Okay, just off the bat here, of all the videos I've watched about the Arena type thing, or whenever I see a Cleric in the Abyss, they are... absolutely pwnage lol. Not in the way that they own everything they come in contact with, which they shouldn't since they are the Healer class. But in their survivability. It's absolutely insane. I saw a Sorcerer going up against a Cleric ones, in the Arena, and Sorcerers just like, pump out damage but the Cleric just didn't give up. It was like full health pretty much the entire time. It was insane.

I have to say, if I wasn't playing a Spirit Master (seeing as I take 0 damage in PvE), I could call every Cleric I see as Over Powered xD One thing that surprised me is that Clerics wear leather armor. That gives them increased defense over a mage's robe AND increased evasion as well, yay for more survivability? With leather they do lose out of some concentration though, so a cleric does have to be careful when trying to heal while being attacked.

That's true. Also with the videos I've seen, the Cleric was healing himself non-stop which means that his energy is going to fail at some point and there's no way that while he's trying to spam heal, he's going to be able to deal any damage at all, or heal any of his other allies. Another thing, I just recently saw a video of a Cleric that just didn't seem to die 1 v 1, but when another person came along and started to attack him, the Cleric faltered and died.

It's really the wrong approach though you would want to team a cleric up with a templar or gladiator and hang back while they take the beats and anihilate everything.

Clerics actually wear Mail armor and there is plenty out there with Concentration. Cleric and Chanters are the only 2 classes wearing mail I think, so about half of it is weighted towards the Cleric. I have incredibly high survivability. In the last Beta I got up to 23 before Morheim became infested with Elyos and to get away I ported to a city way above me in level range to grind a bit. I couldn't get any quests so I just stepped out of the little village and grinded on mobs a bit. At 22 I was able to kill lvl 27 mobs. I got lots of resists on my spells but with lots of healing, lots of melee and the occasional spell hit, I was able to solo mobs 5 lvls above me.

don't tell nobody, but clerics are real OP right now. But if you squeal, we won't have any healers.

I was surprised how strong chanters were after getting one to level 15. Taking on 5 enemies my level all at once was awesome. If clerics are anything like that, then I'm rolling one too!

If I'm not mistaken, you could actually be a cleric in plate armor with stigma stones? Defense wise it would be pretty awesome, but I guess I didn't really see many (if any) pieces of plate with healer stats on it like concentration, so that may not be a good idea.

Those stigma options (both weapon and armor stigmas) were removed prior to v1.0 (release), they were over powered since Sorcerers were able to wear the Best defense in the game

I can has cleric?