Aion Cleric Guide

In Aion, there are two factions available for players to choose from.  One faction is the angelic Elyos, and the other are the demon-like Asmodians.  Many multi-player online role-playing games have big differences in class skills and starting stats for different races and factions, but this is generally not the case in Aion.  Each Aion faction has only one playable race at this time, and other than appearance and questing area differences, they are almost completely identical.

Both Asmodian and Elyos Priests start the game with 201 hit points and 375 mana points.  They both receive the same Priest and later Cleric skills and spells, and although sometimes the abilities have different names, they do the same thing for each race.  In early versions of the game there were different Daeva Point skills for each race, but that has since been changed.  There are only one or two abilities that have a substantial difference between them.  The only reason to choose one race over another is for aesthetic or lore purposes.  It is possible that certain stigmas stones only drop for one race or the other, but that hasn’t been tracked or proven yet.  So pick the race you’re the most interested in to be your Cleric, and don’t worry that you’re choosing the one with less effective abilities or stats.

There are a lot of pluses to playing Aion’s creative version of a main healing class, as well as some downsides.  But depending on what you like to do, this subclass can be a blast to play.  Clerics are second to only the plate wearing classes when it comes to survivability — their mail gear makes them hardy and helps them live when they’re taking a beating, and their powerful heals keep them alive.

Clerics also have a massive pool of Mana, which both adds to their survivability and allows them to chain pull mobs while leveling.  They have a wide variety of heals, unlike healers in several other online games.  Where some classes only have two or three heals, the Cleric has an awesome (NUMBER).  They provide support with their multiple dispels and buffs, and as the more powerful of the two healers they are heavily sought after.  If you are a Cleric, you have a great chance of getting into groups, both while you are leveling and at end game.  They are also key in Abyss PvP combat to keeping their allies alive.  Aion’s Clerics are much more versatile than players might be used to, with a variety of heals, support spells, and damaging attacks.  This variety keeps them from turning into boring heal-bots that require little skill or attention to play.