Been there, done that, in solo.
im actually on priest c3 and soon to be monk hehe
Please don’t trick people. You have no experience with C1P3 build endgame.
Continuing the discussion from Monk ppl - Cleric c1 // Priest c3 or Cleric c2 // Diev c2?
Continuing the discussion from Proper PvE Monk Guide - No Theory Bollox
Continuing the discussion from Monk - Cleric2/Priest2 or Cleric1/Priest3?
Stone Skin: It gives tremendous amounts of block rate.
Stone Skin is physical immunity with High Spr.
If 0 Spr it’s 400 block rate. Laughable endgame.
So make sure you add Spr stats or use Spr gear in your Monk.
But doesn’t really matter for Earth Tower because it isn’t just physical.
Take note that blessing enhance attribute which when maxed adds +100 attack/damage and requires Priest c3.
Priest1 have +131 damage buff without Divine Might.
Priest2 have +150 damage buff without Divine Might. +21 dmg (lol)
Priest3 have +170 damage buff without Divine Might. +20 dmg (lol)
Endgame even +170 is laughable. Don’t need Priest3 for that.
You get higher level of mass heal which is one of the best heal skills ingame with a pretty very low CD.
You don’t have many to compare, do you?
Anyway, for Heal Burst or Heal Per Second:
Cleric2/Priest2 > Cleric1/Priest3
But having stone skin is not the only advantage of Pc3.
If you comparing Diev to Priest sure.
If you decide to compare C2P2 x C1P3, then no.
Priest3 only gives Stone Skin used for PvP.
PvP is the only reason Cleric1/Priest3 monks exist.
Repeat this as many times as you need to understand your class choice.
If you are a int build, you will surely benefit with Pc3 especially if ur going support or hybrid.
Any build can benefit from Priest, but Int build isn’t going to get more than others.
As Int build your Cleric2 Heals are more than enough for anything and Priests doesn’t have any damage skill that benefits from Int.
id rather let someone do the job, and i be someone who can both protect, heal, support and dish lots of damage.
Priest doesn’t add damage to your build. +170? lol
Diev = Owl + Carve + 20%CDR in all Monk skills.
That’s brutal. Specially not having to worry about Spr.
party members block attacks… no need for heal or revive or safezone etc. thats 35seconds of heaven… + 20sec safezone, + barrier + GB… after that you can cast stone skin again hehe
- Block doesn’t work in ET magic attack, OP intentions.
And in any other similar places like bosses fights. Also OP intentions
Stone Skin is extremely overrated PvE wise by people that have never experienced it.
Cleric1/Priest3 is worst than C2/D2 or C2P2 for PvE. Not debatable.
- 20sec safezone? You have 10 hit counts.
5 monsters x 2 hits = gone
10 monster x 1 hit = gone
Party grind and ET have a LOT of monsters.
FYI, at the time the max rank is 7. when 8-10 comes with new classes and new CC skills, PD will surely lose its current value.
PD value isn’t because of current ranks. It has overpowered support ability for both PvP and PvE. That’s why it was nerfed at least in PvP in Korea. It also has high Dps. Excellent for ET or Party play. But with it being most popular choice it falls off in World Boss fights because it gets overwrited by others.
chaplain is more like a advance or upgraded stage of priest 3 which radiate and increase the buff capabilities to a higher level.
Chaplain pick is solo oriented play. It shines to solo content.
Chaplain is not a full support class pick of choice. It’s the idea of being independent when you want. To not rely on party all the time.
For full support you better choose another class.
however you will be a party reliant support. unless you get krivis.
Again, Chaplain can solo any content. That’s the point of getting it.
Now, Cleric cure does a LOT of damage by itself. So you could go Cleric2 for more damage and support.
Also, many other classes help with damage: Druid, PD, Bokor, etc.
Krivis is just 1 of them.
Now for the actual OP post.
How does Stone Skin fare against most bosses and generally, how many opportunities are you going to have to actually make that investment into Stone Skin shine ?
Stone Skin shine in PvP and that’s it.
But it can be game change for it.
Instead, you could run a cleric 2, diev 2-3, krivis/ paladin/druid/Priest, Pd Int build.
Any Int Cleric build is usually better for ET simply because melee range to deal damage is quite deadly. Needs to be extra careful and have proper CC, link, immunity, HP, etc.
Why pick Priest over Diev?
Revive+Resurrection. Those are the reasons why Priest are so important as support. Specially in Earth Tower and PvP.
Being able to bring someone back to life is to play God.
How to play around it?
In PvP you counter it by focusing the Priest asap. Also important to note that Resurrection/Revive doesn’t bring target back with full life, you can just try to kill them again.
In ET death is brutal. Have to walk all the way and can’t use TP item. So you can try using Chrono3 for Backmasking (https://youtu.be/6NGawfWPQDk?t=131) or/and make sure no one dies.
For World Boss, Party grind, DG and Solo play Diev all the way.
