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Originally posted by Dundee Slaytern:
Who's talking about parties now? Stick to the debate at hand, which is to give reasons why you think either a Mage or a Cleric is more powerful. Let's not bring the Monks and Barbarians into this picture, unless you are trying to say that Clerics are only for parties? 
Being "powerful" is not limited to soloing through the game with spell triggers casting magical nukes. That is simplistic. If a Mage and a Cleric face off against each other in some arena, then the Mage would probably win, if that makes you happy. But a Cleric can maintain a party and a Mage can't...because the Priest's abilities are primarily defensive and more than a few are for buffing up the party. So if you exclude the party, you exclude by necessity some degree of the Cleric's power. And NO, that does not mean that Clerics are only for parties. Finis.