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Cleric is the primary healer. Where Chanter tops a party up between hits, Cleric is the class that keeps it alive through the hit, and it carries the cleanses and emergency buttons that a difficult fight is planned around.

Cleric class key art showing a white haired healer in a pale gown under a glowing green halo, with the class name in Korean

Field	Detail
Role	Healer
Weapon	Mace
Signature mechanic	Party heals within 40 meters, cleanses, resurrection and a summoned attack aura
Party fit	The healer slot in five-player Expedition and ten-player Sanctuary content

NCsoft's own class overview calls the Cleric a sacred healer who protects allies and mends their wounds. The class is part of the eight-class roster offered on the global service, which opened to Founder's Pack holders in paid Advance Access on September 30, 2026 ahead of the official launch on October 5, 2026.

NCsoft's Korean guidebook describes the Cleric (치유성) as a classic healer that uses a mace, keeps allies alive with a range of recovery skills, and holds the team together in a crisis.

Global practical build

Use Cleric Global PvE Build for the Global launch setup, including skill-point priorities, specialties, Stigmas, Daevanion routes, Arcana, equipment and the skill sequence. The later Korean and Taiwanese balance history on this page remains service-specific.

How It Plays

Most Cleric heals reach every party member within 40 meters. Light of Regeneration heals over 30 seconds, Healing Light picks the lowest-HP party member, Radiant Recovery heals and removes one debuff, and Absolution is a larger heal that removes up to two. Summon Resurrection brings back a fallen party member, Salvation gives the Cleric a few seconds of immunity, and Yustiel's Power raises the party's damage tolerance. Between heals the Cleric deals earth and wind damage: Debilitating Mark lowers the targets' damage, Chain of Torment lowers their damage tolerance and opens Condemnation, Bolt is a charge spell with three levels, Divine Aura places a stationary attacking aura, and Noble Aura summons one that follows the Cleric. Light of Protection is a party toggle whose damage bonus does not stack with the Chanter's Undefeated Mantra (the higher-level effect applies).

The August 2026 Healing Rework

The August 12, 2026 patch on the Korean and Taiwanese build reshaped how the class scales, and it is the single change most worth understanding.

Change	Before	After
Healing skill radius	25 metres	40 metres
Base healing amounts	Baseline	Cut by roughly 20 to 50 percent depending on skill level
Healing amplification passive	A flat base bonus	Removed, replaced with amplification that scales with attack power at 26, 30 and 34 percent across the passive's three marked levels

The effect is that a Cleric's healing output now grows with its own gear rather than sitting at a fixed multiplier, and that healing reaches further but hits softer. The same patch strengthened the healing-received reduction debuffs carried across seven class skills while lowering that debuff's strength in the Abyss and arenas from 30 to 20 percent.

Party Synergy

Cleric is on the side of the roster that kept and then gained team-wide synergy when the April 2026 passes stripped it from the four pure damage classes.

That changed in part on August 26, 2026, when NCsoft toned down the party synergy of Gladiator, Templar, Chanter and Cleric on the Korean and Taiwanese service; for the Cleric, Earth Punishment's attack and defense specialties now give the full bonus to the Cleric and a smaller one to party members.

Skills

In the client data every class has 12 active skills, 13 Stigma skills and 10 passives, plus Dodge and chain follow-ups that do not take a slot of their own. Stigma skills are equipped through the Stigma System and keep every specialty they have unlocked. Each skill also unlocks specialties (numbered Spec 1 to Spec 5 in patch notes) as it levels up.

The full reference, with Korean names, unlock levels, cooldowns, costs, every specialty, the chain follow-ups and the complete balance history since launch, is on Cleric Skills. The rules for skill levels, specialties and presets that apply to every class are on Skills and Specialties, and boss stagger is explained on Stagger Gauge.

Skill	Type	What it does
Earth's Retribution	Active	Basic earth bolt that restores MP; usable while moving.
Judgment Thunder	Active	Wind damage on a group around the target; costs MP.
Debilitating Mark	Active	Wind damage on a group that lowers their damage and adds damage over time.
Divine Aura	Active	Places a stationary aura that strikes a target for a few seconds.
Chain of Torment	Active	Earth damage on a group that lowers their damage tolerance and adds damage over time.
Lightning Strike Scattershot	Active	Spell that can only be used on a staggered target.
Light of Regeneration	Active	Heals the Cleric and party members within 40 meters over 30 seconds.
Condemnation	Active	Earth damage on a group; only usable on a target afflicted with Chain of Torment.
Healing Light	Active	Heals the Cleric and the lowest-HP party member within 40 meters.
Radiant Recovery	Active	Heals the Cleric and party members within 40 meters and removes one debuff.
Bolt	Active	Charge spell with three levels that deals wind damage to a group.
Defiance	Active	Shared escape skill: removes stun, knockdown, airborne, grab, frost and fear, then grants brief status immunity.
Benevolence	Stigma	Heals the Cleric and party members within 40 meters over time.
Root	Stigma	Earth damage on a group that can root targets.
Salvation	Stigma	A few seconds of immunity to damage and status effects.
Power Burst	Stigma	Earth damage with heavy stagger damage.
Absolution	Stigma	Large heal for the Cleric and party members within 40 meters that removes up to two debuffs.
Voice of Doom	Stigma	Area spell with damage over time that cuts the healing and potion recovery the targets receive.
Summon Resurrection	Stigma	Resurrects a fallen party member within 40 meters beside the Cleric.
Earth Punishment	Stigma	Earth damage plus damage over time.
Light of Protection	Stigma	Toggle that raises damage and damage tolerance for the Cleric and nearby party members; its damage bonus does not stack with the Chanter's Undefeated Mantra.
Yustiel's Power	Stigma	Damage tolerance for the Cleric and party members within 40 meters.
Prayer of Amplification	Stigma	Self buff to Attack.
Noble Aura	Stigma	Summons an aura that follows the Cleric and attacks its target.
Assault Mark	Stigma	Ranged area spell that can root and raises Defense by the number of targets hit.
Warm Benediction	Passive	Raises maximum HP and MP.
Empyrean Lords' Benediction	Passive	Raises Block and restores HP on a block.
Empyrean Lord's Grace	Passive	Raises Critical Hit and Double Chance and adds extra damage on hit.
Healing Enhancement	Passive	Raises healing done in proportion to Attack.
Immortal Veil	Passive	Raises Defense and critical resistance.
Heal Block	Passive	Hits can cut the healing the target receives.
Prayer of Concentration	Passive	Emergency shield and healing boost when HP falls to half.
Earth's Grace	Passive	Raises critical damage and Accuracy.
Survival Willpower	Passive	Status resistance, plus damage tolerance while stunned, knocked down, airborne, frozen or feared.
Radiant Benediction	Passive	Hits can heal the Cleric and party members within 40 meters.

Balance History

Changes made on the Korean and Taiwanese service since the Chapter 1 update. Earlier passes are described above and on Classes.

Every change since the Korean launch in November 2025, including the passes before Chapter 1 and the pure fixes, is listed on Cleric Skills.

Date	Change (Korean and Taiwanese service)
July 15, 2026	Prayer of Amplification's Attack specialty rose from 5% to 10%; Bolt's fifth specialty changed from resetting its cooldown on a kill to a guaranteed Critical Hit; seven damage spells gained 5% PvE damage.
July 22, 2026	Condemnation gained 5% PvE damage and its cooldown reset now triggers on a critical hit; three other damage spells gained 10% PvE damage.
July 29, 2026	Bolt and Divine Aura gained 5% PvE damage; Condemnation lost 7%.
August 12, 2026	Healing rework: heal radius widened from 25 to 40 meters, base healing cut by 20 to 50% depending on level, and Healing Enhancement now scales with Attack (see above).
August 26, 2026	Debilitating Mark's damage-reduction specialty rose from 5% to 10%; Earth Punishment's specialties now give 10% to the Cleric and 5% to party members; Earth's Grace's critical damage went from 7.5, 12.5 and 17.5% to 15, 20 and 25%.
September 4, 2026	Class Care: Bolt can be cast while moving by default and gained 20% PvE damage; Prayer of Amplification's cooldown fell from 90 to 60 seconds and its specialties were reworked.
September 9, 2026	With its fifth specialty, Salvation's rule that invincibility cannot stack now covers the whole party instead of only the caster and the lowest-HP party member.
September 16, 2026	Radiant Recovery's second specialty now grants one extra consecutive cast instead of skill speed.
October 14, 2026	All classes: PvP damage reduced by about 30%. Assault Mark now gives up to 80% more Defense and all elemental resistances for 5 seconds, scaled by the number of targets hit (previously up to 20% more Defense), and cooldown reduction no longer applies to it. Lightning Strike Scattershot now deals Wind damage, and Noble Aura and Empyrean Lord's Grace deal Earth damage.

Shared Systems

Every class runs the same underlying loop: tab-targeting with active dodge and parry, skill chains that prompt a follow-up key, a Groggy stagger gauge on bosses, and Perfect Parry (plus Perfect Shield Block for Templars and Clerics), a low-chance block result that stops most of a hit's damage. Loadouts hold twelve active skills, a set of Stigma slots and ten passives, raised with skill points and Stigma Shards.

Naming and Sourcing

Skill names on this page are the English names used in the global client. The skill table is drawn from the global client data as of September 2026 and describes what each skill does rather than its per-level numbers, which change with skill level and with balance patches. The balance history covers the Korean and Taiwanese service, which receives changes on its own schedule; the global build can differ from it at any given time.

Support PvP loadout example

These are effective-level targets for one loadout example. Mastery skill points raise a skill to level 10; equipment, Arcana and the Daevanion Board supply additional levels. Keep the activation conditions and available specialty slots in the skill tables when choosing options.

Skill family	Effective level	Priority skills
Active	20	Light of Regeneration; Healing Light
Active	16	Lightning Strike Scattershot
Active	14	Debilitating Mark; Chain of Torment; Condemnation; Radiant Recovery
Active	9	Earth's Retribution
Active	5	Judgment Thunder; Divine Aura; Bolt
Passive	20	Healing Enhancement
Passive	15	Warm Benediction; Empyrean Lords' Benediction; Empyrean Lord's Grace; Immortal Veil; Heal Block; Prayer of Concentration; Earth's Grace; Radiant Benediction
Passive	14	Survival Willpower

Selected Stigma	Effective level	Purpose
Earth Punishment	20	Support Condemnation critical hits during a safe damage window.
Yustiel's Power	20	Prepare party damage tolerance for incoming pressure.
Root	20	Restrict an opponent's movement while the party repositions.
Light of Protection	20	Maintain the party damage and tolerance toggle when its effect applies.

Maintain Light of Regeneration, then answer large damage or removable debuffs with the appropriate manual heal. Healing Light reaches the caster and lowest-HP party member; Radiant Recovery handles party damage and cleansing. Keep those actions available rather than consuming them as part of a damage macro.

Use Chain of Torment before Condemnation and Earth Punishment when a safe damage window exists. Light of Protection is the flexible slot for Absolution or Benevolence when more cleansing or sustained healing is needed. Its damage effect does not stack with Undefeated Mantra: the higher skill level applies, with the Chanter effect taking precedence on a tie. Preserve the support action needed for the next enemy burst.

HP, MP, Block and Combat Speed support survival and responsiveness. Attack still contributes to Healing Enhancement, so assess healing output as well as the size of the HP and MP pools.

Classes for the full roster and the balance history. Combat and Skill Chains for the shared input loop. Gear and Progression for equipment. Daeva System and Daevanion Board for talents. Stigma System for the enhanceable skill layer.

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