Know Your Unit Reborn: Cleric 

Yep, don't slepp on those clerics! The "cleric triage" it's a good way to put it! It's never gonna be all the healing you want, but it can be just enough healing to avoid kills until you can pop some items or get some important turns done. And the fact that it's long range with Aoe variant if needed matters and without worries for line of sigth or height. Lobbers be good, sure, but they don't substitute our holy boys and girls.

Some people here have never used a cleric with Mother's Blessing and it shows.

I see a lot of people calling Clerics useless. That’s because their job is simply healing, not allow your other units to rush in and stay surrounded and survive. This is a STRATEGY game, at the end of the day. Cleric healing isn’t supposed to remove the difficulty lol

Clerics: Break seal if undead are present and you lack items or they are required for side objective charms. Otherwise they stay back at camp and idk clean or something.

Knight clerics are the best. By which I mean leveling them as knights and switching to cleric for an extra 300 hp. Then you can run around with your fast RT clerics, chugging salves if the enemy was foolish enough to focus fire on them. But make sure they aren't naked, that doesn't go over well with the police.

Also a while back I decided to set up my Olivya as a Cleric with the Stinky Set. Stinky Set Cleric gets ignored while going around collecting auto skill cards for constant Meditation and Mother’s Blessing enhanced Healing when needed! Easily the best use of this set effect. And then my Lord Denam is a Spellbook and Sword Dual Wielding, Divine element Magic Knight that has Sword Skill, Double Attack, Meditate IV, and Mother’s Blessing. so he can do secondary healing with A Major Heal I/II/III here and there. Ahh I just wish Princess Catuia could use Mother’s Blessing!

I rock my clerics with the MP staves. 1st turn they give my offensive units mp, 2nd turn they can give it to themselves if need be. They can act as HP or MP batteries and toss out quickens when they don't need to spot heal.

Came for the discussion on a divisive class, stayed because Vagrant Story music was playing.

Quench or as it was called originally Healing Rain, is usable by Warlocks. Any class that can use Support/Debuff spells. Woulda been nice if they had brought back the non-dark buff and debuff spells and buffed Quench. Funny thing is they might be in the game’s data still considering the special encounters in the Potd with that Petrifog user dual wielding daggers.

I dunno. I ran lobber & preferred cleric. God forbid you need more than 4 heals.

The thumbnails remind me of River City Ransom lol. I still keep my Heal 1. It's very useful with MB. Thanks for the upload.

Cressida thumbnail was hilarious 🤣

One advantage of leaving Clerics on AI is that the AI loves to pre-emptively heal, a lot. I think a lot of players (myself included) don't really heal until a unit loses a good chunk of health. In that case yes mending items are better, but a cleric healing in the background for multiple rounds while not exciting might be just as valuable. If not more, considering that it might just allow you to use your frontline to attack instead of having to spend a round to heal.

I use Clerics as defuff and RT reducing specialists. Equipped with Mage Staffs for instant 100 MP and Winged Boots for unlimited mobility and they exorcise, resurrect, and debuff all over the battlefield. I DO NOT use Clerics for healing when it's much easier to just equip everyone with Mending Essences.

Happy to see this one. Still chugging away on my cleric only run. Chapter 1 cleared, but busy with FF16.

I think I made one of the hardiest teams on accident in my first blind playthru. made denam a beastmaster with lobber, filled his inventory with some heal items, had two clerics, had two knights, and the rest was dragons and gryphons. the gryphons were simultaneously the backline harass as well as the ambulance with res stones. it was so funny on most maps during the campaign where I'd just watch as this wall of *meat* slowly ground through their forces until they either ran out of people or the gryphons actually killed the high prio target. Optimal? heeeecck no. funny? yes. so funny. I'm glad I didn't look up any guides until finishing the game lmao. clerics definitely felt like they fell off but when my dragon had dragonscale and my knights had their damage reduction thing running... that 100-300hp heal was moooore than enough to outpace almost every damage instance.

I will have to try sliding a cleric in some of my auto parties, maybe throw some of the low cost heal etc. and see how they do when running palace of the dead. It might not be a bad idea just because my normal units are pretty strong so loosing a front liner to a healer would not be that bad. Maybe I will have to save some of the mind charms to throw on a unique cleric. It might be kind of fun.

Gotta say, i wasnt really thinking of the ramifications of hammer clerics with finishers being constantly fed by Meditate 😂

Yay the Clerics vid! Luv these guys, always have them in the mix! What are your thoughts on using them _without_ a weapon skill equipped? So like. Meditate/Insight/Blessing/Mercy?

Clerics are only bad if you look at the numbers exclusively while ignoring their tactical element. 1. Due to the level design. It is rare you will be dealing with 12v14s. Unlike the enemy, your units do not start spread out throughout the entire map. Oftentimes, enemies will trickle down to you, with some enemies not acting until a few "turns". 2. The Cleric as stated in the video, is about doing whatever is needed. Need poison? Speed up your wizard/warlock! One of your melee dudes suddenly found themselves with a lot of MP? You know what to do! Did you get CC'd? There is ease. Did your knight take heavy damage, and your mother's blessing just proc? Well, that heal can pay off in dividends, considering phalanx. In my 0 incap run, the clerics were essential to my strategy, because they would counter any attrition my army faced. Items would be used when units are dying. My 2 clerics were equipped with Heal 1, 3/4, Major Heal and Boon of Swiftness, the other was Heal 1, Heal 3/4, Major Heal and Ease. Possibly replacing Major heal with exorcism on undead maps.

I mostly use clerics mostly for ease swift of boon and for undead. The healing is more or less something to do in emergency or when they have nothing else to do. I may run different comps over multiple play throughs but I almost always run 1 cleric. Early palace of the dead runs you will get more out of 2 clerics instead of using the exorcism items. The reason clerics get dumped on is because of full hp restore items and valkyries are objectively better aside from stilled undead.

Bro you won't believe what I'm going to tell you the tactics ogre saturn version was translated into full english

Perfect video to come out when I got the Tarot Card stuff from Square today I think

So Cleric is a Nurse more so than a Doctor 😊

I think no matter how they are glorified, their cudgel damage is always going to be lower than a dedicated damage-dealing or even tanky unit, their lack of mp sustain via staves is a major hindrance, they have the defense of a paper airplane, and their healing is out-performed by every character able to act as their own pocket-medic via salves (with one exception: Major Heal III on Mother's Blessing proc is actually really nice to have). However, I still brought one with me through the entirety of POTD for the charm bonuses, and found that their best use is just as exorcism and ease bots, and otherwise just acted as backup charmers. While princess can do all of those things drastically better, at least it made the cleric a contribution to the team. If only they were given lobbers, they'd actually be pretty fantastic.

But Mr. Potato, why does my cleric Denam dual wielding shields with only the Resurrect 2 spell not pull his weight?? Just teasing, but it's fun to watch a team of clerics do so well =] This feels like that fight on lawful with all the healers.

WHAT!?! NO MONK BUILD!?! Was that the last time your wife let you watch TV with her? Mrs. Potato: You should come watch doctor shows with me. CP: Ah, this is just like Clerics, how they- Mrs. Potato: Get out...😑👉 😆

Cleric challenge only when?

Way late to the commentary game but I typically use Mending Salve (not +1). Most of the time 50% hp is all I need and that's 10 less RT than +1 and only 1 more RT than Heal III while doing way more healing than Heal III without Mother's Blessing for the 2nd half of the game and beyond.

Clerics are only useful if the abilities like meditate and mothers blessing proc…but if not they are completely useless. So you definitely need to pick up at least two skill cards and then they work just fine, if you speed them up 😄👍🏻

Lobber > clerics

IMO Heals (the single target spell) suck, single target heals suck at almost every stage of the game maybe except heal IV and only for beasts or crazy HP buffed units (that you can lobber as well). This game has too much burst for things like single target low hp heal spells being used as "sustenance" to work, renewal is much better at that since it works passively in the background after one turn use (another shoutout at songsgress being top tier). The amount of times i used heal on a low HP unit to only have it die anyways because the heal was not enough was way too many. IMO each turn is too important. Lobber is straight up superior as a single target healing method HOWEVER AOE heal is still very good, now that is sustenance. 5 units each recovering 300 hp is actually very nice when enemies do aoe attacks, those feel really worth it. Either way clerics are still very nice units because having a dedicated boon and ease spammer can be very useful. having a great unit being permanently speed boosted is good enough to allow clerics to not be a waste of a spot in a party. I kept Olyvia as a cleric since I got her all the way to coda4 and she has always been great.

Lol at the cleric being better at healing then items, even songtress is a much better healer then cleric will ever be and sanat sucks when compared to items. The fact that you can have healing that scales with your hp, very available in shops just makes cleric bad by comparison. Another point would you rather use 13 RT to heal 300 or use 30 RT to heal 75% hp of your con 2 melee fighters in endgame(2000 hp equals 1500hp heal). That is not even hard, this is the problem when too much focus is put on RT, in this game very few things you need to worry about RT to use properly, I did not even know the RT values of most spells, lol. But aside from RT, just simple math shows that cleric as a healer is weak and running out of items never happened to me, I try to use as few items as possible(because items are op in this game when used properly). The saving grace of cleric is that when you consider AI, because songtress is useless with it, the cleric becomes more appealing, but the difference in party power between the AI and an experienced player is massive, so never put clerics on AI if you want the best healer with mothers blessing. Mistakes are part of the process to get that reborn experience under your belt.