Anybody tried an all-cleric team?

[Apatheist]

I was bored today and decided to play around with specs. I've been full Inq until now, switched it around and went 11 just, 2 inq, rest in cab. Two points in Inq just for sanction heretic, which works really well in the cabalist rotation. I have to say, this spec is much more effective for boxing, has equal or better single target DPS and vastly superior AoE and utility. Inq single target DPS is technically higher, but from a multiboxing viewpoint, that's balanced by the fact that the cabby rotation is much easier to "macro" efficiently through ISboxer. The large amount of short cooldown abilities work brilliantly utilizing the "pressed or released" function in keymaps, with Shadows Touch or Tyranny as a filler nuke.

There's also the issue of survivability, but really, as a multiboxer you're never going to be able to micromanage single knockbacks, snares, ground targeted CC that some Inq specs have access to, so I think it's a moot point. Our survivability in PvP comes from stacking heals and burst damage, which the justicar/cabalist build has plenty of.

[jca]

I was bored today and decided to play around with specs. I've been full Inq until now, switched it around and went 11 just, 2 inq, rest in cab. Two points in Inq just for sanction heretic, which works really well in the cabalist rotation. I have to say, this spec is much more effective for boxing, has equal or better single target DPS and vastly superior AoE and utility. Inq single target DPS is technically higher, but from a multiboxing viewpoint, that's balanced by the fact that the cabby rotation is much easier to "macro" efficiently through ISboxer. The large amount of short cooldown abilities work brilliantly utilizing the "pressed or released" function in keymaps, with Shadows Touch or Tyranny as a filler nuke.

There's also the issue of survivability, but really, as a multiboxer you're never going to be able to micromanage single knockbacks, snares, ground targeted CC that some Inq specs have access to, so I think it's a moot point. Our survivability in PvP comes from stacking heals and burst damage, which the justicar/cabalist build has plenty of.

Gotta disagree with you, but in a nice way

I have 5-man and 10-man cleric teams. Nobody main heals, but all have 12 points in either Justicar, Warden or Senticar. I then go 12-14 into Cab on everyone and the rest in Inq. 12 gets you all the basic tools in cab. For a single toon, 12 points in cab would be a waste, but time x toons, the AoE potential is huge. Even with x toons though, your single target burst is awful with cab.

Don't short-change stacked CoB's and Soul Drains. Add those 12 in cab to that and an Inquistor heavy spec still has huge AoE and much much better single target burst, much better survivablity and cc. Round robin Excommunicate into your dps spam and melee will never touch you. Those knockbacks also interupt casting. Multiple Inq. gives you an always available AoE fear and more importantly, fear protection from Perseverance. Also, Tyranny + Bound fate pretty much drops any group. A couple LaDA proc'd BoD's will pretty much drop anyone single target.

[crowdx]

So what are people using for healing if they are using a cleric for main heals? I have been struggling with heals on my pally main tank using a cleric warden/sentinel/purifier build with warden as the main soul.
Any advice?

[Krago]

So what are people using for healing if they are using a cleric for main heals? I have been struggling with heals on my pally main tank using a cleric warden/sentinel/purifier build with warden as the main soul.
Any advice?

I have been using a Cleric Purifier/Sentinel/Warden 51/3/12 ( I believe, would need to double check on the last two souls ).

I have been using Alge's mouseoverui click heals and I also have a dedicated key with a healing rotation for buffs and heals for my tank ( was pally/reaver/warlord, now he is void knight 51 points ).

I also have a chloro in my group but was wanting to move him to pure DPS no healing but I have an issue with ISB.

It has somehow remembered a key binding I setup and now cannot get rid of, so my healing is all screwed up.

May have to crawl through the XML files tonight.

I want to validate that I can just use my cleric to heal regular level 50 dungeons.

[crowdx]

I have been using a Cleric Purifier/Sentinel/Warden 51/3/12 ( I believe, would need to double check on the last two souls ).

I have been using Alge's mouseoverui click heals and I also have a dedicated key with a healing rotation for buffs and heals for my tank ( was pally/reaver/warlord, now he is void knight 51 points ).

I also have a chloro in my group but was wanting to move him to pure DPS no healing but I have an issue with ISB.

It has somehow remembered a key binding I setup and now cannot get rid of, so my healing is all screwed up.

May have to crawl through the XML files tonight.

I want to validate that I can just use my cleric to heal regular level 50 dungeons.

This seems a similar setup to what I am doing, I am also using Alge's mouseover method in ISBoxer to select the toon I want to heal. It seems at level 26 my tank seems take too much damage and so the warden has problems keeping up on the heals.
Are you using the dedicated heal for the tank as a spam key?

[Smedbox]

Hey guys, I'm going to 5-box a full Cleric team on October 15 (from level 1) for 24 hours straight during Rift's Extra Life event. I'm hoping to clear the first dungeon within that time, and I'm going to live-blog the whole thing. Check out the web site at http://boxofchocolate.smedis.com/.

My thinking was a pure tank (Justicar/Shaman), a pure healer (Sentinel/Warden), and 3X dps (Cabalist/inquisitor). Do you have any links to good specs at http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html? Any suggestions on different specs than what I've planned? I want everyone ranged except for the tank.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

At those levels, I did my team as 2 druid, rest justicar and just melee'd everything down. The pets will keep you healed for most stuff (except the harder invasion bosses that AoE all over the place) and your AoE heal will fill in for the bosses in Iron Tomb (or whatever the guardian noobie instance is called).

[Smedbox]

I want everyone ranged except perhaps for the main for FTL. After the event, I'm planning on keeping the team and continuing them to 50, but a leisurely pace, so I'd appreciate level 30, 40 and 50 spec links as well.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Just curious: what does spec have to do with FTL? Maybe a more poignant question: FTL = Focusless-Targetless-Leaderless?

[Smedbox]

I prefer ranged because positioning is not a factor. In many cases, facing direction is not a factor either (you don't have to face any particular opponent to DOT or Debuff them). And there's no question that ranged is preferred in PvP. Since you don't gain anything by going melee, I see no reason to choose that approach when there are ranged alternatives available. Follow The Leader is my preferred method of targeting and movement, allowing for a much greater margin in error (computer performance and network latency). FTL does not mean that it's difficult to switch to a new leader. That can be just a keypress away and you're on the go again.