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Saturday, February 2nd 2013, 5:15am

What's the ideal class combination for a Priest?

I want to play a Support/Heal oriented class and the Priest looks like the best choice. I'm probably going Mage as my secondary and am wondering what class I could take for my third choice that would maximize my ability to buff parties.

As a f2p player with no diamonds/funding, how difficult is it to acquire decent gear later (gear that's good enough to raid/pvp with and not get steamrolled)?

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Saturday, February 2nd 2013, 8:00am

Knight. Period.

P/K is the most versatile of the priest combos. It's a pure healer/buffer, and the combo of p/k/m will let you quest without too much trouble.

Acquiring gear and stats for a healer is easier than falling off a log. I've geared a healer and a half to endgame, and it was stupidly easy and cheap. Because you don't rely on stats for healing (Healing Power Increase Points are what increase your healing and they are built into your gear and on your weapon), you can feel free to stat your choice of wis, stam, def, hp and even mdef (for a more pvp build).

Invest in a good weapon. P/K should go wand/shield. Depending on which server you are on, ToSH and KBN healer wands should be pretty freely available, assuming you're leveling quickly. A lot of healers use combinations of shell, proof, mem and instance gear- choose what you can get cheaply and overdura.

I personally used X stats from Chrysalia on my druid. I actually buy stats for my p/k. Both are currently healing KBN hard and Bedim. I probably spent less than 2k dias and less than 100 mil for the two of them, total. That's pretty cheap for an endgame viable toon. Neither are going to win any epeen contests but they get the job done.

You can farm mems, Energy of Justice, Phirius shells and gold for your gear and stats. Farm gold for the item shop plussers, rune drillers and runes. It's very very doable. Healer is easily the most cost effective role in RoM.

Oh, and people may try and talk you into some of the more esoteric priest combos like p/wl, p/r or p/s. All are great- and you could argue that those combos have better party buffs- they do. The problem is they don't have the built in survivability that the p/k has- and as a free to play player with low resources, that will allow you to heal more in less gear. Those combos are perfect for people with money and time- we have a p/r in guild who's beastly beyond belief and he's single-handedly restored my belief in the combo- and he's also spent a few thousand bucks on his gear.

And he still doesn't have the survivability of a p/k who spent $20. And his third class is knight.

Keep it simple. P/K is simple as it gets. If you do decide that p/wl or p/r or p/s is for you, don't go mage. Mage does help a priest somewhat with leveling, but you can get by with the class-specific skills if you don't gear like a priest. Gear like a mage. Get mage gear and slap some dirty int/ma or ma/hp stats on it, and go on that way til you're actually ready to gear for instances.
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Saturday, February 2nd 2013, 8:07am

Priest/Knight all the way.

For examples why, see epeen link.

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Saturday, February 2nd 2013, 8:39am

So get Knight for my secondary and save the Mage as my third class?

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Saturday, February 2nd 2013, 8:47am

Quoted from "Foxhound3857;587171"

So get Knight for my secondary and save the Mage as my third class?


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Saturday, February 2nd 2013, 10:30am

Quoted from "Foxhound3857;587171"

So get Knight for my secondary and save the Mage as my third class?

Quoted from "Borella;587172"

Si.


It doesn't actually matter which order you pick up your classes as you will easily manage to get all 3 to 50+ but only one will go past 55 easily.

You may find that going P/M helps you level a bit faster as I believe it is a little better at damage dealing but when you start running instances, you will likely find the P/K is better for you.
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Saturday, February 2nd 2013, 4:15pm

Honestly, I think I would pick up scout instead of mage. Unless you just like mage.

Leveling is a pain on priest/knight. Leveling on a priest/scout with some mage gear on is dead easy. Leveling on priest/mage doesn't give you a spammable dps skill like Ice Blade, which is p/s's great offensive skill.

Plus as I am sure Borella can tell you in three words, p/s is fun.

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Saturday, February 2nd 2013, 6:56pm

And in game where priest is healer, we had run over by P/S last night like we nothing more then moving targets.... only reason we won was numbers and group effort to take that P/S down.

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Saturday, February 2nd 2013, 8:16pm

priest / knight and yes scout as 3rd class
iceblade with a good weapon will make for easy lvling
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