Cleric solo leveling isn't awful. I spent a lot of time on both of the clerics I leveled on blue (1-51 with one, 1-60 with another) solo. Honestly, short of a GOOD duo/trio, it's better XP than anything else you could do, even untwinked. There's way too many people out there who think that just because they're a melee and you're a cleric, you should join them and play together even though you'll get faster XP alone. It takes twinked melees or a good chanter/mage/necro or two to increase a cleric's XP from solo when you're nuking undead in ZEM zones, especially in camps like the hags in unrest where they've got low HP and you can buff your resists and etc.
50+ it's different, you can't really solo well anymore, but fortunately it's also the point where a lot of the enchanters understand how great the ench+cleric duo is and you can really go to town with it.
All that aside, Jauna is onto something. I think the need for clerics is often overstated... because yeah, they're essential for many groups and all raids... but you also don't need more than you need. 1 cleric in a group? Nobody is going to take more. Enough for a raid? Maybe you get to go still, but you're gonna be bored. Etc. Wanting to find a group and being unable to is brutal, and the reason why I started enchanters in the first place on p99... lol. You can form your own groups, but it can be difficult to put one together, especially a good one.
TLDR 1-50 cleric leveling is fine. Boring but not painful, especially if you don't mind killing 1-2 things then AFKing for 10 minutes while you med. 51+ level a cleric relies on finding good duos/trios or being incredibly patient with full groups.
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