As I have mentioned before, I am a bit of an altaholic. This makes it difficult to get a character to max level, because I am constantly switching between different classes and characters and wanting to start over to try new things. However, this last year I did manage to get a Cleric to level 230. I did this without dungeons and without groups, while keeping questing to a minimum. I’ve had a couple of people mention this is unusual, so I would like to share the build I used.

First, it helps if you are used to solo leveling in an mmo environment. It is certainly fun to level in groups and chatter but I was mainly interested in learning how to solo my way through the game in what would be a most enjoyable and natural route for my own play style. I tried throwing my points into healing and buffs a bit and found I died fairly quickly, so I decided around level 100 to become a full battle cleric to help my survivability.

This is the build I was using when I reached level 230

Now some of this can be moved around a bit. I rarely used Mana Wave, and I usually forgot to use Sleep although it probably would have helped me survive a couple of times when I pulled more than I could handle. For the most part I used my swords to keep aggro to myself to a minimum and pulled one or two mobs at a time, using mana shield and food with bigger groups and Captain or General level mobs. I’m not going to lie, having reinforced gear helped a lot as well, and I leveled a lot during weekend and the share-a-thon events as well. I occasionally used boosters, but only what I picked up along the way from events. There were a couple of times someone would buff me, but towards the end, especially once I hit Orlo, that wasn’t necessary and I soloed through the last 30 or so levels killing Terrasaurus and Snappers without buffs for the most part.

For Stat Points, I maxed out INT then spread my points out around Dex, Con and Sen (with perhaps a little more in DEX than the other two)

With this build I was able to solo level with relative ease, including the Faith Quest that was needed to get into Orlo at the time. There are definitely a lot of other builds that would work, but this is what I used and it worked for me! If you have any feedback for me on this or have a build that works for you that you would like to see highlighted, send me a message on the forums!

Next ROSE Online blog post I am going to talk about the Cleric Ice Dragon build!

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Today I dragged CM JelloShaker and CM Varitas into the wonderful world of ROSE Online. Two Dealers and a Muse ran rampant around Birth Island to make our way through the Anniversary Event! With the help of ROSE players Buffiies and Cortiz, we completed the quest and obtained the coveted Anniversary costumes. Here, JelloShaker immortalized this moment when we tried on our sparkly new dresses on our Dealers.

We did note that the Arua’s Fairy on that island is a bit bloodthirsty. Those poor Scuba Moldies looked much the worse for the wear upon being ‘pranked’.

I hope everyone is enjoying their time on Birth Island and catching lots of Rubber Duckies, and is ready for the 12 Day of Christmas to kick off!

Just a quick post to talk about the November Lucky Spin costumes! I will be making a longer post once all the Lucky Spin costumes have been added, and maybe even once the Black Friday Sales are up!

I don’t know about you guys, but I love the costumes in ROSE Online! This month we have some old favorites back in the rotation, as well as the all new Howling Wing sets. I was very lucky, when spinning I managed to get my favorite of these wings, the Amethyst Howling Wings.

Here is my soldier in my favorite set in the Lucky Spin right now. I tried on a couple of hats that would match this set, but ultimately though the charming school costume and howling wings with  the soldiers helm mismatch had a sort of charm to it.

My second favorite costume set in so far this month is the Tenjin Costume! While I think I like the Ninja Costume better on my Raider, the Tenjin mask is maybe one of my favorite face masks!

Do you have a favorite costume or set yet for November? I’m excited to see what the new designs look like in game as well once they are here! I’ve definitely saved up some spins for the new lucky spin costumes this month, as well as to try my luck on more of those awesome Howling Wings!