Equipment Guide for FS Priests

June 24, 2009

Hello. Exactly a month ago I wrote the Priest Guide, now I write this.

So much for that introduction, now let’s get to business. First you’ve gotta set up your goals. You don’t buy equipment to look cool; you buy equipment for their stats. Always remember that, as I always see people buying unnecessary headgears due to their coolness.

After that you should now what is your priority stat for that certain build. Let me give an example. As an FS priest your stat priority could be (VIT > INT), ( INT > VIT), (VIT > INT > DEX) or (INT > VIT > DEX). I’ll discuss the right equipment for each build on the following sections.

And also as much as possible, upgrade your armour to at least +4 — that’s the upgrade safety level peak using enriched elunia on F2P servers for there’s no upgrade safety level on F2P servers using ordinary elunia; the satey levels are capped at 90% success. Also, unless you’re a Battle Priest don’t even bother upgrading your staves/rods as it would be completely useless to you — weapon upgrade only increases ATK unless stated.

With the following equipment, one could effectively raise his DEF and/or MDEF to over 30 — this means one could reduce damage taken from both Physical and Magical Attacks by over 30 percent; and that doesn’t even include the 20% damage reduction from the Raydric-compounded garments/robes.

I’ll write an equipment guide for a Magnus Priest and a Soul Linker and a Wizard on next posts.

Full Support

VIT > INT

Headgear (UP, MID, BOTTOM): Bread Bag (+100 HP, 6 DEF, +1 VIT)

Robe: {Immune} Heavenly Maiden Robe [1] (3 DEF)

* Heavenly Maiden Robes could only be worn by Lvl 80+ characters; although it has 1 more DEF than the common Muffler, it would be more practical to card it on a Muffler since Mufflers have no level requirements and +1 DEF doesn’t really make much significance.

        Raydric Card: 20% less damage from Neutral attacks

        * Raydric card reduces 20% damage from almost all Physical attacks from ALL Races and Elements of Monsters.

Armour: {Hard} Saint’s Robe [1] (6 DEF, 5 MDEF)

        Pupa Card: +700 HP

Weapon: {Vital} Survivour’s Rod (Int) [1] (50 ATK, +15% MATK, +400 HP, +3 INT)

        Fabre Card: +100 HP, 1 VIT

* It is not advisable to set it with the Survivour’s Manteau since it can’t be carded and the stat bonuses aren’t that good.

Shield: {Rigid} Buckler [1] (4 DEF)

        Thief Bug Egg Card: +400 HP

Shoes: {Seeker’s} High Fashion Sandals [1] (2 DEF, 10 MDEF)

        Alarm Card: +300 HP, 1 VIT (20% chance to autocast Sight while being attacked)

* This is more usable as a Wizard though. As a Wizard, you could instantly cast Sightrasher when being attacked.

Accessory: (2) Medal of Honor (Acolyte Class) (1 DEF, +5% ATK, +5% MATK, +600 HP, +6 MDEF | Silence a target by chance when attacking)

* These two are quite hard to obtain as they can’t be bought from the Item Mall or the Prontera Merchants. They can’t be stored in the Kafra so that practically means that your character has to gain it itself. How? Through participation in the Maroll Battlegrounds. And no the stats are not set bonuses, they give +600 HP each and other stats as well.

INT > VIT

Headgear (UP): {Low Level} Crown [1] (4 DEF, +1 INT)

        Blue Acidus Card: If Headgear Upgrade ≤ 4, then +80 SP, +5% SP Recovery | if not, then +40 SP

Headgear (MID): Black Frame Glasses (1 DEF, 2 MDEF, +1 INT)

Headgear (BOTTOM): Flu Mask (+20% Resistance to Silence)

Robe: {Immune} Heavenly Maiden Robe [1] (3 DEF)

        Raydric Card: 20% less damage from Neutral attacks

Armour: {Hard} Saint’s Robe [1] (6 DEF, 5 MDEF)

        Pupa Card: +700 HP

Weapon: {Vital} Survivour’s Rod (Int) [1] (50 ATK, +15% MATK, +400 HP, +3 INT)

        Fabre Card: +100 HP, 1 VIT

Shield: {Rigid} Buckler [1] (4 DEF)

        Thief Bug Egg Card: +400 HP

Shoes: {Seeker’s} High Fashion Sandals [1] {of Witch} (2 DEF, 10 MDEF)

        Sohee Card: +15% SP, 8% SP Recovery

                            -OR-

        Eggyra Card: +15% SP Recovery

Accessory:

[Set: Spiritual Ring + Rosary [1]]

+9% SP Recovery, +30% Magnus Exorcismus damage, +50% Heal and Sanctuary damage to the Undead

        Spiritual Ring (+2 INT, +1 DEX)

* Spiritual Rings would cost 3,000,000z to 8,000,000z. Yeah, it’s expensive but compared to last years’ prices, this is actually cheaper — last year, Spiritual Rings cost around 12,000,000z.

        Rosary [1] (3 MDEF, +1 LUK)

                 Spore Card: +2 VIT