Devs: Clerics need some love too

[danlan]

Dear Devs,

Sorcerer and wizards just got their new candy.

Favoured soul's previously revamped angel of vengeance enhancement boosted its DPS SIGNIFICANTLY.

By contrast, our clerics' DPS is severely under-performing. I have not done comprehensive math on this, but in my experience currently clerics may only be able to deal about 1/4 DPS of favoured soul.

I know it may be too late to ask that, but could you please consider copying the angel of vengeance enhancement to clerics? Hopefully it does not involve too much work?

Thank you for your kind consideration.

[knightgf]

One of the greatest strengths I see in clerics is their ability to cast a variety of spells, especially those in domains. I would love to see an expansion on cleric domains. In particular, it would be awesome if they added domain feats at cleric level 17 and allowed us to choose more spells to prepare from. If a domain grants access to a SLA at a given level, we should be able to choose between 3 types at that level: offensive, defensive or general. Good luck trying to find all 3 for the healing domain...

Speaking of which, that domain needs buffed. While I am ok with cure moderate wounds (could be better, could be worse), Panacea is embarrassing. While I could suggest a replacement spell, I think a better idea is to allow the domain to grant one action point per level towards the radiant servant tree only as well as free core abilities in that tree, provided you meet both the action point total and the cleric level required. Doing so would make it one of several good domains to choose from without being too powerful.

[Enoach]

Really you are seeing the DPS at only 1/4 DPS of the FvS? Wow, I'm not seeing that. When in the Death Domain my negative energy spells made my Wizard jealous. Air domain I had more electrical spells I could cast for cheap that I couldn't complete a cycle before half of them were off timer.

In Earth Domain my CC 'Rocked' pun intended

For melee sure they are no raging barbarian, but the domains focused there made huge strides as well as the changes to war priest (which I know some people think not enough was done) and the Falconer tree.

So I'm not seeing your 1/4 of FvS number.
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On Panacea - That is not a joke spell. For one it is cheaper then the heal spell, two it takes the place of having spells to cure the following conditions so its power is in consolidation of one spell slot instead of having multiple spells. The healing of HP is just a bonus.

Panacea eliminates the following conditions or penalties:
Blinded
Confused
Dazed
Dazzled
Deafened
Diseased
Exhausted
Fatigued
Feebleminded
Insanity
Nauseated
Poisoned
Stunned

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What is needed is more spells to be selected from, but that is what all casters need so it is not a cleric only issue.

[GramercyRiff]

Spells are definitely why Clerics (and any caster) should be awesome.

So yeah more spells that do lots of different things please.