Clerics are slow

[FluffyCalico]

Do clerics come with -10% speed socks built in under the boots?

Even with 30% striding or haste they still seem slower than anything else.

Or is it a side effect that white icons can't jump?

[issiana]

Do clerics come with -10% speed socks built in under the boots?

Even with 30% striding or haste they still seem slower than anything else.

Or is it a side effect that white icons can't jump?

no its to do with all those ui's that are on screen, it weighs the game down and makes you slow.


case in point........http://www.ddo1liners.co.uk/archives/059.jpg

[captain1z]

indeed. Strip down naked side by side a cleric and a rogue the rogue would likely win ......definately if the rogue is a halfling.

[Fenrisulven6]

We're slower because we're multi-tasking. Ya know, actually thinking while we run.

Someone in the party has to...

[Fluffy_the_Goth]

Clerics are slower because they don't want the cleric zerging more than the wf barbarian

[Arianrhod]

It's a holdover from first edition...

Remember the dex chart:

Here or lower you can only be a cleric

[Pfamily]

It takes time to rummage through a pack to find the wand, scroll, potion, or whatever that the zerging barb needs to cure the crud he acquired while playing in the bottom of that murky pool. Or to use the mana necessary to reattach his nearly-severed limb. Run ahead if you must...you know where the cleric will be if you need him/her. Just remember to leave them something nice in the chest...

[elraido]

Clerics might be slow, but nothing is slower than a paladin...

[Murgatroyd]

I don't know what you're talking about. My cleric is ahead of the party most of the time and I have to turn around and heal all the stragglers

[tihocan]

Seems to me many are slow because they didn't invest in Str and run at medium encumbrance... and don't bother carrying striders or haste clickies/pots.

[Noctus]

Seems to me many are slow because they didn't invest in Str and run at medium encumbrance...

Bing!

We have a winner!


Fluffy, you have an encumbered Cleric.

[BlackSteel]

You know. Speediness would make an awesome cleric capstone, much better than the one already set.

Divine Urgency:

Gain a permenant +10% bonus to run/walk and casting speed.

[bobbryan2]

My experience is this:

Clerics seem so slow because they're always hanging back so far from the rest of the party. The majority of clerics hang back, healing, and managing the battle, and when the running starts after the fight, clerics are further back than the rest.

Conversely... most people have trouble keeping up with my evasive cleric, because he's always running, jumping through traps, and laying down blade barriers while trying to group up all the enemies.

But no... most clerics are left behind for reasons other than character running speed. Usually, they're more concerned with healing the other party members than getting the next objective accomplished, let alone reaching the next objective.

[Arianrhod]

My clerics are slow because they're the characters I bring when I want to try a quest I've never done before. They spend most of their time lost and trying to catch up/find the rest of the group. Any other class, a PUG wants someone experienced, who knows the quest. Clerics, they'll take anyone high enough level & hope for the best

[FluffyCalico]

Bing!

We have a winner!


Fluffy, you have an encumbered Cleric.

Nope you loose not it.

[Thriand]

Nope you loose not it.

Well then you lose cause my cleric runs just as fast as any race/class combination without monk/barb/rogue(acrobat) or using sprint boosts.

[baronij123]

slow lol,

[HeavenlyCloud]

Even that i know this is impossible i agree, we run slower!

[Cavatina]

It takes time to rummage through a pack to find the wand, scroll, potion, or whatever that the zerging barb needs to cure the crud he acquired while playing in the bottom of that murky pool. Or to use the mana necessary to reattach his nearly-severed limb. Run ahead if you must...you know where the cleric will be if you need him/her. Just remember to leave them something nice in the chest...

Pft. Speaking as a newly minted Combat Caster Cleric , if the barb wants to charge way ahead where I cant soundburst the mobs and expects me to spam heals to save his life, he's sorely mistaken.

[Comfortably]

My cleric out runs a monk/barbarian sprint boosting.