I have never played EQ PVP.
 

And I'm really really curious about it.

If I were to start on Red99, I'll want to be a Cleric. My question is, how do I transform from the pacifist-loving-cozy-knitting-girly-cleric that I am, to a badass-rage-monster-uberbeast-with-complete-heal? What do PvP Clerics do?

Please halp.

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PvP Clerics get gang raped so they can't heal...you DA and DB and pray to get ignored long enough to get off a heal. Once you're able to be attacked again, you die. This is of course assuming that you're participating in group pvp. If it's solo pvp, you cast a blind/root/nuke and realize that its all magic based and will be resisted 75% of the time and then you just gate/run.

That sounds horrible. Bleh.

Would it even be worth rolling a Cleric on PvP? Are there no benefits..?

get friends & play well and youll do just fine

nice boxing technique by the cat on the right btw

good head movement and doubling up on the jab setting up the overhand

Clerics are really valuable in PvP. They function as tanks a lot of the time, and can effectively crowd control a number of players by wasting their time hitting the cleric while getting killed themselves. A well-geared cleric is pretty durable, especially when you consider DA/DB. They struggle in really big battles where ten dudes will just pile on the cleric and people die so fast you can't get a heal off, and they struggle in 1v1. Anything in-between is great for a cleric, and it's one of the best classes to have in 2v2/3v3ish PvP. They're even pretty good all-around early on in a server's lifespan, because cleric nukes are okay when people have terrible resists, and then roots and stuns as well as amazing PvP buffs. Once it becomes easy to get 100+ MR, a cleric's offensive capabilities plummet and they become purely support.

This man is a fucking moron, clerics are the most important class for group pvp and a properly prepared cleric will win almost any 1v1.

Lethdar knows EQ

Properly prepared? Concerning spells, gear, buffs, or all of the above?

I r pvp newb.

A cleric can't really kill anyone with really high MR. Pre-Kunark they can probably beat just about any class if the guy has low MR, though. Pretty easy to get decent resists on a dwarf cleric, too.