PrE speculation

[DoctorWhofan]

Since the names of them have been announced, at least, my hubby took a look in the manuels to get an idea what to expect from them.


meh.

Not interested in turning (probably will need to drop a feat to take improved turning...)

Not interested in being a battlercleric.

Not sure on the third, but I really don't have hope on it.

SO, for me, a plain ol' cleric is good enough.

[Sirea]

I have to applaud the occasional high-charisma, turning-specced cleric that I run into for being different than the rest of the healbots and "i'm a tank, really!" clerics (said tongue-in-cheek, since I fall into the former category and my BF in the latter :p).

But at the same time I have to wonder why there is such an attempt made to hang onto turning undead as a viable play option past Delera's. Unless you plan on running a lot of Necropolis (and spells like Halt Undead and, at higher levels, Sunburst are much more effective for those purposes) it's nigh useless. It seems like you need an insanely high Charisma, plus ALL the feats and enhancements and items you can get your hands on, to be able to turn anything past Korthos.

[vtecfiend99]

Well, radiant servant i think is Radiant Servant of Pelor.


That is a massively powerful class in pnp for a healer. If I am remembering correctly, all of your healing spells are considered max'd and empowered for free. as well as some other benefits. If this class is a massive increase to healing or makes empower heal cheaper as it prgresses I would take it on my cleric in a heartbeat

[Angelus_dead]

Not interested in turning (probably will need to drop a feat to take improved turning...)
Not interested in being a battlercleric.
Not sure on the third, but I really don't have hope on it.
The three cleric specialties are:

Warpriest: Melee combat, plus related group buffs like Haste and Rage.
Radiant Servant: Healer cleric, with improved Empower Healing costs, plus also some anti-undead features.
Sacred Exorcist: Caster cleric, with bonuses to Maximize, Empower, Quicken, and Fire spells similar to what sorcerers get. Also extra spell DC/damage against "unholy" mobs, and Smite Evil.

You'll probably say I'm stretching on Sacred Exorcist, and that's true. I'm actually giving it abilities from two other Eberron-specific classes which happen to be named after the Silver Flame, on the assumption that Turbine will want to change to a more-generic name so that the DDO specialty is open to other kinds of clerics.

[DoctorWhofan]

Well, radiant servant i think is Radiant Servant of Pelor.


That is a massively powerful class in pnp for a healer. If I am remembering correctly, all of your healing spells are considered max'd and empowered for free. as well as some other benefits. If this class is a massive increase to healing or makes empower heal cheaper as it prgresses I would take it on my cleric in a heartbeat

It's all about light spells all of them are more powerful. Not your healing. so neat, but since when did my cleric whip out my Searing light at level 16? Especialy when my BB and Destrcution is better.

I mean, this is all speculation, and Turbine will most likely tweak it to DDO, but what I see right now I am not impressed. THe only thing I can look for as a healing/offensive caster cleric is the capstone, which is neat.

It's like, "THanks for all the heals, you shoulda did something else, loser!" feeling I am getting.

[DoctorWhofan]

The three cleric specialties are:

Warpriest: Melee combat, plus related group buffs like Haste and Rage.
Radiant Servant: Healer cleric, with improved Empower Healing costs, plus also some anti-undead features.
Sacred Exorcist: Caster cleric, with bonuses to Maximize, Empower, Quicken, and Fire spells similar to what sorcerers get. Also extra spell DC/damage against "unholy" mobs, and Smite Evil.

You'll probably say I'm stretching on Sacred Exorcist, and that's true. I'm actually giving it abilities from two other Eberron-specific classes which happen to be named after the Silver Flame, on the assumption that Turbine will want to change to a more-generic name so that the DDO specialty is open to other kinds of clerics.

The radient servent I looked up was for LIGHT not healing. THen again, I haven't gotten any caffiene yet, so you are lucky you can read this...:p