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Dark and Darker Cleric Builds

Discover the best Dark and Darker Cleric builds. Browse the 20 perks, 10 skills and 18 spells available to the Cleric, then theorycraft your own loadout with the build calculator.

Cleric guide

The Cleric is a durable holy hybrid built around sustaining a team rather than topping damage charts. Clad in heavy plate and swinging a mace in melee, you trade pure offense for divine magic that heals, buffs, and protects your allies. You are the backbone of a group: hard to kill, easy to rely on, and at your best when others are fighting around you.

Strengths and weaknesses

You bring excellent survivability and team value. Heavy armor and strong sustain let you trade blows in melee, outlast skirmishes, and keep allies alive with healing and buffs. Your divine magic offers flexible utility, and few classes match your staying power in a drawn-out fight. Your weaknesses are speed and tempo. Spellcasting, especially healing, is slow to channel and can be interrupted by a single well-timed hit, leaving you exposed. You lack burst and ranged pressure, you are vulnerable when caught alone, and skilled opponents will rush you to deny your casts before they ever land.

How to play the Cleric

Play patiently and let your durability do the work. Position just behind your frontline so you can peel for allies, then step in to trade melee blows when the moment is safe. Time your heals during lulls, behind cover, or while a teammate shields you, since a cast cut short is wasted value. Pre-buff before engaging rather than mid-fight. Avoid overextending alone or getting collapsed on in tight rooms, where your slow casts and lack of escape get punished. Control space, hold key chokes, and win by attrition rather than chasing kills.

Build directions

Clerics flex between support, hybrid bruiser, and self-sufficient melee depending on your gear and group. - Support healer: lean into casting stats and utility to maximize healing, buffs, and protective magic for a coordinated team. - Battle cleric: balance armor and melee power so you can trade hits up front while still topping up allies between exchanges. - Solo bruiser: prioritize survivability, weapon damage, and self-sustain to fight independently when you have no one to heal. Gear, weapon choice, and stat priorities shift every patch, so treat these as starting points rather than fixed templates. To tune stats, weapons, and tradeoffs for your own playstyle, plan your loadout with the build calculator.

Best perks and skills to consider

Prioritize perks and skills that reinforce your core role: faster or safer casting, stronger and more efficient healing, improved buffs, and tools that boost survivability or melee trading. Options that shorten cast times or protect you mid-channel are especially valuable, since interruption is your biggest liability. Balance pure support picks against ones that let you fight, based on whether you play grouped or solo. Exact perk and skill values shift with every patch, so check the full up-to-date perk and skill list below before locking choices in, and compare notes with the community to see what is working right now.

Popular Cleric builds

Cleric

Arena Healer

Cleric · RatKingJim👑

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Knowledge · Will · Vigor

Health 131 · Move Speed 293 · Magical Healing 22 · Spell Casting Speed 78% · Magic Power Bonus 30% · Physical Damage Reduction 40% · Magical Damage Reduction 48%

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Warrior Priest (Geared)

Cleric · Millsonius

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Will · Knowledge · Vigor

Health 138 · Move Speed 270 · Magical Healing 8 · Additional Magical Damage 3 · Magic Power Bonus 37% · Spell Casting Speed 39% · Physical Damage Reduction 58% · Magical Damage Reduction 40%

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殴りクレ

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Agility · Vigor · Strength

Health 141 · Move Speed 295 · Additional Physical Damage 5 · Physical Power Bonus 18% · Action Speed 15% · Spell Casting Speed 25% · Physical Damage Reduction 45% · Magical Damage Reduction 42%

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cler

Cleric · zhakobin

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Knowledge · Will · Vigor

Health 145 · Move Speed 297 · Magical Healing 23 · Additional Magical Damage 4 · Spell Casting Speed 80% · Magic Power Bonus 28% · Memory Capacity 50 · Physical Damage Reduction 27% · Magical Damage Reduction 43%

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Warrior Priest (Base)

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Health 120 · Move Speed 297 · Magical Damage Reduction 21%

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PAL

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Will · Knowledge · Vigor

Health 141 · Move Speed 284 · Magical Healing 22 · Additional Magical Damage 5 · Magic Power Bonus 44% · Spell Casting Speed 59% · Physical Damage Reduction 42% · Magical Damage Reduction 39%

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Cleric Perks

Advanced Healer

Advanced Healer

Gain 5 Magical Healing.

Aura of Awe

Aura of Awe

Reduces the action speed of enemies within 3m by 7%.

Banishing Touch

Banishing Touch

When hitting an undead or demon enemy with a melee or ranged attack, has a 50% chance to stun them for 1 second.

Blood Tithe

Blood Tithe

Your Magical Healing increases by 2 for every 10% of health you lose.

Blunt Weapon Mastery

Blunt Weapon Mastery

While using a blunt weapon, gain 10% Physical Damage Bonus.

Brewmaster

Brewmaster

When you drink alcohol, you no longer exhibit the detrimental drunk effects and gain 10 Strength. The duration of the drunk effect is increased by 50%.

Divine Echo

Divine Echo

While in a dungeon, Replaces your Resurrection spell with Miracle. When cast, instantly revives all dead allies at their current location. Miracle cannot be recharged.

Faithfulness

Faithfulness

Gain 15% Divine Magical Damage Bonus. When a divine attack is successful, reduce their Move Speed Bonus by 15% for 1 seconds. Does not inflict while on cooldown.

Heretics Brand

Heretics Brand

When you deal divine magic damage, reduce the target’s # by [0]% for 2 seconds and prevent them from entering stealth or invisibility.

Holy Aura

Holy Aura

Gain 15 Armor Rating and 15 Magic Resistance. This effects both yourself and allies.

Holy Water

Holy Water

Drinking any drink removes all removable curses and harmful magic effects, and grants the Bless effect.

Kindness

Kindness

Heal yourself for 30% of the spell's total heal amount when healing another target.

Over Healing

Over Healing

Even if the target's health is at full health, additional healing can be done by 20% of the target's maximum health. ^ degenerates at 2% per second.

Pain Offering

Pain Offering

When you take damage, heal allies within 6m for 30% of the damage taken.

Perseverance

Perseverance

Reduces all types of incoming damage by 2.

Protection from Evil

Protection from Evil

Reduce the duration of all harmful effects by 30%.

Requiem

Requiem

Resurrecting an ally revives them with 50% HP instead of a sliver of life. When reviving an ally at the Altar of Sacrifice, you do not need to sacrifice any of your own health. Using the Resurrection spell also grants 100% Spell Casting Speed.

Sacred Flame

Sacred Flame

When a divine attack is successful, apply sacred flame to the target for 3.5 seconds. When sacred flame reaches 3 stacks, it detonates, dealing 10 divine magical damage.

Cooldown: 5 seconds

Stigmata

Stigmata

Lose 1 health every 2 seconds, but gain 15% Spell Casting Speed and 5 Magical Healing.

Undead Slaying

Undead Slaying

Gain 20% Undead Damage Bonus against undead monsters.

Cleric Skills

Barefoot Pilgrimage

Barefoot Pilgrimage

For 16 seconds, you lose all base armor rating from equipped gear (armor rating from modifiers still apply.) In return, casting speed is increased by 20%, magical healing by 25%, and debuff duration bonus is reduced by 50%.

Cooldown: 45 seconds

Confession

Confession

Remove all harmful poison and curse effects from the target and heal 5 per effect removed.

Cooldown: 24 seconds

Divine Protection

Divine Protection

Gain 30% Physical Damage Reduction for 6 seconds.

Cooldown: 45 seconds

Excommunication

Excommunication

Excommunicates the target. For [0] seconds, the target’s divine magic resistance is reduced by [0]% and they cannot receive magical healing.

Cooldown: 45 seconds

Holy Purification

Holy Purification

After channeling for 1.5 seconds, deal 100 divine Magical Damage to all undead monsters within a 7.5m radius around you.

Cooldown: 45 seconds

Judgement

Judgement

After channeling for 1.5 seconds, deal 25 Divine Magical Damage to a target and reduce their Move Speed Bonus by 30% for 2 seconds. Once the channel begins on a target, crosshair targeting is no longer required. This spell has a 5m range and will fail if the target goes out of range.

Cooldown: 28 seconds

Smite

Smite

Deal an additional 5 Divine Magical Damage to all enemies you hit within 12 seconds. Only when melee attacking.

Cooldown: 18 seconds

Spell Memory I

Spell Memory I

Gain the ability to memorize spells to use in the dungeon.

Spell Memory II

Spell Memory II

Gain the ability to memorize additional spells to use in the dungeon.

Vow of Silence

Vow of Silence

Unable to cast spells for [0] seconds, but gain a stack of Penance every second.Penance: Increases the effectiveness of magical bonus by [1]% and is consumed upon using a divine attack or spell.

Cooldown: 32 seconds

Cleric Spells

Bind

Bind

3

Binds the target for 0.8 seconds.

Bless

Bless

2

Grants the target 2 All Attributes for 30 seconds. Self cast if no target is found.

Blessed Fare

Blessed Fare

5

Creates blessed bread and divine water at the target location.

Cleanse

Cleanse

2

Removes poison and curse effects from the target. Self cast if no target is found.

Divine Barrier

Divine Barrier

6

Creates a divine barrier on the ground centered on the caster for 6 seconds, blocking enemy projectiles.

Divine Grace

Divine Grace

4

When healing another ally, the target blessed by Divine Grace receives 25% of the healing amount.

Divine Strike

Divine Strike

3

Grants the target 5 Weapon Damage for 12 seconds. Self cast if no target is found.

Earthquake

Earthquake

7

Channel an earthquake in a 2.5m radius over 6 seconds. Any target within the area is dealt 7 Earth Magical Damage per step and receives 50% Move Speed Bonus reduction.

Holy Light

Holy Light

5

Heals a target for 35 Health or deals 100 Divine Magical Damage to an undead target.

Holy Strike

Holy Strike

4

Deal 20 Divine Magical Damage to all targets in an area, blinding them for 4 seconds.

Lesser Heal

Lesser Heal

3

Heals the target for 20 Health. Self cast if no target is found.

Locust Swarm

Locust Swarm

7

Channel a swarm of locusts in a 3m radius over 6 seconds. Any target within the area is dealt 13 Divine Magical Damage per 1 second. The target also suffers reduced Incoming Magical Healing by 50% and Incoming Physical Healing by 50%.

Protection

Protection

1

Grants the target a shield that blocks 20 physical damage for 8 seconds.

Resurrection

Resurrection

8

Target an ally to resurrect them from the dead (the corpse must have a soul heart).

Sanctuary

Sanctuary

6

Channel for 5 seconds, healing all targets within 3.5m for 5 per second and deals 14 Divine Magical Damage per second to the undead.

Radiant Blade

Radiant Blade

6

Summons a radiant blade for 12 _. The blade automatically attacks all nearby enemies, dealing 20 physical damage and 20 divine magical damage, and returns to its summoned location when there are no targets.

Veil of Judgement

Veil of Judgement

5

Envelops the target in mist and darkness, blinding them for 2 seconds.

Withering Word

Withering Word

2

Utters a divine word that withers the target for 6 seconds, reducing their maximum health by 15%