Aion Skills and Equipment

6/28/2009

To start with skills, I will begin by saying your most used skill is probably Smite (and its concurrent ranks)

as well the chain skills that follow it. You will be using those so much - you may eventually get sick of them (:

You will also use Hallow Swing followed by it's chain skill Sonic Eruption (there are other translations for

these skills) a ton when things close in on you and are within melee range.

To mention your healing skills, you will receive two moderately large skills for the levels they are given at as

well as two heal over time skills that are moderately weak but do help balance a fight if things are getting

rough. All of the cleric skills mentioned have fairly short cast times and all get better seeing new ranks and

names at higher levels - and many cleric skills are linked to skill chains that create pretty devastating effects.

One thing that I found very unique about Aion was the fact that immediately in-game within the first few

levels your are already experiencing the ability to update your armor through nifty little things called

Manastones. This devices give the players boosts such as:

- +20 HP
- +20 MP
- +12 Parry
- +1 Attack
- +12 Spellpower

And many other things. These stones drop off of even the most minimal mobs and increase in power greatly

at upper levels. Each item provides 1-2 sockets for these items lower levels so you can be upgrading your

armor constantly (and only have a chance at failing this upgrade process when there is already one

manastone on the item).

However, to deal more specifically with Cleric armor pieces, the pieces I found myself looking for most were

things like + Spellpower boosts, +HP boosts, as well as +MP boosts (and for the no brainer, you should

definitely use chain armor seeing as the cloth makes you noticeably more squishy even though the cloth may

have greater caster stats.

And to finish off this section, a Cleric will also have to face the dilemma of choosing either a Staff or

Mace+Shield combo. The Staff will provide you with greater magic bonuses for caster and a slightly higher

DPS while the Mace and Shield will provide you with a greater defense, greater health, as well as a slightly

safer solo-ing experience. I myself use a shield and mace combo but many other Cleric's favor the staff.

Either way, it is very important to carry both so you can pull out a mace and shield when you are under

heavy fire, or a staff if you need that helpful magic boost.