Would appreciate any training suggestions

[Fraggle]

i have 170 unused TP's and still have my last fixskills available which will renew in 10 days so now is a great time to adjust, I voln fu alot but also have two nice blunts I use, an unlocked Iasha mace and a 3x sancted drakar mace that flares 50 to 70 a lot. Here is my current training and stats;


Name: XXXX Race: Human Profession: Cleric (Post name shown as: Holy Crusader)
Level: 61



Skills:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 132 36
Shield Use.........................| 86 19
Blunt Weapons......................| 158 58
Brawling...........................| 166 66
Physical Fitness...................| 160 60
Arcane Symbols.....................| 90 20
Magic Item Use.....................| 90 20
Spell Aiming.......................| 90 20
Harness Power......................| 136 38
Spirit Mana Control................| 124 32
Spiritual Lore - Blessings.........| 165 65
Spiritual Lore - Religion..........| 105 25
Spiritual Lore - Summoning.........| 74 16
Survival...........................| 164 64
Perception.........................| 117 29
Climbing...........................| 130 35
Swimming...........................| 126 33
First Aid..........................| 155 55

Spell Lists
Major Spirit.......................| 37

Spell Lists
Minor Spirit.......................| 40

Spell Lists
Cleric.............................| 61
Training Points: 161 Phy 0 Mnt (358 Phy converted to Mnt)
(Use SKILLS BASE to display unmodified ranks and goals)

10 days remain until the annual FIXSKILLS is to be granted, on 05/20/2011.

Your 30 day migration period will begin when you choose to degrade a skill.

Further information can be found in the FAQs.

Spell Ranks:
Minor Spiritual :40
Major Spiritual :37
Cleric Base :61

Stats: Normal (Bonus) ... Enhanced (Bonus)
Strength (STR): 90 (25) ... 90 (25)
Constitution (CON): 76 (13) ... 76 (13)
Dexterity (DEX): 62 (6) ... 62 (6)
Agility (AGL): 68 (9) ... 72 (11)
Discipline (DIS): 85 (17) ... 85 (17)
Aura (AUR): 100 (25) ... 100 (25)
Logic (LOG): 85 (22) ... 85 (22)
Intuition (INT): 100 (30) ... 100 (30)
Wisdom (WIS): 100 (25) ... 100 (25)
Influence (INF): 74 (12) ... 74 (12)

[inso]

I don't play clerics, but it seems like you're trying to do too much. Multiple weapon styles are really for squares and post-cap. I'd pick either blunts or brawling, and save a ton of tps that way. Put them in shield and get enough armor ranks to go up to torso chain (50 ranks). You're wearing double leather with 36 ranks right now... why? You could be in brig.

20 ranks of spell aim seems pretty useless- I'd drop it if you're not planning on doubling it. Do you make the majority of your income skinning? I know you had problems with bandits so you might want to free up some points by dropping surv/FA and getting your perception up to at least 1x. Excess points would go into spell ranks.

Why do you only have 38 ranks of harness power at 61? You're missing out on a very cheap 69 mana.

[Fraggle]

I had the armor ranks because i was wearing 6x studded leather till I was given 3x doubles, that are sancted, fire flaring, mod slash resistant all permanent, with +12 climbing and +1 spirit summoning that are temporary

[Asha]

Probably lose blunt then.

[inso]

So is your strategy to have a low DS to get hit and cause your ill-protecting armor to flare? That's fine if so, but I think you'd be more survivable in 4-5x plain torso chain.

I'd definitely recommend ditching blunts over fu, due to not having cman.

[Asrial]

While I agree with inso, I want to clarify that I don't think your training up to this point has been in error. One of the strong suits of clerics is that you really can't train them wrong in the beginning.

However, you're about to hit a brick wall. You can keep going the way you've been going until you need to hunt Maaghara Tower (I'm pretty sure the only equivalents are the Rift and Bowels, which are even more of a brick wall). This is going to happen around 67-70.

You have two options really: redesign your mindset completely, or try and grind out XP under your current training (and trust me.. it's going to be a grind; I was there).

The most efficient route to take is to increase your spells. The most common method is to 3x as much as possible. At the very least, get your cleric ranks to +21 over level.

I'm in CoL and went the route of super charging 240 AND having the mana to use it the entire hunt (so full 2x harness power and 180 ranks in spiritual mana control). I believe this gives me +40 CS when I use 240.

However, I hardly ever need to wrack. The only times I do are when I've been obliterating things on a mission (bounty / boxes).

Also, I'm unaligned so I don't have access to 302 on the living. I'm fairly confident that you wouldn't need wracking while in Voln either.

The bottom line is this...

MAYBE something has changed because of the change to 307.. but your ability to weapon hunt 'comfortably' is going to be declining very soon.

[Asrial]

I had the armor ranks because i was wearing 6x studded leather till I was given 3x doubles, that are sancted, fire flaring, mod slash resistant all permanent, with +12 climbing and +1 spirit summoning that are temporaryWhen's the last time that armor saved you?

I don't think it's good enough to go with over forest green brigandine.

Further, you shouldn't be having any DS issues.

[Asha]

Definitely never rely on armour to save you unless you're in at least plate class.