Crowfall Introduces The Cleric, Scraps Legionnaire Archetype

In line with the Crowfall race/class split, ArtCraft is saying goodbye to the Legionnaire and welcoming the Cleric to its list of playable classes. Design Lead Thomas Blair introduces the cleric in a recent dev blog.

“When evaluating what classes we wanted after breaking the archetypes into races and classes, some things fell away immediately: the “Legionnaire” theme was peeled away as a cultural element (attached to Centaurs, not Clerics) and the squad-leader assumption went with it. We also know many players can struggle with the healing playstyle of the Druid. Based on this we needed was an easy to play, ranged, healing, buffing, along with the sturdiness to take a severe beating. (As they would no doubt be the focus target in any fight.) This led us to a very canonical plate wearing, hammer-and-shield wielding Cleric. Frankly, now that we have him, the class line-up feels better as a result.

When designing the powers one of the goals was to give the Cleric some offensive options to a kit full of healing and buffing powers. With all the tech work we did for disciplines we can now grant classes more powers than they can loadout into their power tray by default. This is important because it enabled us to give the Cleric some offensive power options to potentially swap out some of their mostly support-style powers. This makes for some really exciting options based on the needs of your group.”

The Cleric features an arsenal of healing and offensive skills and a choice between a Support-type Ultimate or an offensive one. Other support classes will also be balanced out to ensure that they always heal better than the other non-support classes. And, like previously released classes, ArtCraft is developing the Cleric based on their “minimum viable powers” approach. “We are still building this class, so things are liable to change,” says Blair. “In fact, they are almost guaranteed to change!”

Watch the devs show off changes made to the game since they decided to rework the race/class archetype system in the video below. You can also head over to the Crowfall official site to learn more about the Cleric.