lvl 40 cleric solo melee - is it possible?

[Lhancelot]

I got a dawnfire I picked up on a great deal, just curious if it's possible to solo and melee any undead on the cleric at lvl 40? The proc is a 500+ undead nuke (banish undead iirc).

If anyone has any tips or comments on this, thanks in advance!

[RDawg816]

I'm sure if you searched you'd find your answer. I recall a post about meleeing on a cleric. I imagine if you had a nice haste item and a fungi it'd be even better. :p

[Pyrion]

Make sure mob is rooted, so you can withdraw at any time. Heal as needed. Should be possible, but good dex would help. Still, this kind of soloing will probably not be very efficient since you might need a lot of heals.

[Lhancelot]

Any ideas what zones have 35ish lvl undead mobs? My cleric is 40 and the weapon just started to proc at 40.

[Jimjam]

The 'named' froglok ghouls are about 35 in gukbottom.

Spectres are a couple of levels above 35.

Don't forget you have cheap stuns to use if you want to reduce incoming dps and load up on AC to achieve satisfactory mitigation.

[Vallanor]

Any ideas what zones have 35ish lvl undead mobs? My cleric is 40 and the weapon just started to proc at 40.

Lower Guk could sustain you to the 50s (assuming it's a viable leveling strategy). Mobs range from 30ish to 45ish. Fantastic zone!

[Lhancelot]

The 'named' froglok ghouls are about 35 in gukbottom.

Spectres are a couple of levels above 35.

Don't forget you have cheap stuns to use if you want to reduce incoming dps and load up on AC to achieve satisfactory mitigation.

yes I was thinking what I could get, if I should get ac or hp gears if I was going to try to melee on the cleric.

Guk might be interesting, or spectres... My cleric is human inny worshipper so I got snare necklace too, wonder if I could fear kite stuff?

[RDawg816]

The neck is short duration, not a big snare (speed-wise), and resisted a lot. I think of it more as a nice toy...

As for hp vs ac. I'd suggest ac. If you have more hp it just means you'll have more to heal. If you have more ac you'll need less healing. I could be wrong, but I'd imagine you could get a lot more ac gear (that has stats on it) than you could get hp gear (without sacrificing a chunk of ac)....

Now I kind of want to put my CoF and fungi on my level 17 cleric.... :p

[Doctor Jeff]

The neck is short duration, not a big snare (speed-wise), and resisted a lot. I think of it more as a nice toy...
that neck is incredibly useful for solo'ing/duoing raid content

[Lhancelot]

that neck is incredibly useful for solo'ing/duoing raid content

I spent a lot of time on that cleric before taking a break on him. I also got the Fright Forged Helm quest completed on him which is really a useful insta-clicky, giving the cleric deadeye/see invis. I was hoping the neck one day would be useful for something, I have used it in groups to snare runners but nothing more than that so far.

[Torin_Stormchaser]

I'm hoping that I can find a decent place to solo as a cleric at 40. Root and Nuke, and heal as I can at the moment. Where did you level from 35-40? And what did you end up doing for 40 and (hopefully) up?

[brecon]

Unfortunately it's really not viable. I went the same route - had a cleric I built with the idea of soloing with a Dawnfire. Human Inny, put in Dex at creation, got dex gear, dawnfire, snare neck and fear mask.

The problem is you don't have a slow. So tanking the mobs requires a lot of healing - and from a DPM perspective its not efficient. One Sup Heal is a similar mana cost to two Expel undeads...which should do around 550 damage, a similar amount as your Dawnfire proc. And you will take more damage than a single Sup Heal every minute.

Fear kiting doesn't work well because the snare duration is just kinda low, and it's not a high percent snare.

Dawnfire is fun - you can reasonably be a DPS slot through Lguk and even in KC if you happen to be in a two healer group. You can probably duo pretty well with a monk by throwing hots on him and meleeing in between, or with a shaman with him slow tanking.

[aaezil]

with no double attack no high dex no high ac no regen you will be almost dead before it procs. GL tho

[Lhancelot]

I'm hoping that I can find a decent place to solo as a cleric at 40. Root and Nuke, and heal as I can at the moment. Where did you level from 35-40? And what did you end up doing for 40 and (hopefully) up?

I did MM from 35 to 40 on my cleric. At 40 I did try spectres in Oasis with a Dawnfire, and I was able to solo melee them, but I was wearing average gears and it was rough.

To really pull it off, you'd need a fungi tunic IMO with some decent haste and hp/dex gears. The proc hits hard, and seemed to proc 2 times a fight and that was with a subpar setup.

When I get more plats I might try this again with better gears on my cleric but atm I am leveling a warrior so the cleric is shelved.