Clerics

Class Growth

Class	HP	STR	MAG	DEF	FOR	DEX	MAS	SPD	LCK	MOV
Cleric	35	30	30	25	15	25	20	10	30	5
Tier 2
Inquisitor	40	45	30	35	45	25	15	15	10	6
Guardian	40	35	20	50	15	15	25	10	25	7
Priest	50	25	45	10	30	15	15	10	30	5
Acolyte	15	20	40	5	10	35	35	40	45	6
Tier 3
Crusader	35	45	30	35	45	25	25	15	10	7
Paladin	35	35	30	45	15	25	25	10	25	8
Prophet	50	15	40	10	40	15	25	10	35	6
Phantom	15	5	40	10	10	30	30	45	50	7

Character Growth

Character	HP	STR	MAG	DEF	FOR	DEX	MAS	SPD	LCK
Maren	40	30	40	30	15	15	20	40	15
Lincoln	50	35	35	45	30	15	10	15	10
Samara	20	35	35	20	20	35	25	20	40
Vesta	25	35	30	50	50	15	15	15	15
Faust	15	30	30	15	15	50	15	50	15

Skills

Class	Skill Name	Explanation
Cleric	Heal	Heal adjacent ally based on magic
Tier 2
Inquisitor	Inquisition	Power increased by 40% of target’s magic
Inquisitor	Righteous Cause	Healing doubles accuracy for next enemy phase
Guardian	Resonance	Healing power +25%, divided over 3 turns
Guardian	Last to Fall	Defense increased by % of missing health
Priest	Righteous Horizon	Increase healing range by 1
Priest	Light’s River	Dodge increased by 15% of power
Acolyte	Consumption	Heals for 20% damage done
Acolyte	Unholy Furor	Healing increases crit 6% for next attack, stacks 4 times
Tier 3
Crusader	Divine Purpose	Attacking increases next heal by 10%, stacks
Crusader	Zealous Rush	Movement +3 when bonded unit below 20% hp
Paladin	Indomitable	Damage over 20% max hp is halved
Paladin	Savior’s Grace	Healing increases target unit’s healing taken for 3 turns
Prophet	Light of Shaliz	Increase healing range by 1
Prophet	Hand of God	Dodge increased by 15% of power
Phantom	Ethereal	Pass through enemies
Phantom	Reaper	Power increased 0.4% of foe’s missing health

Character	Skill Name	Explanation
Maren	Caretaker	When healing, heal self for 40% of raw heal ability
Lincoln	Vindication	Magic is increased by 20% of strength
Samara	Royal Grace	Movement +1
Vesta	Eternal Resolve	Defense and Fortitude +15% when below half HP
Faust	Chaotic Energy	Allies within two squares gain 8% crit

Standard Paths

Dark deity’s cleric tree has a lot more options than just healing & reminds me quite a bit of the flexibility of rolling a D&D cleric. That being said, a cleric’s healing skill is vital to keeping the party alive.

Class: Inquisitor to Crusader

Best Characters: Vesta, Lincoln

Aspect: Yl’undera’s Drift

Weapon: Power

Inquisitor to crusader is the best dual defenses path. If you take the most defensive cleric, Vesta, down it she will have growths of 85 defense and 95 fortitude to form a veritable wall. Lincoln’s defensive growths are slightly lower, but his personal skill (20% of strength to magic) will make Yl’undera’s Drift even more powerful. Healing is reduced by using this aspect, but it won’t be zero. You can also carry a second aspect and swap them when you need to heal someone more than you need the defense bonus for a particular turn.

Accuracy will be a struggle on player phase, but I recommend leaning into that by healing someone on player phase to get the 100% accuracy bonus for enemy phase. Positioning is key to ensure enemies will actually attack your battle cleric.

Class: Guardian to Paladin

Best Characters: Vesta, Lincoln, Samara

Aspect: Ellis’s Light, Koeli’s Spirit

Weapon: Accuracy

Guardian to paladin is the mobile healer path and has even higher defense than the inquisitor path, at the cost of much lower fortitude. Spreading healing over three turns is extremely helpful to keep multiple tanks from dying while rotating between healing them & Ellis’s Light makes it work even better. Lincoln & Vesta make a good high defense tanks on this path & Samara is interesting to push the mobility to it’s max with her +1 movement skill.

Lincoln can make great use of Koeli’s spirit here, since his total defense growth will be 95% while his fortitude will be only 45%. Without the ability to respond to ranged attacks, you’d still prefer someone else to tank them, but he can do it in a pinch.

Class: Priest to Prophet

Best Characters: Samara, Any

Aspect: Supportive like Huss’s Hush

Weapon: Accuracy

The pure healer path of priest to prophet may seem a little boring compared to trying to take on multiple roles, but I did find that at least one of my clerics spent most of their time healing. Higher magic results in a little more healing, but all characters are pretty close. I’d recommend Samara: her +1 movement skill pushes priest to 6 movement, so she won’t fall behind the group and can reach others to heal them.

Class: Acolyte to Phantom

Best Characters: Faust, Maren

Aspect: Orion’s Pursuit, Ancara’s Glow

Weapon: Balanced

Two characters tilt toward speedy offensive caster: Maren and Faust. While this path has almost no bulk, speed will allow dodging and the life steal often allows them to sustain between attacks. They can even be used as enemy phase characters against the right foes. However, you have to be really careful: if they miss they won’t sustain hp back & if they go up against enemies with higher fort, they might not do enough damage to heal back significantly. To mitigate those problems, this path needs accuracy and damage. Orion’s Pursuit and balanced weapon might be one way to go about that and balanced weapon will enable doubling to give two chances to hit & thus sustain. Ancara’s Glow leans more into dodge and power instead of accuracy, but trades off critical chance by draining luck.

Other Builds

Class: Priest to Paladin

Best Characters: Samara

Aspect: Kitara’s Chord

Weapon: Accuracy

Priest for healing range into paladin for movement rate provides flexible long range healing. Samara’s +1 movement makes it even more flexible with a crazy end game movement rate of 9.

With a little investment into accuracy weapon, Samara’s high dex and luck growths expand her role into a dodge tank utilizing Kitara’s Chord to swap accuracy and dodge. As a healer she’ll rarely attack anway, so the drawback of Kitara’s Chord is bypassed.

Class: Inquisitor to Paladin

Best Characters: Vesta

Aspect: Yl’undera’s Drift

Weapon: Power

This plays like Inquisitor to Crusader, except you are trading off some fortitude for greater movement rate and a reduction on damage over 20% of max health. The latter works best for Vesta since she has high defense and fortitude but low health growth. She’ll be more likely to hit the 20% threshold against some bosses and exceptional casters.