Category:Priests

Long ago, in the city of Keresh, there existed an order of clerics known as Paeans, endowed with incredible healing powers. Recently, the order has resurfaced, restructured around Tul-Sith, and simply calling themselves 'Priests.' Priests learn some very powerful healing and curative spells, but are dedicated to their paths of peace and honesty, and so never learn attack spells, or most warrior or rogue skills. They are less item-oriented than Clerics, and so do not learn many item-oriented abilities, or learn them later. Their Prime statistic is Wisdom. Priest trainers will not teach the Holy Disciplines to anyone who is not worshipping Tul-Sith, and Priests must maintain a high alignment for these spells to work their best.

Abbreviation: Prs.

Prime Requisite: Wisdom.

Priests in General

Priests attain extremely powerful healing spells, with very few offensive spells, even those only target the demonic or undead. They work well with those of high alignment and shun all who hold evil tendencies.

Priests forgo learning the Awen spell and instead learn Aegis, allowing the casting of Sanctuary and Frenzy to be separated from this macro.

See Mages for an example.

Priest Creation

A Priest may be created only through the Remort command with a lord character with the Cleric, Druid, or Monk class. To become a human priest, the required levels are 100, 150, and 150 respectively where as to keep one's current race, the required Lord Sublevels become 200, 300, and 300 respectively.

Most people become priests through the cleric route. Races which make good clerics will also make good priests, in particular, drow, elf, centaur. Good remort races are tua, hie, spr.

Priests at Lowmort Tier

Keep in mind that if you learn Via Pax you cannot initiate combat. So most people put off learning it till hero or lord.

Training

A Priest's prime statistic is Wisdom, and should be trained upon creation. This should be followed up by maxing out one's Intelligence, which will allow for higher mana gains as you progress through levels.

Practicing

See: Paean

Worshipping

Priest trainers will not teach the Holy Disciplines to anyone who is not worshipping Tul-Sith, and Priests must maintain a high alignment for these spells to work their best.

You can only practice class-defining spells (like pure touch) if you practice Via Pax. The rest of the spells can be practiced normally.

Fighting

Soloing:

Soloing is impossible for any priest who has adepted the Via Pax ability.

Tanking:

Tanking is also impossible for any priest who has adepted the Via Pax ability.

Hitting:

Healing:

Priest Prestige Options

None.

Preists at Hero Tier

The main decision you need to make is whether to practice Via Pax or not. If you plan to tank, it's almost certainly better to defer practicing it till lord. If you plan to solo or heal, you can practice it at hero (or earlier). Keep in mind that you need to worship Tul-Sith to practice your priest class-definers.

Training

Practicing

Devoting

Fighting

Soloing: You can solo using the White Light spell in certain undead areas. The most popular one is Ruined Lairs. Although there are many other options such as the corpse rooms in Necromancer's Tower, Shadow Keep, and some of the mobs of Graves of Reveria.

Tanking:

Hitting:

Healing:

Priests at Lord Tier

Priests are very powerful and useful at lord. Once they reach level 25 and learn the mantra skill, they can preach any single target spell to the whole group. They get various powerful healing and utility spells which make them a good addition to almost any lord group. Also they get much more mana than clerics/druids and can thus heal much longer and effectively. Keep in mind that healing effectiveness is halved for evil characters.

Useful utility spells (which are learnable at lower tiers, but are much more useful at lord) are clarify, innocence and intervention.

Priest Remort Options

Priests can remort race only. Good remort races are Tuataurs, High Elves and Sprites. Note that the low hp for sprites is not a big problem for priests, since it is usually taken care of by the intervention spell.