Cleric PvE build: skills, stigmas, boards and gear priorities

The Cleric is the one class every PvE group wants. You keep five people alive with a mace and a guard, and when nobody is taking damage you hit harder than most players expect. Two jobs, one bar: heal when it is needed, attack the rest of the time.

The setup below matches our Cleric PvE build. Left click Earth's Retribution, right click Judgment Thunder, Q holds Chain of Torment under Condemnation, the stigmas sit on 1 to 4, damage skills on 5 to 8, Light of Regeneration on E.

Specialization picks: each skill takes up to three. The first three options open at skill level 8, the fourth at 12, the fifth at 16, counting levels from boards and gear.

Four passives carry the damage and healing. Level them in this order:

Our build then takes Immortal Veil and Radiant Benediction to 10 as well, followed by Survival Willpower, Prayer of Concentration, Empyrean Lords' Benediction and

Two layouts. Pick by who you play with, not by the boss.

The damage layout is our build's. Use the safe one in random groups, in the Horn dungeons and in Transcendence while people still stand in things.

The Chanter and the Cleric share two buffs, and they do not stack.

With a Chanter whose Mantra is at your level or higher, take Light of Protection off and put in a heal, a shield or Prayer of Amplification. Keep Earth Punishment either way: the guaranteed Condemnation crit is yours alone.

Each Cleric board sells a skill level for every active skill: one node per skill on Nezekan (Cleric), Zikel (Cleric), Vaizel (Cleric) and Triniel (Cleric), so four boards add up to +4. Path to the nodes of the skills marked 20 first, then the passives.

Fill the small nodes with Attack and Critical Hit, then HP. Max MP only if you still run dry. Marchutan (Cleric) and Yustiel (Cleric) belong to later seasons.

Each arcana gives an Empyrean Lord stat and skill levels. Point those levels at the skills on the right.

Death gives Critical Hit and Destruction gives Attack, which is why the Magic Compass and Bell lean on damage. Our build runs Compass of Vigor (Freedom: Accuracy) and the Vigor Bell instead; that is the right call while your Accuracy is short. Swap to Magic once it is covered.

Soul binding by slot, best first:

The two passives show up on almost every armour piece for a reason: each slot that levels them pays off on every single hit you land.

hageup-maseok and junggeup-maseok only roll basic stats: take Attack, Critical Hit and Accuracy Bonus, as our build does. sanggeup-maseok can also roll the boosts, and then the order changes: Weapon Damage Boost and Critical Damage Boost about equal, then Damage Boost, then Attack.

When choosing between two rolls anywhere: Double Chance > Weapon Damage Boost > Damage Boost > Attack > Accuracy and Critical Hit. Enhance the mace first; it is where most of your damage lives.

Equip one of these when you have it:

Until then, debaui-choesanggeup-nalgae is what our build wears: easy to get and solid. Owned wings keep giving their collection effect, so level these too: pureun-jeongwangui-nalgae, ilkkaeun-geungjiui-nalgae, pureun-padoui-nalgae, tusaui-nalgae, deuramata-dungjiui-nalgae, jamsikdoen-geumbit-nalgae, sup-jeongryeongui-nalgae, heosangui-meari-nalgae, akmongui-nalgae, guwonbateun-tarakui-nalgae, gongheoui-talriseura-nalgae, debaui-choesanggeup-nalgae.

Empty Closet asks for 700 skins. Through Hell and Back is a dungeon clear and also gives Cooldown Reduction, which is why our build runs it.

Theostones: identical ones only count once, so the mace and guard take two different ones. Our build runs Theostone: Tassin's Command and Theostone: Aultross's Promise. Poison stones such as Theostone: Santras's Secret do well early; at higher grades the types even out, so take the highest grade you have.

Pantheon:

Our build's macro presses Q, right click, 5 and left click in that order, about 10 ms apart. Hold it and it chains Chain of Torment into Condemnation, keeps Judgment Thunder and Debilitating Mark going, and weaves in Earth's Retribution for MP.