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Apple you're gonna get a kick outta this one...

http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/show...53&postcount=7
http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/showthread.php?t=103

06-05-2000, 04:55 PM

A few things...

First off is flash of light will usually work on pets and make them go wild and just run around, though sometimes a pet will keep coming anyway, or get lucky and collide with you.

Being a cleric PvP is difficult in that it is very hard to kill anyone, though at the same time we are a very surviveable class for reason other posters have stated. At very low levels we meelee alright and get some good spells, so this is probably when we are at our peak offensively, by ourselves.

However by 50, our 500 point DD (retribution) is next to useless, it is so easy to resist. Most people you will be trying to kill with it, if theyre not completely inept, will be wearing a lot of throw away resistance gear. It only takes maybe 40 or 50 points of magic resistance and our spells will be doing next to no damage (maybe 100 dmg with luck, wont even dent a wizzie at that level). With a magic resistance of around 100, we can measure our dmg in the low 20's, if even that With smite at 14 and Wrath at 29 this is not such a big problem as a lot of the PKS arent as often equipped with gear like this, and our spells will land for better damage.

One of the biggest, most crucial things I've learned is that our level 5 or 9 dd (i forget which, tho i think lvl 5) is called Furor...and it cost under 20 mana with a cast time of something like 1.5. This spell is amazing- it interrupts an opponents casting 9 out of 10 times as long as their backs are not to a wall. Unlike our stuns which I used to use to interrupt casters, this spell is almost never resisted and costs virtually no mana.

Another two tricks concern enchanters, who can mesmerize us and tashan(i) us, both of which can really hurt our abilitys to fight. Any version of tashani will be canceled by our lvl 1 poison spell. Furthermore, having a dot on you will keep you from being mezzed ( a dotted thing cannot be mesmerized). So a necro or SK with disease cloud can make you immune to mez style spells

Finally, our buffs and pumices. At higher levels most pkers will lead with using a pumice stone (5 charges of dispell magic). This will strip us of all our wonderful buffs, which takes a lot of our ability to take damage away. I reccomend you do the same, carry pumices around hotkeyed and you can use them on pkers to nullify any buffs they have, or cancel snares/roots on yourself.

Hope this helps, and be a DE man no point in being human :P

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Noelm Sanguineous, 49, <The Elven Brotherhood>, Rallos Zek
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Rallos Zek

^ Thanks for helping me prove my point Neolm, such a relevant post.