Another 5xCleric spec

[Smedbox]

This spec seem completely OP in lower-level Warfronts. I have pretty much not died yet and I feel bad if there's not a competent premade team on the opposite side.

Inspired from meeting Krazy in the low-level warfronts a few times, with a sub-optimal team. Druid seem to boost all those Cabalist insta-abilities very well, and you get some timed 25% dmg reduction, and +25 dodge and +3% heal for those initial fights where everyone is lining up. Some Sleep abilities too, that can be put on Round-Robin.

So far so good:

40 Cabalist, 24 Druid, 12 Defiler: http://rift.magelo.com/en/soultree#U...F2hg/Ev54a8290

The 40 pt Cab is to get the AoE Silence, which is very nice. Set up Tyranny, pull everyone, Bound Fate to spread, then Disintegrate to kill the whole team. Possibly use a AoE Silence and/or AoE Debuff, if you have time.

12 Defiler gets burst heal (spammable) and a Cleanse, while adding passive DPS buffs.

At level 28 you get Disintegration. Tyranny + Bound Fate + Disintegration kills a whole team. Especially if you specced and use Maelstrom to pull everyone close together. The Maelstrom should come after you've prepped someone central with Tyranny.

At level 36 you get Obliteration. Enable and just spam Bound Fate to insta-kill anyone. Do Tyranny+Disintigration to kill a tank in "one" hit.

Those druid pets do seem to keep up with healing quite a bit, but I want some extra burst-healing from the Defiler tree, with spammable insta-cast heals. Note that while getting Defiler Heals, it will boost your DPS even further. The Fairies are on Passive and Follow so they never attack anything. Only their healing spells are active. Stand still to let them do the big heals.

[luxlunae]

Thanks! I think I'll try this, my basic inq/warden spec hasn't gone as well in warfronts as I'd hoped.

[Mystic]

I've been using this spec at 36 for my 5x clerics which has worked quite well in PVP (as well as questing, IAs, and dungeons, switching to a tank spec on one for tanking bosses as necessary).

http://www.rifthead.com/stc/zmEqoMvVVvl0VAGzo0cMz

I chose it because it plays very much like my 5x shaman team I used to play in WoW, because the heals work a lot like chain heal, and bound fate/disintegration works a lot like chain lightning. The real killer though is obliterate which takes that damage and essentially stacks it on a single target for an instakill. So, you are a monster against multiple people close together (helped by maelstrom + sigil of binding), as well as an instakiller against individuals about every 3 seconds.

It follows the same strategy as the above spec because 5x Cabalist is just crazy in PVP . The drawback is the heal is not bursty or spammable, but the advantage is that you only have to spend 2 pts in Warden to get solid general purpose do-everything "chain" heals.

I get the most entertaining yells in BG chat from the opposing team. :-) It works really well against pre-made teams too, and I get the BEST yells from them and praise from my PUG teammates. LOL.

I'll have to look into your spec above though for those spammable heals and cleanse. I'll have to see what you can get at 36. It definitely looks good fully spec'd at lv 60 though. I think it might have the most benefit to keep mine at 36 and when I get those next 8 pts to spend I'll switch over to defiler from warden for those instaheals, stacked 5x should make you very hard to kill even focused.

Here's what I'm thinking at 42:

http://www.rifthead.com/stc/zmsqoVxvVVvl0VAGzo0cMz

[Mystic]

Hey Smed, what are you doing for raid frames in your warfronts? The defaults are abysmal and I can't tell crap about my 5x team visually on the HUD to easily see who needs healing attention and whose pet needs recasting (and eventually who needs a cleansing).

[Smedbox]

Do you mean for the pets? I think the default is good enough for the characters themselves. I've always just used the built-in raid UI. I don't do warfronts very often and usually not with pets so I haven't bothered before.

But yesterday I started using Gadgets for the raid frames and MyUI for the pet frames. We'll see how that goes.

Another thing to think about for pets... Having pets close to you may be inviting enemy AoE DPS... So it may be better to not use a pet build in PvP.