Trucidus’ Memory Book

“A Magic Book Filled With Long, Impractical Spells”

SECTION 1: Magic Fundamentals

FIRE ELEMENT

Fire Bolt

Fire Bolt, while being extremely useful for leveling, is not a particularly useful skill outside of that. When used in conjunction with an Imp Card, it can be useful as a cast interruption or to dispatch of Undead Element Foes.

Fire Ball

I have never used this skill, even while leveling. I suppose it could be annoying to a distant precast, a well-aimed AoE spell would do a better job.

Fire Wall
Once again, it’s a skill that has it’s uses for PVM. WoE’s knockback immunity renders this skill useless.

Fire Pillar
Fire Pillar can be somewhat useful if you have enough time to put up a blockade. Although frowned-upon for the most part, it’s ability to stun-lock in place for a short duration of time can assist a Wizard while fleeing, or in conjunction with another player to exploit their moment of vulnerability.

Meteor Storm

Meteor Storm, the AoE that Stuns, Stacks, and does a decent amount of damage. Although the cast time for it is rather long, when used in conjunction with a Bard Class as well as large amounts of Dex can create a massive volley of fire damage. Meteor Storm has slight stun-lock capabilities with a chance to inflict the “Stun” Status Ailment. Amazing in a precast, or any other narrow area.

Sight Blaster

Sight Blaster is an amazing skill. When cast it circles a character much like sight. However, when any character (cloaked or uncloaked) enters it’s radius, they will be simultaneously revealed, pushed back, and inflicted with a low amount of fire-based damage. This ability can be followed-up with a debilitating spell to keep most Melee characters at bay. This buff should be kept up as much as possible, especially when Assassin Cross and Champions are present.

WATER ELEMENT

Cold Bolt

Cold Bolt, the not-quite-as-good-as-Firebolt. When paired with Siroma Cards, it can be useful for leveling. However, outside of that, it’s only real use is to interrupt people casting skills. Nothing really remarkable.

Frost Driver

Think of this as your rapid-fire skill. It’s irritatingly quick to cast, useful for interrupting cast times, as well as it’s relatively high freeze chance makes it a threat to the ill-prepared. Useful for when you can’t cast Storm Gust.

Water Ball

If there were more puddles of water laying around, or a Deluge Scholar/Water Escape Ninja to follow me around, maybe I’d give this skill a shot. Truth it, it’s a pain in the ass to use. It’s unfortunate, but true.

Frost Nova

Frost Nova is a skill I’d like to like, however, it isn’t useful. If you encounter a lot of melee units without freeze protection, you can use it to freeze the people attempting to break through your safety wall. Unfortunately, Storm Gust does a very good job of that.

Ice Wall

Ice Wall has it’s uses in PVM, which are quite obvious. Using it to block a passage, and cast spells over the other side of it to hit monsters that can’t hit you back, or just hiding from sight of a nearby MVP while your guild prepares to attack.

Storm Gust

Storm Gust is probably my favorite Wizard skill. Besides the damage and AOE properties of the spell, Storm Gust is guaranteed to freeze anything freezable after it’s third hit. Want to know if that person is wearing a Marc/Evil Druid? This is a great way to get your answer. At lower levels, Storm Gust still retains this property, while having a reduced cast time.

WIND ELEMENT

Lightning Bolt

There is no Accessory Card to improve this skill, and Jupital Thunder is better. Not commonly used.

Thunderstorm

Much like Fire Ball, I don’t find myself using this move. Ever.

Jupital Thunder

Jupital Thunder is a great move. It is Lightning Bolt with increased number of hits, added knockback, with a decent amount of stun-lock. It’s a good spell to use against single-target enemies.

Lord of Vermillion

The annoying AoE. Though not particularly powerful, it has the ability to stun-lock enemies to a noteworthy degree. It can have it’s uses, but generally is outshined by Storm Gust and Meteor Storm.

EARTH ELEMENT

Stone Curse

Stone Curse is your alternate to Frost Driver. Though this, too, is ineffective against undead foes, it can be used against players using Marc cards in it’s place.

Earth Spike

Earth Spike’s delay makes it an interesting tool against hide-dodgers. Though by no means a damaging spell, it is a must-have for any PVP combat situation.

Heaven’s Drive

It’s quick cast and ability to uncloak makes it very useful in battle scenarios. Once again, a must-have for combat!

Quagmire

Quagmire is a great spell, though it must be used with care. It cancels Attack Speed and Agility related buffs, as well as reducing Attack Speed, DEX, AGI, Walk Speed, and increases Cast Time for anyone standing in it. However, that literally means ANYONE, including you and your ally. Watch your placement!

GHOST ELEMENT

Napalm Beat

I don’t see any particular use for this, but it’s a multi-hit ghost element spell that does splash damage around the target. I mean… it interrupts, but it’s not too special.

Soul Strike

This could be thought of as “Ghost Bolt”. Though it’s not too useful, it has the uncanny ability to hit Evil Druid users really hard and really fast. It’s a fun, irritating spell.

Napalm Vulcan

Napalm Vulcan, while not being a particularly damaging spell, has the ability to “Curse” it’s target. This status can help make an extremely quick getaway, and is generally unpleasant to be affected by it.

DEFENSIVE/UTILITY SPELLS

Safety Wall

The best spell you’ve got, hands-down. Prevents 10 physical attacks on whatever is standing in it. Asura Strikes, Sonic Blows, Sacrifice, and Bowling Bashes are all rendered useless. Any time you cast an AoE spell, you better be standing in one of these babies.

Mystic Amplification

This buff will power-up for MAtk by 50% until you cast your next spell. However, that means ANY spell, even skills not meant to deal damage.

Energy Coat

Energy Coat is an amazing defensive buff. Being able to reduce damage in the place of SP is a unique trait that should be exploited in this class. Doesn’t matter how you’re playing, use the buff!

Monster Property

Though you can use it if you WANT, I’d just go to IROwiki or RateMyServer.Net.

Sight

Useful to keep up to uncloak enemies. Though not as useful as Sight Blaster, it doesn’t hurt to keep this buff up!

Magic Crasher

This is a really fun and unique spell. It converts your Matk to a single physical hit. Since the damage is physical, any weapon effects (including cards) are a potential effect of your spell. Because of it’s spamability, it’s the best skill for interrupting another person’s casting.

Gravitation

I’ve been reading on this skill, and though I don’t know if it truly has a
practical use, there seem to be a couple accounts of this skill having
some use. It doesn’t seem particularly useful to me at all.

Ganbantien

Ganbantien is a useful spell that can be used to clear the ground of hazards. This is used to punch holes in any AoE/Trap skills, though most commonly it’s used to cut holes in a Scholar’s Land Protector.

Passive Skills

Increase SP Recovery

When you’re training, obviously this can help you level a little faster. Outside of that, I don’t recommend this skill except for being a prerequisite.

Soul Drain

This skill works as a way of recharging your mana as you go, though AoE skills will not activate Soul Drain. Some people may prefer to put their skill points elsewhere, but the Max SP bonus obtained through this passive buff is really nice to have, though maybe not completely necessary. Distribute skill points with discretion.

Through knowing properties (and a little help from some friends) it’s possible to hit 200,400 or more damage. That’s just with a Cold Bolt!

Knowing how to inflict certain status ailments can make fighting much easier for any High Wizard. However, you may not always be able to freeze or stone curse an enemy. When this happens, it’s best to resort to a “Plan B”.

Quagmire is an excellent spell to use. It’s ability to slow down enemies can open a decent window of opportunity to lay a Safety Wall down. Since it cancels a Whitesmith’s “Cart Boost” you can also use this skill to temporarily incapacitate them. You should always be careful not to cast it over yourself unless completely necessary, as it will result in a slower walk speed and cast time.

Using Napalm Vulcan’s cursing ability can help you to cover some ground if you’re under attack. Once again, linking it up to Safety Wall or Quagmire is always a safe bet.

A commonly overlooked strategy lies in the spell “Magic Crasher”. As I had stated in it’s description, it has the ability to carry weapon properties into itself. This creates the potential to status opponents with a Knife [4] enchanted with the card of your choice. Multiple daggers can be carried to exploit any weakness.

Status Cards

Savage Babe Card – Inflicts [Stun] Status at 5% per card. [Useful]

Stun is great, since it incapacitates the enemy completely. No items, no moving, and no attacking make for a very easy battle.

Metaller Card – Inflicts [Silence] Status at 5% per card. [Useful]

If an opponant isn’t expecting it, hitting them with silence can wreck a bit of havok. Be wary of opponents using Green Potions or Royal Jelly!

Plankton Card – Inflicts [Sleep] Status at 5% per card. [So-So]

Sleep is a step down from stun. While it still has the same effect, the duration is ended upon receiving another hit. Use it if you don’t have Savage Babe Cards.

Magnolia Card – Inflicts [Curse] Status at 5% per card. [So-So]

Curse is fun for it’s ability to annoy, and to make a quick getaway. Tied in with Magic Crasher’s almost non-existent cast time, and it’s crazily short after-cast delay, it can be used to curse more efficiently than Napalm Vulcan.

Marina Card – Inflicts [Freeze] Status at 5% per card. [Not Useful]

I don’t see the purpose of using this when you have Frost Driver and Storm Gust.

Breeze Card – Inflicts [Bleeding] Status at 5% per card. [Not Useful]

Bleeding is just a poison that can kill you. Doesn’t incapacitate, doesn’t help.

Familiar Card – Inflicts [Blind] Status at 5% per card. [Not Useful]

Some players have removed the “blind” fading, thus making this effect useless.

Snake Card – Inflicts [Poison] Status at 5% per card. [Not Useful]

While it throws in some extra damage, the amount it does is so insignificant that you might get laughed at.

Requiem Card – Inflicts [Chaos] Status at 5% per card. [Unsure]

I’ve never tested the effects of Chaos cards. Though, it should be noted I’ve never SEEN them used, I can only guess it’s not particularly useful.

III. Strategies and Tips

Now that you’ve got an idea of how to increase damage, and the various uses of the spells at your disposal, we can begin discussing ways to integrate them into your play. Before you jump into combat, these are a few pointers to help you start strong.

• Guard yourself! Make sure to keep Energy Coat, Sight, and Sight Blaster up constantly. As soon as you stop moving, or if you know your destination, instantly drop a Safety Wall. With your low HP modifier, it is most certainly better safe than sorry.

• As soon as you set foot in a Safety Wall, cast Amplify Magic Power. You should be prepared to attack immediately. Covering yourself with yourself with level 1 Storm Gust can keep distance between you and opponents.

• When encountering the enemy, it is best to hit them with a Quagmire ASAP. Quagmire has no cast time and is a strong debuff. This can give you extra time to react, or flee if need be.

• Use low level, or fast-casting spells to interrupt enemy spell-casters. This can help make crucial openings in WoE and Battlegrounds.
• If an enemy is hide-dodging your spells, hit them with Earth Spike. Earth Spike will knock them out of hiding and do a small amount of damage.

• Do not forget to use Ganbantien to clear hazards such as Land Protector and Sniper Traps. Taking Land Protector out from beneath an opponent can be a deadly surprise!

• Estimate the amount of time an enemy remains frozen, and cast another Storm Gust before they thaw. If they do not swap armors, they will be left with insufficient time to heal.

IV. Research Resources

Obviously it takes more than just knowledge of your skills and well-placed clicks to do well as a High Wizard. A good portion of skill goes into constantly updating and tweaking your stats and equipment. Though this can be a daunting task at first, through using a few different calculators and databases you’ll find it’s not very hard at all. Here, I’ll list a couple of the resources I use most often.

• RateMyServer is a great choice, obviously. They’ve got a Renewal Search, as well as a Pre-Renewal for both monsters and items. You can also see the script for each item, making it possible to see if an item isn’t functioning correctly. I’m also absolutely in love with their search form. You can narrow down your search results with options like “Items that affect DEX”.
• IROwiki isn’t a bad place to go either. If it exists in the realm of RO, you can find it.
• IROwiki Character Simulator – This is used to simulate the gear on your character, buffs, etc. to see your stats were you to use the selected items. I believe this is the most updated version.

SECTION 2: The Pursuit of Knowledge

Now that we’ve made it through the basics, we can begin going in-depth on the math that goes behind a High Wizard. Here you will discover a few types of builds, what they’re like, and opening the potential to explore and improve your builds. We’ll also explore the items involved in getting your WoE/BG supplies, and some my recommendations/comments on commonly used equipment.

The first question this section seeks to answer is, “What am I attempting to do as a Wizard?”

II. Build Overview

So, we know what stats contribute to spells, how the spells are used, and by now, you’ve probably got an idea on what kind of wizard you want to make. This is where the fun really starts, and you being working on a build that is comfortable and productive. Let’s take a look at how each stat can be thought of for your character.

STRENGTH

Strength on a wizard isn’t particularly useful, since it’s only contribution is an increased weight limit. Use it for that, and that alone. Works as a decent dump stat.

AGILITY

Agility doesn’t have any real use to a High Wizard.

VITALITY

INTELLIGENCE

DEXTERITY

LUCK

… to be continued …

I’ve been told that combo monks level faster than spirit monks. However, I find that they are equal in leveling speed.

The goal

Focus on three stats: DEX, STR, and VIT. I’d recommend having VIT below 50 at all times. The matter of DEX and STR is a matter of preference. More DEX would mean faster casting time. More STR means more damage.

The purpose of the Spirit Monk is to (the following does not imply order of importance): 1) Have fast to super fast cast time, 2) Deal high to very high damage to a SINGLE (emphasize single) opponent, and 3) Survive with considerable VIT.

Spirit Monks are dependent on their spells for high damage.

Leveling a Spirit Monk is not hard.

Novice

Begin focusing on upping your attack strength (STR), survivability (VIT), and accuracy (DEX) while hitting Porings and Lunatics and other weak, newbie monsters. For now, DEX should be up to par with whatever you plan to hit, it is not awesome yet.

Level in the training grounds until job 10.

Acolyte

Keep leveling at the newbie places until you’re comfortable with the following places: Rockers, Payon Dungeon Level 1, Culvert Level 1/2. Keep your STR/VIT/DEX build up to par, as if you were a swordsman.

For skills, Blessing would be very helpful, and maxing Divine Protection and its offensive counterpart would eliminate the need to use second job skill points. Heal keeps you alive in battle. Increase AGI and Decrease AGI is a matter of whether you think you need it or not, because the only use Increase AGI would have to a Spirit Monk is walk speed, and Decrease AGI would be to slow down enemies for any tactical reason. Pneuma is a necessary skill for fast leveling, and to be more effective in PvP situations, notably.

Once you feel you are not getting enough EXP, go kill wolves 2 maps south of Payon. Heal would be really helpful here.

Before we get to the next place of leveling, we will need Pneuma first. Also decide by this time how much DEX you think will be suitable during your Sleeper grinding (described later in the guide).

Once you feel you are not getting enough EXP, go to Toy Factory Level 2 and kill Cruisers. Use Pneuma for protection, because Cruisers are ranged monsters. By this time, it would be advised to buy a stunner for effective damage.

Once cruisers seem to not give you enough EXP, venture into Amatsu Dungeon. Kill only the Antique Firelocks, using Pneuma to protect yourself.

Monk

During your painful Firelock grind, you will become a Monk. continue to Firelock grind, but invest in Occult Impaction Level 5 and Absorb Spirit Spheres. The rest of the skill allocation is up to you.

When you think you are ready (level 70-80), save a warp point at the Sleeper Map (yuno_fild06) and Occult Impact those sand guys to the ground.  When you are low on SP, cast Absorb Spirit Spheres on the Goats in yuno_fild06 repeatedly until the skill succeeds (when you get SP).

From here, it’s possible to either stay at Sleepers until 99 or advance to Turtle Island (which is more difficult).

Additional Tips

Sleepers drop Great Natures, which can be separated into 6-10 Green Lives and sold for 500 each Green Live (Umbala Elemental Ore Creation/Breakdown). If these Lives are sold with an Overcharge Merchant, it would be 620 zeny for each Green Live. Great way to get zeny.

Do the EXP quests.

Dona Eis Requiem Æternam

A Comprehensive Guide to Exorcist Priests & High Priests

Table of Contents:

• i. Foreword
• α. Introduction – About Exorcist Priests
  • αa. Who This Guide Is For
  • αb. How This Guide Is Organized
• I. Gears
  • Ia. Cards
  • Ib. Equipments
  • Ic. Equipment Sets
• II. As Divine Grace (non-transcendence)
  • IIa. Character Abilities (stats and skills)
    • Stats Overview
      • Stats Builds
      • How to Distribute Stat Points as You Level
    • Skills Overview
      • Skills Build
      • How to Distribute Skill Points as You Level
• III. A New Dawn (transcendence)
  • IIIa. New Skills
  • IIIb. Character Abilities (stats and skills)
    • Stats Build
    • How to Distribute Stat Points as You Level
    • Skills Build
    • How to Distribute Skill Points as You Level
• IV. Tips
• V. The Long Road Ahead (leveling spots)
• VI. Prevailing Benevolence (other roles)
  • VIa. Partying
  • VIb. War of Emperium
• θ. Appendix (other stuff)
  • θa. Useful Links
  • θb. Credit

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i. Foreword:

This guide is originally made for the generous audience of a server long past (paradiseRO). I have decided to pick up Ragnarok again after a period of inactivity and restore my guide as a tribute to my favorite class in RO.

I have been an avid Ragnarok Online player for the past few years. My very first character in Ragnarok Online was a priest. I enjoyed ME (Magnus Exorcismus) priest very much and eventually reached level 99 and transcended it into a ME high priest. As a young RO player in the old golden days of RO, I was very delighted to have transcended a character. Over the years, despite many setbacks, I have always enjoyed and loved to play ME priests.

I hope you will enjoy this guide as much as I enjoyed writing it for other people. Don’t be taken aback by the length of the guide. You will find it very easy to read through and easy to understand.

α. Introduction – About Exorcist Priests:

The world of Ragnarok Online is filled with masses of vile demons and undeads, and numerous forsaken dungeons filled with dark creatures. Exorcists, or ME (High) Priests are those whose jobs are not only to support and tend to his/her allies, but also to rid those places of the foul creatures. Although they don’t really shine until high levels, ME (High) Priest is the most self-sufficient class in RO. They’re usually their own mobber, tank, damage dealer, healer, and supporter. They are able to solo in many of RO’s demon-infested dungeons and gain high experience and zeny per hour. Not only are they great solo’ers, they work well in parties to high level dungeons like Kiel Dungeon and Cursed Abbey as damage dealers, ME is the highest mass damaging skill to Demons.

This guide teaches you about ME priests and high priests and how to play as one from the beginning stages. By finishing this guide, you’ll have a well-rounded knowledge of this build and will be able to play as one without much difficulty or confusion.

αa. Who This Guide Is For:

This guide is for anyone who wants to make an exorcist priest or high priest, or anyone who wants to become more familiar with the specialized build. Players with moderate knowledge, skill, and familiarity level with RO are able to understand this guide. Players who just started RO are recommended to read other guides or sources as well to become familiar with the game first (please refer to Appendix – Useful Links for a few sources).

This guide is for people who play RO for enjoyment, fun, cooperation, and community (the true way to play RO).

This guide is not for people who’s sole raison d’etre is watching people die in WOE and who ignorantly label ME as “useless”, “suck”, or various other adjectives of low constructive critique values (you are extremely short-sighted and haven’t the cognitive function to perform intellectual arguments).

This guide is not for people who’s idea of partying is dual-clienting characters and powerleveling or leeching solo (you have no friends).

αb. How This Guide Is Organized:

This guide is organized into sections with articles relating to the category:

• Section I – Gears discusses possible equipments and cards for priests and high priests. It is placed outside of nontranscendence and transcendence section because most equipments can be worn by both classes.
• Section II – As Divine Grace covers nontranscendence stats, builds, and acolyte leveling.
• Section III – A New Dawn covers the transcendent high priests and their stats and skills builds.
• Section IV – The Long Road Ahead lists leveling spots and tips.
• Section V – Prevailing Benevolence talks about the roles of ME priests and high priests in other areas, such as supporting in general pvm and the War of Emperium.
• Section θ – Appendix lists various useful information.

For easier access to certain sections of the guide, all sections and subsections are ordered by I, II, etc. and Ia, Ib, etc. You can reach those by searching “IIa. Character Abilities”, etc. for example.

I. Gears:

Gears, or equipments, are vital to any character. Although you can party with a tank or support in a party, as a ME priest, you are expected to be able to solo as well. In order to be your own mobber, tank, damage dealer, healer, and supporter, you’ll need to be well-equipped.

Note: These lists provide useful and common cards and equipments. There are dozens more equipments and cards that are not listed, most of them are not useful. You are encouraged to try out new gears anyway you can.

Note: The equipments and cards have short descriptions on their main effects. For complete information about the equipments or cards, please look them up on a database (refer to the Appendix section for a list of database sites).

Ia. Cards:

For leveling with ME and pvm in general, it is strongly recommended that the player get the Acolyte Card Combo Set. The set is Geographer Card, Seal Card, Cookie Card, Rideword Card, and Enchanted Peach Tree Card. When combined, it gives the following bonus:

• Chance of casting level 2 Blessing (10 if mastered) on the user when taking Physical Damage
• Chance of casting level 1 Heal (10 if mastered) on the user when attacking
• Cast Time -10%
• VIT +10
• INT +2
• LUK +2
• MDEF +1
• Accuracy +10
• Flee +3
• -30% damage from Devil and Undead monsters
• +5% EXP from Devil and Undead monsters
• Critical +9 on Devil and Undead monsters
• +10% Damage with Holy Light

There aren’t any better alternatives to acolyte combo for MEing. Divine Cross and Spiritual Ring combo come close as another viable option, please refer to Equipments and Equipment Sets section for a more detailed analysis. Other than those 2 sets, stuff like khalitzburg buckler or katheryne keyron headgear do not compare to the acolyte combo.

Headgear

• Rideword Card: Int +1. If Acolyte Class, Int +1 (+2 total), MDEF +1 [Acolyte Combo]
• Elder Willow Card: Int +2
• Carat Card: Int +2. If refine is 9 or 10, SP +150
• Katheryne Keyron Card: Reduce cast time by 1% for every refine

Armor

• Geographer Card: 3% chance of autocasting level 1 Blessing when receiving damage, if you have level 10 Blessing, that will be used instead [Acolyte Combo]
• Peco Peco Card: +10% HP
• Pupa Card: +700 HP
• Marc Card: Immunity to Frozen status. 5% Resistance to Water property attacks

Weapon

• Seal Card: Hit +10, Flee +3 [Acolyte Combo]
• Drops Card: Dex +1, Hit +3
• Fabre Card: Vit +1, HP +100
• Necromancer Card: [+ Slotted Rod] Int + 1, Add a 2% Magical Defense

Shield

• Enchanted Peach Tree Card: 2% chance of autocasting level 1 Heal when attacking, if you have level 10 Heal, that will be used instead [Acolyte Combo]
• Khalitzburg Card: 30% Resistance to Demon monsters
• Teddy Bear Card: 30% Resistance to Undead monsters
• Thara Frog Card: 30% Resistance to Demi-Human monsters

Garment

• Raydric Card: 20% Resistance to Neutral property attacks
• Noxious Card: 10% Resistance to Neutral property attacks, 10% Resistance to Ranged attacks

Footgear

• Verit Card: HP/SP +8%
• Matyr Card: Agi +1, HP +10%
• Ferus (green) Card: Vit +1, HP +10% [Bard Combo]
• Alarm Card: HP +300, Vit +1. 20% chance of autocasting level 1 Sight when receiving damage

Accessory

• Cookie Card: Luk +2. +10% damage with Holy Light [Acolyte Combo]
• Phen Card: Casting uninterruptible. Cast Time +25%
• Zerom Card: Dex +3
• Smokie Card: Enables use of level 1 Hiding
• Alligator Card: Receive 5% less damage from Long Range Physical attack.

Ib. Equipments:

This section lists useful and common equipments that are good for priests and high priests. Note: slotted headgears, armors, weapons, shields, and accessories are needed for acolyte combo.

Headgears (Upper)

• Biretta[1]: 4 Def.
• Ulle’s Cap[1]: 3 Def. +2 Dex, +1 Agi. If combined with Odin’s Blessing and you have 70 or more base dex, then SP cost -10%.
• Spiky Band: 6 Def. Can be slotted by the Socket Enchanter NPC.
• Munak Hat[1]: 5 Def. Upper and Middle. 10% Resistance to Undead. Slot Enchanted.
• Apple of Archer: 0 Def. Dex +3.
• Frigg’s Circlet: 3 Def. Int +2, SP +50, MDEF +10. [Frigg’s Circlet Set]
• Feather Beret: 1 Def. 10% Resistance to Demi-Humans.

Headgears (Middle)

• Small Ribbons: Middle. 1 Def
• Angel Wing Ears: Middle. 1 Def. +1 Str
• Evil Wing Ears: Middle. 1 Def. +1 Str
• Mini Glasses: Middle. 1 Def.
• Angled Glasses: Middle. 1 Def.
• Red Glasses: Middle. 1 Def.
• Opera Masque: Middle and Lower. 2 Def
• Alarm Mask: Middle and Lower. 2 Def
• Hahoe Mask: Middle and Lower. 2 Def. If Taekwon Class, +1 Luk, +2 Perfect Dodge

Any lower only headgears are up to the players. They offer insignificant bonuses.

Armor

• Saint’s Robe[1]: 6 Def. +5 MDEF.
• Silk Robe[1]: 3 Def. +10 MDEF.
• Glittering Jacket[1]: 7 Def. +5 MDEF. 3% Chance to blind attackers.
• Holy Robe: 7 Def. +5 MDEF. 10% Resistance to Shadow Property. 15% Resistance to Demon monsters. Can be slotted by Slotter NPC.
• Odin’s Blessing[1]: 6 Def. [Combos with many equipments]
• Robe of Orleans[1]: 2 Def. Cast uninterruptible. Cast Time +15%.

Weapon

• Rod[4]: +15% MATK
• Survivor’s Rod (Int): +15% MATK. Int +2. HP + 300.
• Survivor’s Rod (Dex): +15% MATK. Dex +2. HP + 300.
• Survivor’s Rod[1] (Int): +15% MATK. Int +3. HP + 400.
• Survivor’s Rod[1] (Dex): +15% MATK. Dex +3. HP + 400.
• Recovery Staff: +15% MATK. Heal and Sanctuary’s effectiveness raised based on refinement.
• Staff of Piercing: +15% MATK. Int +4. Ignore 10% of target’s MDEF. Amount ignored increases based on refinement.
• Holy Stick[1]: +15% MATK. ME, TU, and HL’s cast time -25%. [Sacred Scripture Set]
• Divine Cross: (two handed staff) +15% MATK. Dex +4. Reduce damage from Demon and Undead monsters by 15%. If combined with Spiritual Ring, MATK +10% (25% total), Dex +2 (+6 total), and reduce damage from Demon and Undead monsters by 10% (25% total)
• Lich’s Bone Wand[2]: +20% MATK. Int +1. Dex +1. Chance to Curse all targets onscreen when receiving damage. Chance increases based on refine.
• Principles of Magic[2]: +20% MATK. Int + 3. SP Recovery +5%.
• Giant Encyclopedia[2]: +20% MATK. Int +3. Dex +2. Crit +20. Crit increases further based on Luk.
• Sage’s Diary[2]: +15% MATK. If base Str is 50 or more, ASPD +5%. If base Int is 70 or more, MATK +5%.

Shield

• Buckler[1]: 4 Def.
• Valkyrja’s Shield[1]: 3 Def. MDEF +5. 20% Resistance to Water, Fire, Shadow, and Undead property. [Frigg’s Circlet Set]
• Sacred Scripture: 5 Def. Int +1. SP Recovery +3%. If equipped with Holy Stick, 20% more damage with ME. Chance to auto cast level 1 TU on attackers.
• Orlean’s Plate[1]: 5 Def. MDEF +2. Reflect magic attack back 5%. If equipped with Glove of Orleans, cast time -10%.

Garment

• Muffler[1]: 2 Def.
• Heavenly Maiden Robe[1]: 3 Def.
• Vali’s Manteau: 4 Def. 15% Resistance to Neutral property attacks.
• Wool Scarf[1]: 3 Def. MDEF +4. [Tidal Shoes Set]
• Mithril Magic Manteau[1]: 3 Def. MDEF +3. When receiving magic damage, chance to increase MDEF by 20, and decrease Def by 20.

Footgear

• Shoes[1]: 2 Def.
• High Quality Sandal[1]: 2 Def. MDEF +10
• Vidar’s Boots: 4 Def. HP/SP +9%.
• Tidal Shoes[1]: 3 Def. 5% Resistance to Water property. If equipped with Wool Scarf, HP +10%, HP Recovery +5%.

Accessories

• Clip[1]: [Spiritual Ring Set]
• Glove: Dex +2
• Glove[1]: Dex +1
• Rosary: Luk +2. MDEF +5 [Spiritual Ring Set]
• Rosary[1]: Luk +1, MDEF +3 [Spiritual Ring Set]
• Earring: Int +2
• Earring[1]: Int +1
• Glove of Orleans[1]: Dex +2. +3% MATK. [Orlean’s Plate Set]
• Spiritual Ring: Int +2. Dex +2. If equipped with Clip or Rosary, +30% ME damage, +50% Offensive Heal damage, SP Recovery +9%. [Divine Cross Set]

Ia. Equipment Sets:

This section discusses the equipments listed above and lists some equipment sets you should work for. It is greatly recommended that you employ the acolyte card set in your equipments, unless you have Divine Cross and Spiritual Ring (see below).

Also, you are greatly encouraged to test out some of these equipments before working towards getting the equipments that you like best.

Note that the Holy Scripture + Holy Stick set may sound good, but it isn’t. Loss of a shield slot means no acolyte combo and no khalitzburg which will make you take much more damage and lose a lot of benefits, Holy Stick by itself [with Seal Card for combo] is good.

Note: Phen switching refers to the act of casting a skill (i.e. Magnus Exorcismus) and then immediately switching to a phen accessory, so that your casting is uninterrupted while not incurring the +25% cast time.

Set 1: Universal Set

• Headgear: Biretta[1] – [Rideword Card]
• Armor: Saint’s Robe[1] – [Geographer Card]
• Weapon: Rod[4] or Survivor Rod[1] (int or dex) – [Seal Card]. Other slots are up to you
• Shield: Buckler[1], Enchanted Peach Tree Card
• Accessory 1: Clip[1] or Glove[1] or Rosary[1] (up to you) – [Cookie Card].
• Accessory 2: Other accessory is up to you. It’s recommended you have a phen accessory to phen switch
• Footgear and Garments: are up to the player’s choices. Vidars and Vali’s are a good idea for here (you can use Odin’s Blessing[1] instead of the Saints if you want the combo, but keep in mind Odin is heavy). Or Tidal Shoes and Wool Scarf.

This equipment set is employs the acolyte card combo and are easy to obtain for players. Good if you are rushing or don’t want to spend too much effort on pvm gears.

Set 2:

• Headgear: Biretta[1] or Ulle’s Cap[1] or Munak Hat[1] or Spiky Band[1] – [Rideword Card]
• Armor: Saint’s Robe[1] or Odin’s Blessing[1] or Holy Robe[1] – [Geographer Card]
• Weapon: Holy Stick[1] or Lich’s Bone Wand[2] or Magic Tactics[2] or Giant Encyclopedia[2] – [Seal Card], Drops or anything you want in other slots.
• Shield: Buckler[1] or Valkyrja Shield[1] – [Enchanted Peach Tree Card]
• Accessory 1: Clip[1] or Glove[1] or Rosary[1] (up to you) – [Cookie Card]
• Accessory 2: Nimble Glove and Phen Glove on other for phen switching, Spiritual Ring
• Footgear and Garments: Tidal Shoes – [Verit/Matyr/Green Ferus Card]. Wool Scarf – [Raydric Card]

These are for those who want to own or have the time/zeny for better equipments for his/her ME (high) priest. These equipments give more bonuses in addition to the acolyte combo set than Set 1.

Note: If you have a Spritual Ring, since you can’t use a Cookie accessory and phen accessory and Spiritual Ring at the same time, you could simply swap to a Spiritual Ring at the end of cast time. This will mean you need to swap 2 accessories when casting (1 for phen, 1 for Spiritual Ring).

Set 3: Orlean’s Set

• Headgear: Biretta[1] or Ulle’s Cap[1] or Munak Hat[1] or Spiky Band[1] – [Rideword Card]
• Armor: Robe of Orleans[1] – [Geographer Card]
• Weapon: Holy Stick[1] or Lich’s Bone Wand[2] or Magic Tactics[2] or Giant Encyclopedia[2] – [Seal Card], Drops or anything you want in other slots.
• Shield: Orlean’s Plate[1] – [Enchanted Peach Tree Card]
• Accessory 1: Glove of Orleans[1] – [Cookie Card]
• Accessory 2: Anything you like except a phen accessory, Spiritual Ring
• Footgear and Garments: Tidal Shoes – [Verit/Matyr/Green Ferus Card]. Wool Scarf – [Raydric Card]

This set is similar to Set 2, except you are employing the Orlean’s Set in addiction to the acolyte card set. Orlean’s Set gives you uninterruptible cast time but only increases cast time by 15%, then -10% from aco combo, then another -10% from Orlean’s set (giving you a total of -5% cast time). You will reduce cast time even more when equipped with a Holy Stick, although at this point, a +20% MATK weapon will make more difference since your cast time is super fast already. Note that if you have Spiritual Ring, you should go for the Divine Cross set mentioned below.

Set 4: Divine Cross + Spiritual Ring + Clip or Rosary

• Headgear: Biretta[1] or Ulle’s Cap[1] or Munak Hat[1] or Spiky Band[1] – [Rideword Card or Elder Willow or Katheryne Keyron Card]
• Armor: Saint’s Robe[1] or Odin’s Blessing[1] or Holy Robe[1] or Robe of Orleans[1] – [Peco Peco Card or Pupa Card or anything you like]
• Weapon: Divine Cross (two handed)
• Shield: Divine Cross (two handed)
• Footgear and Garments: Tidal Shoes – [Verit/Matyr/Green Ferus Card]. Wool Scarf – [Raydric Card].
• Accessory 1: Spiritual Ring
• Accessory 2: Clip[1] or Rosary[1] – [Phen Card (if not using Robe of Orleans) Zerom otherwise]

This set does not employ the acolyte card set. Divine Cross and Spiritual Ring are the only set that is equal to the acolyte card set. I won’t say better, because both are good at different areas (aco set has more versatility, divine cross set loses vit and def for great damage). Divine Cross + Spiritual Ring offers 25% resistance to Demon and Undead monsters, comparable to aco combo. And also offers huge MATK bonus (+25%). Spiritual Ring, then combined with Clip or Rosary offers huge ME damage bonus (+30%). Combined with the +25% MATK, you’ll pretty much obliterate Demons and Undead, who already take increased damage from Holy.

The only drawback to this set is that the 5% less damage reduction from demons and undead and the loss of a shield will result in considerable increased damage from monsters. Not to mention a noticeable loss in hp without the +10 Vit.

Remark: You don’t neccessarily have to use the Spiritual Ring set when you have a Spiritual Ring. You could use one of the other sets listed above and simply swap to a Spiritual Ring after casting ME. I personally prefer this method as I still get the damage boost and don’t have to sacrifice defense.

II. As Divine Grace

Nontranscendence acolytes and priests

The first step in the game is the non-transcendence stage. This section will cover acolytes and priests and their stats and skills and leveling spots

IIa. Character Abilities:

Stats and Skills

In Ragnarok, a player’s skillfulness and knowledge is important for performance. However, they are limited by a character’s abilities. Every character’s ability and performance at a given situation is based on its stats and skills. This section will go over stats and skills, and which are important to your ME priest.

Stats Overview

• STR: The only use strength has for a ME priest is raising the weight limit so more items can be carried. Even so, you’d probably not want to put points in strength because you’ll need the points in other stats. Carrying more items doesn’t affect your abilities much.
• AGI: Agility has no uses whatsoever to a ME priest.
• VIT: Vitality is a vital stat for many classes. It raises hp and resistance to many physical ailments (the most dangerous of which is stun). Every 1 point of Vit gives 1% more base hp and roughly 1% resistance to physical statuses. You could invest points into vitality mainly for the increase in hp. But keep in mind, you need high intelligence and dexterity mainly.
• INT: Intelligence is one of the two main stats for a ME priest. It raises sp, sp regeneration, and magic attack (MATK). MATK is crucial because ME is MATK dependent. MATK bonuses come in intervals of 5 (max matk bonus) and 7 (min matk bonus). You want to have INT at a multiple of 5 or 7 or both. To be a functional ME priest, you need 105 Int at least (doable with 90 base int + 5 job bonus + 10 Blessing). 105 Int insures you kill a Disguise in Niffleheim (niff) 1 all the time with 1 full ME. The next good (closest to both a max and min interval) breakpoints for MATK is at 112 Int, then 115, then 120, and then 126. For a priest, 105 Int is enough if you want to do niff and head to transcendence high priest as fast as possible, this allows you to save points for other stats like Dex. As a ME high priest however, it is recommended you go for 120 Int, in order to do higher level dungeons (cursed abbey, Geffen guild dungeon, etc.) more efficiently, both with or without a party.
• DEX: Dexterity is the other crucial stat for ME priests. Unlike intelligence however, Dex has no bonuses for cast time. So there is no specific interval to plan for. Every 1 Dex lowers cast time by 2/3% (0.667%), or .1 second for ME, so every 10 points lowers ME cast time by 1 second. For getting to high priest as fast as possible, the more Dex you have, the better, assuming you have your Int at 105 already.
• LUK: Luck raises turning (Turn Undead) chance, otherwise useless for priests. Do not increase points here.

Skills Overview

This section goes over the acolyte and priest skills and comments on each skill.

For simplification and saving space, rather than listing out the skills, a link to them has been provided instead.

Acolyte Skills

http://ratemyserver.net/index.php?page=skill_db&jid=4

Priest Skills

http://ratemyserver.net/index.php?page=skill_db&jid=8

Skills Builds – Priest Stage

Note: this section is for priests. For high priest, please refer to Section III.

As a ME priest, your acolyte skills is similar to that of a FS priest’s. You can however drop Angelus if you’re not getting Kyrie and change job earlier.

SW/ME Build

• Divine Protection Level 5
• Ruwach Level 1
• Pneuma Level 1
• Teleportation Level 2
• Warp Portal Level 4
• Heal Level 10
• Increase Agility Level 10
• Decrease Agility Level 2
• Aqua Benedicta Level 1
• Angelus Level 2
• Blessing Level 10
• Cure Level 1
• Increase SP Recovery Level 4
• Safety Wall Level 10
• Resurrection Level 1
• Impositio Manus Level 3
• Aspersio Level 4
• Sanctuary Level 3
• Status Recovery Level 1
• Magnificat Level 1
• Lex Divina Level 5
• Turn Undead Level 6 (can be dropped to 3)
• Lex Aeterna Level 1
• Magnus Exorcismus Level 10
• Redemptio Level 1

http://web.hc.keio.ac.jp/~fk061999/himeyasha/skill3/pri.html?10axensXd AhEbajOqxdBHnbK

A good ME build. Alternatively, you can lower TU to no lower than 3 for extra points. But it’s recommended to keep it for earlier leveling with TU. A suggested skill to put those 3 points into is Sanctuary.

KE/ME Build

• Divine Protection Level 5
• Ruwach Level 1
• Pneuma Level 1
• Teleportation Level 2
• Warp Portal Level 4
• Heal Level 10
• Increase Agility Level 10
• Decrease Agility Level 2
• Aqua Benedicta Level 1
• Angelus Level 2
• Blessing Level 10
• Cure Level 1
• Increase SP Recovery Level 4
• Safety Wall Level 1
• Resurrection Level 1
• Impositio Manus Level 3
• Aspersio Level 4
• Sanctuary Level 3
• Status Recovery Level 1
• Kyrie Eleison Level 10
• Magnificat Level 1
• Lex Divina Level 5
• Turn Undead Level 5 (can be dropped to 3)
• Lex Aeterna Level 1
• Magnus Exorcismus Level 10

http://web.hc.keio.ac.jp/~fk061999/himeyasha/skill3/pri.html?10gXdNsXd AhEbamoqxdBeabx

This build complements the Vit ME Build listed above. You can drop TU to 3 for more skill points. A suggested skill to put those 3 points into is Sanctuary.

How to Distribute Skill Points as You Level

As an acolyte, get level 10 Heal at first. Then work towards getting Pneuma. It’s optional to get Increase AGI 1 for faster move speed after Heal 10. After Pneuma, get Blessing 10 next. And then max Increase AGI to 10. This will be the majority of your points already. Get the other needed but less useful skills last such as Aqua Benedicta, Cure, Decrease AGI, and Angelus. Note: You can go earlier than job 50 if you are going SW/ME build and don’t want Angelus and/or want to skip Decrease AGI. But you need all required skills first.

As a priest, get Magnificat 1 as your first point. Then work for TU to your maximum planned level (no higher than 6 for SW build, 5 for KE build, make sure you have enough points for everything else). TU will help you level earlier on. Then work for ME 10, the order you get the prerequisite skills does not matter. And finally SW 10 if you’re SW/ME build, KE 10 if you’re KE/ME build.

III. A New Dawn

Transcendence High Priests

ME high priests are greatly improved over nontranscendence priests. The transcendence skill Assumptio is an invaluable skill that makes even fragile builds comparable at tanking and surviving with a Vit class. The 20 extra skill points also makes making ME/support builds possible since you won’t need all 20 skill points in your new skills.

IIIa. New Skills:

For simplification and saving space, rather than listing out the skills, a link to them has been provided instead.

http://ratemyserver.net/index.php?page=skill_db&jid=4009

IIIb. Character Abilities:

Stats and Skills

As a high priest, you should take more consideration in your stats and skills.

Stats Builds – High Priest Stage

*All total values are with job bonus (job 70) and priest buffs but without equipments

High Priest Job Bonus (job 50):

STR +7, AGI +8, VIT +7, INT +12, DEX +9, LUK +2

Pure INT/DEX (99/99/25) Build

• STR 1
• AGI 1
• VIT 25 (base)
• INT 99 (base)
• DEX 99 (base)
• LUK 1

This build goes for the highest damage and quickest cast time. With 99 base Int, you can reach 120, 125, or 126 easily, giving huge damage output with ME. The drawback to this build is the low HP and status resistance. It’s not recommended to go for this build especially if you want to WOE as well.

INT (or DEX) (99/93/40) Build

• STR 1
• AGI 1
• VIT 40 (base)
• INT 99 (or 93) (base)
• DEX 93 (or 99) (base)
• LUK 1

This build retains the high damage output from having 99 INT while sacrificing a little cast time for greater Vit and resistance.

Alternatively, the Dex and Int could be swapped. But it’s most likely the high MATK bonuses in the 120s Int outweigh the ~0.6 second more or less quicker cast. (See Discussion: Int vs. Dex for ME HPs in Stats Overview in Section II).

All Purpose Build

• STR 1
• AGI 1
• VIT 50 – 70 (total)
• INT 112 or 115 or 120 (total)
• DEX 100 – 120 (total)
• LUK 1

This build sacrifices MATK and/or cast time for greater survivability and resistance. Although good for tanking and in WOE, keep in mind, dropping Int and Dex makes a noticeable decrease in damage and performance with ME.

How to Distribute Stat Points as You Level – High Priest Stage

Just like priests, start with mostly (or all) Int. Place reminder points into Dex or Vit if you want. When your Int is 80 base, start upping Dex mainly with reminder points into Vit each level. Make sure you have 105 Int by level 75-80 for soloing niff. Raise Int slowly to your final planned amount. Once your Dex is nearing your final amount, start upping Vit too.

You might do your stats differently, it’s all up to you. But don’t let your Dex overtake your Int at lower levels.

Skills Builds – High Priest Stage

ME HP skill builds varies a lot more than ME priests. You have 20 extra skill points but you won’t need to use them all on your new skills. There’s too many skill builds you can make, I’ll only list two different ones.

When planning your skill build, remember your key skills are Assumptio 5, ME 10, and SW 10.
Sanctuary is a nice skill that’s recommended to be put at level 7, because it’s useful for soloing in higher level dungeons.
Meditatio is something to consider, based on how much Int you have, you could drop some levels for more points if you really need it.
Don’t put points into any Acolyte skills, priest ones are more important and useful. 
All else is up to what you want.

ME with Meditatio Build

• Divine Protection Level 5
• Ruwach Level 1
• Pneuma Level 1
• Teleportation Level 2
• Warp Portal Level 4
• Heal Level 10
• Increase Agility Level 10
• Decrease Agility Level 2
• Aqua Benedicta Level 1
• Angelus Level 2
• Blessing Level 10
• Cure Level 1
• Increase SP Recovery Level 5
• Safety Wall Level 10
• Resurrection Level 1
• Impositio Manus Level 3
• Aspersio Level 4
• Sanctuary Level 7
• Status Recovery Level 1
• Kyrie Eleison Level 1
• Magnificat Level 3
• Lex Divina Level 5
• Turn Undead Level 3
• Lex Aeterna Level 1
• Magnus Exorcismus Level 10
• Assumptio Level 5
• Meditatio Level 10
• Skill points left: 0

http://web.hc.keio.ac.jp/~fk061999/himeyasha/skill3/hpr.html?20gXdNsXd AhEbnkbqxkbInaScAJy

This build uses up all its points and has Meditatio 10.

ME/support Build

• Divine Protection Level 5
• Ruwach Level 1
• Pneuma Level 1
• Teleportation Level 2
• Warp Portal Level 4
• Heal Level 10
• Increase Agility Level 10
• Decrease Agility Level 2
• Aqua Benedicta Level 1
• Angelus Level 2
• Blessing Level 10
• Cure Level 1
• Increase SP Recovery Level 4
• Safety Wall Level 10
• Resurrection Level 1
• Impositio Manus Level 3
• Suffragium Level 3
• Aspersio Level 4
• Sanctuary Level 3
• Status Recovery Level 1
• Kyrie Eleison Level 4
• Magnificat Level 3
• Gloria Level 1
• Lex Divina Level 5
• Turn Undead Level 3
• Lex Aeterna Level 1
• Magnus Exorcismus Level 10
• Assumptio Level 5
• Skill points left: 8

http://web.hc.keio.ac.jp/~fk061999/himeyasha/skill3/hpr.html?20gXdNsXd AhEbbkOqxkbHnkF1Jy

This build skips out on Meditatio for more support skills. Because of the lack of Meditatio, this build is recommended for stats builds with 120+ Int. You have 8 skill points left which you can put into Meditatio or more Resurrection or Sanctuary to 7 for WOE or more Kyrie Eleison for WOE.

How to Distribute Skill Points as You Level – High Priest Stage

Depending on your skill build, it’ll different. But they all start the same. Get Magni 1 first (you’ll have magni 1 for a long time). Go for Assumptio 5 next. Then TU 3 for faster early leveling. Then work for ME 10 (the order you get prerequisites does not matter). Then SW next. At this point, whatever you get next depends on your build and what you want. Sanctuary 7 is good for soloing if you get it now, or you can choose to get support skills first.

IV. Tips

• When mobbing, it is a good idea to cast Safety Wall on the run (i.e. casting Safety Wall on the tile you’re about to move to, then click on it to walk inside) rather than stopping and then centering your cursor over yourself to cast Safety Wall because this gives your mob time to catch up.
• Sometimes it’s a good idea to cast 2 Safety Walls, one where you’re standing on, and another close by. This way you can move to the second one when the first one dies down and you’re in delay from ME.
• When leveling in places where monsters hit hard, it is a good idea to cast Sanctuary to heal yourself. Walk around till the mob is on one side (not around you). Cast Sanctuary on the other side so that the edge hits you. This way you’ll be healed by Sanctuary without it hitting the mob (which will shorten it’s duration drastically).
• In dire situations where your Assumptio runs out, quickly cast a Level 1 Assumptio by rolling down the mouse wheel. This will buy you a little time to deal with the mob. Afterwards, recast Assumptio 5.
• When mobbing, it’s a good idea to cast Lex Aeterna on monsters as you’re gathering, so when you cast ME, those monsters will take double damage.
• In PVP or WOE situations, you can cancel enemy Assumptio by casting a level 1 Kyrie Eleison on him/her. Kyrie cancels Assumptio, and the level 1 is because they want them to not receive a greater effect on the buff.
• Holy Light cancels Kyrie Eleison on players even if they take no damage (i.e. holy armor).

V. The Long Road Ahead

Leveling Spots

This section will provide leveling spots from acolyte to the time you turn Priest (or High Priest) and then all the way to level 99. Each spot will have a short instruction on how to reach there, a recommended level you should start there (as priest or high priest), a list of monsters you’ll be leveling on, and a description of what to expect and what to do. Level recommended is to give you an idea of its difficulty, not to be taken literally. Factors such as gears or a party mean you can probably start there earlier than expected level.

For priests, I’m assuming you are moderately geared. For high priests, I’m assuming you have a phen accessory and the aco set (see Equipment Set 1 under Section I).

Prontera Fields

• Where: South of Prontera
• Recommended level: right after acolyte job change
• Monsters:
  • Poring: ATK: 7-10. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 2/1
  • Pupa: ATK: 1-2. ASPD: Average. EXP: 2/4
  • Lunatic: ATK: 9-12. ASPD: Average. EXP 8/2
  • Drops: ATK: 10-13. ASPD: Average. EXP 4/3

Use the a Mace or Rod for these few job levels, you don’t have any skills yet. Simply kill the monsters here until you have Heal 5+. If you still have the Novice Potions from the new players area, you can try Rockers. They are on the map to the left.

Payon Cave F1

• Where: Go north 1 map in Payon. Portal on the left.
• Recommended level: ~10 (whenever you have high level Heal)
• Monsters:
  • Skeleton: HP: 234. ATK: 39-47. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 18/14
  • Zombie: HP: 534. ATK: 67-79. ASPD: Very Slow. EXP: 50/33

Now that you have Heal, use it offensively (shift-click or /ns) to kill Skeletons and Zombies. Your SP will deplete quickly but you’ll be leveling up fast at this point. Familiars are your greatest pests, best way is just to flywing away from them, you might be able to take it on melee with Heal.

Orc Dungeon 1 & 2

• Where: Go into the northwest building in Orc Village and head down.
• Recommended level: ~20
• Monsters:
  • Orc Zombie: HP: 1568. ATK: 151-181. ASPD: Very Slow. EXP: 196/120
  • Orc Skeleton: HP: 2278. ATK: 190-236. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 315/194

Like Payon Cave, healbomb Orc Zombies or Orc Skeletons. Your SP will deplete quickly but you can always exit the dungeon to regenerate.

Amatsu Dungeon F1

• Where: Go to the docks in Alberta. Pay 10,000z to get to Amatsu. The Dungeon is in the top story of the Amatsu Palace in northwest Amatsu. Note: You need to complete Amatsu Dungeon quest to enter the dungeon. (http://ratemyserver.net/quest_db.php?type=70000&qid=70001)
• Recommended level: whenever you have Pneuma
• Monsters:
  • Firelock Soldier: HP: 3852. ATK: 289-336. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 1293/1003

Firelock is a great place for acolytes to level up to priest. They are ranged so Pneuma will block their attacks (their elemental attacks will go through Pneuma though). Simply Pneuma and Heal bomb or Holy Light Firelocks to death. Stay away from Miyabi, they are non aggressive. There is 1 Shinobi on map, run away from them if you can. You aren’t allowed to teleport on this map.

Amatsu Dungeon 2 is good as well, it’s smaller and you can teleport. But watch out for Horongs and Papers.

This is the stage where you will enjoy the best part of being an acolyte: regenerating SP. Enjoy it, you’ll be doing it a lot. You will be in the level 60s range by the time you can turn into a priest.

After Job Change into priest (Priest Trials), you can come here to get your first job levels, until you get your maximum planned Turn Undead level.

Glast Heim St. Abbey

• Where: Go to Glast Heim (3 west, 1 north of Geffen. Or use the Cool Event NPC in Prontera). It’s the long rectangular building in middle bottom.
• Recommended level: ~50 and after job change [priest and high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Evil Druid: HP: 16506. ATK: 420-670. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 2890/1827
  • Ghoul: HP: 5418. ATK: 420-500. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 1088/622
  • Wraith: HP: 10999. ATK: 580-760. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 2199/1099

Alternatively as an acolyte, you can Healbomb here instead of Firelocks, but you need Teleport to get away from Mimics or when out of sp. After job change, you can level here for a good bit of your job levels. Start with Heal bombing the monsters and Magnificat when you need SP. After you get Turn Undead, you can use that instead.

The Evil Druids have some useful drops such as Biretta[1] and Yggdrasil Leaves, their card is extremely valuable as well.

Pyramid B2

• Where: Go upper left portal in Morroc. Enter the pyramid, go to center warp (not shown on map), keep going down 2 levels.
• Recommended level: Whenever you have TU [priest and high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Ancient Mummy: HP: 40599. ATK: 836-1129. ASPD: Average. EXP: 8040/3499

Whenever you have TU, you can level here instead for some earlier levels and job levels. Ancient Mummies have too much HP to Heal bomb efficiently. TU and run around during the delay. Other than some early job levels after TU, this map is not exp-efficient. There are too much pests like mimics and arclouses around to level efficiently here, not to mention Amon Ra in the center of the map.

Sphinx F4

• Where: Go left portal in Morroc. Enter the sphinx and go up 3 levels.
• Recommended level: 80 [priest] / Whenever you have TU 3 prerequisite for ME [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Anubis: HP: 38000. ATK: 530-1697. ASPD: Average. EXP: 28000/22000

Another good place for levels and job levels till you can level with ME efficiently. Anubis do very high damage and have Sonic Blow. Your edge over normal TU priests is your Dex. You can avoid taking damage altogether by casting fast and moving around. Lex Divina and Decrease AGI and Blessing on Anubis helps too. Stay away from Minorous, Pasanas and Mimics.

Geffen Dungeon F3

• Where: Go to Geffen Tower (in center of Geffen). Keep going down till you reach a dungeon. Go down 2 more levels.
• Recommended level: 80 [priest] / Whenever you have ME 10 [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Nightmare: HP: 4437. ATK: 447-529. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 1912/1912
  • Deviruchi: HP: 6666. ATK: 475-560. ASPD: Average. EXP: 2662/1278
  • Marionette: HP: 3222. ATK: 355-422. ASPD: Average. EXP: 1078/1276
  • Whisper: HP: 1796. ATK: 180-221. ASPD: Very Slow. EXP: 591/599

Geffen Dungeon offers good loots, like Whisper Card and Infiltrator. Stay away from hunter flies and Doppelganger.

Priest (80):

At this point, you’ll start to level with Magnus Exorcismus. Start slowly, especially if you don’t have a phen yet (if you don’t, get one as soon as you can). Start with only 1 or 2 monsters first, and SW and ME if you’re Dex SW/ME build, or KE (should already be on) and ME if you’re Vit KE/ME build. If you have a phen, you can try getting more monsters. Also if you have a phen, practice phen switching, you’ll be using it a lot later on.

It is greatly encouraged to party with a mobber or tank, it’s very likely you can earn greater exp per hour with a mobber especially since you probably can’t mob too much at first. Also if you have a mobber, you can start this place before you have SW 10 or KE 10.

High Priest (whenever you have ME 10):

With assumptio and acolyte combo, you can tank a mob for a good while. You won’t need to safety wall.

Ayothaya Dungeon 2

• Where: You need to complete Ayothaya Dungeon Entrance Quest to enter level 2.
• Recommended level: 80 [priest] / N/A (see below) [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Tamruan: HP: 10234. ATK: 489-534. ASPD: Average. EXP: 3812/55

This place is easily soloable and offers great experience as a priest. Krabens will be a pest though. You’ll also need to bring Green Potions as Tamruans have silence.

Priest (85):

Tamruans do fairly low damage and is tankable even without SW. Be careful as they can silence.

High Priest (whenever you have ME 10):

Tamruans offer basically no job experience, it’s not recommended to level here as a high priest.

Glast Heim Underprison

• Where: Enter Glast Heim Castle. Take one of the middle 2 portals.
• Recommended level: 85 [priest] / 80 [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Rybio: HP: 9572. ATK: 686-912. ASPD: Average. EXP: 6317/3520
  • Zombie Prisoner: HP: 11280. ATK: 780-930. ASPD: Very Fast. EXP: 2635/1724

This place is soloable and offers fairly good experience. Rybios have Sonic Blow and Provoke, so you’ll need a Phen Accessory.

Priest (85):

You’ll need a phen and be SW/ME build to do this place effectively. Stay away from Hunter Flies and Injustice.

High Priest (whenever you have ME 10):

At this point you may not have SW. If you don’t, it’s more efficient to do Niff 1 as monsters there don’t have any great damaging skills.

Niflheim Field 1

• Where: Go to Umbala. Go into north portal, and enter the center portal on next 2 maps. Then walk down the green path (Yggdrasil Tree).
• Recommended level: 90 [priest] / 80 (need to have ME 10 and 105 Int) [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Disguise: HP: 7543. ATK: 279-546. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 2815/1919
  • Dullahan: HP: 12437. ATK: 647-1065. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 4517/2963
  • Quve: HP: 4559. ATK: 299-469. ASPD: Average. EXP: 414/306
  • Hylozoist: HP: 7186. ATK: 317-498. ASPD: Average. EXP: 2314/1297
  • Gibbet: HP: 6841. ATK: 418-656. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 4011/1849

Probably the best place soloable by ME. All monsters here are “ME-able”. There are plenty of monsters so you never have to go far to get a mob making you get experience really fast. Mobs here also drop good loots. Niff 1 yields high experience per hour (way faster than a majos party and you don’t have to split experience) and great zeny per hour. You can stay here for the reminder (also the longest part) of your levels (as a priest)

It’s also really recommended that you get a mobber to party with. It’s very likely you actually get more experience partied with a mobber and still sharing experience than you do soloing. Stay offscreen a few screens behind or be on a separate part of the map mobbing. Coordinate with your partymate so you know when to kill the mob. Cast ME about a screen away and have your party mate walk the mob in. You should run far offscreen after casting or teleport or flywing so the mob doesn’t switch to you.

Priest (90):

Niff monsters attack fast and hit hard, so they eat through SW or KE fast. But with fast cast, you should be able to minimize the damage taken. You can also get the mob to one side and cast a sanctuary on the other side such that it heals you but not the mob, as it will disappear quicker if it hits monsters.

High Priest (75):

You can start here very early as a HP if you have 105 Int. Same as Geffen Dungeon, just mob slowly at first and cast.

Niflheim Field 2

• Where: Go to Umbala. Go into north portal, and enter the center portal on next 2 maps. Then walk down the green path (Yggdrasil Tree). Take the right portal on Niff Field 1.
• Recommended level: 90 [priest] / 80 [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Loli Ruri: HP: 23470. ATK: 1476-2317. ASPD: Average. EXP: 6641/4314
  • Dullahan: HP: 12437. ATK: 647-1065. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 4517/2963
  • Lude: HP: 3214. ATK: 287-451. ASPD: Average. EXP: 392/247
  • Hylozoist: HP: 7186. ATK: 317-498. ASPD: Average. EXP: 2314/1297
  • Gibbet: HP: 6841. ATK: 418-656. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 4011/1849

Freya’s Sacred Precinct F3

• Where: You need to have completed Rachel Sanctuary Quest. Enter Rachel Sanctuary and go through portals until you reach this map (portals are random)
• Recommended level: 90 [priest] / 80 [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Hodremlin: HP: 12180. ATK: 845-1678. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 6782/2022

Nogg Road 2

• Where: From Yuno, go South, then East. Enter Magma Dungeon from the portal in middle left. Go to second level
• Recommended level: 90 [priest] / 90 [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Diabolic: HP: 9642. ATK: 796-1059. ASPD: Very Fast. EXP: 3662/2223
  • Nightmare Terror: HP: 22605. ATK: 757-1007. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 6683/4359
  • Blazer: HP: 8252. ATK: 533-709. ASPD: Average. EXP: 3173/1871

Kiel Dungeon F2

• Where: You need to complete the Kiel Hyre Quest to enter this place
• Recommended level: 90+ [priest] / 90+ [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Alicel: HP: 37520. ATK: 1800-2700. ASPD: Average. EXP: 8890/5420
  • Aliot: HP: 48290. ATK: 950-2470. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 13020/4006

As a priest, you’ll definitely need a party here to level efficiently. Avoid attacking Constants as they self detonate when attacked, which will deal 10,000 def-ignoring damage. Alicel and Aliot have high attack and are neutral property. They take 2-3 MEs to kill. But they do have nice drops, Vali’s Manteau and Falcon Muffler are a pretty high chance, they also drop Thin Blade and Drill Katar.

Priest (90+):

You’ll need to be partied to do this place efficiently, tanks help too for redrawing aggro after each ME. If soloing, you’ll need to have Safety Wall and/or Sanctuary.

High Priest (90):

Same as priests, except you can solo here effectively at higher levels. It helps a lot if you have Sanctuary 7. Place Sanctuary behind you with the mob in front of you, that way you get healed while casting but they don’t eat away Sanctuary.

Britoniah Guild Dungeon (Geffen Guild Dungeon)

• Where: Go to your guild’s Geffen castle, find the switch and hit the switch to be teleported inside. *Note: you need to be in a guild that holds a Geffen castle to enter the guild dungeon*
• Recommended level: 90+ [priest] / 90+ [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Wraith Dead: HP: 43021. ATK: 1366-1626. ASPD: Average. EXP: 10341/3618
  • Mini Demon: HP: 32538. ATK: 1073-1414. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 8396/3722
  • Zombie Master: HP: 14211. ATK: 824-1084. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 7610/2826

All monsters here are “ME-able”, although you’ll probably want to stay away from the minibosses and Dark Lord. This dungeon is faster than niff and offers great drops. You’ll definitely need a party to level here efficiently, especially as a normal priest. Monsters here deal very high damage. Also unlike niff or regular Geffen Dungeon (where 1 ME kills), monsters here take 2 – 3 full MEs to kill, depending on your Int. This place offers one of the highest experience output as ME build.

Priest (90+):

Even with a party, it’s best you safety wall (if you are SW/ME build) yourself when casting because the monsters take more than 1 ME and most likely will switch to you. SW/ME builds do better here. If you are KE/ME build, you won’t be using KE unless you don’t have a high priest in your party. Have your other priest heal you, run around, and have your mobber or tank redraw aggro after each ME.

High Priest (90):

Same as priests, except you can solo here effectively at higher levels. It helps a lot if you have Sanctuary level 7. Place Sanctuary behind you with the mob in front of you, that way you get healed while casting but they don’t eat away Sanctuary.

Nameless Island Surface and Cursed Abbey

• Where: Go 1 map south of Veins, talk to the NPC at the bottom part of map. Enter the top building in Nameless Island, and exit to enter the night version Nameless Island.
• Recommended level: 90+ [priest] / 90+ [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Ghoul: HP: 5418. ATK: 420-500. ASPD: Slow. EXP: 1088/622
  • Zombie Slaughter: HP: 43000. ATK: 1055-1655. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 12000/8500
  • Ragged Zombie: HP: 25000. ATK: 1200-1500. ASPD: Average. EXP: 8500/5500
  • Hell Poodle: HP: 9000. ATK: 400-600. ASPD: Average. EXP: 4000/3000
  • Banshee: HP: 35111. ATK: 1666-2609. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 15012/12000
  • Flame Skull: HP: 10800. ATK: 100-1200. ASPD: Average. EXP: 3000/2600
  • Necromancer: HP: 98000. ATK: 3500-4000. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 45000/35000

This dungeon is aimed towards high level trans characters, and you’ll need to be partied with such if you want try this place. Monsters here have very high attack and powerful skills. Zombie Slaughter Sonic Blows very often, watch out for them. Banshees have high mdef, you need a physical attacker to kill them fast. Monsters here also take many MEs to kill. This place yields high experience and very nice and new drops.

Priest (90+):

You need to be partied for this place. You’ll do much better here if you went SW/ME build. Have tanks or other damage dealer keep the monsters off of you. If you don’t have SW, have your HP SW you or run around after each cast. Zombie Slaughters can be turned. Banshees can be silenced easily.

High Priest(90+):

Same as priests, except you can solo this place somewhat if you take it slowly. Banshees will take the longest time to kill, but you can silence them at least. It’s best to solo level 2 as there are no Banshees.

As for soloing Necromancers, it’s much easier if you have a Spiritual and 126 Int, as Necromancers will usually die in 1 cast of ME. Necromancers summon 2 zombie slaughters and have annoying spells such as change to undead property, critical wounds, thunderstorm, slow casting, quagmire. You’ll definitely need to SW yourself and walk slowly when soloing Necromancers.

It’s more efficient to do this place with a party as well, instead of soloing.

Geffenia

• Where: You need to have completed the Sign Quest and have Lucifer’s Lament in your inventory. Click the fountain in Geffen to open the portal to enter Geffenia.
• Recommended level: 90+ [priest] / 90+ [high priest]
• Monsters:
  • Succubus: HP: 16955. ATK: 1286-1686. ASPD: Very Fast. EXP: 5357/4322
  • Incubus: HP: 17281. ATK: 1408-1873. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 5254/4212
  • Mini Demon: HP: 32538. ATK: 1073-1414. ASPD: Fast. EXP: 8396/3722

This dungeon requires the completion of the Sign Quest to enter. This dungeon is difficult to solo as a priest. It’s more efficient with a party. There are a lot of non ME-able monsters running around as well. Monsters usually take 1-2 casts of ME to finish off unless you have 120+ Int and a Spiritual Ring. Incubus also drain a high amount of SP.

In return for having to finish Sign Quest and high difficulty, Geffenia offers a very high amount of cash in loots.

Priest (90+):

You need to be partied for this place. You’ll do much better here if you went SW/ME build. Have tanks or other damage dealer keep the monsters off of you.

High Priest(90+):

This place is soloable effectively as a High Priest. Gather a fair sized mob, safety wall yourself and cast ME. Having a Sanctuary up is very helpful as it heals you during aftercast delay after safety wall goes down. Monsters here die in 1 cast of ME if you have 126 Int and a Spiritual Ring.

It’s a good idea to hotkey Mastelas for emergency situations as they drop here. Blue Potions dropped by Succubus helps when you get SP drained by Incubus.

VI. Prevailing Benevolence

Other Roles

Va. Partying:

ME (high) priests aren’t just limited to killing demons and undeads. They can function as great supporters and healers as well from the rear ranks much like the traditional role of healers in RPGs. As a high Int and Dex character, your cast time will be really fast and you often won’t have many problems with SP, especially if you’re a HP. Depending on how much Vit you have, you can act as a moderate tank as well. ME high priests usually have much more Vit than ME priests because of the extra stat points. You’re pretty much a support priest with faster cast and lower hp.

Skills-wise, a ME priest won’t have much points left over for support skills. But ME high priests have pretty much all important support skills depending on the skills build.

Vb. War of Emperium:

War of Emperium is a weekly mass organized guild vs. guild event, and one of the most popular features of the game. Although not very tough due to low Vit, ME (high) priests are very useful in WOE too. Quick cast time is great for supporting in WOE. Their fast cast is good for protecting the Emperium by Safety Walling and Sanctuary’ing. Many Emp breakers wear Evil Druid armor (making them Undead element), MEing, turning, or healing them can be good support damage. ME can also be precasted along with wizards although gem costly. Turning Evil Druid players deal a great chunk of their HP in damage regardless of MDEF. Heal bombing also bypasses MDEF. In addition to those, you do what any support priest would do.

Tip: Casting Kyrie Eleison on Assumptio gets rid of Assumptio. Use Kyrie Eleison 1 on enemy players with Assumptio

Casting Holy Light on a player with Kyrie Eleison gets rid of Kyrie Eleison even if no damage is dealt (i.e. holy armor)

θ. Appendix

θa. Useful Links:

• DoddlerRO: http://ro.doddlercon.com/ Reliable source of new RO information. Has a wiki on upcoming things, most up-to-date character calculator, video clips, and others.
• iROWiki: http://www.irowiki.org/ A good source of general RO information. Its forums are a good place to read up on builds, builds suggestions, and tips and tricks.
• RateMyServer Database: http://ratemyserver.net/ A good RO database as will as skill simulator and guides.
• Ragnarok Online Database: http://ro.truesource.info/ An eAthena-based RO database.
• RoCards: http://www.rocards.de/ Another RO database. German.
• RO Addiction: http://web.hc.keio.ac.jp/~fk061999/himeyasha/ Features a good skill simulator and potion brewing calculator
• Ragnarok Online Character Simulator: http://www.ragnarokcs.com/ A how your character looks simulator

The High Priest is the standard healing class in Ragnarok Online.

Table of Contents:

I. Support Type

I.1 Support Stats

I.2 Support Gears

II. ME type

II.1 ME Stats

II.2 ME Gears

III. The Guide

III.1 Woe

III.2 PvM

III.3 PVP

IV. Leveling

V. Skill

VI. Hints and Tips

VII. Notes

I. Support Type HP

- this type mainly focuses on healing party members and buffing them. They also serve as ‘tanks’.

I.1 Support Stats

-the basic build for a support priest is 80/80/80 (vit/int/dex). Vit gives higher HP and defense, making them a good tank. Int gives bonus SP and improves the ‘Heal’ skill. Dex reduces casting time and after-cast delay. This is necessary in a party because of priests being ‘rare’.

I.2 Support Gears

PvM/MvP:
upper head: Apple of Archer/PooPoo Hat/Feather Beret/Magni’s Cap
mid head: Sunglasses + Marduk Card or Grand Peco Card
armor: Silk Robe/Divine Clothes/Orlean’s Uniform/Odin’s Blessing + Peco Peco Card or Elemental Cards (to be discussed later)
right hand: Staff of Recovery/Long Mace
left hand: Valkyrie Shield/Stone Buckler + Hodremlin Card or Alice Card or Horn card
garment: wool scarf + Raydric Card or Noxious Card
footgear: tidal shoes + Verit Card or Green Ferus Card
accessory 1: Safety Ring/Rosary + Alligator Card
accessory 2: Safety Ring/Rosary + Alligator Card

*during PvM, you can use Magni’s Cap, Stone Buckler and Odin’s Blessing Set for high def. This makes you a good tank. Also, if you have low dex, playing Full Support or when using ‘Redemptio’, i suggest you to wear Orlean’s Uniform.

When MvP-ing, swap element resistance carded-armors. They’re cheap, and is proven very effective. I suggest you put them on +9 silk robes (divine clothes if you’re rich) and have them with you all the time.

Elemental Cards:

pasana = fire (against amon ra, gloom, etc)

swordfish = water (ktullanux/drake’s water ball)

dokebi = wind (can also be used against water-element based attacks)

bathory = shadow (dark soul strike, evil land etc. mostly against high-end MvP’s)

*earth resistance is useless since earth does 100% damage against earth xD

PvP/WoE Equipments:
upper head: Feather Beret or Poopoo Hat
mid head: Sunglasses + Marduk Card
armor: Silk Robe/Divine Clothes + Marc Card or Evil Druid Card
right hand: Staff of Recovery/Long Mace/Combat Knife (+10 Main Gauche? used in old school RO)
left hand: Valkyrie Shield + Thara Frog Card
garment: Wool Scarf + Raydric Card
footgear: Tidal Shoes + Green Ferus Card
accessory 1: Rosary + Smokie Card
accessory 2: Safety Ring or Rosary + Alligator Card

II. ME Type HP

- these priests can Solo ‘demon’ and ‘undead’ MvPs. They can kill undead monster easily (turn undead) or players wearing Evil Druid card.

II.1 ME Stats

-ME type priests are not good tanks. They focus on Int to give higher damage, dex for fast cast, and luk. Not to mention they’re useless in WoE. (99/99/25:int/dex/luk)

II.2 ME Gears

upper head: Apple of Archer or Crown
mid head: Sunglasses + Marduk Card (this is a MUST)
armor: Orlean’s Uniform + Elemental Cards (swapping)
right hand: Staff of Recovery or Rod + Drops Card x 4
left hand: Orlean’s Plate/Valkyrie Shield + Thara Frog Card or Hodremlin Card or Horn Card
garment: Wool Scarf + Raydric Card or Noxious Card
footgear: Tidal Shoes + Verit Card or Matyr Card
accessory 1: Orlean’s Gloves + Zerom Card
accessory 2: Orlean’s Gloves/Rosary + Zerom Card or Smokie Card or Alligator Card

IV. The Guide:

IV. 1 WoE

During woe, you don’t need to bring many blue gemstones (unless your role is a town portal) but don’t forget to bring some. Get some mastellas, a little blue pots, and some holy water. Mastellas should only be consumed when you’re on Evil Druid Armor. You need to bring Unfro and against some opponents (agi type), pest card is also good. There are enemies, such as WS, that can break your armor so you need to bring extras. You can’t use Asumptio inside the castle so buff yourself and your allies with it before entering. Kyrie should be effective here now. You may also use it to cancel your opponent’s Assumtio. When a professor soul burns you, this is the time to use those little blue pots you brought. After using one, cast Magnificat and try to get away from him. He has ‘dispell’ skill so don’t bother buffing in front of him. In some cases, hide is necessary (dodging asura, etc) so i suggest you perma on it and don’t swap. I recommend you use the /q1 command with hide to make it easier to dodge. Holy water is used to cast Aspersio not to allies but to enemy breakers. This gives them the holy attribute thus, making them unable to damage the emperium.

IV.2 PvM

during PvM, all you can do is support your party but if you’re a ME priest, you can help them fight against undead/demon monsters. Turn undead and ME till you kill them all! YEAH! Like I mentioned earlier, ME priests can solo MvPs, depending on the player and his equipments. Basically, these type can be killed in one shot so it’s difficult and takes time to master.

*Basilica

Basilica is another great skill of HPs. It has a fixed range of 5×5 cells around the caster. People inside cannot attack so this is used only as ‘bait’. This doesn’t work against Boss monsters and WoE. Just for PvM and I tried it in PvP room. LOL it worked. This is called ‘Absolute Defense’.

IV.3 PvP

Buff and heal is all you can do here, unless you’re a battle priest. I did not include a guide to battle priest because i haven’t played like that before but i’ll share my opinion regarding that. Battle priests use magnum break (marine sphere card) as their main offensive skill while supporting themselves. When soul linked, they deal 4x damage with Holy light. I tried it many times before and it was awesome. Other classes such as snipers/wizzies can be killed with just one holy light. When Lexed (lex aeterna), you can deal 4000-8000 damage to a single target and more if they’re wearing Evil Druid card. The status build for PvP priest is… dunno? I think 80/80/80 LOL no. For sure they need str, int and dex.  Vit? XD

V. Leveling

This is not a difficult job for this class, until you reach level 80+. When you already have heal, go to payon cave (zombies, skeleton soldiers, etc). Glast Heilm is a paradise for priests. Killing Undead monsters and taking a break when you run out of sp is a nice hobby, since they really have a slow movement speed. With turn Undead, you can go and kill anubis but it is tough and is not advisable because of the minorous, pasanas, mimics, and those anubises themselves. Turn undead depends on INT, LUK and base level. Most of the time, a party hires acolytes/priests and share exp in exchange of heal and buffs. ME types can level alone but that’s too boring :P

V. Skill:

*i generated this skill tree from rms. this is mainly for Support/WoE priests. (generated in RMS)

this is the skill tree for acolyte class (job level 50). If you want to prioritize buffing and add angelus, you may boost it to level 10 and lower the warp portal and pneuma skill.

this is the skill tree for a high priest (job level 70). as you can see, there are still 10 skill points left. you can use it to add on the first skill tree however, this build is a little ‘hybrid’. This is my personal build used in supporting (PvM/MvP), PvP and WoE. You may use those leftovers in decrease agi. Using it during woe makes you hawt =)))

VI. Hints and Tips

*battlemode or /bm

-i highly suggest that you read this tutorial about battlemode.

*the /q1 command

-it enables you to use the skill in the 9th position (f9) on the first skill bar using right click. (mentioned in my previous guide on professors). in this case, put Hide and perma on your hiding rosary.

*if you can get ahold of a ‘Spiritual Ring’, you may try it’s Set of Equipments. They’re mostly useful for ME type priests because of int bonuses. If you’re a Support Priest, stick with your SoR (staff of recovery). It helps a lot in healing. Depends on the refinement, it gives ‘Heal’ bonus.

*resistance cards:

fire = pasana, jakk, leib olmai

water = swordfish/marc, marse, leaf cat

wind = dokebi/steel chonchon, dustiness, giant hornet

earth = sandman, hode, dryad, munak

poison = argiope, myst, ghoul

shadow = bathory, isis, permeter

undead = evil druid, orc zombie, permeter

holy = angeling,

ghost = ghostring, marionette

neutral = raydric/deviling/noxious/harpy/orc baby, parasite,

-these are the cards for resistance. I collected pasana, swordfish, marc, dokebi, bathory, and evil druid cards and made 6 pieces +7 silk robes for them. I used them for PvM and MvP to gain advantage of the enemy.

*personal build w/o MvP cards:

-these are my equipments during woe:

upper head: +7 Feather Beret
mid head: anything cute XD
armor: +7 silk robe (Marc Card) and  +7 silk robe (Evil Druid card)
right hand: +9 Staff of Recovery
left hand: +7 Valkyrie Shield (Thara Frog Card)
garment: +7 Wool Scarf (Raydric Card)
footgear: +7 Tidal Shoes (Green Ferus Card)
accessory 1: Rosary (Smokie Card)
accessory 2: Safety Ring

-base stats: 93/40/99 (vit/int/dex)

base vit is 93, and it has +7 from the equipments (that makes it 100). it gives 100% resistance to most of the Status ailments. low int because i want to have a fast cast with 99 dex. this status build leaves no status points; thus, not even a single one is wasted.

-skill bar

this is the skill bar that i use with bm. arranged from qwe, asd, and zxc.

qwe: lex aeterna, lex divina, aspersio, pneuma, safety wall, basilica, decrease agi, kyrie elison, teleport

asd: resurrection, redemptio, recovery, heal, cure, sanctuary, holy light, ruwach, town portal

zxc: asumptio, increase agi, bless, angelus, magnificat, gloria, imposito manus, suffragium.

the unoccupied slot is used for /q1 command; ‘Hide’.

VII. Notes

-i based this build in a mid rate server 70x/70x/40x (ArcanaRO rocks \m/)
-mail me @ xile015@yahoo.com for suggestions and corrections.
this is just a guide and my opinion so don’t bother flaming :)

Thanks for Reading and Have a Nice Day!! :) REDEMPTIO!!!

A) Taking a closer look at “Grim”

Grimtooth has a lot of unique features, especially for the Assassin class. On lv 5 Grim deals 200% Atk at 6 cells range, with a 3×3 splash effect. It is the only non-poison skill a Sin can deal splash damage with, until rebirth. Most important, besides the splash damage, is the fact that you have to hide to use it. While hidden, the enemies will not see you or attack you. Grimtooth carries your weapon’s element and any status of status arrows you equipped, once you finished the “Throw Venom Knife” quest. This means we can stun, curse or blind the mob we are attacking.

B) Stats/Skills

This is an easy part for Grimtoothers. Put Str, Agi and Dex, leave the rest at 1 (some people might want to add a little bit of Int, but if your server provides SP healing items, you won’t need it).

Enough Dex to hit: A total of 60-70 will be enough.

Enough Agi foor ASPD: An ASPD of 176-178 will b

e enough.

Enough Str to kill: All the remaining points should go here… Try to reach at least 100.

The Skills is even easier. Put 10 Skill points into hiding as a Thief, then as Assassin, get Grim to 5 as soon as possible.

C) How to mob and kill

Mobbing is a thing one needs a lot of practice for. Basically you run from aggressive monsters fast enough so they can’t hit you, but not too fast, so they still follow you. That way you gather a mob of monsters. Then you hide and use grimtooth to kill them. In images:

D) Tipps and Tricks

1. Use two Fortune Swords. They add a total of 41 lucky dodge to your flee. Lucky dodge is great, because it is not reduced by the number of enemies attacking you. Wear them while you gather the monsters and switch to the katar you use to kill when you’re hidden. The feature /q2 makes the Hotkeys F7 and F8 available on the mouse wheel down and up respectively. Putting the Katar on one and the Fortune swords on the other makes switching a matter of less than a second.
2. Stand a tiny bit before hiding. When you stand still for an instant before you hide, the monsters will be aggroed on the cell you hid on and come together right next to it. That way you’ll hit all the monsters with every grimtooth.
3. Get a Smokie, if your server has pet skills. A Smokie with its equip will allow you to hide from demons and insects, opening up a great range of new spots to go!

E) Equips

Important Equips are:

• A set of Elemental Katars (fire, earth, wind and water)
• Two Fortune Swords
• Fitting Jurs depending on the spot you level at

This being a short list shows, that the grimtooth assassin is not very gear dependant. Of course there are higher-level gears that will help a lot:

• Immune Garment
• Matyr Shoes (or other shoes that increase your hp)
• Evil Druid Armor / Bathory Armor

The last armors are required for soloing Nameless.

F) Spots to go

I’ll comment every spot with required (r), recommended (c) equips and a level range (Sin / SinX):

• Sandman (Fire Katar (c), lvl 60/60)
• Hill Winds (Earth Katar (c), lv 80/70)
• Turtle Island Surface (Dragontails) (Smokie (r), Earth Katar (c), lv 80/80)
• Payon Field 11 (Dragontails, Ninetails) (Smokie (r), lv 80/80)
• Juperos Dungeon 1 (Anti-Formless Jur (c), lv 90/85)
• Anolians (Wind Katar (c), lv 85/80)
• Banshees (Evil Druid/Bathory armor (r), Smokie (r), Inverse Scare (c), Stun arrows (c), (lv 95/85)
• Ferus (Anti-Dragon Jur (c), lv 95/90)

G) Thanksayings

I want to thank HeRo server for giving me an awesome place to play Ragnarok, and to learn all these information!

Ho`Kay, I’ve decided to make this guide…Because Blake was asking about various SG things.

Disclaimer: My friend Cuddles made this guide last year. He has since stopped playing. All credit goes to him for writing the guide. I just added bedazzling pics and color to it.

Stats:

First off, Let’s go over the build.

Str -> 99

Agi -> 1

Vit -> 30

Dex-> 77

Luk-> 40

**Remember this is just a base build, You can experiment if you want, and if you find a good one feel free to post it in here and I will add it.**

Gear:

Now let’s go over the equips, Now I will break it down into two groups…Low cost, and High cost.(I will go over why you should use them.)

Low Cost:
Upper Headgear: Magni’s Cap

Middle Headgear: Angel or Evil ears.

Lower Headgear: Doesn’t matter.

Body: Odin’s blessing With a Pasana card in it.

Weapon: Book[3] with 2 peco egg card’s and 1 Vadon card.

Shield: Stone buckler with a Penomena Card.

Garment: Muffler with a Jakk card.

Shoes: Shoe[1] with a Firelock soldier card.

Accessories: Either, two ring[1] with a mantis in each or two glove[1] with a zerom in each.

Now, Why do I use these equips you ask? Well you don’t have to these are just some things that may help you feel free to wear as you please!! But I will explain why these item’s will help you.

For starter’s you may ask why am I using Magni’s cap, Odin’s blessing, and Stone buckler. Well this is because by wearing all three you get the pretty good combo that they offer which is…STR + 2, DEF + 5, MDEF + 5…Which comes in handy.

Angel and evil ears, Mainly are used for the STR + 1.

Now, let me tell you about the cards I tell you to use, First off please note that Kasa is Formless and also considered a boss type monster.

Pasana card: Enchant Armors with the Fire Property,DEF + 1.
Peco egg card: Increase damage of attacks inflicted on Formless monster by 20%.
Vadon card: Increase damage inflicted upon Fire Property enemies by 20%.
Penomena: Receive 30% less damage from Formless monster.
Jakk card: Increase resistance to the Fire Property by 30%,Flee Rate + 5.
Firelock soldier card: STR + 2,[Refine Rate 9~10]Maximum HP and SP + 10%.
Mantis card: STR + 3
Zerom card: DEX + 3

Now you have to choose if you’d rather have two ring[1] or two glove[1].
Ring[1] gives you a nice str bonus.
Glove[1] gives you a nice dex bonus.
You can even use one of each if you want.

High Cost:
Upper Headgear: Magni’s Cap

Middle Headgear: Angel or Evil ears.

Lower: Doesn’t matter.

Headgear Cards: Lieb Olmai Card and Stalactic Golem Card are two good headgear cards for Thors Dungeon.

Body: Odin’s Blessing or Glittering Jacket with a Pasana card in it.

Weapon: Book of billows[3] with 3 Abyssmal knight cards.

Shield: Stone bucker with a Penomena Card (only because you can’t flying kick with a Valk shield.)

Garmet: Muffler [1] or Manteau [1] with a Jakk card.

Shoes:  Shoes [1] or Boots [1] with +9 or +10 and a Firelock Soldier Card.

Accessories: Either, two ring[1] with a mantis in each or two glove[1] with a zerom in each.

Again as I said above, feel free to wear as you please this is just base stuff.

Well first of all the viking or golden flower is good for the +4 to all stats bonus but I guess if you’re a VIT junkie you can go with a Bhaal Helm (Donation Item).

For the ears and such I like equality because you get +2 for all your stats which is nice but if you like Vit you can use redbull, if you want more str you can use fatallity.

For card info please look at the low cost section. Now I know alot of you are say wtf why would I use abyssmal knight cards??? Well that’s simple, Because Kasa is also considered a boss type monster.

Skills:
Now this concludes the Equip section let’s move on to Skills.
First of all lets get to know the main skills we will be using:
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Feeling of the Sun, Moon and Stars: (Skill ID# 427)
Type: Active     Max Level: 3
Required For: Warmth of the Sun (L1), Warmth of the Moon (L2), Warmth of the Stars (L3), Comfort of the Sun (L1), Comfort of the Moon (L2), Comfort of the Stars (L3), Blessing of the Sun (L1), Blessing of the Moon (L2), Blessing of the Stars (L3).
SP Cost: 100
Target: Self
Cast Time: 1 sec

Effect: Permanently memorize a map. Can select the same map for the 3 Feelings if desired. After ‘memorizing’ a place, when you use this again, it will display you the memorized location. Do note, that you can use this only ONCE. Yes, only ONCE. You cannot assign a new place to memorize by using this skill again. When you use it, the game will ask you if you are sure about memorizing that place.
Level Description
1                        memorize as “Place of the Sun”
2                        memorize as “Place of the Moon”
3                        memorize as “Place of the Stars”

Warmth of the Stars (Skill ID# 430)
Type: Active     Max Level: 3
Requirements: Feeling of the Sun, Moon and Stars Level 3
SP Cost: 10 + see below
Target: Self     Range: 3×3 cells
Attack Type: [Splash Damage, 1 cells]
Cast Time: Instant
Duration: 10 sec, 20 sec 60 sec or until SP run out
Knockback: 2 cells (Except during Guild War Siege)

Effect: You can use this skill anytime in a map designated as “Place of the Stars” (in other maps the skill don’t trigger and the SP is not spent). When this skill is used, it creates an offensive barrier around you, affecting 3×3 cells centered on you. It deals 100% damage to monsters right next to you, and push them back by 2 cells. Enemy players receive SP damage instead of HP, and no push back. Every time the barrier hits, it takes away 2 SP. If you do not have enough SP, the barrier will disappear without making damage.
Level Description
1                     lasts 10 sec
2                     lasts 20 sec
3                     lasts 60 sec

Hatred of the Sun, Moon, and Stars: (Skill ID# 434)     
Type: Active     Max Level: 3
Required For: Anger of the Sun (L1), Anger of the Moon (L2), Anger of the Stars (L3), Blessing of the Sun (L1), Blessing of the Moon (L2), Blessing of the Stars (L3).
SP Cost: 100
Target: Enemy     Range: 10 cells
Cast Time: 1 sec
Duration: Forever

Effect: Can be casted only once per Target. When you use this skill, the name of the monster whom you just marked will be displayed and marked. You can also use this on player characters, and they will be categorized by class, ignoring size and HP. Example: It will show above the player characters, Champion, if target player was a Champion character, and on all other characters who are of Champion class.
Level        Description
1                Mark as Target of the Sun. On mobs, it can only be used on Small monsters.

2                Mark as Target of the Moon. On mobs, it can only be used on Medium size monsters that have a  Maximum HP higher than 6,000.
3                Mark as Target of the Stars. On mobs, it can only be used on Large size monsters that have a Maximum HP higher than 20,000.

Anger of the Stars (Skill ID# 437)
Type: Passive     Max Level: 3
Requirements: Hatred of the Sun, Moon, and Stars Level 3

Effect: Grants a bonus of +((BaseLV+LUK+DEX)/(13-3*SkillLV))% ATK against Target of the Stars mobs.
Level Description
1            +((BaseLV+LUK+DEX)/9)% ATK
2            +((BaseLV+LUK+DEX)/6)% ATK
3            +((BaseLV+LUK+DEX)/3)% ATK

Comfort of the Stars (Skill ID# 433)     
Type: Active     Max Level: 4
Requirements: Feeling of the Sun, Moon and Stars Level 3
SP Cost: 80 – SkillLV*10
Target: Self
Cast Time: Instant
Duration: 80*SkillLV sec

Effect: It can be used anytime when you are in the Day of the Stars in the map that is memorized as “Place of the Stars” (in other days or maps the skill don’t trigger and the SP is not spent). This skill increases your ASPD by (LV+DEX+LUK)/10 %.
Level        Description
1                    80 sec
2                   160 sec
3                   240 sec
4                   320 sec

Blessing of the Stars (Skill ID# 440)
Type: Passive     Max Level: 5
Requirements: Feeling of the Sun, Moon and Stars Level 3, Hatred of the Sun, Moon, and Stars Level 3

Effect: Increases EXP given by Target of the Stars (monsters only) in the Day of the Stars by 20*SkillLV%.
Level        Description
1                    +20% EXP
2                    +40% EXP
3                    +60% EXP
4                    +80% EXP
5                    +100% EXP

Union of the Sun, Moon and Stars (Skill ID# 444) 
Type: Active     Max Level: 1
Requirements: Knowledge of the Sun, Moon and Stars Level 9
SP Cost: 100
Target: Self
Cast Time: Instant     After Cast Delay: 0.5 sec
Duration: 600 sec

Effect: The power of this skill is unleashed when linked by a Soul Linker using the Star Gladiator Spirit (if not linked, the SP is wasted and nothing happens). When linked, your movement speed is increased and all your attacks never miss and ignore DEF, but you loose 2% of your HP every time you attack a monster and 8% HP every time you attack a player, also if you attack a player when you only have 20% HP left, you will be killed instantly afterwards.

Break Fall (Skill ID# 420)
Type: Active     Max Level: 1
Requirements: Flying Side Kick Level 7
SP Cost: 1
Target: Enemy     Range: 4 cells
Cast Time: Instant
Duration: Until turned off

Effect: This is a skill you can turn ON and OFF by pressing the skill button. When you leave this ON, there’s 20% chance of dodging an enemy ranged Physical or Magic attacks. It is not removed after death.

Flying Side Kick (Skill ID# 421)
Type: Offensive     Max Level: 7
Required For: Break Fall (L7).
SP Cost: 80 – SkillLV*10
Target: Enemy     Range: 9 cells
Cast Time: Instant
Required State: Requires to be able to move

Effect: Attack an enemy who is away from you by jumping at him/her/it, landing in the same cell than your target. Normally, you would have to target this skill manually to attack, but if you use it while doing Break Fall, you will automatically attack the dodged target. The damage of this skill is 30%+10*SkillLV%, but if used right after Break Fall, it becomes stronger as your BaseLV goes up. Also, this skill has a unique property, when you hit the target player, any TaeKwon/Star Gladiator/Soul Linker-based buffs – such as all Spirit buffs, new skills bestowed by Spirit buffs, or Berserk Potion acquired through Berserk Pitcher – they may have, are all dispelled. However, if the target player has Preserve skill used on them, then they are invulnerable to this dispel effect. This skill can be Plagiarized by a Rogue. When this skill is used while using Running skill, the power of this ability will increase based on the character BaseLV. The power of this skill goes up even further if you do it while under “spurt” mode in Running skill.
Level      Description
1                 40% ATK
2                 50% ATK
3                 60% ATK
4                 70% ATK
5                 80% ATK
6                 90% ATK
7                 100% ATK

Warm Wind (Skill ID# 425)
Type: Active     Max Level: 7
Requirements: Peaceful Rest Level 5, Enjoyable Rest Level 5, Fighting Chant Level 5
SP Cost: 20 for LV 1-4, 50 for the rest
Target: Self
Attack Type: Earth Property
Cast Time: Instant
Duration: 300 sec
Effect: This skill changes your attack element according to used skill level. When the weapon is removed or changed, the enchant remains for all except the Holy element.
Level        Description
1                  Earth
2                  Wind
3                  Water <- We will be using this level.
4                  Fire
5                  Undead
6                  Shadow
7                  Holy

All skill info provided from ratemyserver.net
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Ok, Please note: That is not every skill a SG has, but those are the ones you will be using for Thor. Note: you do not need to use the Warmth of the Stars you can use any of them, Stars is just the one with most damage.

Class Mechanics

Now, you need to enter the Thor dungeon map… and use Feeling level 3. Once it is set, find a Kasa and use Hatred level 3 on it (this only has to be done once). If you can’t cast it in time, get someone to help you tank it while you cast. Next if it is a day of the stars, you can use Comfort of the Stars which just increases your aspd making you able to kill the Kasa faster. Now you’re almost ready to start killing, make sure you cast Level 3 warm wind when you enter thor to endow your weapon with cold. Warp (teleport) around until you find a Kasa. Once you find one you have 2 choices: you can either use Warmth and then Flying Side Kick at the Kasa, or you can do it in reverse which is Flying Side Kick then Warmth once you’re on the Kasa. About the break fall skill: it is just a skill that you cast once and it is on forever but you can turn it off by casting it again. It’s good for when you encounter a sword guardian and accidentally move so he can sense you and he goes to spear boomerang you. Instead of dying, break fall has a chance of activating which will make you dodge so that you have time to warp away. Trust me, it has saved my life several times.

**Note** This guide is for Thor SG’s who use Warmth of the stars, But it’s practically the same thing the only thing that varies are the skills.

I hope you enjoy, Sorry it is kind of boring and has no pictures, colors, etc..If a mod would like to add that stuff please do.

Cuddles: I hope you like this guide.

Shiro: I love it~!

Please feel free to add more in this post and I will edit the guide.

Cuddles~

Shiro: Hope you don’t mind I added and posted on rms. ^^

Shiro’s Notes: Teleport away from sword masters, bow masters, and byorgue. Imps can be a pain to deal with, just fwing away or use Running to elude them.

You need to be soul-linked to use Union. I suggest making your own Linker on a second account. Once linked use Union once. It lasts 5 minutes, even if you die. No Union = Standing. Union = Floating. Using Union will double your damage, I highly suggest it.

I also highly suggest making a high priest or offering to leech one. Assumptio will make you live much longer, but Kyrie Elison will not reduce enough damage.

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ONE SHOOT ONE KILL ~ Sniper Guide by vidzkun__

INTRODUTION
Sniper, wow, a devastating job that will satisfy you to kill every monster and classes you meet in fields (if it is PK server, you could attack players also.), PvP arena, even WoE (due de facto Sniper`s fearsome traps, and SS` ignorance to defence or). Sniper owns in long range attacks, even Stalkers or Clowns/Gypsies could not outstand Snipers in damaging (Of course, because Sniper`s Falcon Eyes or True Sight skill. I`ll explain this FEARSOME skill later ). This guide is based on my own experience and not others`, so don`t give out any wicked flame please.

LET`S START! (HUNTING GUIDE)
Okay, let`s start making Sniper! But become a Sniper is hard and takes a loooonggggggggg way to go to become one! But don`t give up would ya? Because you`ll be satisfied by Sniper`s outstanding abilities. Trust me!

Let`s start by making novice.
Start by increasing 9 DEX/9 AGI/9 INT!
Follow these steps to get 7/7 novice without killing any monsters in Novice Ground (or should I call that place. playground? xD).
1. Talk to the woman NPC in front of you (I don`t care her name). Talk to her twice, and you`ll get a level.
2. Enter the building (in idRO, you should enter some passcode. Don`t worry, if you`re not blind, you could enter easily)
3. Talk to the NPC inside the building to enter the main room.
4. Talk to all Instructor (Layout, Skill, and Items).
5. Talk to the Kafra lady, and talk about the different Kafra services.
6. Now, go the room on the west. Talk to both of the NPCs.
7. Now, die. What!? Why should I die for!?!? I`m serious!
8. You`ll be back to the room. Talk to the NPC that will teleport you to the battle grounds. You`ll gain another level and 50 Novice Potions.

You`ll get a free to take 7 Base Level and 7 Base Job. Congratulations! Start killing easy monsters. Remember! Novice Potion is your friend! I recommend to use a Novice Potion after you have your HP below 50%. After you get 10 base level and 10 base job. Go to the NPC. He`s on the south of the map. Talk to him to enter the next test. Talk to the NPC on the left, just click enter-enter-enter-and enter, choose Swordman and now talk to the NPC in front of you. Just enter-enter-enter-and enter, and choose Swordman. You`ll automatically get 7 Phracons, 1 Fachlion, 5 Warp Free Tickets, and 5 Storage Free Tickets. And you`ll be automatically warped to Izlude, City of Satelites.

Now go out, head out to the Kafra on the south of Izlude, warp to Payon. In Payon, head north to Archer Village. Go inside a house located at the top right of Archer Village.

Talk to Archer Guildsman for the signup. Collect trunks from willows. Willows located around Payon village.
For more information to Archer`s Job Change: Click this link.

Now you are an Archer!
Congratulations once again. As an Archer, your main goal is to hit enemies from a looonnggg distance. Start hunting monsters in Payon Cave level 1! First, go to Merchant NPC located in Payon. Buy Silver Arrows. If you don`t have much money, just buy as many as you could attend. Prepare your Novice Potions and go to Payon Cave level 1.

Lv 10-25: Don`t kill zombies just yet. They`re aggresive, but, slow. You could outrun them easily. If zombies are to chase you, don`t attack them. But if you surrounded, use a Fly Wing to escape. Start by killing skeletons. If you have 15~30 DEX, I`m sure that you could kill them easy. Use Novice Potions when injured, that shouldn`t be a problem. After you get 20 ++ levels, increase DEX status first. AGI should be left behind, it`s okay. DEX`s much more important. Increase DS skill level. Kill those freakin` fammiliars if you must, they have 150 HP only, Use DS, they are dead. Now, kill zombies. DS and run. After DSing you should run as far as you can, and start attacking them again. You`ll gain big experiences from zombies.

Lv 25-45: Now, hunt Wolves! Wolves are friendly to each other. Damn it, they`re strong when grouping. Use fire arrow to hunt them. Use DS to finish them. You`ll gain nice experience from wolves.

Lv 45-60++: Geographers. I suggest you increase your DEX first. Increase DEX to 45. You won`t miss your attacks on these plants. They dish out BIG EXPs! In level 60++ and 50 Job level, go change to a Hunter.

To change to a Hunter, go to Hugel. And next.. Damn, this quest just take a looonnnggg way to finish. Just click this link.

Lv 60-80: Hunt Geographers quickly as soon as you change to Hunter. Gain Job levels. They still dish out big experiences. Go level your hunter until level 80.

Lv 80++: Ugh, level 80.. You can either level in geographers or:
• Thor Volcano. (Need: Priests, Hunters, Alchemists, Defenders)
Thor Volcano, it has been a long time since I last hunt in here. Well, this place is filled by fire monsters. So use Crystal Arrows. Your job is to help Alchemists to attack. Don`t worry, the Defender will tank you, but if there are more monsters surround you, heck, good bye. xD.

• Abbey Monastery. (Need: Priests, Defenders, Hutners)
You, and your group should hunt in abbey monastery lvl 1/2, but don`t go to level 3. If you wanna go to level 3, you`ll need a large ammount of High Wizards. Your job is to attack with your fellows hunters, while Defender tanks. Priests also take their role in attacking. Most High Priests uses Magnus E. to attack.

• Odin Temple 2. (Need: Priests, Hunters, Defender)
Yeah, the most common place to level. You level fast here. Skogul, Frus will be killed easily if you use Silver Arrow/Arrow of Counter Evil. :). Smile, you`ll get big exp.

ARCHER SKILLS CAN BE SEEN HERE.
HUNTER SKILLS CAN BE SEEN HERE.
SNIPER SKILLS CAN BE SEEN HERE.

SNIPER BUILDS!

There are several builds for Snipers. Different builds means different gears, statuses, roles, etc. Let`s discuss them one by one. You may choose one of these builds. I played as a Pure AD (DEX/AGI build one).
I mainly discuss about DEX/AGI, FA, and Hybrid Build only. I don`t post the other builds (like SS build, etc.) because I really don`t know, and never played those builds before. Sorry.

DISCLAIMER: All the equipments here are doubtly used to fight players (demi-human), just ask a question if you want more information on Sniper`s equipments for another purpose (MvP hunting, PvM etc.)

1. DEX/AGI Build.
This build, oh my.. It DSes very fast! I tell ya, this build owns every jobs in PvP, except jobs that uses endure (LKs and Pallies). You can easily kill High Wizzies(with the right gears, 1k-1,5k DS, 3-4x DS, HW toasts) This build dishes damage very big, and fast. Well, if you gonna stick to this build, you gonna have expensive and rare gears I assume.. It`s to decrease any weakness that this build made (example: It`s HP is soooo low…) Personally, I like this build because this build is commonly used for PVP, MVP, WOE (for WoE, this build sucks, Long Range Attack Reductions darn it..). YOUR MAIN SKILLS ARE DOUBLE STRAFE, IMPROVE CONCENTRATION AND FALCON EYES!
STR 1
AGI 152
VIT 31
INT 22
DEX 160
LUK 1
Equipments:
+5 or +6 Apple of Archer
Binoculars
Romantic Flower (Can be anything, cigar, pipe, etc.)
+7 Tights (Evil Druid Card)
+10 Composite Bow (Skel Worker x2, Hydra x2)
+9 / +10Tidal Shoes (Matyr) or +7 Tidal Shoes (Matyr) or +7Tidal Shoes (Male Thief Bug)
+7 Wool Scarf (Raydric)
Brooches 2x (Zerom 2x)

2. Hybrid Build.
The most common Sniper. Because of their avaibility in WoE, PvP, and MvP. This build utilizes the power of DS, Falcon Assault, nice ASPD. Good for hunting down monsters, items, etc. They have big HP too, good in WoE. Good DS damage with moderate-high ASPD. Nice FA damage (5000-6000++ damage with right gears) and good for trapping purposes. They.. are.. HYBRID. YOUR MAIN SKILLS ARE DOUBLE STRAFE, IMPROVE CONCENTRATION, FALCON EYES, FALCON ASSAULT, AND TRAPS!
STR 1
AGI 110
VIT 58
INT 65
DEX 161
LUK 1
Equipments:
+5 or +6 Apple of Archer
Binoculars
N/A
+7 Tights (Peco-peco) or Tights (Marc)
+10 Composite Bow (2 Hydras, 2 Skel Workers)
+7 Tidal Shoes (Matyr)
+7 Wool Scarf (Raydric)
Gloves (Zeroms 2x)

3. Falcon Assaulter Sniper.
This build is usually used for WoE. It bypasses DEF, so it is useful in WoE. Having big INT increases FA`s damage. This build can be used for PvP, because it`s power to 1 hit KO`d most classes (High Wizards commonly). This build has big HP and defense and reductions too. (Thara`d Shield, Immune`d Manteau :D).
YOUR MAIN SKILLS ARE FALCON ASSAULT, FALCON EYES, AND TRAPS!
STR 1
AGI 31
VIT 76
INT 120
DEX 135
LUK 1
Equipments:
Crown
Binoculars
Romantic Flower
+7 Tights (Marc card)
+10 Main Gauche (4x Fabre cards)
+5 Guard (Thara Frog Cards)
+7 Boots (Matyr card)
+7 Muffler (Raydric card)
Gloves (2x Zerom cards)

PVP TACTICS!
PVP Tactics is important for every job. Now, I`ll tell you how to defeat most classes with tactics. Not just PVP, WoE and MvPing needs tactics!

.. vs Lord Knights.
Hell. Lord Knights. This one hard to beat, especially if they are using Cranial, Immune, and any other reduction. First, use status bows (I already mentioned the cards..). After an LK got those statuses, use your PvP Compo and finish them off. This advantage is commonly found by a Criter Sniper.

..vs High Wizards.
HWs are easy. DS them to death. If they cast, normal attack them than Double Strafe.

..vs High Priests.
You can`t kill them… if they uses Basilica. They`re still hard to beat even their Basilicas are off. If you found them, ignore them. If they`re LINKED… Run!

..vs Assassin Crosses.
…vs Pure SB.
Make sure they don`t get near you. If he is already near you, detect him (if he cloaks, hiding) and Repel him.
…vs Criter.
Same, make sure they don`t get near you. Repel! And then go nuts! o_0!

..vs Snipers.
Sniper vs Sniper. This could be a hard fight, or even a neverlasting battle. The only way to kill them is to attack first. If you`re attacked first, you hafta run, and then pot/heal. Except, if you are facing trapers. Go to the safe distance, start shooting, they`re toasts (It`s SO RARE to find trapers in PvP room.. /heh)

..vs Battle WS.
REPEL.REPEL.REPEL!!! REPEL is a must! Their CT are… /e32. Make sure they don`t get near you. Their HSCT (High Speed CT) is marvelous!

..vs Paladins.
S**t. You can`t beat this guy if he Barrier`d, using full reductions. If you see this guys, run away, keep your distance. If you want, you can attack this brute until you satisfied. They pot big.

..vs Champions.
Hard to beat also. They have a special skill, a DAMNED skill to dodge, called SNAP. If they snap out of your screen, don`t chase them. If they use pneuma, it will be hard too. They pneuma, you attacks, they FO`d, you`re toast. (FO is a great skill, so watch out). However they will have hard time to use Asura. Even if they near you (using snap), there are 2 seconds delay after it. You can repel them. But, if they master snap-instant asura.. Imagine Hell..

..vs Scholars.
Aha, Scholars! If you found a Scholar, you can beat him! First, if they dispell, start buffing yourself with Falcon Eyes and Improve Concentration. Keep your distance, and SHOOT. Make sure they don`t casts. Finish them with DSes. If you are a Criter, just keep shooting. /bling.

..vs Stalkers.
Their Tunnel Drive/Hide will drive you nuts! Most PVP Stalkers have copied BB and using arrow. If they hide, just ran away, if they tunnel drive, use Arrow Shower to open their TD. Then, shoot `em. If you are a Crit Sniper, it bypasses DEF, and hell yea.. Jackpot for you.

..vs Clown/Gypsies.
I seldom fight them. Actually, I can only found them in WoE. Sorry for this. /sry.

..vs Biochemist.
Don`t worry, you don`t have big VIT aren`t you? Their Acid Demonstration damage will be as little as anopheles! Just shoot `em, they will lose.

LAST WORDS

Well, thanks for seeing this guide. I made this guide..
“Not from anyone elses`, but from my experience in playing Sniper.”

Well, buhbye my fellow Snipers! I hope this guide helps!!

From charactor creation, your novice should be 9 dex, str, and agi. Spend the few minutes inside the novice area and get to job 10 before u leave. While here, get 10 dex and 20str. After this point, go change to an acolyte. If u take the test and get acolyte u wil be just south of the priest who starts the quest. To get acolyte as your suggested job, awnser the questions as a do-gooder nice guy who thinks of the past and is a public servent. If u get a diffrent suggested job, just tell him u want to be an acolyte, and he will put u where u need to be anyways.

From this point, after you talk to the priest, he will give u 3 possible NPCs to go talk to. The first being 1 map north of morric, in the top left corner of the map.

The 2nd possibility would be 1 map north, 2 maps west of pront(Actualy 2 maps north with the woe castle map above pront) around the center of the map near the pool of water.

The third possibility is 1 map east, 1 map north, then 1 more map east of pront, right at the exit to the next map east(which would be where you will go later to change to monk)

Remember that once you visit this NPC, THAT becomes your new save point, so once u get back to town, set up a new save point or you could find yourself back there when u die or use a b-wing.

Now once you are an acolyte, equip your mace, that they gave you at the nublet zone, and go smack muka (or metalings, although they can kill you with a single hit if they use mammo on you) Spam those novice pots u got at the novice area for your first few kills, since with your very low hp 1 hit will hurt. A few kills later u will be 20ish or so(on a 5x rate anyways) During this time, increase your str and dex stats to 50ish str(around 60 total with gears, job bonus, and bless) and dex to around 30(40 total with gears, job bonuses, and bless. As for skills, you get bless maxed first, then focus on a few points of heal(Level 4-5 will do for now, lv 10 if you have yourself a enchanted peach tree shield sinces its effect can save u a lot of sp with its autocast)

Once you reach level 27 or so, you can use a swordmace(or stunner I belive) and if you do not have a fire swordmace/stunner, the npc version (sold in morric, south west area, slightly north of the corner of town) does the job. Continue with muka until you are able to easily kill them. (2-3 shots each, around 85 hit with bless) If you are using a fire swordmace, you should(with bless) be damaging them for 350-400 dmg per hit.

Once you make easy work of the muka, you can move on to mosc, and can start hunting les(which will also get you rich depending on your server) Muka cast envemom, which really isn’t much of a threat, but the poison effect stops all regeneration, and lowers your def. They also drop green herbs, so hot key one of them, and you should never have to worry about being poisoned. They also drop aloe leaflets which are VERY good healing items, so you shouldn’t have to use yoursp to heal(save it for Bless and Agi up once u have that also)

You can quite easily, and quickly job 50 here. Do not Attack the Lesji(spelling?) at this point, since they have high defense, and hit REALLY hard and are only worth slightly more than the les themselves. They also like to spam heal everything around them, so if need be, lure les away from them before u beat the snot out of them.

While here in mosc, save all your stems, and you can later sell them to a biochemist/brewer for 2.5-5k per, which will more than be enough (after u job 50 yourself) to fund any future gear you may need.

Skills I suggest for this build and order as to get them are as follows.

lv 5 divine protection

Lv 10 bless

Lv 5 heal(lv 10 heal if u have a Enchanted peach tree shield)

lv 10 agi up

lv 10 heal

lv 10 demon bane(At this point the order of which to max first matters little, but u might choose to max this first if u want to go hunting undead before your a monk)

lv 9 divine protection(Divine pro won’t help you much, if at all, since your going to be relying on agility and flee rather than vit and defense. You pick up the last point of this as your first job lv as monk)

Now once your job 50(I strongly suggest you go the long road and do NOT change pre job 50, you will need the extra skills later on) Go and become a monk.

A simple trick (If u never did it as an aco) is to run back to the pront church, and talk to the fat guy near the girl that gives holy light plat skill, tell him to tell you more about being an acolyte, and he will offer to warp you to the monk job change area. Accept his offer for an easy trip.

RMS has a good guide on the main site under quests for the monk job change. Check this if you need help at this point.

Now your a new monk. You would have also gained a 3 slot knuckle duster as reward for being job 50 when u changed, which u can make use of, or continue to use the maces. Maces are nice because they do decent damage to large sized targets, while fists do 50% of normal. The downside is the abysmal atspd of maces.

As a new monk, you can head back to mosc and can stay there for as long as you wish, but I suggest u only stay here as long as u can manage it(At this point you would have been at mosc for some time, and this guide is about having fun, not grinding for hours at the same spot)

A few places I can suggest are Payon caves lv 3-4(munaks, sohees), mosc lv 1(les), ice caves lv 1(Siroma, if u have wind) Bibilan lv 4(swordfish, marc, beware swordfish’s waterball skill), Geffen dungeon lv 2-3(Try to get 180 flee or so first), mummies at pyramids, isis later on.

Skills you get as a monk are simple, since you avoid the combo skills.

Lv 5 Iron fist

lv 5 call spirits

lv 1 absorb spirits

lv 5 dodge

lv 5 finger offensive/throw spirit spheres

lv 5 investigate/occult

Lv 3 critical explosion/fury

lv 5 asura strike

lv 5 bladestop

lv 1 Ruwach

lv 2 teleport

lv 4 warp portal

lv 1 pnenuma

With remaining points u can make use of cure and/or agi down. The skills listed before this are ones u would most likley abuse the most, and agi down and cure both have uses. (Although I dont often find myself using either)

Stats are simple too. After your aco days, you have around 50 base str, 30 base dex. As you level you want to try to achive 180 atspd with fists, so u focus on agi for some time(to around 75-80 base) then dex to around 60 base. Final stats depends on gear, but u want(with buffs, gear, and job bonuses) around 100-105 agi, 110 str, 80-90 dex 20 vit(which is 14+6 from job bonus) and 24 int(12+12 job bonus/bless)

Gear is mostly easy to get even as an aco. Try to get yourself the pantie/undershirt set, a pair of shoes (Try to find a zombie slaughterer card, since they can be bought quite cheap with all the nameless abby hunting) a pirate bandana(or slot marionette hat with a vanberk or cramp if u have a tarou card to combo with it) A clip with a marine sphere card can give you as an aco/monk an aoe skill, and can also be used to ‘break’ casts of things in melee range. A ring also helps boost your str.

Once your at or around base 80 or so, you should be able to hunt most area’s with ‘soft’ mobs(lower defense) with your basic attack, or magma, sleepers, etc using occult, or even stings if you can fire off a TSS fast enough (before they reach you) You will find that this build, while it doesn’t excel in any single area, is able to stay longest in the fight because you do not need to rely on your sp so often, yet when needed u can dish out the hurt.

Hope you have enjoyed reading this, and please feel free to suggest anything I have missed.

Advantages:

Deals high damage (with imp or seroma card) and double casting skill.
Can cast while walking (except emergency call, of course)
Can fuck up enemies’ SP.
Can give SP to allies.
Can use stone curse (w/o medusa or evil druid card, you’re fucked up)
Can use dispel and spell breaker (slow cast champs, sorry :D)
Fast cast with memorize.
Land Protector and Wall of Fog (dammit)
Spider Web and Safety wall.
Abracadabra (i love to have a zipperbear as pet XD)
Has Elemental change (quest skill.. i recommend earth ;])
you’re very much effective against wizards because of your mdef.

Disadvantages:

Not recommended for PvM
Don’t have much offensive AoE skills.
Hard to level alone. (Almost impossible w/o quest dammit)
Has low defense if you are a pure bolter.
Somewhat equipment dependent (your slow cast might kill you)

Table of Contents:

I. Bolter Professor

I.1 Bolter Stats

I.2 Bolter Gears

II. Support Professor

II.1 Support Stats

II.2 Support Gears

III. The Guide

III.1 Woe

III.2 PvM

III.3 PvP
III.3.1 Against Lord Knight
III.3.2 Against Palladin
III.3.3 Against Champion
III.3.4 Against Snipers
III.3.5 Whitesmith
III.3.6 Creator
III.3.7 Wizard
III.3.8 Professor
III.3.9 Assassin Cross
III.3.10 Stalker
III.3.11 Against Ninja

IV. Leveling

V. Skill

VI. Hints and Tips

***** (special part)

VII. Notes

I. Bolter Professor

- these type deals high damage using double casted bolts and weakens enemies with his disabling capabilities.

I.1 Bolter Stats

-bolter professors need dex for casting and int for matk so these two are the most important stats. focus on them, you may also want to add some vit or, str for pots and gemstones.

I.2 Bolter Gears

PvM/MvP Equipments:
upper head: Apple of Archer
mid head: sunnies (marduk or isilla card)
lower head: ???
armor: mage coat or valkyrie armor
right hand: ancient sorcery or book of the dead (drops, andre larva or abysmal knight cards)
left hand: orlean’s server (hodremlin or alice card)
garment: wool (raydric)
footgear: tidals ( verit, matyr or sohee cards)
accessory 1: orlean’s glove ( imp or zerom cards)
accessory 2: orlean’s glove (imp, zerom or seroma cards)

PvP/WoE Equipments:
upper head: Feather Beret
mid head: sunnies (marduk)
lower head: ???
armor: silk robe or valkyrie armor (marc, pest, or evil druid cards)
right hand: survivor’s rod or book of the dead (drops or fabre cards)
left hand: orlean’s server (tharafrog card)
garment: survivor’s manteau or wool scarf (raydric card)
footgear: variant shoes, valkyrie shoes (sohee or matyr card) or tidal shoes (verit or matyr card)
accessory 1: orlean’s glove (imp or zerom card)
accessory 2: orlean’s glove (imp or zerom card)

II. Support Professor

- these type focuses on giving sp to allies, giving them protection with land protector, allows water ball (deluge) and so on.

Support Build: (sp slave or land protector)
*this build is can be used as a tank XD put int instead of dex for SP Slaves*

II.2 Support Stats

base:
for sp slave, you need to focus on int to raise your sp (for soul change) and vit to withstand enemy attacks and for health conversion . sp slaves don’t need dex. if you’re a full support prof (with land pro) you need to balance your int, vit and dex.

II.2 Support Gears

SP slave Equipments:
upper head: morpheus’ hood
mid head: sunnies + incubus
lower head: ???
armor: valkyrie armor or divine clothes (succubus card)
right hand: +9 lich’s bone wand (fabre or andre larva card)
left hand: valkyrie shield (hodremlin card or anything that would raise sp)
garment: morpheus’ shawl *if your are not using morph set, you can put aliot card in garment[1])
footgear: variant shoes or valkyrie shoes (verit or sohee card)
accessory 1: morpheus’ bracelet
accessory 2: morpheus’ ring

Pure Def Land Protector (Tank) Equipments:
upper head: magni’s cap
mid head: sunnies (grand peco card)
lower head: ???
armor: odin’s blessing (peco peco card)
right hand: survivor’s rod (fabre card)
left hand: stone buckler (tharafrog or hodremlin card)
garment: survivor’s manteau
footgear: variant shoes or valkyrie shoes (verit or matyr card)
accessory 1: ???
accessory 2: ???

IV. The Guide:

IV. 1 WoE

land protector is a MUST during woe. make sure you did memorize and double casting before going in. recast sight and if you just want to kill, frilldora or hiding accessory can help. demi-human damage reduction cards and items are important here (feather beret, tharafrog card, etc.)

remember this: your Land protector is your party/guild’s key to enter a well defended castle. let the tanks enter first. while the tanks are keeping your enemies busy, cast land pro in the emp room entrance. that would make their defense wizards useless. you can also use wall of fog. it may help. just keep bolting and using stone curse. spider web if necessary. don’t forget to switch armors or accessories. during defense, just cast wall of fog to your party or in the emp (if necessary) and keep your safety wall up. Land pro to the wizards and just keep killing.

IV.2 PvM

nothing special here. with bragi, spam fire bolt/cold bolt to your enemies
if you’re A sp slave, make sure there’s a healer next to you but don’t depend on them
bring your own hp pots :)
stay in a safe place till you’re needed. make sure you have gemstones with you
there’s a gemstone converter in payon (2 blue gemstone = 1 red, 2 red = 1 yellow)
spam safety wall and wall of fog on your party members, Land Pro if your enemy uses AoE skills
make sure you bring ygg leaf ;) you’re appearance in the front line is not necessary.

IV.3 PvP

basically, support professors are not effective killers in pvp and SP slaves CAN’T. this is for bolters.
make sure your safety wall is up, you have pest card equipped, and keep the wall of fog
switch to unfro if you’re up against a wiz. use Land Pro if needed.
use stone curse on enemies but i recommend using spider web first.
kill their SP, dispel, then stone curse then Fire Bolt!! i recommend you recast spider web :P
if you have finished elemental change skill, use it. if you got elemental change (earth) use fire bolt
remember: you can only have one element in this quest skill so be careful in choosing.
in pvp, you don’t need much int. you need to have dex! bring Grape Juice or Blue pots :D
don’t forget to memorize and to recast double casting skill.
for support professors, nothing special. let your party members do the killing. support them just like in PvM.

IV.3.1 Against Lord Knight

vit type lord knights uses spears, have high def and hp, and doesn’t rely on buffs.
they also have long range attack (spear boomerang) and a charge attack. spiral pierce can be used two cells away.
first you need to stop them with spider web or kill their sp, and stone curse then bolt.
agi type lord knights depends on buffs and their berserk skill. before they can attack, use dispel.

this will not just remove their buffs, but also their berserk. after that, you may just stone curse + fire bolt combo.

IV.3.2 Against Paladin

this class has very high def and hp. grand cross type also has high mdef because of their int. first you need to spider web.
they have long ranged attacks using shield so be careful. dispel him first to remove reflect, kill the sp if you can then
cast stone curse/elemental change + bolt combo. if you got hit by sacrifice, you’re in a big trouble. it deals great damage
and also, their pressure can kill your sp. kill them before they kill you.

IV.3.3 Against Champion

this class depend on their sp to deal damage. first, kill their sp. if you use spider web, they can still use finger offensive on you.
you can also use dispel(remove their spirits) or spell breaker to cancel casted asura.

IV.3.4 Against Snipers

agi snipers will use their aspd to cancel your cast so wall of fog is very effective against them. they depend on buffs so while in the fog,
use dispel to remove their buffs, disable them with stone curse (or with your pest card) then a single firebolt may kill them. same goes to strafer build.
FA (falcon assault) type snipers are hard to deal with. with their int, they have decent mdef and hp because of vit. this class doesn’t depend on buffs so
first thing to do is kill it’s sp. they don’t need dex so they’re slow casters. if you catch them casting wind walk, that would be the best opportunity.
without their sp, they can do nothing so kill its sp then use stone curse/elemental change + bolt combo to kill them.

IV.3.5 Whitesmith

these guys are very annoying. with decent aspd and link, they can spam cart termination (damn) that may cause stun. also, their meltdown might destroy your equipments.
if ever you see one, don’t give him any opportunities. cast spider web and dispel him. they rely too much on buffs and has no long range attack except his hammer fall :) if you got him dispelled,
this guy is almost useless. they use sp for buffs and cart termination so you might want to soul burn it. normal attack types can be dealt with safety wall or wall of fog (or your pest card).

IV.3.6 Creator

AD bombers? umm if you’re a bolter and don’t have much vit/def, you have no problem. the filir may be annoying to cancel your cast so safety wall and pest card works here. if filir gets stoned,
kill the master. try to dispel and soul burn them. you won’t have much problems with vanil because of your mdef so fight it bolt vs bolt. if you kill it the owner will be pretty much useless.
those with lif are hard to kill because of emergency avoid. you may want to use spider web to stop them from running. if you have high def, you’re in big trouble. wall of fog may be of use against
acid demonstration. kill the sp then try killing it. some only depend on their humunc and just uses hide skill (wtf). there are so many build for creators and theses guys are very unpredictable.
if possible, try to avoid crossing swords with them.

IV.3.7 Wizard

okay. its magic to magic. they have high mdef and rely on buffs and dex foods for their fast cast so first, you may want to dispel them. magic rod is god against their magic skills but it doesn’t work
on aoe spells so spell breaker should be the best skill to disable them. kill the sp with soul burn, then a single bolt should be enough to kill them.

IV.3.8 Professor

okay. this is a battle of player skill and talent. experience counts in this one. fighting a professor is hard. magic rod is best to counter them. first one to kill the other’s sp wins so you should not forget
to bring sp pots. once you got this guy’s sp, take the opportunity to dispel him with stone curse. basically, a melee type professor is better against a long range professor. while doing melee attack, he might
cancel your cast then use auto cast to bolt at you randomly so when fighting them, use safety wall to prevent being canceled, disable it with stone curse then dang! oh, i forgot. your pest card might do the job XD

IV.3.9 Assassin Cross

these guys are hard to deal with because of their hiding and cloaking skills. they can also dodge slow casting spells. what to do?
versus crit/agi type: they need to get close to you before attacking so basically, cast safety wall, find them with sight or heaven’s drive,
cast spider web then dispel. the guy is done for.
sonic blow: this guys have high vit/hp. strategy is the same for agi/crit type sinX but you need to be extra careful
with these guys because they might kill you with one hit.

IV.3.10 Stalker

stripped suck. without your eqps, you’re doomed so try not to enter without FCP (full chemical protection). others are int types and copies sg (or other aoe spells). they’re like wizards with hide.
bow types are those who strip. use the same strategy versus snipers against them. agi types are damn fast attackers not because of their aspd but because of double attack and sometimes, triple attack.
he’ll try to backstab you then kill you with continuous melee attack so try to keep your safety wall and wall of fog on. with pest card, you should not have a hard time with them.

IV.3.11 Against Ninja

okay. these guys have reverse tatami skill which will make them invulnerable to ranged attacks, and magic! damn. try to disable the guy and be careful with the final strike. with high vit, you can survive and dang! kill the poor guy :D

V. Leveling

this is a tough job for professors. okay. destroy eggs in ant hell until you turn into a mage. when you turn into a mage, kill another egg for job lvl. put firebolt, try to kill an ant or go to payon cave lvl 1.

if you’re lvl 30+, go to rachel field 01. bring fly wings and make sure you dont go near a drosera. this is also applicable to swordsman and merchant class if you have fireblend.

when you’re lvl 70+ already, you may kill stings in glast heim culverts.

you can have someone boost you in anubis and make sure you put all stat points in luk. use ygg leafs in anubis and that’s it.

i’ve got a tip. do you know the quest “Curse of Gaebolg”? i recommend you use this for quests and this for quest table.

back to curse of gaebolg. if you do this quest during lvl 70, you’ll automatically jump to lvl 93 (in arcanaRO, rates:70/70). if you do it later, it will give you little level jump. why? because when you’re low on lvl, little exp is needed to level up. you got the idea? and also, quests with job experience points (such as rachel sanctuary) are recommended to be done if you’re trans already BUT.. don’t do a job change unless you’re job lvl 50. every job level gives you a fixed bonus on stat.

V. Skill:

*i generated this skill tree from rms. this is mainly for PvP/WoE professors.

*this is focused in fire bolt. For me it should have the highest priority during high magician. You’ve got 3 points left to spend with this build.

*double casting and memorize has the highest priority. Next is spider web, soul burn and dispel then heaven’s drive. Since this is a bolter build, Land pro and wall of fog is optional BUT having them is a MUST for professors.

VI. Hints and Tips

*battlemode or /bm

-i highly suggest that you read this tutorial about battlemode before trying to play professor.

*the /q1 command
-it enables you to use the skill in the 9th position (f9) on the first skill bar using right click.

-for example, you have hide skill in this position.
when you press right-click, you will hide automatically, which is good in dodging asura.
i recommend you put “Magic Rod” in that position. it is very effective against Professors.
when they try to bolt at you, press right-click at the time before the casting ends.
the timing is very hard and fatal but once you mastered this, it will be a very good asset. you can just spam your right click but.. i pity your mouse XDD
if you’re having a hard time with magic rod, try using hide instead.

-be careful with set equipments (survivor set, mage coat set, etc..)

-i did not include the sage/professor set cards. (yellow novus, bloody butterfly, harpy, miyabi doll, evil nymph cards)

-100 vit gives 100% immunity to status ailments (except stone and freeze)

-my suggestion.. don’t depend on donate equipments but its good to have one :P

***** (special part)

as the title says, there’s nothing special here. this is just a guide to agi professor.

Agi Professor (Melee)

- these professors are cool. instead of dex, you need ASPD to attack because of your autocast spell.
but be warned. these types need to be Soul Linked before they can use lvl10 bolts in autocast skill.
before becoming an agi type prof, make sure you have a soul linker first. instead of dex, put aspd or damage reduction equips. this class is very good in PvP (one on one)

Stats
for me, the minimum aspd should be 178 or 180 (with awakening potion and agi up). i will post my stats and equipments here and explanation later.

this stat is from my professor which is lvl 98, and 64 job. this is with agi up, blessing and awakening potion. again, dex is not important because auto spell doesn’t require you to hit the enemy. even if you miss, you will still autocast. with this stat, i have 10081 hp and 2161 sp (also because of the equipments)

for the weapon, i’m planning of changing it to .. sage’s diary (maybe.. idk >_<). currently it has cecil damon and female thiefbug card which raises my agi and aspd. i also want to change the female thiefbug card to another cecil damon card.

in my armor, it has pest card on it but i’ll change them with a valkyrie armor with evil druid card. i don’t need marduk card because even when silenced, we can still fight with auto spell so i compounded nightmare card on it.

the Thorny shield and horn of buffalo combo allowed me to have 180 aspd without maxing out my agi. without the combo, i would be wasting a lot of status points to max out agi, instead of putting them to vit.

i use firebolt in auto spell that’s why i’m using two imp cards. the brooch, i want to change it but i don’t know why. +1 agi also.. sucks LOL. matyr card raises hp by 10% and a +1 agi so it chose it over verit card.

i’m planning of changing the wool and tidal set to black leather boots[1] and crest of rider[1] set for more agi

Horn of Buffalo is very important. with it, you don’t have to waste stat points on agi and agi equipments instead, use them to have a decent hp and vit.

*here is my skill tree as an autobolter:

*this build is a little hybrid because of land protector. i managed to get it but only on lvl2.

VII. Notes

-i based this build in a mid rate server (ArcanaRO rocks \m/)
-mail me @ xile015@yahoo.com for suggestions and corrections.
this is just a guide and my opinion so don’t bother flaming :)

This guide will focus mainly in WoE and hunting aspects as a knight. This guide was made for low rate server. Actually it’s fun to play as a vitality lancer knight, because you can use wide collection of skills in your arsenal while enduring hits to get lots of exp. Big HP, defense and damage per hit is the main thing here. With decent equipment and some pots plus a little trick, getting into 99 is a cheap thing (well, except your patience…)

But, dont expect a high aspd and flee from this guide. if you’re afraid of being a tank, just left this guide and find another. Well, here we go…

Content

I. Vit-Knight build

II. Equipments

III. Leveling

IV. WoE using a Vit-knight

I. Vit-knight build

str-> 91++ (more str means more damage and weight limit. it’s essential since you’ll need to carry pots and lots of armor)

vit->91++ (as the guide name. get lots of vit to get more HP and less damage)

dex-> about 50 (I have try this, you can hit sins with 80 agi only with this amount af dex)

int-> 24 (just for xtra SP and bigger SP regen)

agi-> 9 (left it as you pick it when you make the novice, preety useless for tanking)

luk-> 1(really useless in this build)

And the skills…

swordman (change when Jlv hit 40)

-bash 10

-increase HP regen 10

-provoke 10

-endure 9

knight

-spear mastery 10

-pierce 10

-spear stab 8 (just get 3 at first and complete the last 5 when hitting jlv 45)

-brandish spear 10

-spear boomerang 5

-riding 1

-cavalier mastery 5

II. Equipments

What i am using now is…

• +5 Helm [Grand Peco}

• +5 Full Plate [Peco peco]

• Fin Helm

• +5 Manteau [Raydric]

• +5 Grave [Verit]

• +6 Shield [Thara Frog]

• +9 Pike [Orc Lady] [Orc Lady] [Hydra] [Hydra] (for hunting in orc village)

• +9 Pike [Hydra] [Hydra] [Skel Worker] [Mummy] (for WoE)

• Ring [Mantis] x2

• Clip [Horong]

• Wind Spirit Armor [Marc] (to hold wizards down)

• Padded Armor [Argiope] (padded armor are lightweight and cheaper, argiope to avoid sinX’s EDP)

• Guard [Medusa] (once again to shut off the wizards, guards are cheaper and lighter)

I use peco and grand peco because the combo add 3vit and 3def. Thara frog found to be useful both in leveling and WoE. Clip [Horong] only useful in WoE to detect rogues and sins. The others are just the essentials.

III. Leveling

1-10 -> find some pal to hit spores together in training ground. Hunting together is better in order to save some novice pots.

11-30 -> change into swordie, hit some spore to gain JExp. Use as little pots as possible.

31-40 -> peco peco or wolf shall lead your way. Kicking their ass will add lots of BExp. Start collecting money to get pike for hunting.

41-55 -> warp to Lighthalzen and get metalling there until you’re hitting JLv 40.

55-75 -> change into a knight and find a priest (or aco that are around 60) to hunt with you in orc village. It’s really hard in this time. Dare yourself to hit some High Orcs. Try to buy the pike with 2x orc lady and 2x hydra. It ‘ll be good to have cranial shield ASAP.

75-99 -> start soloing, cuz’ even shared exp will slow you down. Here’s the real trick: go and get water elemental converter. Sage can make this item. 70 str,+9 pike[2x orc lady 2x hydra] and converter leads you to fast leveling. High Orcs will down in 2x pierce. It only take 2secs to kill a High Orc, and also 2 secs to kill lots of High Orcs with brandish spear. just get some white pots, oranges, and converter and you’ll just doin the right thing. In normal conditions, this knight can produce about 4.000.000 exp per hour.

IV. WoE

I use my vit knight in WoE as a real tank. With 100 White potions, I can hold off 3 paladin (they’re using matyr’s reconning all the time) while my pal using Emergency Call inside the emper chamber. and vit knights are pretty useful for castle defense. just team up with a gunslinger with desperado, keep using sight (horong clip) and tank the enemy while the GS desper-ing the enemy.

In WoE, suitable jobs for this knight’s build are:

•Tanking

•Killing Wizards (use WSA[marc] and charge thru’ SG and then bash’em till they’re down. if they’re in a hard spot to close in, use spear boomerang)

•Killing bards and dancers (just pierce or bash em all)

In the end, different playing style will result in different usage of this build. Thanks for the space, and I hope this guide are useful for you.