Priest

Priest
Job Base(s):	Acolyte
Job Type:	2-1
Race:	Human
Changes At:	Prontera Church
Number of Skills:	34
Total Skill Points:	198
Total Quest Skills:	2
Job Bonuses
STR AGI VIT INT DEX LUK +5 +4 +5 +5 +4 +7

Overview

Acolytes who are successful in honing their spiritual powers and enhancing their contracts with the divine are promoted to Priests. Priests have an enhanced repertoire of divine spells that improves their allies or their own abilities to fight and banish the evils with exorcism spells. Priests are an essential support class to any venturing party, once the Priest dies, the rest may more or less follow.

Priests are one of the few classes who will be using numerous skills in battle, and must be flexible in any situation, advancing from acolytes it is easier for them to support larger parties but this would still drain the spiritual energy of the Priest. Having more spells to cast, it is up to the Priest which to prioritize first, with a main goal to keep the party up and going. Priest roles can range from going Full Support, or going all out with exorcising the Demons and Undead or just be a self sufficient killing machine. The support role however is always a part of the priest whichever path the priest would decide upon.

Priests are able to use books as a weapon, but more or less Priests would still stick to using either a Rod/Staff or a Mace. INT is still one of the most important stats in order to have a large SP pool and better SP recovery rates to keep using spells. STR will be the option for priests who would prefer to wield Maces in battle and do the killing themselves.

Job Change Guide

Requirement: Acolyte base 50 and job 50

See Priest Job Change Guide for detailed information.

Tactics

Party Menu Healing / Buffing

The most effective way to heal and buff a party is through the Party Window (Alt+Z). Trying to heal a party by manually clicking players can become impossible when players become mobbed or are bunched up, and can lead to players dying. This is why it is strongly recommended to make use of the Party Window. Another benefit to the Party Window is the ability to monitor all players' health. Ensure that the "Lock Menu" feature is on (by clicking the picture of the lock) when using this system to avoid opening private messages when trying to heal / buff a player.

SP Recovery & Conservation

One of the biggest issues new Priests have when playing the class is maintaining their SP. There are many ways for Priests to ensure that they always have SP for those dire situations. These are some important methods on maintaining SP:

• Always ensure that Magnificat is on at all times. This skill will not only keep a faster SP Recovery for the Priest, but also for the rest of the party that rely on SP for using skills as well. Keeping this buff up will make parties much smoother for everybody. Try not to wait until SP is bottoming out to cast this spell, because at that point it will already be too late.
• Get Increase SP Recovery. It grants the player additional natural SP regeneration. If the player cannot naturally regenerate SP (such as when carrying 50%+ weight capacity), the SP recovery will not continue until the player can resume natural regeneration.
• Stack SP Recovery or Max SP increase equipment. Gearing a Priest up with equipment that will increase their SP Recovery or Max SP will vastly help a player to maintain SP at all times.
• Always have Healing Items (SP) on hand. All players should have SP healing items on hand at all times to restore SP, at least in emergencies, and this includes Priests as well. As most classes should have HP healing items of some sort on them at all times, Priests should also have SP healing items on them.
• Sitting. Sitting helps to regenerate HP/SP quickly, so if the player needs to get a small boost of SP quickly, it may be worth it to sit briefly, even in combat. Note: There is an animation delay between sitting and standing back up. Be careful if using this method while in combat as the player can still be hit.

Some common items that can be easily obtained for SP regeneration include:

• Strawberry: Easily farmed off Spores or Yoyos, or bought from Vendors.
• Blue Potion: Can be brewed by Alchemists or purchased from Vendors.
• Blue Herb: Can be farmed off Blue Plants for high drop rate. Alchemists can be use them to brew Blue Potions.
• Grape Juice: Farmed off Dragon Flies (rare monsters). Can also be made with the Juice Quest.
• Orange: Farmed off Baby Desert Wolves, Peco Pecos, Condors, etc.

Skill Tips

Priests should remember that Lex Aeterna loses its rather long Cast Delay if used under the effect of Magic Strings, to the point when it can be constantly casted. This is a great way to double the damage output of parties, especially in single target situations such as MVPs.

Some skills in the Priests' arsenal may not serve a strong use while still leveling as a Priest, but many may have uses in MVP situations or other specific scenarios. These should be hotkeyed as well, and often a Priest will have all four rows of hotkeys used up. Some of these include:

• Pneuma: A very powerful and necessary skill when fighting ranged monsters within a party. Certain ranged monsters and skills are very powerful and this spell can save players a lot of stress. Make sure the party members are positioned correctly. Nine people can actually fit into one Pneuma's area.
• Aspersio: This skill endows a party member's weapon with the Holy property, which will greatly improve a party member's physical damage when the monsters are weak to the Holy property.
• Status Recovery and Cure: Priests must pay attention to the Status Effects inflicted on their party members and should use the two skills on them accordingly.
• Sanctuary: This spell has great healing power for a low SP cost (but uses a Blue Gemstone). Highly recommended to have this skill at Level 7, as that already provides the maximum healing power already. Level 8~10 only increases its duration.

Class Data

Skills

See Acolyte Skills for first class Skills.

Skill
Aspersio
B.S Sacramenti
Gloria
Impositio Manus
Increase SP Recovery
Kyrie Eleison
Lex Aeterna
Lex Divina
Magnificat
Magnus Exorcismus
Resurrection
Safety Wall
Sanctuary
Status Recovery
Suffragium
Turn Undead

Quest Skills

Skill	Job Level Req.	Quest
Redemptio	40	Redemptio Quest

Job Bonuses

Stat\Amount	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7
STR	4	11	17	27	35
AGI	6	29	37	48
VIT	7	14	34	36	45
INT	8	9	22	42	43
DEX	16	20	25	32
LUK	1	3	10	21	31	39	50

ASPD

Equip Attack Speed From Acolyte Bare Handed 156 0 Shield -5 +2 Mace -3 +2 Rod (One Handed) -20 0 Rod (Two Handed) -20 N/A Book -4 N/A Knuckle -20 N/A

ASPD Potions Usable Concentration ✔ Awakening ✘ Berserk ✘