Anybody tried an all-cleric team?

[JamieW]

I can see an argument for removing life and death concord if you don't want to manage the procs, I'd put those points into determination and more passive buffs from Cabalist (particularly, the +3 radius on AoE's).

I hadn't bothered with this particular passive buff (the additional radius on AE damage spells). With the primary AE damage from this spec being chain damage (Obliterate/Decays, Soul Drain and Bound Fate) vs. traditional AE damage (Circle of Oblivion is only one I can think of), I didn't think that it would be that great of a buff.

Anybody know for sure if the +radius passive buff helps out on the chained AE abilities?

[Apatheist]

I hadn't bothered with this particular passive buff (the additional radius on AE damage spells). With the primary AE damage from this spec being chain damage (Obliterate/Decays, Soul Drain and Bound Fate) vs. traditional AE damage (Circle of Oblivion is only one I can think of), I didn't think that it would be that great of a buff.

Anybody know for sure if the +radius passive buff helps out on the chained AE abilities?

It effects bound fate, circle of oblivion, soul drain, etc. Anything that says it hits more than one target in the tooltip.

3 yards doesn't sound like much, but when you consider the majority of AoE effects are 7 yards, it's almost 50% more range on all your AoE's.

It's even better with bound fate, since BF is a "chain"-like effect from target to target. You could potentially hit players up to 40 yards away as long as there's enough people staggered between to chain the effect. Pretty win. It also helps a lot by preventing targets running out of soul drain range before it goes off, which it's pretty easy to do.

[jca]

I've been playing with working in a bit more cab but am hitting a bit of a bump in the road. Cab just doesn't have any synergy with Justicar. I could give up my Sent sub-specs but not my Justicar's. DoL is just too good.

Perhaps I'll try 14 cab in my Inquisicar specs (which is what I'm doing now), drop the Sent sub-specs and go something like 20-24 cab in 6 Warden sub-specs.

Something else I'm wondering about. Since it's obviously a bit hard to keep track of everyone's decays, would it be worthwhile to play with only 4/5 AfD? That should make your Tyranny's line up with your decay regen. Fill in the gaps with BF and CoS. Seems like the only time that would be a problem is if you went a full 51 for SoA. Thoughts?

[jca]

For Inquisitor-heavy specs, I think not specing LaDA is a big mistake. BoD hits HARD !!! If you're spec'd 5/5 you don't really even have to monitor procs. You're pretty much guarenteed to have them at certain points in your rotations. Then just jump, pop your BoD + other instants and it's done. There's really not a lot of micromanagement involved other than making sure you don't interupt casts when you do it.

[Apatheist]

For Inquisitor-heavy specs, I think not specing LaDA is a big mistake. BoD hits HARD !!! If you're spec'd 5/5 you don't really even have to monitor procs. You're pretty much guarenteed to have them at certain points in your rotations. Then just jump, pop your BoD + other instants and it's done. There's really not a lot of micromanagement involved other than making sure you don't interupt casts when you do it.

I have to agree. Especially in PvP. The proc buff itself lasts 60 seconds, which is amazing. You can hold onto it until you see a priority target and then just destroy them with bound fate and an instant depravity. Even with 0 crits, it's pretty much a guaranteed one-shot to remove a healer or a DPS that's giving you trouble.

[Apatheist]

I've been playing with working in a bit more cab but am hitting a bit of a bump in the road. Cab just doesn't have any synergy with Justicar. I could give up my Sent sub-specs but not my Justicar's. DoL is just too good.

Perhaps I'll try 14 cab in my Inquisicar specs (which is what I'm doing now), drop the Sent sub-specs and go something like 20-24 cab in 6 Warden sub-specs.

Something else I'm wondering about. Since it's obviously a bit hard to keep track of everyone's decays, would it be worthwhile to play with only 4/5 AfD? That should make your Tyranny's line up with your decay regen. Fill in the gaps with BF and CoS. Seems like the only time that would be a problem is if you went a full 51 for SoA. Thoughts?

I've tried leaving tyranny with a 6 second cooldown, but most of the spells strength is being able to spam it on the move to maintain pressure. It's not really about the decay damage. Even without decay, it's like 300x5 damage per GCD. The decay bonus is just icing on the cake.

I don't find I have an issue with conviction. You still have to keep sanction on cooldown and spam bolt of judgment as your primary nuke. I set up a priority keymap to use bound fate and bolt when BF is on cooldown, since BF does better damage even on a single target.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Ho Lee Shit. Apparently I've been playing clerics wrong this whole time. That 30ish cab/inq spec with 6 justicar for the group heal is insane for rifts. Not sure how well I'll survive invasions yet. Should be a lot easier questing with this build.

[Smedbox]

What rotation did you use?

[leroyreborn]

yeah i started out and lvl warrior. maga 4x to 50 then got hucket on my cleric team. well mostly cleric got one mage in the group. but there a lot of fun and have a lot of healing passive and other wise. soul drain rules =)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

What rotation did you use?

Throw all the life-based instants and Obliterate on my main single-target button.

Second button has Bound Fate, Soul Drain then tyranny spam backed up by Sanction Hereric/Bolt of Radiance in case somehow I'm out of decays.

Seems to do OK. Still not familiar enough with this to be very successful in instance runs. Seems to just blow mana like no tomorrow and justicar heals are OK but just not enough to keep the tank up in an AoE pull. I may have to setup alternate souls for instance running.