Cleric Class (Excelsior)

The Cleric Class is the new playable class added by Excelsior. As a Cleric, you have access to several different tools, such as Support Tools that can heal and buff your allies, Radiant weapons that consume mana and grant benefits to allies, and Necrotic weapons that consume your health to steal enemy life.
While Radiant and Necrotic damage types are considered separate, they each gain 50% of each others bonus. For example, increasing Radiant damage by +8% will also increase Necrotic damage by +4%.

Mechanics

Healing

Support Tools or Healing tools are the Cleric's way of supporting allies. The strength of healing can be augmented through armor and accessories and will typically be told as Increases healing potency by #. The majority of support tools use mana but its also possible that they are consumables instead.
Buffs are another way of helping your allies, and several support tools feature ways of buffing allies. The duration of buffs can be increased by 1 second for every bonus healing potency, or through certain armor and accessories.
Certain support tools can Cleanse allies, removing harmful debuffs.

Radiant Damage

Radiant weapons can be considered your "normal" weapons for the Cleric. They require mana to function and will typically have a secondary function that supports or heals allies. A lot of radiant weapons feature a chargeable Meter when using them. This meter tells you how close you are to been able to use the secondary function.
As an example, the Dewdrop Staff requires hitting three enemies before it can heal allies. The Meter is present and will fill up with each hit, showing your progress before the weapon's ability can be used.

Necrotic Damage

Necrotic weapons are typically your higher damaging weapons as a Cleric. Using them comes at the cost of your own health, but feature life-stealing abilities that can heal yourself and occasionally allies.

Patients

Patients are a mechanic unique to the cleric, providing automatic support for the specified target/patient. Selecting patients work by either left-clicking an ally or right-clicking an ally with a patient tool.
All patient tools (with the exception of Meteoric Fury) allow for the player to perform other actions such as damaging or even healing whilst automatically healing the specified patient.

List of all Patient Tools, listed in order of when they are obtained

Tool	Hardmode?
Meteoric Fury	✗
Cosmic Repair Staff	✗
Antidote	✓
Beacon	✓

Shields

Certain Cleric tools can provide an ally or yourself with a shield. These shields protect the target from a given amount of attacks before disappearing, or if their corresponding buff runs out. Shields can be made to last longer by increasing healing potency, an extra second for every bonus healing potency.