Green Priest (40 Cleric)

[chainlink]

I have not managed to get any of the xR cleric races but did get Verdant Prince so decided it was time to make a cleric with it, turns out it is very effective with maximum DC for several schools, two metamagics for spell level flexibility

Half-Elves (can speak Elven)
- All half-elves receive 1 additional skill point per level. Skill points for levels prior to 41 will be granted upon taking level 41.
- All half-elves can acquire Legendary Skill Affinity Spot and Listen in legendary levels.

"Verdant Prince" (secret eXtremely Rare; changes Appearance - antlers and glowing eyes)
- FC: Druid
- DEX +2, CON +2, WIS +8
- Free Feats: Great Wisdom I/II, SF/GSF: Transmutation, SF: Divination, Dodge, Toughness
- Other: Environmental Penalties reduced by 2 levels if outdoors, Survival: Treewalk

Verdant Prince (Half-Elf) [40 Cleric]
Evil Alignment

Half-Elf Base Stats:
STR 8
DEX 14
CON 10
WIS 18
INT 14
CHA 8

--> Verdant Prince
STR 8
DEX 16
CON 12
WIS 28
INT 14
CHA 8

--> Level 60
STR 8
DEX 16
CON 12
WIS 56
INT 14
CHA 8

--> Wisdom Artifact
STR 8
DEX 16
CON 12
WIS 58
INT 14
CHA 8

--> Double Demigod
STR 12
DEX 20
CON 16
WIS 62
INT 18
CHA 12

--> Level 80
STR 14
DEX 22
CON 18
WIS 64
INT 20
CHA 14

--> +16 Gear
STR 30
DEX 38
CON 34
WIS 80
INT 36
CHA 30

Free Feats: Free Feats: Great Wisdom I/II, SF/GSF: Transmutation, SF: Divination, Dodge, Toughness, Other: Environmental Penalties reduced by 2 levels if outdoors, Survival: Treewalk

Skills @ 60:
Concentration 63
Cross-Class Discipline 31 -> 41 (Paragon points)
Parry 63
Heal 42 As noted in posts below can significantly improve inflict wounds damage and boost regeneration from healing circle
Spellcraft Minimum 1 point to allow counterspelling if you want to be able to perform this function
Cross-Class Tumble 31 -> 41 (Paragon points)
Spare skill points at Levels 41+ can go into anything you want although Craft Armor for potentially +2-3 AC boost is a good call, you will have enough to maximise one more skill 41-60 with half-Elf bonus points and then use the paragon skill points 61-80 to boost Discipline and Tumble.

Leveling Order:
1-40 Cleric

Domains: Whatever you feel like for extra spells

--- Pre-Epic Feats
1 - Spell Focus: Evocation
3 - Greater Spell Focus: Evocation
6 - Greater Spell Focus: Divination
9 - Spell Penetration
12 - Greater Spell Penetration
15 - Spell Focus: Abjuration
18 - Metamagic: Extend Spell

--- Epic Feats
21 - Greater Spell Focus: Abjuration
23 - Epic Spell Focus: Divination [Cleric Bonus Feat]
24 - Epic Spell Focus: Transmutation
26 - Epic Spell Focus: Evocation [Cleric Bonus Feat]
27 - Epic Spell Focus: Abjuration
29 - Epic Spell Penetration [Cleric Bonus Feat]
30 - Great Wisdom 3
32 - Great Wisdom 4 [Cleric Bonus Feat]
33 - Great Wisdom 5
35 - Great Wisdom 6 [Cleric Bonus Feat]
36 - Great Wisdom 7
38 - Great Wisdom 8 [Cleric Bonus Feat]
39 - Great Wisdom 9

Wondrous Tome: Necromancy (Free SF, GSF & ESF: Necromancy)

--- Legendary Feats
42 - Legendary Spell Penetration
45 - Legendary Spell Focus: Evocation
48 - Legendary Spell Focus: Divination
51 - Legendary Spell Focus: Necromancy
54 - Legendary Spell Focus: Abjuration
57 - Great Wisdom 10
60 - Metamagic: Empower Spell

All the Feats can be moved around based on personal preference as unlike Int based casters there is no specific benefit to taking all Great Wisdom points earlier in the build.

Artifact: Pyramid Energy (Wisdom)
Pandect: Craft Armor

--- Paragon Feats
63 - Paragon Spell Focus: Divination
66 - Paragon Spell Knowledge: Divination
69 - Paragon Spell Focus: Necromancy
72 - Paragon Spell Knowledge: Necromancy
75 - Paragon Spell Focus: Abjuration
78 - Paragon Spell Penetration


Notes: Taking PSF Evocation is probably not worth the loss of an alternate PSK as noted by other players. Currently at least the PSK Necromancy (Erradicate) and PSK Divination (Serendipitous Forethought) are the best choices for paragon spells with the double casts of Eternal Return and Miracle being a nice added bonus. Whilst Paragon feat order is not critical getting PSK Divination first is probably best from a party assistance point of view, PSF Abjuration makes you an effective banisher/dismisser.

[simpetar]

Seems pretty decent / standard, whiners will have to say bye bye to gird Just curious about skills though: why do you pick Parry over Craft Armor? If you go the traditional way with tower shield (for the best MV results) and heavy armor (Divine Chorus), your Parry will be murdered by armor check penalties. Also there are not many items with Parry on them that are wearable by clerics (unlike the crit ring from Lith, that you can swap to in dire need). Craft Armor on the other hand is reliable, not affected by armor penalties and will help you not get hit (or critted) in the first place. You can safely count on +2, especially with the help of pandect, as you will have your own GR most of the time.

[Lil' Mikey (Msowby2)]

PSK: Necro > PSF: Evo imo. Erad has more value versus some extra DC on plode/other evo spells. Your wisdom is so high anyways it is on tier with a BUR max evo DC build. Honestly you'll hardly notice the difference, but you'll certainly notice the problem mobs you don't have the button for

[elgrathforestwalke]

Epic Spell Pen is listed twice @ L27.

[chainlink]

Did it too fast will fix as I level up, can easily fit in craft armor just left it open to personal choice, will definitely drop PSF Evo

[gatsu83ita]

GWIS 9 is listed twice too! (in epic and legendary lvls)

[chainlink]

All fixed thanks for the comments realised I can actually fit Empower Spell in now for even more Heartbane goodness

[simpetar]

After prolonged discussion with Woki: if you can raise BOTH Parry and CA, all the better (looks like you can)

[chainlink]

Whilst heavy armor gives a -8 to parry skill (a decent trade off if you have a good set of armor) its the tower shield that really hurts as you get -10 for a tower and only -2 for a large so finding a decent one of these is optimal to keep your parry effective for reducing incoming critical damage.

[drunkenboastor]

Metamagic Empower Spell and Heal skill are two things that I like to have in my cleric builds that you have not included in this build.

Heal skill offers both defensive and offensive uses. A 126 Heal skill provides 63 hit point area of effect regeneration with the spell Healing Circle, a spell I like to use all the time. Useful to help offset kickback, and it has been the difference many times when disabled. The cool part of a maximized heal skill is infliction spells, they can do a lot of damage to creatures vulnerable to negative damage, an example of this would be tears in Min. With an 80 wisdom, +50 magic cap to Heal, only need 42 base Heal skill to hit the 127 cap.

Empower Spell is very important to have in my opinion. With Empower Spell, it is much easier to manage a spell book when it is required to have a lot of one spell type like Heartbane. Empower spell also provides superior options for damage spells, an example of this is a cleric in the Nessus coil where Implosion is not nearly useful as the damage that Empowered Destructions can provide. Empowered Infliction spells with 127 Heal can do a lot damage, nothing else in the cleric spell book can come close.

[dagoon]

Empowered inflicts wounds spells are great, especially as they don’t need to be memorised as they are cast spontaneously