As for solo, a cleric can solo. I was playing most of the closed betas solo. Now, I hate hate hate solo’ing in every game I play, so my opinion may be a bit biased. It wasn’t that hard to kill mobs alone, just… a bit tedious. But I read up more on others and they were all complaining of the same thing so… Guess the grass is greener on the other side?

Someone in the legion during closed betas was playing a chanter and bragging about how he never had any downtime and he could 2 man elites etc etc. While I was chugging along, killing a mob, hitting my , (comma for resting to regain MP) waiting while it filled up, standing up, killing another mob, rinse repeat.

I didn’t die much on my own. Pretty much only when there was a lag spike actually, or I pulled too many mobs that were 2+ levels on me. I imagine it will be even easier when I get higher and that instant heal is learned.

Just when I thought I’d finally decided between Chanter and Cleric, I read this amazing article and now I can’t decide again!

I’ve been waffling back and forth between whether to go Chanter or Cleric for so long now… without having had a chance to play in the betas. I’m finally going to get into OB at the end of the week to give them a try, but up until now I’ve been reading articles and I *thought* I was pretty solid on Cleric. I was the main healer in my groups in WoW and I enjoy standing back and ensuring the group stays alive. However, I was a Druid healer, so I was a hybrid that could survive solo very well and I did solo a lot. So then I was thinking I should go Chanter for survivability. I just can’t decide! I played a Priest in WoW, too, so I appreciated the analogies with Disc and Holy Priest to the Aion classes.

How is the Cleric solo? I know Clerics won’t have the DPS output that a Chanter would have, but now that I’ve got all of this good info in my head I’m still waffling. Can they hold their own? I know I won’t be in groups ALL the time, so I’m curious as to whether a Cleric will be able to hold their own solo sometimes. I hope to have time to level one of each a bit in the OB to make my final decision, but I guess in the end I could always just roll one of each, right? One as my main, and one as an alt. Ha Thanks for such a great, informative article. Even if it does make me rethink my plans a bit

That statement is probably true, and you can probably do a fairly decent job of it, but may have issues compared to a cleric. However, if you have a healer in your group, the chanter brings other valuable additions to the group when you’re not healing.

It’s a support role either way, but in my opinion, it’s an interesting mix. Maybe not a hybrid in the normal debate from other games (enter WoW), but a hybrid nonetheless in terms of playing dual roles and having flexibility.

Anyway, just some food for thought…

Increased Movement and Mana recharge rate and all that, is a mandatory thing. While the Chanter basically only has a single heal spell, my group’s chanter was keeping an eye on me, in case i got spiked.

If you’re happy staying back and doing all the work in the background, usually unnoticed and uncommented, then go Cleric. Some good teams will say ‘thx’ if you keep them alive, most ppl tend to not even notice. If you want to see a bit more direct action, go Chanter

Compared to a pure dps class, chanters come short. And if you don’t believe it pick up a Sorc in CB6 – its’ just too effortless… But if you can make it work then do what *your* heart desires.