Making a new cleric

[OnlyTheBest]

I'm planning on making a cleric that is going to use pole arms, deity alignment to one of the 'evil' gods, and going to be an elf. I'm at a loss at what to put the stats at, and what a good training plan would be. If anyone could give some advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

[thefarmer]

The standard swinging cleric cookie cutter mold'll do just fine.

Only real need outside of basic cleric stats is for dex/agi to be relatively high for your RT. Polearms are slow in general.

I would suggest aiming for brig/chainmail, or possibly hauberk. My cleric was in hauberk at 50. Didn't cast, but I didn't mind.

[OnlyTheBest]

Alright.. Thanks.

could someone give me a run through on the stats that would be suggested? I don't have much play time experience with clerics, so some input about those would be lovely.

[OnlyTheBest]

Ended up with stats like these...

Strength (STR): 70 (-5) ... 70 (-5)
Constitution (CON): 65 (17) ... 65 (17)
Dexterity (DEX): 75 (27) ... 75 (27)
Agility (AGI): 76 (23) ... 76 (23)
Discipline (DIS): 60 (0) ... 60 (0)
Aura (AUR): 82 (11) ... 82 (11)
Logic (LOG): 62 (11) ... 62 (11)
Intuition (INT): 70 (20) ... 70 (20)
Wisdom (WIS): 80 (15) ... 80 (15)
Influence (INF): 21 (-19) ... 21 (-19)

decided to make it a halfling, and I thought that Marlu would give bain instead of smite?

[thefarmer]

If you can live with not being able to carry alot, and that terrible ST modifer, then more power to you.

Just remember.. you're going to only be able to 1x in CM/2HD so your AS is going to be low, even with the few AS spells clerics get.

[OnlyTheBest]

Thanks for the input, but I decided to scratch the halfling, and switched to an elf.

Thanks again.

[Androidpk]

Marlu should definately give bane over smite.