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Support Priest. You like? :D

Class and Rank
#1

Basically i’m just screwing around on the builder trying to make a decent support build that could possibly work and hopefully not drive me nuts trying to level although id say any party would take me in a heart beat.

Here’s the 2 options I got so far;

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STATS & GEAR

I’d recommend going 50/50 mix of DEX/SPR or a 50/25/25 mix of DEX/SPR/CON if you cant dodge very good. I know dex seems to be the go to stat for melee classes atm because of evasion + crit being better than low crit + higher base damage. If the formula changes later than i’d probably recommend replacing DEX with STR.

Your gear gives you 2 options really, Plate or Cloth. Plate allows more time hanging out with your tank and debuffing without dying and cloth allows for more mana regen. In the end I’d probably recommend Plate especially if you got the paladin route.

SKILLS

Both options start the same and end different for class skills/selection.

Cleric - Rank 1

Just starting out and I gotta start here. Nothing unusual.

heal max - Use to support/keep myself alive/dps
Safety lvl 4 - A good support skill, don’t need 5 to be effiective
Deprot zone lvl 1 - Good debuff for bosses
Cure max - Can cure stuff and dps, nuff said

Priest - Rank 2

So this is where you become a great buffer and healer.

Aspersion lvl 5 - This skill makes everyone harder to kill, especially your tank. Helps plate more than cloth.
Monstrance lvl 1 - Keep it lvl 1, not worth leveling because the dex bonus doesn’t increase.
Bless lvl 5 - Flat dmg buff is good early and bad later in the game. should make it better via skill attribute.
Rezz lvl 2 - Allow you to rezz 2 people with the skill attribute levled which to me is enough or I alrdy failed
Save 2 points

Priest - Rank 3

Your getting stronger buffs and becoming better everyday. Good my boy, good.

Aspersion lvl 6 - 1 level because you got it. makes it 2% better.
Monstrance lvl 1 - Stay here
Bless lvl 10 - Now level 10, this is where we stop because next 5 levels only increase 20 dmg.
Rezz lvl 2 - Stay
Sacrament lvl 1 - Good skill. we keep it lvl 1 cause dmg scales kinda bad and its mostly for holy property.
Revive lvl 5 - Oh the party wiped? NO IT DIDNT! JESUS MODE ACTIVATED!!! Now mass heal ffs.
Mass heal lvl 5 - 2nd heal and it’s on steroids. Drop 5 points here

Priest Rank 4

So you got too many buffs and sorry to say you will now be buying daino scrolls from pardoners, Its how your life will be. Anyways your a buffing beast of a boy! Play nice.

Aspersion lvl 11 - 40% less physical dmg for everyone, seriously good for the tank
Monstrance lvl 1 - stay
Bless lvl 10 - stay
Rezz lvl 2 - stay
Sacrament lvl 1 - Stay. Great for farming where holy property does more dmg %
Revive lvl 5 - Stay
Mass heal lvl 10 - Maxed heal is best heal. If revive triggers then use this and you got 63% hp alrdy.
Exorcise lvl 0 - Skip, single target crap.
Stone skin lvl 5 - AMAZING BUFF. with Aspersion your tank may be immortal. Dont let it go to his head.

Undecided Double Option - Rank 5

So difference between these 2 options are;

Paladin - Gets a attack spell for solo, Resistance elements is a damn nice buff to add to your arsenal and restoration gives passive heal but with the skill attribute gives SP regen as well. This keeps your parties mana up and Hp up.

Pardoner - Your going to have to buy daino scrolls so why not have a way to pay for it? Sell your buffs for silver with spell shop, make scrolls (although you don’t have many skills that can actually go to scrolls but casting cure + scroll cure will help the dps), Gives a magic defense buff which helps the whole party and Indulgentia cures status and does decent damage (this doesn’t heal despite the way the tooltip looks).

Paladin option - Rank 5

Smite lvl 5 - AoE burst skill for grinding and has low CD
Restoration lvl 5 - more hp regen and SP regen and the buff can always be on. I’ll take it!
resist elements lvl 5 - Chance to nullify a attack completely and more defense to elemental attacks.
Turn undead lvl 0 - Skip, Currently makes mobs not drop loot and only works on 2 types of mobs.

Paladin option - Rank 6

Smite lvl 10 - Even higher burst
Restoration lvl 10 - even more regen
Resist elements lvl 10 - even more resistance
turn undead lvl 0 - skip
conversion lvl 0 - Currently makes mobs disappear. I think its supposed to make then your pet? Not relevant

Pardoner option - Rank 5

Simony lvl 4 - only works with cleric skills and monstrance. may be usable on more classes later in ranks.
Indulgentia lvl 5 - cures a status and does decent dmg. It doesn’t heal despite the tooltip.
Discerning evil lvl 0 - So hard to make work or even useful that i cant see ever taking it
Increase magic defense lvl 5 - Magic defense buff is good
save 1

Pardoner option - Rank 6
Simony lvl 4 - Stay
Indulgentia lvl 10 - more dmg
Discerning evil lvl 0 - Nope
Increase magic defense lvl 10 - Better buff so why not
Oblation lvl 1 - Idk how it works but i think i want to find out
Spell shop lvl 5 - You sell your priest buff for $ with increased duration. Your the wolf of the Vatican, rolling $

Quick run down on spell shop. you can sell these buffs listed from this build and can charge whatever:
Aspersion - 35min duration and would sell lvl 11 asperation in this build (consumes 1 holy water)
Bless - 28min duration and would sell lvl 10 bless in this build (consumes 1 holy powder)
Sacrament - 2 hour duration and would sell lvl 1 sacrament (consumes 1 gyslotis) currently bugged
Indulgentia - they can buy a cure from you with a big AoE dmg burst? idk why.

Common question on why sell non maxed buffs? Well jimmy or sally this is why…Lvl 10 bless is strong enough and there’s only 20 dmg diff from lvl 10-15, Aspersion is really strong at 40% for people farming in harder area’s and need the extra boost, Sacrament gives holy property which id love to have if farming mobs with weakness to holy for a whole 2 hours. You can also charge slightly less for your buffs than someone who is selling max level buffs if there’s alot of pardoners in one place (supply vs demand).

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!

Don’t think paladin C2 is worth it? Find you often roll around in grass for fun? Like animals…like alot…maybe more than you should? WELL I’VE GOT A DEAL FOR YOU! Drop Rank 6 paladin and take Rank 6 Druid! You get a deadly AoE Dmg skill where grass kills people, A 1/3 of the time AoE Party invun where grass shields you with the power of jesus or something, Ability to grow grass at will (your like the hydro seed god of TOS), can transform into stuff for another skill kit and take over the minds of animals.

Seriously i don’t no enough about druid to make the call and say its better than C2 paladin but as I approached C2 paladin i’d find out if I liked paladin enough to take it again or swap to druid.

Hope you enjoyed the post. Feedback is welcome and encouraged.

#2


this is my build, pick paladin at rank 4 for more dmg and regen aura

#3

I played Priest (x3) for a while and didn’t like it.
Just my 2 cents… don’t hate me for this! :smile:

#4

Nice build, Some stuff I would of done difference for skill wise but I can see it working fairly well. Only problem I have with paladin is if I go it I want to go C3 for barrier and higher resistance/smite too. Smite looks fun to spam and own people with too. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t go FS if i went paladin too and id build more a tanky bruiser with AoE burst. Kind of like a crusader.

Edit 2: If you want a good semi support but hard hitting paladin then this guy on youtube got a decent guide on it
Not my build

@Rezken

I HATE YOU!

Jk Jk. Tbh i’m really reaching to like priest because you gotta jump through so many hoops to get to a point where your buffs are good and even then Bless is base dmg and is going to scale terrible into late game. I’m almost at the point where I may just go monk or paladin and worry about #1 (me ofc).

Edit: Not to mention I don’t even like krivis and im forced to take it cause 5 buff limit OP

#5

Do you want to consider playing Monk circle 3?
That would be a nice way to play Clerics if you ask me.

#6

Yea monk c3 looks damn good too and benefits from priest buffs. I used to play alot of monk in RO aswell. I just like the way paladin looks lol

#7

This is pretty much identical to my build, except I went Priest C3 before Krivis to get the extra support (i.e. OP mass heal) for early dungeons. The early Blessing and Sacrament also kind of made up for not having Zaibas… sorta.

Also I lol-ed at “single target crap.” Those words sum up my disappointment towards Exorcise. I had expected it to at least work like Cure but but nope. Worst C3 skill ever.

I’m INT/CON so I didn’t get Stone Skin. Do you happen to know how well the skill works without SPR i.e. is the base block rate from the skill alone already game-breaking?

Edit: I had a feeling people were gonna ask about Exorcise since there’s very little info about it on these forums.

Pros:

  • Strong single target damage that doesn’t require INT or SPR or whatever
  • Useful for boss fights
  • Can hit flying monsters (yes)

Cons:

  • Not a ground based AoE like Cure (the tile applies a DoT and disappears when an enemy steps on it)
  • Long 30s cooldown for not-so-amazing damage
  • Enemies can “resist” your Exorcise tile, in which case it does no damage (how silly)
#8

Max revive, sometimes face tanking bosses with large one hit AoE spells is the way to go.(ehem 190 dg cerberus)

Also, as a support priest you need to pour everything into SPR, otherwise the build will be less efficient especially if you’re going to take stone skin and magic def.

#9

I have seen a lot of support builds with c2/c3 priest taking 1 rank Krivis for daino. Surely priest offers a lot of buffs and the limit hurts. However, I really wonder if it is not better to rely on Daino scrolls for a support char.

In your build you go c3 priest. This means that you take a tier 2 class (Krivis) instead of a tier 5 pick. Instead of the Krivi you could have bonus SP regen and healing of Paladin, second rank of Pardoner to make some $ for your Daino scrolls, etc. Daino is surely needed, but if you go priest, Kivris competes for slots in your build with really high rank classes.

Undeniably Zaibas is a great leveling tool. You also are unable to rely on Daino scrolls during your early ranks and will have to limit the amount of buffs provided. It is said that IMC wants early rank picks to be not so relevant later on. I don’t think however, this will be true for supports (and I’m glad because of that). The question I keep asking myself therefore is if it is really worth it to devote entire high-tier rank to a class, which I want only for something that could easily be replaced by scrolls.

#10

I rather have Krivis than Pardoner. Level 1 Zaibas on a SPR build I am using is awesome, but there is no point for going C2 Krivis. Unless Dievdirby is fixed and being more capable in battle.

#11

Yea exorcise should either be completely reworked or just removed/replaced. Stone skin is still worth it without the spr stat imo, Its a strong buff.

@kyle_ruiz6

Thanks for the feedback, I do like revive as a skill but idk if I’d max it or not. I’ll have to revisit my build and make some adjustments. Ill edit my original post with a new and improved version. I also believe going all SPR or SPR main/int Minor (somewhere in those lines) is a good idea for buffs.

@Crow_mw

Honestly I wish the buff limit was raised or something because as of right now you NEED daino, you are daino’s bitch (sorry for the language). I can honestly see C3 Krivis C1 pardoner being a class that gets filthy rich so quick because if buff limits are a problem for a FS at rank 3-4 what do you think its going to be like at rank 8-9 with a full party that has 3+ self buffs for sure each. I also wouldn’t be surprised if a party requires FS to buy the daino scrolls for them because they will look at you and say “you cant keep your buffs up, your terrible, go die” somewhere along those lines. Im generally concerned about it anyways.

#12

I don’t find going full SPR worth it. I tried with a pure SPR, and I believe it hits the diminish return (eg. deprotected reduces up to the monster defense). The magic defense is recognizable, and I do not feel I get sleep or other status effect, as compare to another new character I made with half SPR.

But still leveling is not easy (maybe both chars I used went Cleric -> C2 Priest before any offensive class).

#13

the more im diving into things i’m seeing how full spr is probably not great. Considering changing my build around to something with paladin C2 or Pardoner C2 and dropping krivis and just saying screw it i’ll have to buy the daino scrolls. My stat combo would probably be 50/50 mix of spr/str or a 50/25/25 of Spr/str/con and wear plate armor so i can keep up the tank to debuff and be able to take a hit. Reasoning for the stats here is because spr scaling seeing diminishing returns like you said and heals int scaling is so poor its pointless to invest in it. Heal/mass heal’s base % scales better off the targets Con stat than it ever will with your own spr/int.

#14

I agree Daino is necessary. The question is, is it worth to invest a whole high-tier rank for it, instead of buying scrolls.

#15

literally just changed my build in the OP to two different builds with krivis because after some thought on the topic I agreed with you. Its not worth the investment and screw it ill buy the scrolls when i need them in a party.