timer if it would fail because you're moving? That's one big reason I haven't been using macros very much in the past....

yes if your moving it will just got to something you can cast. well even do it for range. for like a MM or ranger build that has range moves can just put a melee at the bottom of the macro and if can not cast any range spells will default down to melee witch it can

[Smedbox]

yes if your moving it will just got to something you can cast. well even do it for range. for like a MM or ranger build that has range moves can just put a melee at the bottom of the macro and if can not cast any range spells will default down to melee witch it can

WOAH!!!!! Alright, I'll be making some more macros tonight then!!!

[Ughmahedhurtz]

what level are your Clerics?

Hit 35 earlier today. 33 was the sweet spot as it allowed me to get to 11/13/20 for both mana regens, 90% healing from vex and reparation. Reparation is sick healing when AoEing a big pack of mobs.

I also pulled points out of Explosive Energies (+dmg to AoE) and put 3/3 Broad Strokes (+diameter to AoE) and I must say that is much, much nicer. Don't have to stack everything up so nicely, just bomb away.

I will say, though, that even with a full justicar tank, the passive healing from the AoE build x4 just isn't enough to keep the tank alive on the larger/nastier pulls. I stepped into King's Breach at 35 and it was not a pleasant experience. It's plenty of healing for the rest of the group for random AoE/DoT and loose mob damage you take during pulls and boss fights. Just need an honest healer (I'm working on a separate soul for one of the casters just for instances) to keep the tank going unless you're well geared or outlevel the content. I could switch from justicar to warden on the third soul for the casters but the loss of mana-friendly passive group heals is just too negative.

[Apatheist]

So i canceled my wow accounts.. took a chance and am going to try Rift 5boxing on my laptop. I edited my files to the suggested setting for helping performance and lowest settings in game. Well see how it goes 8)

I'm in game now and so far so good. What spec do I want up to the point I can start running instances? I thing ranged is easiest right? as far as questing and rifts before 17-19ish for the first instance? ( 5 clerics of course )

If you're running 5 clerics, one of them will need to be Justicar for tanking. Buy your second role on the other 4 and spec them as suggested above, Inq/Cab/Just. With the second spec, go either Sent/Warden or Warden/Sent. Either works fine for healing 5's. Sentinel is comparable to WoW's paladin, Warden is a comparable to a resto druid. For fights where you need an extra healer, one of each works nicely. It's important to purchase your second spec ASAP for running instances, since none of the instances from 1-49 have any "enrage" timers, if your gear isn't great or if you're struggling a bit, just 2-3 heal through it.

Also, don't get discouraged running the first instance (level 15). Your gear is generally poor and you don't have access to a lot of the abilities that makes the cleric group awesome until 20-30. By the time you get to Iron Tombs, you'll be cruising through them. Level makes a huge difference in this game. Your tank will get trucked a bit whenever a new instance becomes available in the random queue, because the mobs are always 1-2 levels above you. By the time you're equal or higher level, things go much more smoothly.

[Apatheist]

I will say, though, that even with a full justicar tank, the passive healing from the AoE build x4 just isn't enough to keep the tank alive on the larger/nastier pulls.

Reparation isn't supposed to be your primary heal. Think of it like a running HoT, it's just there to take a bit of pressure off your healer.

For instances and harder stuff, I switch one of my clerics to this spec - http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=10...Ezbcz.xE0xVxRq

The only spell in the healing rotation that isn't instant is Deluge, so it's a nice for movement fights. Also gives you a 40% "pain sup" to use on the tank, 5% constant damage reduction buff on all your AoE heals and a 5% crit debuff, which is very nice stacked with the static crit buffs Inquisitors already get. My Inq's are up to like 20% crit with buffs in mostly ~40-48 quest/instance blues.

[Lyonheart]

so staves on the followrs and one hand mace and shield for tank im guessing? Also, for rifts and questing.. still keep the lead toon tank spec?