Let's compare the utility of each sub class.
Bard:
- Speed, fair enough (or buy typhoon?!?!)
- Healing mana (vigor pills are your friends, and you should be able to kill your enemy before needing mana)
- Noise (really usefull!!!!...)
Cleric :
- survive more than one or two hits because of healing skills such as RD Healing orbit or healing cycle and all quick release healing skills
- when you switch, you keep your shield
- being cleric allows you to wear light armor and get a bonus defence while healing you or casting offering
- offering skill if warlock nukes aren't strong enough to kill him
I think cleric is way more usefull. Only disandvantage is that you have to farm a LOT more sp, but in the end, you'll be happy to be cleric because you'll be able to pown. For the int or hybrid question, I don't think it makes a huge difference one friend of mine who was hybrid 5:1 often told me that for the bonus hp he got wasn't worth the loss of mag attack power.
That's it.
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