High Priest

High Priest
Job Base(s):	Priest
Job Type:	2-1 Transcendent
Job Level:	70
Race:	Human
Changes At:	Juno
Number of Skills:	38
Total Skill Points:	233
Total Quest Skills:	2
Job Bonuses
STR AGI VIT INT DEX LUK +7 +8 +7 +12 +9 +2

Overview

The High Priest is the Transcendent variant of Priest. The High Priest is the epitome of spiritual calm. A bulwark in the storm of chaos, he is more than capable of protecting his comrades when faced with even the most ferocious enemy. Despite the many skills taught to them by the Priests of Prontera Church, they still need to learn a few more from the Gods themselves. Now able to create areas where no violence may occur, they are able to Heal more, Bless more and Serve even more. Their skills are truly gifts from God.

High Priests get further improved tanking ability thanks to Assumptio. The additional stat points from being a Transcendent, coupled with Meditatio, makes them able to spread their stats out further, which in turn makes new builds like the DEX/VIT/INT WoE possible.

Job Change Guide

To become a High Priest, you must find a book called 'the Book of Ymir' in 'Sage Castle', Juno. The book will lead you to Valhalla so you can change your job through the High Priest Job NPC. Also you must reach Job Level 50 as a Transcendent 1st class character.

1. 'Sage Castle' is located at 11 o'clock direction (yuno 88,320) in Juno.	2. 'Book of Ymir' is located inside a room behind an NPC called 'Metheus Sylphe' (yuno_in02 88,164).
3. 'Book of Ymir' (yuno_in02 94,206) will teleport you to Valhalla.	4. Find and talk to the Job NPC suited to your 2nd class.

Builds

See Arch Bishop Builds for build strategies to work towards. See Priest Builds for leveling strategies for just the High Priest leveling stages. Leveling a High Priest is similar to a regular pre-trans Priest, but with a few new skill additions.

New Skills Overview:

Assumptio is an effective defensive buff that doubles DEF and MDEF.

Meditatio improves Heal even further and also helps with SP.

Tactics

Party Menu Healing / Buffing

The most effective way to heal and buff a party is through the Party Window (Alt+Z). Trying to heal a party by manually clicking players can become impossible when players become mobbed or are bunched up, and can lead to players dying. This is why it is strongly recommended to make use of the Party Window. Another benefit to the Party Window is the ability to monitor all players' health. Ensure that the "Lock Menu" feature is on (by clicking the picture of the lock) when using this system to avoid opening private messages when trying to heal / buff a player.

SP Recovery & Conservation

One of the biggest issues new Priests have when playing the class is maintaining their SP. There are many ways for Priests to ensure that they always have SP for those dire situations. These are some important methods on maintaining SP:

• Always ensure that Magnificat is on at all times. This skill will not only keep a faster SP Recovery for the Priest, but also for the rest of the party that rely on SP for using skills as well. Keeping this buff up will make parties much smoother for everybody. Try not to wait until SP is bottoming out to cast this spell, because at that point it will already be too late.
• Make use of Assumptio or Kyrie Eleison. These skills keep people protected and greatly saves SP on healing in the long run. These skills can greatly help fragile Crowd Killers such as Rangers or Spell Caster Wizards and Sages. These defensive skills can also help the party tank quite a bit. Note that any character cannot have both buffs on at the same time. An Arch Bishop can also use Praefatio, which will give KE to all party members. If the Priest notices that certain party members are lagging behind, using KE on them will give them time and leeway to retreat back to where the party is.
• Stack SP Recovery or Max SP increase equipment. Gearing a Priest up with equipment that will increase their SP Recovery or Max SP will vastly help a player to maintain SP at all times.
• Always have Healing Items (SP) on hand. All players should have SP healing items on hand at all times to restore SP, at least in emergencies, and this includes Priests as well. As most classes should have HP healing items of some sort on them at all times, Priests should also have SP healing items on them.

Some common items that can be easily obtained for SP regeneration include:

• Strawberry: Easily farmed off Spores or Yoyos, or bought from Vendors.
• Blue Potion: Can be brewed by Alchemists or purchased from Vendors.
• Blue Herb: Can be farmed off Blue Plants for high drop rate. Alchemists can be use them to brew Blue Potions.
• Grape Juice: Farmed off Dragon Flies (rare monsters). Can also be made with the Juice Quest.
• Royal Jelly: Farmed off Enchanted Peach Trees and Zipper Bears.
• Orange: Farmed off Baby Desert Wolves, Peco Pecos, Condors, etc.
• Green Ale: Usually only available through holiday quests. Restores 50% of Max HP and Max SP. Can also be purchased off Vendors.

High Priority Skills:

Skill Tips

High Priests should remember that Lex Aeterna loses its rather long Cast Delay if used under the effect of Magic Strings, to the point when it can be constantly casted. This is a great way to double the damage output of parties, especially in single target situations such as MVPs.

Some skills in the High Priests' arsenal may not serve a strong use while still leveling as a High Priest, but many may have uses in MVP situations or other specific scenarios. These should be hotkeyed as well, and often an Arch Bishop will have all four rows of hotkeys used up. Some of these include:

• Pneuma: A very powerful and necessary skill for Endless Tower runs as well as when fighting ranged monsters within a party. Certain ranged monsters and skills are very powerful and this spell can save players a lot of stress. Make sure the party members are positioned correctly. Nine people can actually fit into one Pneuma's area.
• Aspersio: This skill endows a party member's weapon with the Holy property, which will greatly improve a party member's physical damage when the monsters are weak to the Holy property.
• Status Recovery and Cure: Priests must pay attention to the Status Effects inflicted on their party members and should use the two skills on them accordingly.
• Sanctuary: This spell has great healing power for a low SP cost (but uses a Blue Gemstone). Highly recommended to have this skill at Level 7, as that already provides the maximum healing power already. Level 8~10 only increases its duration.

Equipment

Eden Group Equipments Quests

Main article: Eden Group Equipments Quests

Most transcendent characters will have already completed some Eden Equipment quests already and can reuse the equipment. If the character has not done the quest yet, they can do it as a transcendent character as well. The Staff is a good weapon and generally a good choice for a Priest and their future classes' use.

General Equipment Recommendations

Main article: Equipment

The Equipment article lists some general all purpose equipment that is useful through the PVM phase and also for endgame use as well.

Third Class Compatible Equipment

Main article: Arch Bishop Equipment

It is recommended to look at the Equipment recommendations for the Third Class job to see what equipment to strive for, rather than to spend a lot of money on a piece of equipment that will not be used in the future as a third class. However, some equipment may have a high level requirement, or are transcendent only.

Weapons

After considering what requirement skills have (some skills can only be used with certain weapon types), the Weapon Search tool within the iRO Wiki DB site is very helpful. Generally, for physical classes (both melee and ranged), something with high ATK is best. For magic classes, something with high MATK is best.

Link to the iRO Wiki DB Weapon Search: http://db.irowiki.org/db/weapon-search/

• Eden Group Staff III
• Principles of Magic [2]
• Healing Staff (preferably +8~10) (Combined with Benevolent Guardian)
• Speedy Recovery Wand
• Strong Recovery Wand
• Dea Staff [1]
• Glorious Cure Wand
• Holy Stick [1] (Combined with Benevolent Guardian)

Headgear

Top Headgears:

• Yggdrasil Crown
• Flying Evil Wings
• Benevolent Guardian
• Crown of Deceit [1]
• Dress Hat [1]
• Benevolent Guardian [1]

Middle Headgears:

• Sigrun Wings
• Sunglasses [1]
• Elven Ears [1]
• Takius Blindfold
• Black Frame Glasses
• Mini Glasses [1]

Lower Headgears:

• Well-Chewed Pencil
• Evolved Pipe

Armor

• Eden Group Uniform III
• Diabolus Robe [1]
• Valkyrian Armor [1]

Shield

• Exorcism Bible
• Valkyrja's Shield [1] (refined to +7)
• Round Buckler [1] (refined to +7)

Recommended cards:

Resistance cards.

Garment

• Nydhorgg's Shadow Garb [1] (refined to +7)
• Diabolus Manteau [1]
• Eden Group Manteau II
• Heroic Backpack [1]

Recommended cards:

Noxious, Raydric and Deviling.

Footgear

• Variant Shoes (do not upgrade)
• Vidar's Boots
• Diabolus Boots [1]
• Valkyrian Shoes [1]

Recommended cards:

Verit, Sohee, Green Ferus, Matyr and Firelock.

Accessories

• Clip [1]
• Angelic Ring
• Medal of Honor (Acolyte)
• Earring [1]
• Spiritual Ring
• Diabolus Ring [1]
• Glorious Ring
• Bradium Earring [1]

Class Data

Skills

See Priest Skills for non-Transcendent skills.

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Assumptio	Increases Hard Defense by 50~250 and increases incoming heal effectiveness by 2~10% for 20~100 seconds.	5	Supportive
Basilica	Increases Holy property magical damage by 3~15% and increases physical damage against Shadow and Undead property monsters by 5~25% for 60~180 seconds.	5	Supportive
Meditatio	Increases Heal effectiveness by 2~20%, Max SP by 1~10%, and SP Recovery by 3~30%.	10	Passive
Spiritual Thrift	Reduces SP cost of all skills by 4~20%.	5	Passive

Job Bonuses

Stat\Amount	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8	+9	+10	+11	+12
STR	5	12	21	31	38	45	60
AGI	3	8	19	29	42	55	65	68
VIT	4	22	30	50	51	58	67
INT	1	7	11	20	23	24	34	47	57	61	66	70
DEX	13	16	26	28	37	43	46	56	62
LUK	40	49

ASPD

ASPD values do not change after transcending. See Priest (ASPD).