Cleric skill build

1. Lv. 10-17: max Energy BoltIt stays your main attack into 2nd job, until Holy Arrow passes it. One point goes into Improved MP Recovery at 11 for its MP regen.
2. Lv. 18-30: Magic Armor, and Magic Guard or Max MP IncreasePro maxes Magic Guard by 23; Budget stops it at 3 and maxes Max MP Increase instead. Both finish Magic Armor by 30, because Magician SP locks at 2nd job.
3. Lv. 30: 1 point in HealA 40% recovery rate for one point: from here on you heal yourself with MP instead of potions.
4. Lv. 31-50: the builds splitBudget maxes Heal first, then Holy Arrow. Pro maxes Holy Arrow first, then Heal. One point of Teleport comes in between.
5. Lv. 51-63: Invincible 5, max Bless, then InvincibleBless cuts every kind of damage for your whole party; Invincible cuts physical damage and hurts what touches you.
6. Lv. 64-70: max Teleport, then 1 MP EaterBoth builds end with every Cleric skill maxed but MP Eater, which gets the last point.

You get 1 SP per level as a Beginner, 1 SP at each job advancement, and 3 SP per level after that. Cleric SP can't be spent on Magician skills, and an SP Reset Scroll from the Cash Shop resets every skill except Beginner skills.

Skill points cost nothing, so both builds follow the same route with one swap per job. What sets them apart is where your mesos go: gear, scrolls, potions and buffs. Magicians share their gear, so the gear and scrolls are the same as in the Ice/Lightning Wizard guide. Prices are what each item sells for on HubCW, so they move with the market.

Gear, slot by slot

Where two overalls share a step, the first is the male version and the second the female one. Any earrings do for Pro: they all have 5 slots, and the INT scrolls are what count.

Pro scrolls

One tier in each family gives the most per slot on average without any risk to the item. Pro fills every slot with it, or buys gear where every slot already passed.

Scroll	Success	Slots	If all pass	Price	Per success
Wand Magic Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	7	+28 M.ATT	-	-
Staff Magic Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	7	+28 M.ATT	-	-
Gloves Magic Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+20 M.ATT	-	-
Overall Armor INT Scroll: Intermediate	60%	10	+20 INT	-	-
Cape INT Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 INT	299,000 mesos?	498,333 mesos
Earring INT Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 INT	91,999 mesos	153,332 mesos

The other tiers, on a wand: Wand Magic Attack Scroll: Lesser is 100% for +2, Wand Magic Attack Scroll: Greater 10% for +8, and Wand Magic Attack Scroll: Chaos 10% for +10, but 50% of its failures destroy the wand. Try them in the scroll simulator first.

What the money buys

Each build's average single-target hit per cast in its own gear and with its own skills at that level: Holy Arrow once it beats Energy Bolt, Energy Bolt before that. Pure INT, with only the LUK that gear needs; Pro counts every scroll slot as passed and Sap of Ancient Tree running. Monster defense and elements are left out, so treat the numbers as a comparison.

Pick your level to see where each skill should be, what to add at that level and any breakpoint you just reached. Switch builds to compare the alternatives.

40Cleric

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Lv. 10Lv. 17Lv. 23Lv. 30Lv. 34Lv. 38Lv. 40Lv. 44Lv. 48Lv. 50Lv. 52Lv. 59Lv. 64Lv. 70

Magician build Budget: Magic Guard 3, max Max MP Increase Pro: Energy Bolt and max Magic Guard Magic Claw instead of Energy Bolt Cleric build Budget: Heal first Pro: Holy Arrow first

At level 40 Heal 28 → 30 · Teleport 0 → 1
Heal maxed: a 100% recovery rate for 27 MP, on up to 6 targets: you, your party and undead together.
Teleport 1 costs 55 MP per use, so use it sparingly until you level it.

Beginner9 / 9 spent

Three Snails3/3

Recovery3/3

Nimble Feet3/3

Magician61 / 61 spent

Energy Bolt20/20

Magic Guard3/15

Magic Armor20/20

Improved MP Recovery3/15

Max MP Increase15/15

Cleric31 / 31 spent

Holy Arrow0/30

Heal +230/30

Invincible0/20

Bless0/20

Teleport +11/20

MP Eater0/20

You advance in Ellinia at level 10. From then to 30 you get 61 SP for six skills that would take 105 to max, and whatever you leave here at 30 stays that way. A Cleric keeps using Energy Bolt after 2nd job, so both builds max it first.

At 2nd job you get 1 SP, then 3 per level: 121 by level 70. Maxing all six Cleric skills would take 140, so one stays short, and that is MP Eater. The current client has no 3rd job yet.

Level 1 and max values from the game data. Each name links to its full per-level table.

Energy BoltMax Lv. 20

Max by 17

MP cost

8 → 16

Basic Attack

90 → 130

Mastery Lv.

1 → 10

Your attack until Holy Arrow passes it, and the cheapest damage per MP you have even after.

Magic ClawMax Lv. 20 · needs Energy Bolt 1

Alternative

MP cost

10 → 20

Basic Attack

45 → 65

Hits

2

Mastery Lv.

1 → 10

Same damage as Energy Bolt for more MP and less range. Take it instead of Energy Bolt, never alongside.

Magic GuardMax Lv. 15

Stop at 3 (Budget) or max by 23 (Pro)

MP cost

8 → 12

Moves part of every hit onto your MP. Pro maxes it; Budget stops at 3 and puts the points into Max MP Increase.

Magic ArmorMax Lv. 20 · needs Magic Guard 3

Max by 30

MP cost

8 → 16

Weapon Def.

40 → 120

Magic Def.

40 → 120

Duration (s)

300 → 600

Level 1 is the best point at 1st job. Each later level adds a little DEF and 15 seconds.

Improved MP RecoveryMax Lv. 15

Stop at 3

Lv. 1

Regenerates 1% of Max MP every 10 seconds; increases MP recovery from items by 10%

Lv. 15

Regenerates 1% of Max MP every 10 seconds; increases MP recovery from items by 25%

Level 1 already gives all the MP regen. Take 3 to unlock Max MP Increase.

Max MP IncreaseMax Lv. 15 · needs Improved MP Recovery 3

Max by 30 (Budget) or stop at 3 (Pro)

Max MP %

10 → 25

Budget maxes it for a bigger MP pool, which means more Heal casts between potions. Pro stops at 3.

Holy ArrowMax Lv. 30

Max by 50 (Budget) or 40 (Pro)

MP cost

14 → 28

Basic Attack

100 → 160

Mastery Lv.

1 → 10

Your holy single-target attack: ×1.25 on every undead and holy-weak monster. It passes a maxed Energy Bolt at level 22.

HealMax Lv. 30

Max by 40 (Budget) or 50 (Pro)

MP cost

12 → 27

Max enemies

6

Recovery rate

40% → 100%

Range

100% → 120%

Heals you and your party for MP and scratches the undead around you. Per MP, level 1 heals only 10% less than level 30; the levels make each cast bigger.

InvincibleMax Lv. 20 · needs Heal 5

Max by 64

MP cost

16 → 36

DoT damage

10 → 30

Duration (s)

100 → 300

Physical damage taken

-1% → -20%

Less physical damage taken, and a small hit on whatever touches you. Five points unlock Bless.

BlessMax Lv. 20 · needs Invincible 5

Max by 59

MP cost

20 → 30

Duration (s)

100 → 300

Damage taken

-5% → -15%

HP from Heal

+1% → +10%

Less damage of every kind and more HP from Heal for your whole party. Level 1 alone is 5%.

TeleportMax Lv. 20

Max by 70

MP cost

55 → 15

Range

110 → 150

Every level cuts its MP cost. Level 1 is expensive, so don't spam it.

MP EaterMax Lv. 20

Stop at 1

Chance %

30 → 50

Max MP absorbed

30% → 50%

Takes MP back from monsters, once every 5 seconds. Skeletons have none, so it gets the one point left at 70.

Magic damage scales with the skill's Basic Attack and with your Magic total: half your INT plus the Magic ATK on your weapon, gear and buffs. Each hit rolls between a minimum and a maximum, and the skill's Mastery raises the minimum. Heal works differently: the community's formula gives it a pool from your Magic total and its recovery rate, which INT and LUK raise only a little, and splits it between the targets. The comparisons below use a level-50 Budget Cleric (232 INT, 199 Magic total); treat them as relative.

What Holy Arrow is worth

A maxed Holy Arrow (28 MP) against a maxed Energy Bolt (16 MP) = 1.0×. Holy Arrow kills faster on everything but holy-resistant monsters, and Energy Bolt kills cheaper on all of them.

What Heal does to undead

Average damage before monster defense, both skills maxed, in Budget gear. When you are alone you take one of Heal's 6 target slots, so it reaches 5 undead at most.

Other multipliers

• Elements: Holy Arrow is holy: ×1.25 on holy-weak monsters, ×0.75 on resistant ones. Energy Bolt and Invincible have no element, and the community's Heal formula has no element or Magic DEF term.
• Magic DEF: damage × 100 ÷ (MDEF + 100). Most training monsters have 0-50 MDEF; Iron Hogs have 100 (half damage) and the Tree Dungeon Fairies 500 (a sixth).
• Level gap: monsters above your level take less, ×0.89 at 5 levels above you and ×0.71 at 9.

Every monster in the game data that is undead, weak to holy or resistant to it, and spawns somewhere. Heal hurts only the undead; Holy Arrow does ×1.25 on every holy-weak monster and ×0.75 on the resistant ones. The rest take normal damage. Every undead here is also weak to holy.

TipThe undead come in crowds on their maps: Zombie Mushrooms in the Ant Tunnels, Jr. Wraiths and Wraiths on the Kerning City Subway lines, Zombie Lupins in the Monkey Swamps, Skeledogs and Mummydogs in the Remains tombs, and Skeleton Soldiers and Officer Skeletons on the Camp maps. Holy Arrow kills them fastest; Heal keeps you and your party up while you do.

Heal as a potion saver

A Heal costs MP, and MP costs mesos: at Pure Water (1.00 MP a meso) and Red Potion (2.50 HP a meso), a cast saves money whenever it heals more than the break-even below. How much HP each character gets isn't established yet; for scale, the pool the community's formula splits between Heal's targets is in the last column, in Budget gear.

A maxed Heal has 2.5× the recovery rate of level 1 for 2.25× the MP. Sitting and Improved MP Recovery refill MP for free, which makes every Heal cheaper still.

The monsters that give the most EXP per cast at every 5 levels. Each is up to 10 levels below you and has at least 10 on one map. Casts are how many spells a kill takes on average after the monster's Magic DEF and element, for each build in its own gear and skills, with whichever of its spells below kills it fastest.

Energy BoltHoly Arrow

Ranked by EXP per cast for the Budget build. Spells aren't checked for misses, and burns and poison aren't counted. Spawn speed, map layout and other players change what an hour really gives, so try the top two and keep the one that feels faster. The Training Finder ranks the monsters for any level by EXP per HP.

You get 5 AP per level, and a new Magician starts with 4 STR, 4 DEX, 12 INT and 5 LUK. Put everything into INT except the LUK your next weapon needs; the INT requirements look after themselves. Half your INT goes into your Magic total, so +14 Magic ATK on a weapon is worth about 28 INT.

LUK counts for Heal too in the community's formula, but only a little: 100 more LUK would add about 3.7% to its pool, while 100 more INT adds about 28% through your Magic total, and raises Holy Arrow as well.

Shields along the way: Pan Lid (Lv. 10), Mystic Shield (Lv. 22, 34 INT / 12 LUK), Esther Shield (Lv. 35, 60 INT / 25 LUK). Spell casting speed doesn't depend on weapon speed, so always use the highest Magic ATK you can equip.

• From the game data: skill numbers and prerequisites, which monsters are undead, monster elements, HP, MP and MDEF, and item requirements. Heal's recovery rate and area, Invincible's and Bless's damage cuts and Bless's bonus to Heal come from the skill level texts. They update when the game does.
• Written in: Holy Arrow's holy element is in the client's skill data but not in the game data's level stats.
• From players: SP per level, the 2nd-job SP lock, and the damage, element and defense formulas come from community testing (meowdb), and so does Heal's: a pool from INT, LUK, your Magic total and the recovery rate, split between the characters and undead it touches (six targets in all, you included). How much HP each character gets from it isn't established yet (meowdb's Heal page lists it as unresolved), so this guide gives no number for it.
• Calculated: the Holy Arrow crossover, Heal vs Holy Arrow on undead and the potion break-even use those formulas with example stats and market prices. Whether Invincible and Bless multiply or add isn't confirmed. Misses, crits and positioning all move real results.
• Budget and Pro builds: the gear picks are written by hand. Prices are the median HubCW sale of the last 30 days, or the median Free Market ask when nothing sold; a dash means neither. The Magic totals assume 25 starting stat points and 5 AP a level.