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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vangol" data-source="post: 4387594" data-attributes="member: 69484">The Angelic Avenger's daily is very good- but a little redundant with Cloud Chariot (level 22 utility). The benefits the path offers are certainly powerful, but the fact that most characters won't be able to take advantage of all of them makes it hard to rate higher than '+'.It's not that they're only good against undead and demons; they're only exceptional against undead and demons. Otherwise, the path offers some nice bonuses, but nothing better than what most other paths offer. More critical hits and a strong encounter power can't compare to rolling twice for initiative and will attacks (roughly equivalent to a +4 bonus) and immunity to surprise for the entire party.I admit, I hadn't noticed that combo. The power's still pretty much limited to killing solos, but that alone makes it top tier. I'll edit my original post.Oops. I must have confused it with another power.However, that actually makes the attack weaker, in my opinion. Even if you hit, there's over a 50% chance the enemy saves before your next turn, so you'll be lucky to even get an extra 5 damage out of the effect. For a daily, that's pretty insignificant, even at level 1.The devoted cleric can still be an effective front line fighter. He has solid defenses and healing, and plenty of close attacks.A generalist will almost never be more powerful than a specialist. The fact that a balanced cleric is even viable is testament to its power. Most other builds that rely on two primary abilities (like the starlock and balanced paladin) are among the weakest in the game.The balanced cleric doesn't really have many more choices than the devoted cleric. Sure, you can pick up a few good str-based powers (though few of them are exceptional), but you miss out on a number of good powers which require a high charisma to be effective.Glad you liked it. My biggest fear was that I'd spend all that time typing this up and no one would read it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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