Monsters and Memories Cleric Guide

01The Cleric at a Glance

The Cleric is the premier healer of Monsters and Memories — a plate-armored priest whose power flows through prayer. You keep your group alive with direct heals, delayed heals and damage shields, bring fallen friends back with Redemption, and carry a special authority over the undead that makes you the first name on the list for crypts and tombs.

The developers describe Clerics as “a versatile, faith-powered support class built to keep their group alive, while still bringing holy damage and utility to the table.” You won’t lead the damage meter. You’ll be the reason there’s still a group left to read it.

02Is the Cleric Right for You?

For a new player, the Cleric is one of the kinder ways to learn a classic MMO: your core job is clear (keep the tank alive), plate armor forgives a few positioning mistakes, and groups will teach you the rest because they want you there. The hard part comes later, in managing mana on long fights and big pulls. Read the healing and mana section before your first dungeon.

03Choosing Your Race

Five races can be Clerics at Early Access. Your class adds +2 STR, +2 STA, +3 WIS and +1 CHA to your race's base stats, and you get 10 bonus points to spend at creation. Starting values before bonus points:

Spending your 10 bonus points

Wisdom is the Cleric's main attribute: it drives how much your heals restore and how much mana you have. Stamina comes second — extra health and a little stun resistance, which matters when you're the person mobs turn on after a big heal. A point of Dexterity helps hit rate and proc chances if you have anything left.

• Most races:+8 WIS / +2 STA. This is the standard build for Humans, Dwarves and Gnomes.
• Halflings already start at 23 WIS, so they can afford a more even split — for example +4 WIS / +4 STA / +2 DEX.
• Don't spend points on STR for melee. Your hammer procs and Holy Strike are a bonus, not your job.

Deep Dwarf, High Elf and Var'nai are listed as Cleric races on the official site but aren't playable at Early Access.

04Recommended Traits

You pick one trait from each of four categories at creation (see the New Player Guide for the full lists). Clerics also receive the class trait Blessed automatically. For your picks:

05Getting Started

Your starter quest

Every Cleric begins with a class starter quest that teaches the basics and hands out your first gear. For the full step-by-step walkthrough, with every NPC, location and reward, see our Cleric Starter Quest Guide. Individual quest pages: Cleric Starter Quest (Night Harbor).

Where to buy spells

• Night Harbor: ask Thibald Burlond, Millicent Domaire or any guard for the Cleric trainer and spell vendor.
• Underdocks and Ail’Vorith starts: ask a guard for the Cleric trainer, and check our Underdocks and Ail’Vorith pages.
• No reagents to worry about early. Your level 1–8 spells don’t need components, so all your money can go into spells.

06Your Toolkit

Cleric spells come in lines: you learn a spell, then buy stronger versions every few levels. Levels shown are when the first version (and each upgrade) becomes available.

07Spells to Prioritize, Levels 1–28

You won't be able to afford every spell as soon as it unlocks. This is the order that matters most for a new Cleric:

Past level 28, the pattern continues: upgrade your direct heal, Promise and group heal lines first, then Blessed Barrier and health buffs, then resurrection, then damage.

08Playing in a Group

This is your home. A calm Cleric makes an average group feel safe, and a group with a Cleric can take pulls it would otherwise avoid.

Before the pull

• Buff everyone with your Resilience line (or the Hymn version once you have it), keep Prayer of the Faithful on yourself, and summon a hammer if you'll be meleeing.
• Put Blessed Barrier on the tank just before the pull, and pre-cast Promise of Mending so it lands as the first hits come in.
• Soulbind the group near the camp, and agree on who gets resurrected first if things go wrong (usually you, if someone else can revive; otherwise the tank).
• Tell the group your mana. "Med break" or "OOM" in group chat saves more lives than any spell.

During the fight

1. Let the tank build aggroDon't heal the first small hits. Heals generate threat, and a heal in the first few seconds pulls the mob onto you before the tank has a hold on it.
2. Heal efficientlyUse Promise of Mending and your direct heal on the tank, timed so they land before a big hit rather than after. Save Healing Light for when several people are hurt and standing in front of you.
3. Watch everyone, not just the tankAdds, area attacks and poisons hit the rest of the group. Cure poisons and diseases early — they do a lot of damage over a long fight.
4. Use your emergency buttonsIf the tank is about to drop, Inhibit Pain cuts their damage taken and Circle of Healing picks up the whole party. If mobs turn on you, Divine Aegis makes you immune for 15 seconds while you keep healing.
5. Chip in when it's safeOn undead, Smite the Dead is worth the mana. Otherwise, melee with your hammer only when everyone is healthy and your mana is high.

09Soloing as a Cleric

Clerics are one of the slower classes to solo, but your armor and heals mean you rarely die doing it. The trick is picking the right targets.

• Hunt undead. Skeletons, ghosts and zombies are where you shine. Smite the Dead does far more damage than Rebuke, Fear the Dead sends them running, and Invisibility versus Undead lets you skip the ones you don't want.
• Melee plus Holy Strike: on everything else, summon your hammer, keep Prayer of the Faithful up, and fight in melee with Holy Strike. Heal yourself only when you need to.
• Shackle and Stun buy time: Shackle a second mob in place and walk away from it, or Stun an enemy caster mid-cast.
• Pacify shrinks a mob's aggro radius so you can split pulls instead of fighting two at once.
• Sit to regain mana. Meditation from level 4 helps only while you're sitting. A campfire speeds regeneration and builds Rested experience.

10Leveling Path

A suggested route for a Cleric. You'll level fastest in groups, and undead dungeons are where your class shines, so favor the tombs and crypts whenever you can find a party.

See Where to Level in the New Player Guide for more spots, and each zone page for maps and named mobs.

11Gear to Look For

Wear the heaviest armor you can find and stack Wisdom first, then Stamina and mana. AC matters more for you than for other healers, because 0.30 made plate reduce more incoming damage and you'll often be the second target after the tank. Carry a shield in your off hand — Prayer of the Faithful gives you the Block skill, and blocking reduces the damage you take. A Wisdom off-hand item like the Ward of Wisdom is a good early alternative.

Early gear (roughly levels 1–16)

Upgrades for later

Stats from our item database. Item levels aren't published, so "early" is based on where they drop. Browse the database for more Wisdom plate and chain.

12Healing and Mana

• Sit between pulls. Your Meditation skill (from level 4) only boosts mana regeneration while you're sitting. Resting at a campfire speeds health and mana regeneration and builds the Rested experience bonus.
• Keep Prayer of the Faithful up. It's your only self-buff that adds mana regeneration, and it lasts through many fights.
• Use the right heal. Promise of Mending costs less per point healed if you cast it before the damage; direct heals are for catching up. Don't spend a Greater Heal on a scratch.
• Blessed Barrier first, heals second. Absorbing damage before it lands is often cheaper than healing it afterward.
• Don't overheal. A heal that lands on a full health bar wasted your mana and still generated aggro.
• Buff once, not twice. Use Hymn versions of your health buffs once you have them rather than casting the single-target version on everyone.

13Common Cleric Mistakes

• Healing too early in a fight. Give the tank a few seconds to build aggro before your first heal.
• Pulling at low mana. Say "wait" and sit. Nobody will thank you for starting a fight you can't finish.
• Forgetting cures. Poisons and diseases on the tank quietly cost you more mana than the mob's melee.
• Nuking with Rebuke on normal mobs. It burns mana you'll need for heals. Save your damage for undead.
• Saving Divine Aegis "for later." If mobs are on you and the group is dying, now is later.
• Not binding your group. Soulbind everyone near the hunting spot, and resurrect with Redemption to save everyone experience.

14Cleric FAQ