The Battle Cleric Blues...

[malthusian01]

Long as you get off your dvs before you go squish, I could care less about your happiness.

Mmmmmm dvs...

[sirgog]

I'm sitting at 17Cl/2Ftr.
Feats: Extend, Maximize, Quicken, TWF, OTWF, ITWF, GTWF, Toughness and Imp Crit: Slashing.
Stats: 29 (+6 item, +2 tome) str, 17 (+1 tome) dex, 18 con, 8 int, 24 wis (+6 item), 14 cha (+6 item).

As mentioned, I have the Minos helm and fighter toughness I & racial toughness II.

It was sins normal that made me sad-faced, other than that I haven't had much issues - I was just worried this was a sign of things to come: less hp, less dps and basically being a manasponge.

Looks fine. You'll notice a huge difference in survivability when you get the following worked into your equipment:

+6 Con (I'm guessing you may already have this)
+45 HP Shroud item
+2 Con tome
Greater False Life
Mineral 2 weapons (lets you ditch Improved Crit, this makes Empower Healing an option - this is very useful at cap as most melees have enough HP that Heal/Mass Heal don't fill them up)
Potion of Rage - you'll want Rage active most of the time, the extra 20 hp will save you often.
Any source of Blur/Displacement (clickies, or a pet caster, as you see fit)

Stealer of Souls will get you DT armor, which is quite a grind but can save you a lot of slots. Amrath quests should be duo'ed or trio'ed where possible to keep Dungeon Scaling under control - there's a lot of gear there that will consolidate slots for you.

[acidtiger]

Looks fine. You'll notice a huge difference in survivability when you get the following worked into your equipment:

+6 Con (I'm guessing you may already have this)
+45 HP Shroud item
+2 Con tome
Greater False Life
Mineral 2 weapons (lets you ditch Improved Crit, this makes Empower Healing an option - this is very useful at cap as most melees have enough HP that Heal/Mass Heal don't fill them up)
Potion of Rage - you'll want Rage active most of the time, the extra 20 hp will save you often.
Any source of Blur/Displacement (clickies, or a pet caster, as you see fit)

Stealer of Souls will get you DT armor, which is quite a grind but can save you a lot of slots. Amrath quests should be duo'ed or trio'ed where possible to keep Dungeon Scaling under control - there's a lot of gear there that will consolidate slots for you.

Most of those are within reach, I like a plan I've been working on SoS flagging this week so I should have the armor soon. As for blur, see the above failed troll post, thats my pet caster.

[acidtiger]

Here's my item setup on Numot~Khyber, my Clr18/Ftr2. 531 HP unbuffed with my axe equipped, 511 otherwise. This is my melee setup first - the changes made for healbot-mode follow.


Weapon: Supreme Tyrant Greensteel Greataxe of Mineral (Shroud crafted, Holy, Acid Burst, Exceptional Con +2)
Alternate weapon: Great Commander Greensteel Maul of Radiance (Holy, Flaming Burst, no tier 3) - for when blunt weapons are needed, such as epic Wiz-King

Helm: Minos Legens (want to replace this once I can get the +20 HP on an epic item, that will be a while, however)
Necklace: The warchanter set necklace (Superior Potency 6, Wizardry 6, potential for a set bonus that I don't expect to ever get). Worn solely for Superior Potency 6, which allows my empowered Heals to hit for over 400.
Trinket: Usually Kardin's Eye (PoP drop, +5 resistance to all saves)
Bracers: Supreme Tyrant Greensteel Bracers of Existential Stalemate (Shroud crafted, +10/15/20 HP, +6 Wisdom, Concordant Opposition, Cleansed although I'm not currently wearing another GS item except where I need undispellable fear immunity)
Armor: Dragontouched fullplate, Greater False Life, Con +6, Air Guard. Would prefer Radiance Guard, but Air Guard is fine and I'm not willing to grind for the upgrade to Radiance.
Cloak: Currently switch between Stormreaver's Napkin (for bladebarrier-intensive situations like soloing Sins of Attrition), Cloak of Ice (situations with lots of fire damage), and Cloak of the Zephyr (DQ raid loot, permanent blur). Not happy with this slot, and intend to replace it with a Supreme Tyrant Greensteel Cloak of either Radiance or Smoke (something/+50SP/+100SP with either Radiance Guard or permanent Blur, just need more Large Stones to make it)
Boots: Switch between Featherfall, Striding, and two really situational other things I cannot remember. Should really send this toon my Boots of the Innocent as that would let me also use a Bloodstone.
Ring 1: Tower of Despair ring (not the optimal one) - +6 Cha, +1 exceptional Str, will be +2 exceptional Str when I have the trophies.
Ring 2: Alternates between +15 Jump, Ring of Thelis and various clickies. This slot needs to change, as since I dropped Empower Spell, the Ring of Thelis is junk.
Gloves: Epic Spectral gloves, soon to have +6 Str crafted onto them. If you aren't lucky enough to have these, the standard Spectrals are worth using just for the +2 to-hit when in no-Bard groups.
Belt: Several items are used here, all from the Amrath sets. I have one of the Wizard belts with Archmagi on it (I like to wear this while shrining), it also has Superior Efficacy 8 for 3 more minutes of boosted healing per shrine. There's the Jump clicky belt, Amara's Belt (Wizardry 7, Superior Ardor 8) or the belt with Seeker 2. Did I mention Planar Gird?

Tomes: Str +2, Dex +1 (used only to get an extra +1 reflex save), Con +3, Int nil, Wis +1 (+2 won't take me to an even number), Cha +2 (solely for the extra DV)

Note no permanent +6 Str item - I only get +6 Str from Divine Power. This is annoying, hence the plan to craft it onto the Spectral Gloves once I have an extra few epic dungeon tokens.


As for when I need to stand back and do nothing but heal, such as against Horoth:

Gloves - Gauntlets of Eternity
Belt - Amara's Belt - 9 minutes of this clicky is incredible, plus there's an extra 3 one-minute clickies on the wizard belt as a backup.
Weapon - Heal scroll
Shield - Madstone Shield

Spells of choice: Heal scroll for topping off, Quickened Empowered Mass Heal for most situations (that's Empower Healing, not Empower Spell, swapped them a little while ago), Empowered Mass Cure Critical/Serious/Moderate Wounds for Shroud, mostly Quickened Empowered Heal on myself when soloing, Maximized Empowered Cure Critical Wounds for emergency single-target healing when Heal is on cooldown.

You forgot goggles. Im still wearing the darn +1 to hit ones from korthos. I'll assume you're wearing crafted ones? On a side note, I managed to get greater false life, con +6 and greater elemental energy on my SoS armor, should tide me over till I can craft a shroud item with extra hp on them.

[Anthios888]

Tharne's goggles. The +5 to-hit while flanking/not having aggro (not to mention the +8 damage) is awesome on an axe build. Another good alternative is Mentau's Goggles, for +4 seeker and necromancy focus. You can then get sneak attack bonus on your cloak (Wretched twilight) or bracers (Bracers of the Hunter), or even in a lesser version on your gloves (Backstabber's gloves).

[acidtiger]

Tharne's goggles. The +5 to-hit while flanking/not having aggro (not to mention the +8 damage) is awesome on an axe build. Another good alternative is Mentau's Goggles, for +4 seeker and necromancy focus. You can then get sneak attack bonus on your cloak (Wretched twilight) or bracers (Bracers of the Hunter), or even in a lesser version on your gloves (Backstabber's gloves).

Tharne's...easier said then done, I've only seen them drop once and if I see them again, I'd be rolling against my bf for them. Heh. The Mentau's are on the AH a lot, but I have the bloodstone and necro/conj bracers. So while it would double up, I'd lose +4 seeker and I notice the difference when I forget to re-equip the bloodstone after shrine/buffing with the PoPX.