newbie questions from someone that is new to eq1ish..

[Eternalnoob]

After doing some thinking i decided to roll a dwarf cleric named Duerel. Im pretty casual so fast leveling isnt going to be happening for me any how so might as well take the time to get a usefull toon up there. And i always tend to gravitate towards healers in mmorpgs. So guess cleric it will be. What would be my soloing tactics as a cleric? pretty much heal and melee? Im looking at a spell list and it seems like most my spells are pretty weak and or only useful against undead?