Vote for your favorite Paragon Path - Part 1: Cleric

[mkill]

A new vote! This time, we're looking for the player favorite of the 360 (and counting) existing Paragon Paths.

Since they can't be all in one poll, we'll split it them up by topic. I'll start with class-based paths in order of appearance (of the class).

Only the winner (the PP with the most votes) will advance to the next round, so choose wisely!

Other polls:
Cleric - Fighter - Paladin - Ranger - Rogue - Warlock - Warlord - Wizard - Swordmage - Forgotten Realms - Avenger - Barbarian - Bard - Druid - Invoker - Sorcerer - Warden - Eberron - Artificer -

 

[Flipguarder]

gotta go with the messenger of peace. Good RP opportunities, good features, decent powers. all round fun stuff.

 

[Turtlejay]

Divine Oracle may be good for Multiclassing, but Warpriest builds can get quite scary-awesome.

Jay

 

[Cyronax]

I like planeswalking themed classes, crunch, and fluff and the Astral Savant seems kind of cool. Though, as with most things 4e, you could simply swap out the damage types and easily make the path seem totally different fluff wise.

 

[mkill]

Pretty interesting results so far. There are 19 choices, and 11 are from Divine Power. However, that's not reflected in the votes: So far, just two PPs collect over 50% of the vote, and both are from the good old Player's Handbook.

It looks like Enworlders love to mix a good dose of Defender in their Cleric. Or is it the multiclassing potential that people love? Anyway, it looks like the Warpriest is unstoppable.

I thought about voting for Angelic Avenger, as it has a pretty cool daily that gives you wings and flight. However, the rest of the path is just really bad mechanics. I hate it when PPs are split between different attack stats (Doomguide in the FRPG has the same problem), and then you still need a tertiary stat for the 11th level effect?? What were they thinking? It also has a really creepy picture.

Stuck between my other choices, Luckbringer of Tymora and Seldarine Dedicate, I went for the one with the cute elf chick. Who wouldn't have?

 

[Mengu]

I was tempted to vote who plays clerics anyway... I don't. I liked them pre-DP. post-DP, I really dislike the healic builds, which turned me off from the whole class.

I voted Battle Chaplain as it's a strength cleric option and I like the offensive buffs it provides, and free heavy shield proficiency is a big help for both AC and Reflex.

I do also like Seldarine Dedicate for hybrid Elf Cleric|Rangers.

 

[Ferghis]

I like the balance of healing and condition removal offered by Miracle worker. Plus, I play a Dex/Wis cleric, so I don't have much Cha, which dampens a lot of paths for me...

I don't see seldarine dedicate as that good a path, because by then, most clerics will already have a symbol, and will want to use it. Plus, if the cleric is the ranged character in the party, the odds are there will be fewer other ranged characters in the party, which makes the path's "grant CA to ranged attacks" power less useful.

 

[mkill]

As I see it, the advantage of Seldarine Dedicate is lots of shifting + ignore diff terain when you do (elf) + concealment (utility).
This makes it hard for enemies to pin you down, and you don't depend on your defender so much.
The bow is a bonus for ranger/seeker multiclass.

 

[Davachido]

Slight necro of thread, but the poll is still open so I'll have my say too

I haven't played a cleric myself but every game I've been in or DMed there has been a cleric, and miracle worker has been the most useful for us espcially his daily attack power. The players never like big status effects on them after all and its all the more satisfiying when we mirror them back to the enemies.