A WORD BEFORE YOU START READING
【Fixed cast time】For priests, some of the skills with cast time have all of their cast time 'variable', but some of them have the cast time that cannot be reduced by normal gears, DEX or Suffraguim, this is the 'fixed' cast time, which could be very important in high-pressure fight such as lv80 ET, you might need to know it, also for your gear-buying plans.The skills below have fixed cast time for priests:
- Holy Light: 0.2 sec -神圣之光
- Turn Undead: 0.2 sec -转生术
- Sanctuary : 1.0 sec -光耀之堂
- Magnus Exorcismus: 1.0 sec -十字驱魔攻击
- Judex: 0.16 / 0.20 / 0.32 / 0.40 / 0.48 / 0.56 / 0.64 / 0.72 / 0.80 / 0.88 sec -审判
- Safety Wall: 1-0.1x(skillLv-1) sec -暗之障壁
【Tips】
【Resurrection】-复活术 Resurrection's cast delay is 2 sec at Lv3, which could be the best lv of this skill. Resurrection provides the resurred player a two seconds barrier that prevents any damage and healing, no matter the skill level. Note that if you place Heal in your Autos, it will heal the target below 70% HP automaticlly - it means if you choose Resurrection Lv2, you will resure a player with 50% HP and 2 second invincibility, but Lv2 has a 1 second cast delay, which makes you heal this target 1 second for nothing; if you choose Lv4, you will suffer with 3 second cast delay, and your target cannot get Heal or Kyrie Eleison from you during that 1 second time gap, and this might be deadly sometime.
【Sanctuary】-光耀之堂 In RO mobile, priests use Sanctuary as the main way of healing party members. The area effect of Sanctuary can stack for 3 times, but note - although it says the duration of this skill is 11 sec, actually it heals 11 times within 8 sec and the last 3 sec with the floor "lighting" is only a fake.
【Suffraguim】-牺牲祈福 is the only skill in RO Mobile that last shorter if the skill level is higher. As you cannot choose your skill level in this game, the best choice is invest 2-3 skill points on this build ONLY IF you are ME build, as its cast time and cast delay are both very long. You can reach 1-sec-cast Sanctuary very easily by reach a total 70 DEX and a -10% cast time gear/set, or even instant-cast-Magnifcat with 90 DEX or more -% cast time gears. Even your friend wizards do not need cast time reduction so much in most situations, as Stave Crasher -魔击术 is an instant cast spell, and Stone Curse (石化术) is very easy to be instant cast too.
【Play Death】-装死 well, although this is not a priest skill, but is very important for priests due to its +200% SP regen rate, which also stacks with Magnificat. Priest might be the only one need/can use Play Death to regen SP during the fight, like ET MVP fighting. It regen SP every 8 sec, try to find the time spot and use it/stand by wasting the shortest time.
【Magnificat】-圣母之颂歌 has the longest cast delay among the priest's skills in this game. Try NOT to use this when your team is fighting ET MVPs cause it would kill your knights.
【Skill management】
There is a general skill management suggestion for priests, hopefully this will help you to save your skill-refund items.
As a newbie Acolyte, you may need to leveling with your own mace. Because you can get the chance to re-learn your job lvs at BaseLv40 (from the Novice giftbag), you can invest jobs as Mace priest:
- Heal lv1 -治愈术
- Blessing lv5 -天使之赐福
- Increase AGI lv5 -加速术
- Blessing and Increase AGI to lv10
- Mace Mastery lv10 -钝器熟练度
- Heal to lv10
Then when you feel hard to kill mobs using mace, refresh your status and jobs using items get from lv40 novice giftbag (or pyramid 2F quest chain), to replace Mace Mastery with Lv10 Kyrie Eleison -霸邪之阵. Note that Pnuema is not as powerful as in PC's RO, in RO Mobile now only MVP like Moonlight using range attack (and their basic attacks are rly weak), no MVPs have the skills like Dark Blessing that have to be block by the Pnuema.
When you become Priest, if you decide to keep using mace, the skills could be:
- Impositio Manus lv10 -神威祈福
- Aspersio lv2 -撒水祈福
- Magnificat lv5 -圣母之颂歌
- Gloria lv5 -幸运之颂歌
- Resurrection lv3 -复活术
- Sanctuary lv10 -光耀之堂
- Increase SP Recovery lv5 -禅心
Once you decide to throw your mace away, you will have to decide to become a FS (Full Support) or ME (Undead/demon hunter) priest, depends on your willing of leveling. FS can only live with your party members because you have no damage in any cases, but a ME build can do many solo leveling in Pyramid and Payon dungeon.
【FS】build skills:
- Magnificat lv5
- Resurrection lv3
- Aspersio lv2
- Sanctuary lv10
- Dispell lv5 -驱散 (put it in Autos when ET!) (You don't need this skill when you are leveling, up it at last, or come back, re-skill when you have Judex)
【TU Hybird】-Also, at this stage you can pick lv5 or 10 Turn Undead (after invest some points in Magnificat) to gain some ability to solo leveling, to avoid to become too dependent, by give up SP Recovery. You should do this at JOB 6 when you intend to solo leveling, because you don't need other priest spells (except Magnificat) at that stage. You can re-skill the JOB points spent on Turn Undead later to get Dispell and other active support skills when you become High Priest and gain your powerful Judex.
Or, you can even give up 5lv SP Recovery, Impositio Manus and Gloria to acquire lv10 Magnus Exorcismus for some MVP fightings, that makes you become a ME priest.
【ME】
- Turn Undead lv5 or lv10 -转生术
- Magnificat lv5
- Magnus Exorcismus lv10 -十字驱魔攻击
- Resurrection lv3
- Sanctuary lv10
- Aspersio or SP Recovery lv2
You have much less options for High Priest Skills, when you reach lv80, you may have about 26-28 jobs depends on you leveling mobs.
【Mace build】
-Demon Bane lv10 -天使之击
-Meditatio lv10 -冥想 and Spiritual Thrift lv10 -魔力祷言
【FS】
- Judex lv1 -审判 (lv1 and it changes the color of your world though)
- Safety Wall lv10 -暗之障壁 (you can go ET 80F now by using this skill)
- Lex Divina lv3 -沉默之术 and Lex Aeterna lv1 -天使之怒 (if you wanna leveling/farming with wizards on Orc map)
- Meditatio lv10
- Spriitual Thrift, or re-invest SP recovery or Impositio Manus/Gloria in priest skills depends on your -% sp cost gear
【ME】
- Judex lv1
- Suffraguim lv2 or 3 depends on your gear
- Safety Wall lv10 if you wanna go ET
- Meditation lv109
- Level up your Judex only if you have very good gear and seeking for 1-hit-kill in pyramid 1F.
【Gears】
【Battle priest】is far for low Lv solo leveling, you need only some basic (cheap) gears to become a far level of killing mechine. With your increasing level of Blessing/Increase AGI/Mace Mastery, it doesn't spend much more time to kill a mob compared with other classes.
*Since some of the item translation are really wried in website such as roguard, I use both unofficial translations/original Chinese just make you easier to find the correct things.
- Sword Band 尖刃铁锤 (craft in Izlude)
- Clip/Flower Ring x2 发夹/花戒指 (from pront crack)
However, when you try to use this build above level 40, your will find it suddenly become difficult to kill mobs, around Morroc as an example. Battle Priests now have to use very expensive gears.
- +4 Noble Cross 庄严十字 (currently the best weapon for battle priest, update version of Sword Band, expensive!)
- Deathcat Manteau 迪斯凯特的披风 (+35 Flee for priest)
- Dragon Vest 龙之衬衣 (+3% ASPD and +25 Flee)
- Fox Bracer 狐纹腕甲 (+5% ASPD) or Rose Princess's Bracer 蔷薇姬的腕轮 (+25% DEF penetration)
- +4 Flower Ring/Frozen Rose Ring x2 花戒指/冰玫瑰指环 (Highest +ATK trinket)
【Full Support】the goal of your gears should be increase your healing, MaxHP (for survival), SP usage (+% SP regen, -%SP cost, +MaxSP), and -% cast time.
- +4 Croce Cross (Red Cross Staff actually, 红十字杖) is the soul of FS priest. +144 MATK, +5 INT, +30% SP regen and +3% Heal/Sanctuary for each refine level. And this is not expensive! Get this at once!
- Imperial Sliver Guard (Royal Sliver Shield actually, 皇家银盾, +800 HP) or Orlean's Plate 奥尔里昂的铁盘 (must equip with his gloves)
- Cat's Blessing 大猫的祝福 (+1000 HP， -20% SP cost when equip Ulle Cap) or Angelic Protection 天使的加护 (+500 HP/+200 SP, 5% cast lv1 Assumptio when receive physical hit)
- Staunch Manteau 坚定斗篷 (equip with Staunch Boots to have -10% cast time set bonus)
- Staunch Boots 坚定战靴 (+10*BaseLv MaxHP) or Shoes (+3 SP regen)
- Eternal Ring 永恒戒指 (+66 MATK, +5 INT, +5 DEX, +15% MATK with equip with Croce Cross)
- Oxyn Clip 红玫瑰发夹 (+150 MaxSP, -5% SP cost)
- Ulle Cap 毛无边帽 or Fricca's Circlet (+3 INT, +150 MaxSP)
【ME】build needs to increase your MATK and -% cast time.
- +4 Croce Cross
- Orlean's Plate (must equip with his gloves for -20% cast time )
- Mage Coat (+2% MATK, low version of Wizard's class coat)
- Staunch Manteau 坚定斗篷 (equip with Staunch Boots to have -10% cast time set bonus)
- Staunch Boots
- +4 Eternal Ring
- +4 Orlean's Gloves 奥尔里昂的手套 (+66 MATK, +3 DEX, +10% MATK, -20% cast time when set with his plate)
- Elven Ears (+2 INT, +5% MATK)
You are welcome to have your own experience and we will be thankful if you would like to share them with us. I mean the priests' info in this post. Fun game!
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【Glast Heim】-克雷斯特汉姆古城
This place, is a DANGEROUS place !!! You should only come this place when Lv80. You SHOULD bring your friends with you, or you will be killed hundreds of time if you solo the quests and Shining Item Events.
[Stats]
Your Max Base Lv now is 90, which means you can have much more Base points for stats.
- Battle Priest: this is a very good chance to increase your damage output, you can have more STR, AGI, LUX.
- FS: just more VIT.
- ME: just more VIT, maybe a little more DEX (no need if you already got good gears)
- TU: no damn VIT but go for more and more LUK. Yes, you find a new build of priest! TU build has come to this world and become currently the most popular build in GH, specially in GH crack and GH churchyard.
TU priest: as one kind of hybrid INT priest, it is highly recommended to become TU priest after GH patch. The JOB points in Priest stage now should include a Lv10 Turn Undead (at least Lv5 if you are ME build). Actually in GH plenty of mobs that can be hit by your ME have incredible high MDEF, which makes ME cannot inflict good damage (except fighting Dark Lord!). One popular way is to gain Lv10 Turn Undead, Lv5 Gloria by giving up I. Manus and +SP Recovery.
[Farming]
- TU priests are extremely powerful when farming in GH churchyard. Alone, go in party or go with a knight could all be good choice. The snipers/sinX now have become your slaves only to protect you from gargoyles.
- Marduk Card is very necessary if you don't have dispel/you are going alone, as Wraith inflicts Silence.
- Archer Bat/Gargoyle -蝙蝠弓箭手 is the most dangerous normal monster in GH, they can always hit u by crit for a 2300+ dmg. Fly if they notice u when u a solo!
[Gears]
- A new cap, Small Tree Stump Helm - 小树椿帽, could be the most useful helm for ME priests, for its +6 INT, and also +1 INT when crafted (unlock in advan-book). The quest is unlocked when ua Lv81, but it is very difficult (same as all GH quests).
- When Lv84, get a Skull Hood to become even more safe when farming in churchyard, for TU priests.
[GH Instance (GH Crack)]
This crack is an instance (shared with others each day), and there are 5 steps, each step rewards items as one clear of one wave of crack. Turn Undead now cannot instantly kill all mobs/bosses in step 3 and 4 after May 9th patch! You will meet a over-powered Boss in step 4. It is not suggested to try to waste your time in thei instance anymore, for this boss is too strong, your party has to wipe many times to kill him and the rewards cannot even pay for the gemstones.
- Step 1: Trash clean (cannot be TU) - Evil Druid Boss spawn adds (cannot) - Kill the Boss (cannot, petrify adds)
- Step 2: TU until u meet boss - Dark Priest spawn adds (some cannot) - Kill the Wraith (TU the main Wraith and other small wraith will die)
- Step 3: TU the world
- Step 4: TU the world
- Step 5: Go away and let knight lure the Bloody Knight (Abyss Knights are not threat-chain with the boss, or TU them if they join the battle, but this may let boss can use 'Bigger!'), cast Pneuma (lv1 is enough) on Knight, and watch your team kill him (keep casting Kyrie Eleison if you don't have Pneuma)
Share your journey in GH! (not mean your deaths lol)
