Cleric

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Cleric

'A Guardian Angel'

Strength

11

Vigor

13

Agility

12

Dexterity

14

Will

23

Knowledge

20

Resourcefulness

12

Health

95

Memory

14

Description

Clerics in Dark and Darker are devoted followers of a deity, who use their faith and divine magic to aid their allies and smite their enemies. They can heal wounds, and cleanse curses. They can also channel their deity's power to deal radiant damage to undead and other evil creatures. They can wear heavy armor and wield powerful weapons, but their true strength lies in their ability to call upon their deity's power to turn the

Class Info

Weapon of choice: Flanged Mace or Morning Star

• Pros
  • Only class with the ability to heal others' non-Recoverable HP and to resurrect fallen allies, without the need of a Sacrificial Altar.
  • Access to powerful buffs and protection spells.
  • Strong midrange offensive spells/skills in PvP, and can hold their own up-close when buffed.
  • Beginner friendly due to having access to healing, allowing them and their team to take a couple of hits without being in danger.
  • Good room clearing ability with the Holy Purification skill.
  • Able to wield shields.
  • Access to some Plate Armor and unique defensive Perks.
  • Excels in parties seeking to fight Bosses.
  • High Magical Interaction Speed for fast shrine use and portal opening.
• Cons
  • Slow attack speed and slowest Regular Interaction Speed.
  • Slow movement speed, with no movement skills.
  • Limited choices of melee weapons and no ranged weaponry, except for some throwable items.
  • Limited number of spell casts, with limited ways of replenishing them. Campfires or a Bard teammate are necessary for long-term sustainability.
  • Slow base spell casting speed.

You can equip an additional perk every 5 levels. Currently maxed out at Level 15, so a total of 4 perks can be equipped.

Name	Description
Advanced Healer	Increases your Magical Healing stat by 5.
Blunt Weapon Mastery	Increases Physical Power Bonus by +10% when attacking with a mace-type weapon.
Brewmaster	You do not exhibit the detrimental drunk effects when you drink Ale and + 10 Strength.
Faithfulness	---------------------------------------------
Holy Aura	Increase the flat Armor Rating andMagic Resist Rating of yourself and all party members within 4.5 meters by +15.
Holy Water	--------------------------
Kindness	Heal yourself for 15% of the spell's total heal amount when healing an ally.
Over Healing	Can Heal up to 25% of max health, decays at 10% per second
Perseverance	Reduces all types of final incoming damage by 3 per tick, including each tick of Damage over Time and True damage, to a minimum of 1 damage.
Protection from Evil	Grants -50% Debuff Duration. (This effectively makes debuffs last less time.)
Requiem	Resurrecting an ally revives them with 50% HP instead of a sliver of life. When reviving an ally at the Altar of Sacrifice, you do not need to sacrifice any of your own health.
Undead Slaying	Deal 20% increased physical damage against undead monsters. It is unknown if this is Physical Power Bonus or a final multiplier.

You can equip a total of 2 skills.

Name	Description	Scaling	Cooldown
Divine Protection	Receive the blessing of the divine and increase Physical Damage Reduction by an additional flat +50% for 4 seconds.		45s
Holy Purification	Inflicts 100 base Magical Damage to all undead Monsters within 7.5 meters.	100%	45s
Judgement	After channeling for 0.75 seconds, instantly deals 25 Magical Damage to a target and decreases their Movement Speed Bonus by -30% for 2 seconds. The spell can only be cast when the crosshair targets an enemy within 5m. Once Judgement starts casting on a target you will no longer need to continue targeting the crosshair. If the target goes out of range during casting, the casting fails and the skill enters cooldown.	100%	28s
Smite	When activated, your attacks deal an additional instance of 10 Magical Damage for 7 seconds.	100%	18s
Spell Memory	Allows you to memorize spells to use in the dungeon.		/
Spell Memory 2	Allows you to memorize spells to use in the dungeon.		/

The order in which you select spells will determine their Spell Memory Priority. You can right click spells to "forget" them, and you must drag and drop a spell to memorize it. Spell tiers determine their spell memory cost.

All Cleric spells have 7 meters range except Sanctuary(which has 3.5 meters)

Divine

Earth

Tier 1

Name	Description	Scaling	Casting Time	Limit
Protection	Creates a shield that blocks 20 Physical Damage for 20 seconds.	0%	0.75s	5 Casts
Bless	Target gains +5 to Strength, Agility, and Will attributes for 30 seconds. Casts to self if no target is found.		0.75s	5 Casts

Tier 2

Name	Description	Casting Time	Limit
Divine Strike	Grants +5 Divine Strike Damage to the target for 20 seconds. "Divine Strike Damage" acts like Weapon Damage in that it benefits from Power Bonus, but acts like Additional Physical Damage in that it applies to both weapon attacks AND skills such as Rupture.	1s	4 Casts
Cleanse	Removes all harmful magic effects from the target. Several debuffs are not removeable, including Lich curses. Confirmed debuffs that can be cleansed: Warlock's Curse of Pain and Power of Sacrifice.	1s	5 Casts

Tier 3

Name	Description	Scaling	Casting Time	Limit
Lesser Heal	Heals a target for 15 HP. Casts to self if no target is found. This heal amount is increased by the casting Cleric's Magical Healing stat and Magical Power Bonus. (15 + Magical healing) * Magic Power Bonus	100%	1.25s	3 Casts
Bind	Binds the target in place for 0.75 seconds.		1s	4 Casts

Tier 4

Name	Description	Scaling	Casting Time	Limit
Holy Strike	Creates an AoE burst of light in a specified area that hits all targets within 1.5 meters (including friendly targets) after a .5s delay, dealing 20 Magical Damage and blinding them for 2 seconds.	100%	2s	4 Casts

Tier 5

Name	Description	Scaling	Casting Time	Limit
Holy Light	Heals a player for 25 HP or does 100 base Magical Damage to undead Monsters. The heal amount is increased by the casting Cleric's Magical Healing stat and Magical Power Bonus. (25 + Magical healing) * Magic Power Bonus	100%	2.25s	3 Casts

Tier 6

Name	Description	Scaling	Casting Time	Limit
Sanctuary	Channeling creates an AoE around the Cleric that heals all players within 3.5 meters by 5 HP per second as a Heal over Time and deals 14 Magical Damage to undead Monsters per second. The heal amount is increased by the casting Cleric's Magical Healing stat and Magical Power Bonus. This spell can be channeled for up to 5 seconds, and will be cancelled if the Cleric moves.	50% per second	2.75s	2 Casts

Tier 7

Name	Description	Scaling	Casting Time	Limit
Locusts Swarm	Channel, summon a swarm of locusts in a specified area, dealing 2 Magical Damage per 1s to targets within 3 meters. This damage is split into 0.1s ticks. This spell can be channeled for up to 6 seconds, and will be cancelled if the Cleric moves.	100% per second	2.75s	2 Casts
Earthquake	Channel, Create an earthquake in a specified area, dealing 7 Magical Damage per step and reducing movement speed bonus by 50% when targets within 2.5 meters move within. This spell can be channeled for up to 6 seconds, and will be cancelled if the Cleric moves.	50% per step	2.75s	2 Cast

Tier 8

Name	Description	Casting Time	Limit
Resurrection	Target an ally to resurrect them from the dead. The corpse must have a soul heart	2.75s	1 Cast

These Stats do not include starting armor.

Stat Name	Base Stats
Strength	11
Vigor	13
Agility	12
Dexterity	14
Will	23
Knowledge	20
Resourcefulness	12
Health	95
Memory Capacity	14
Utility Effectiveness	0
Luck	0
Health Recovery Bonus	-6%
Spell Recovery Bonus	73%
Move Speed	294 ( 98% )
Action Speed	-1.5%
Manual Dexterity	-1%
Spell Casting Speed	0%
Equip Speed	-7%
Regular Interaction Speed	-9%
Magical Interaction Speed	56%
Persuasiveness	12
Buff Duration	8%
Debuff Duration	-7.4%
Armor Penetration	0%
Magic Penetration	0%
Headshot Reduction	0%
Projectile Damage Reduction	0%
Physical Damage Reduction	-22%
From Armor Rating	0 ( -22% )
From Bonuses	0%
Magic Resistance	14.3%
From Resist Rating	54 ( 14.3% )
From Bonuses	0%
Physical Power Bonus	-8%
From Physical Power	11 ( -8% )
From Bonuses	0%
Magic Power Bonus	19%
From Magic Power	23 ( 19% )
From Bonuses	0%
Primary Weapon	0
Secondary Weapon	0
Impact Power	0
Primary Weapon Impact Power	0
Secondary Weapon Impact Power	0

- Communication is important! Communicate with your team when they should back up to be healed, if they should stand still, and so on.

- Be careful when using buffs and heals since you can also target monsters, corpses and enemy players.

- Pre-buff your team before a PvP encounter.

- Be sure you have campfires when entering a dungeon to enable you to replenish your spell casts when needed.

- You can increase your spell casting efficiency during PvP fights by pre-charging and holding the cast while waiting for the right opportunity to cast a heal for example.

2024/02/22 Early Access Hotfix #33

• Cleric's Divine Protection physical damage reduction changed from 30% → 50% and reducing cooldown from 90s → 45s.

Unknown date, undocumented change

• Cleric's judgement takes .5s --> .75s to cast

2024/02/08 Early Access Hotfix #31

• Cleric's Bless spell bonus effects increased from +3 → +5.

2024/01/24 Early Access Hotfix #29

• Cleric can now use Spell Memory II

2024/01/05 Early Access Hotfix #27

• Cleric's Judgment movement speed penalty has been changed from -20% → -30%.
• Cleric's Judgment cooldown changed from 32s → 28s.
• Cleric's Smite cooldown has been changed from 16s → 18s.
• Cleric's Holy Light casting speed has been changed from 2.5s → 2.25s.
• Cleric’s Holy Strike damage has been changed from 15 → 20.

2023/11/30 Early Access Hotfix #22

- Cleric’s Earthquake spellcount increased from 1 → 2.

- Cleric’s Locus Swarm spellcount increased from 1 → 2.

2023/11/30 Early Access Hotfix #22

- Cleric's ‘Holy Light’ now heals non-friendly targets.

2023/11/03 Early Access Hotfix #19

- Cleric's secondary default weapon changed from Wizard Staff to Spellbook.

- Cleric's Lesser Healing spell count amount changed from 4 → 3, casting time slightly increased from 1s → 1.25s.

- Cleric's Holy Strike now has a 0.5 second delay before dealing damage.

- Cleric’s Holy Light spell count amount 4 → 3, casting time increased from 2s → 2.5s, and heal base decreased from 30 → 25.

- Cleric’s Earthquake spell count amount decreased from 2 → 1.

- Cleric’s Locusts Swarm spell count amount decreased from 2 → 1.

2023/09/21 Early Access Hotfix #13

- Cleric’s base Strength increased from 11 → 13.

- Cleric’s base Agility increased from 11 → 12.

- Cleric’s base Will decreased from 30 → 25.

- Cleric’s base Resourcefullness increased from 5 → 7.

2023/08/28 Early Access Wipe 1

- Many spells' Attribute Bonus Ratio returned to 100%.

- Holy Strike: 100%

- Lesser Heal: 100%

- Sanctuary: 50% (Heal)

- Locusts Swarm: 50%

- Protection: 0%

- Holy Light: 100%

- Earthquake: 50%

2023/08/24 Early Access Hotfix #7

- Attribute Bonus Ratio of Cleric's Protection has been adjusted to 0%.

- Attribute Bonus Ratio of all spells has been adjusted to 50%.

2023/08/07

- Stats Redistributed from 13 / 12 / 30 / 12 / 8 to 11 / 11 / 30 / 18 / 5

- Various spell casting times adjusted:

• Protection: 1 to 0.75
• Bless: 1 to 0.75
• Holy Light: 1.5 to 2
• Sanctuary: 2.5 to 2.75
• Resurrection: 2.5 to 2.75
• Locusts Swarm: 2.5 to 2.75
• Earthquake: 2.5 to 2.75

2023/04/17 Alpha Playtest #5 Hotfix #2

- Cleric Lesser Heal's spell tier has been adjusted from 2 to 3.

- Cleric Locust Swarm spell tier adjusted from 7 to 8 and count adjusted to 1.

- Cleric Locust Swarm damage changed to 2 per second. This will be fine tuned in the future.

- Cleric Earthquake's spell tier has been adjusted from 7 to 8.

- Cleric Resurrection's spell tier has been adjusted from 8 to 7.

22/12/2022 Alpha Playtest #3 Hotfix #5

- Fixed an issue where excessive input could occur when using the Judgment skill.

20/12/2022 Alpha Playtest #3 Hotfix #4

- Lesser Heal's spell tier from 4 to 2.

17/12/2022 Alpha Playtest #3 Hotfix #2

- Cleric's Resurrection : Tier 9 → 8

16/12/2022 Alpha Playtest #3 Changelog

New Magic System -

- All spells have a specific memory cost associated with them.

- Magic users can customize which spells they wish to memorize through the spell capacity system.

- Your ‘Knowledge’ determines which spells are at your disposal during the game. The order of the spell memorization is important because if your ‘Knowledge’ or ‘Spell Capacity’ stat dynamically changes during the game, the last memorized spells may become available/unavailable.

- Lots of new spells added to the game including – Ice bolt, Zap, Lightning Strike, Bind, Cleanse, and more.

29/10/2022 Alpha Playtest #2 Hotfix #1

- Judgement Skill Balance (Range 300 -> 450 & Casting time 0.75 -> 0.5s).

24/09/2022 Bug squashing QA playtest Hotfix #1

- Cleric has added a small temporary message to the resurrection magic.

Guides

• Solo Rat Cleric