Cleric - Leveling Build
- Great AoE DPS
- Easy to Play
- Great Utility
- Good Self and Group Heal
- Squishy
Overview
This Leveling Bard Build focuses on leveling alone through the use of multiple AOE abilities that make it much easier to push through the leveling part of Ashes of Creation while still remaining a very useful Support build that can heal itself and others when and if you'd rather play in a group, offering great buffs for everyone while also being easy to play.
Skills
Equipment
Weapons
Stamina
As a Cleric and especially while leveling either in group or in solo play, avoid focusing on 
Sustained Guard, as your primary strategy relies on dodging and sprinting. Instead, start by prioritizing 
Escape Velocity to boost your sprinting speed in combat (default key C). This becomes essential later on, allowing you to kite enemies during cooldowns or escape danger quickly.
Next, invest in 
Recuperation Training and Evasive Maneuver to increase your dodge evasion rate. These upgrades also unlock 
Springstep, significantly enhancing your mobility by improving dodge distance.
Finally, use any remaining points on Guard Training to lower stamina costs when blocking (default key E). Adding 
Mental Fortification can also be useful, as it reduces your chance of being crowd-controlled (CC’d) while blocking, which can help in specific situations.
Rotations
- This is the main rotation you should use when grinding mobs and AOE farming in order to level up quickly. Either while in a group or solo, this rotation works well in both cases.
- Once you've gathered mobs together using your auto-attacks, the first skill you use should be
Cathartic Melody. This allows you to heal up while doing damage with your following abilities and the song plays throughout the use of other abilities. Next, use 
Maddening Dance to deal AOE damage to all mobs around you before following up with 
Get Off The Stage after stacking mobs together close enough for Get Off The Stage to hit all mobs but also debuff them.
- Finally, use
Fierce Wit to deal fire damage when using 
Quick Wit on the same mobs. Finish off whatever remaining mobs with 
Discordance.
