Originally posted by Aywren

Cleric without another class to back it up was an extremely frustrating class for me to level, too. Having a foundation of warrior or mage really, really helps. That first quest for cleric, taking down those treants, was just stupid hard. They kept regenerating on me... I haven't seen one that nasty after I beat that one, however.

Even if you do want to be a cleric main, I'd suggest putting some mage or warrior levels there to help out. And another, more experienced player suggested at a lower level, put some training points into evade and health. Even if it doesn't seem like that's something you should be concentrating on. So I did, and wow... it's a LOT easier when the mobs can't hit me! It's quite effective.

That's the quest! Filthy treants. I can't seem to hit them, and as I fight them all of a sudden there are three attacking me.

Turn & Sprint, or die.

This is another one of those things that really detract from the new player experience, and one they should really think hard about. Having a near impossible quest in the starter area makes no sense whatsoever.

Time for me to research what the heck you mean by "training points". I did the tutorial island months ago and then gave up afterwards, as well as one time after, so much of the stuff most new players learning I've long forgotten.

If you hit your "C" button (or whatever button you've assigned your character stat to come up as), you will bring up your stats. Locate the General tab (first one) and click that if it's not already open. The fourth line from the top will be Training Points. It will have a number behind it, or a zero if you've already spent the points. Click that number and it will take you to your training points screen where you put points into your skills.

Here is some more information on that: istaria.wikia.com/wiki/Training_Points

As for the Cleric quest... you can either see if someone would help you with it (I would if I were on your server!). Or you can go to a different class trainer (Warrior, Mage), switch classes, and gain some levels by doing those quests (much easier). Once you have a foundation of that class, switch back to Cleric... some of your abilities from the other classes will transfer with you. Those treants won't be laughing so hard when you slam a mage fire bolt and engulf on them along with your cleric smash abilities! Multiclassing is what gives bi-peds real power in this game. So don't be afraid to mix and match.

The goal for one of my bi-ped alts was to unlock Paladin at 20. So I had to go through the first 15 levels of cleric. I found it far easier to do once I had some few levels of warrior toughness in me and was able to slice away at undead for crystals. :)

Holy crap, i had no idea about all this stuff, thanks Aywren!

I've mostly been talking to other players for tips, maybe the game isn't made for loners :p Everyone i've met so far said it's best to find a partner to duo with and multiclass a few levels into cleric (i'm a mage so I guess it goes both ways)

Again i'm getting a constant EVE kinda feeling from this game, the really deep  multiple skill system(that doesn't tie you to any one class), with deep crafting and non-centralised trading hubs,  so I imagine it attracts the same kinda people (from a fantasy background though)  I just wish the animations were more polished and the cooldowns weren't so high :p (EVE dodged the animation issue pretty well, heh)

Having dragons is definitely quite unique though, though i'm happy to just share the world with them on my f2p human =p