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Pros and Cons going to cleric or bard?

Or Give me your opinions

^^* Thank you so much

this had been asked lotsa times, you can do a search and you'll find em. but to sum it up:

wiz/cler - if you plan to do a lot of pvp, and solo sometimes. requires a heck of a lot of SP.

wiz/bard - can easily get into parties as wiz or bard. they say speed and noise is awesome. sp friendlier than wiz/cler.

i surely forgot something, so yea, just do a search...=P

I use the wizzard/cleric combination. What ennoys me most with a wizzard is the fact that they are easily killed when you grind and spells like recovery division and bless allow me to kill giants of my level and grind on mobs around my level or a bit higher without having to run away everytime a giant pops up. It's easy to get in parties with that build. The con is the huge amount of SP that the build needs, I really do a lot of farming to keep the skills a bit up but I'm often cleric in a party and I need the buffs. You can take less cleric skills and focus on your wizzard build, so just bless, recovery division and leave all the cleric buff skills aside.

Wiz/bard>pve
Wiz/cler>pvp
Is it that hard to understand? Jesus it has been asked 32623643263465346 times before.
Do a search dude.

Sorry...I am pretty knew to this forum as you can see by my posts


But why do you say that cleric is for pvp and bard is for pve?

becuase cleric masteries help to enhance your hp, protection, and your overall liveability (if there's such a word...hehe). while bard masteries help you make yourself improve you're chance of "survivability"...actually, a wiz/bard is not that good at player-versus-environ, but can make himself less prone to aggro than a wiz/cleric.

but yea, dude if you use this. it can help you heaps lots...=P

No need to be such a dick.



Wizards lack HP and defense. They're easily killed by mobs and in PVP. Going cleric will give you the option to wear light armor (which will increase your physical defense) and will give you really helpful buffs and healing skills. In PVP, this helps you out so much because it increases your survivability. It will also make tanking giants easier. The cons for going cleric is grinding will be slower and you'll die a lot more.

If you choose bard, you'll have speed and noise at your disposal. This helps a lot while grinding, and speeds up your leveling greatly. With noise, aggro mobs will ignore you making it so much easier to grind on mobs several levels higher than you. It's not impossible to kill giants with a wiz/bard; You just have to know how to use your char to the best of its ability. In PVP, you'll lack the HP and defense that cleric gives you, so you won't survive very long. Even if you know how to use your char, fear and knock back won't always save you. In solo PVP, this build would suck, but in group PVP, you'll fair a little better.

So it really comes down to your playing style. If you like to PVP a lot, cleric would be a good choice for you. If you don't really like to PVP and you want to hunt uniques and level quickly, choose bard. Both subs will do great in parties, so you won't ever have to worry about not finding a good party.

bards avoid confrontation
clerics try to survive
i would take bard =/