Intellect for Clerics (Death)

dr3amz · 06-12-2007, 01:37 PM

Anyone tried this route, curious if it has much impact on overall spell damage + additional spell dmg effects off melee attacks such as Rout. I've basically been playing with the "shadow priest / warlock" idea of Death cleric, and until I can get the Gorgalok set, I'm having some fun with cloth (or will be

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Already noticed without pimping my int etc, that my doom spell (im lvl 44) is averaging 1300 every cast with 2k crits, these crits arent as big as my melee crits were (4k in death stance >

but the average dmg of 1300 is a lot higher, so I'm thinking to pimp myself in WIS/INT gear and nuke things =]

Just for fun ofc

Gecon · 06-13-2007, 07:54 AM

I hope you have a lot of +energy regen stuff as well.

Clerics cant regen at the rates of a Sorcerer or Necromancer, without melee.

Celidya · 06-13-2007, 12:28 PM

Lvl 50 death cleric here. I kept the "mage" way until about lvl 45, with medium armor (even cloth at lower levels) and a lot of int/wis. Dark elf so i have quite good int and wis. Maxed spell damage focus too (or close to) with a focus in left hand.

It works pretty well, but as stated above, it really lacks any way to regen energy without going to melee. So on most mobs (2 dots) i usually start with the dot/snare, then i cast 3 times doom and finish in melee.

I think it's a very good way to go for grinding little things, as well as kiting big ones. Although now i tend to go for a more "common" set up with heavy armor and wis/vit... I think i can keep a fair damage with the base int even with no SDF or int gear. It's just not doable to be healer in a group with caster gear since i have to go melee for the energy regen, and anway, i can't waste my energy on nukes.

When i'll have enough money for that i will probably have to set of gear, one set "defense", with max wis/vit/heal focus/mitigation and a shield, and one set "caster" with probably a mix of cloth and medium (or the wonderful gorgalok armor if it's still int/wis/spiritual focus), a spiritual focus and int / wis jewelry.

Good thing is the SDF, with one heroic spiritual focus in left hand you almost need nothing else, it can be completed with an heroic robe or a few jewelry items... That allow for medium parts and it's perfectly doable to melee with medium and no shield againt anything below 4 dots.

You can try a bit of jousting too when kiting, keep the mob snare, then every 20sec run through it and hit once with energy strike, with ward shield you won't get hit and it allows for a bit of energy regen. But still not enough to be viable as a nuker only, which is fine i think. I see the death cleric as a battlemage. Only problem is the lack of any gear for us so we suffer a natural disadvantage against other affinities, even more since we use heavily our energy while they use end.

As far as i can tell the int doesn't really help with the rout proc... maybe 50 to 100 more damage at best, nothing interesting.

dr3amz · 06-13-2007, 07:15 PM

thats why this set is a must have for death affinity i think, high int (higher spell dmg) LOTS of spirit focus (this buffs so many things including WRAITH TOUCH now - since that kinda got nerfed/fixed).

http://www.silkyvenom.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21297

Gecon · 06-14-2007, 04:29 AM

1. Wraith Touch no longer works on spiritual damage. In fact nobody knows on what damage type it works now, as it doesnt even improve in Castigator's Fury anymore. Also, its strength has been halved, so I dont see the point of using it at all.

2. That set is simply crap for a Death Cleric, and Clerics of other Affinities, or Tanks, have even less use for it. You can use one piece or another, but wearing the full set would be really stupid.

Solymnar · 06-14-2007, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Gecon

1. Wraith Touch no longer works on spiritual damage. In fact nobody knows on what damage type it works now, as it doesnt even improve in Castigator's Fury anymore. Also, its strength has been halved, so I dont see the point of using it at all.

2. That set is simply crap for a Death Cleric, and Clerics of other Affinities, or Tanks, have even less use for it. You can use one piece or another, but wearing the full set would be really stupid.

Hey Gecon...try to show at least a little respect of other people's opinions eh? Perhaps everyone should say that your ideas and things that work for you are simply crap and really stupid because we disagree?

Not so constructive...

dr3amz · 06-14-2007, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solymnar

Hey Gecon...try to show at least a little respect of other people's opinions eh? Perhaps everyone should say that your ideas and things that work for you are simply crap and really stupid because we disagree?

Not so constructive...

He's also completely mistaken.

Whilst deathbringers mien does NOT buff wraith touch - SPIRITUAL DAMAGE FOCUS ITEMS *DO* I started another thread on this because it's completely screwed working like this and makes deathbringers mien almost useless.

This makes armor sets like Gorgolak perfect for death clerics because they are LOADED with spiritual dmg focus.

Rout finisher will also benefit from this in a heavy way!