In this neverwinter gold article we'll be taking a look at what makes the Devoted Cleric uniquely suited to damage dealing and healing, offer our thoughts on the class having played it through to level 30 (the cap durinig the beta weekend) , and offer a number of tips that can help you get the most from your Devoted Cleric.
Like any good D&D experience, you'll start your Devoted Cleric experience with some important choices in character creation. Since the Devoted Cleric's primary stat is Wisdom, most players will pick a race that offers a nice bonus to this attribute. In Neverwinter, this means elf or dwarf, but if you want to venture off the beaten path and pick a race with lots of strength and charisma (the secondary attributes) to perhaps create a kickass Battle Cleric, go for it! Just know that you'll get two attribute points to distribute every 10 levels, so be advised that you won't be able to cover a large WIS gap fairly easily.

Since I wanted to dip my toe in the Battle Cleric waters without giving up the chance to be a primary healer in the future, I re-rolled until I got about 19/15/15 (wis, str, cha - I forget the exact numbers). Race and bonus are the only choices you'll make during character creation that affect gameplay, so have fun with the rest!

Heal Root and Nuke!
While you might think that your ability set is structured around healing, levels 1-30 offer more options for stopping or slowing down and blasting your targets with a variety of direct damage and area of effect (AoE) attacks. This is a good idea, in my opinion, since awesome heals and not much else would make for a very slow level-up process.

But you do have useful healing abilities. Early heals are of the heal over time variety (HoTs like Healing Word), a trigger heal (like Astral Seal, which heals anyone attacking this target), and one ground targeted heal (Bastion of Health) which, while useful for topping up the hitpoints, won't exactly save the day if your group gets seriously into the red.

Instead of being the group's health battery, think of yourself as a direct damage dealer with some decent crowd control abilities in addition to the heals mentioned above. Chains of Blazing Light is a core encounter skill which temporarily AoE roots the enemy group in place. Couple this with some hard-hitting dailies like Avenging Angel or Flame Strike for massive AoE damage, or while these are charging up use encounter AoEs like Daunting Light, then use the at-will attack Astral Seal for some heals and Forgemaster's Flame to snare anything that crawls out of the inferno you just created.