Absolutely Daniel Tutorial - MapleStory Priest Guide
I hope that this will be a useful guide to Maplers out there who wanna know how to maximise the potential of their Priests in MapleStory.
Being a Priest is easy, all you need to do is mainly heal, buff and leech if you love being in parties, or simply spam heal at Undead monsters.
Guide Version: 1.00b (Beta, updates will be included in the future.)
Last Updated: 6 June 2008
1.) Why Do We Love Priests?
2.) Why Do We Hate Priests?
3.) What Skills Do Priests Have?
3.1) Supportive Skills
3.2) Offensive Skills
3.3) Skill Builds
1.) Why Do We Love Priests?
1.) They are the only support class in MapleStory with awesome skills. (Skills being Holy Symbol, Dispel, Mystic Door and Doom.)
2.) They have the capability to gain extra experience and let their parties benefit from this too. (Come on, let's be honest, who doesn't party a Priest mainly for Holy Symbol?)
3.) They can solo undead monsters with ease. (Just spam heal and let the experience come flying.)
4.) Priests are pot savers. (With Invincible and MP Eater when training at Undeads, Priests can save on pots.)
5.) Priests ensure survivability during boss battles.
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2.) Why Do We Hate Priests?
1.) They do not buff at regular intervals if their aim is just to leech experience.
2.) They do not heal party members if they expect self potting.
3.) They have such wonderful support and offensive skills.
4.) They are more popular than other mage classes during boss battles like Zakum.
5.) They can be arrogant at times (just a minority case.)
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3.) What Skills Do Priests Have?
3.1) Supportive Skills
- Holy Symbol
- When maxed, offers 10% bonus experience when soloing OR 50% bonus experience when in a party.
- Disadvantage: Your Priest will be left defenseless for 2 seconds when casting this skill if you are not hanging on a rope/ladder.
- Advantage: This skill makes you welcomed in any party.
- Dispel
- When maxed, this skill can dispel any status effect like Seal, Darkened, Weakened, Poisoned and Curse except Stun or similar effects to Stun with a success rate of 100%.
- There will be a skill called Holy Shield when you advance to a Bishop at Level 120, that skill works in every way similar to Dispel except that it only needs to be cast once and will last for a certain duration.
- If you plan to add your Skill Points into Holy Shield when you advance to a Bishop, do not put any Skill Points into Dispel or vice versa as they make each other redundant.
- Elemental Resistance
- When maxed, offers up to 50% reduction in elemental magic attacks from monsters/bosses ranging from fire, lightning and ice-based magic attacks. This skill also reduces the damage from Undead monsters in Ludibrium Clocktower: Forgotten Path of Time I-IV as their magic attacks are included under Elemental Resistance even though there is no obvious way of determining which is which in some cases.
- Mystic Door
- A free Town scroll-like skill except the difference in you and your party members can travel to/from town to/from any map (except certain maps where Mystic Door is not allowed like Boss maps etc.)
- If any of your party members become dead, they can come back through the use of Mystic Door. (Spare a thought for them, open the door at a safe spot.)
- This skill will require 1 Magic Rock to be used per cast.
- Not recommended for maxing, in most cases, leaving just 1 Skill Point in this skill will do.
- Doom
- A skill that changes up to 6 monsters into blue snails for a certain duration depending on skill level. Even when maxed, it does not guarantee a 100% success rate all the time.
3.2) Offensive Skills
- Shining Ray
- When maxed, deals high, consistent damage up to 6 Undead / Devil-based monsters or both (Not all Undead monsters take full damage from this Holy-based spell.)
- This skill has a higher mastery rate than Heal, so damage applied across the monsters hit will be much more stable.
- When used on Non-Undead / Non-Devil-based monsters, the damage will be weakened by 50%.
- Feel free to combine this skill with Heal when training alone.
- Summon Dragon
- A dragon will be summoned for a certain duration by your side (depending on Skill Level) and attacks only 1 monster at a time.
- Requires 1 Summoning Rock per cast.
- Take Note: This Skill does not need to be maxed, allocating just 15 Skill Points into this Skill will do as a Bishop Skill: Bahamut, only requires Level 15 of Summon Dragon as a prerequisite.
- This Dragon deals Neutral damage to all monsters.
3.3) Skill Builds
Build 1: Party Priests
Lvl 70: 1 SP Dispel
>Lvl 71: 2 SP Dispel & 1 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 72: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 73: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 74: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 75: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 76: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 77: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 78: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 79: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 80: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 81: 2 SP Holy Symbol (Maxed) & 1 SP Mystic Door
Lvl 82: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 83: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 84: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 85: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 86: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 87: 2 SP Dispel (Maxed) & 1 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 88: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 89: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 90: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 91: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 92: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 93: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 94: 1 SP Elemental Resistance (Maxed) & 2 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 95:< 3 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 96: 3 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 97: 3 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 98: 3 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 99: 1 SP Summon Dragon (Level 15 - Prerequisite For Bahamut) & 2 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 100: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 101: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 102: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 103: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 104: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 105: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 106: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 107: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 108: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 109: 1 SP Shining Ray (Maxed) & 2 SP Doom
Lvl 110: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 111: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 112: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 113: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 114: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 115: 3 SP Doom (Level 20)
Lvl 116 - Lvl 120: 12 Free SP (Feel free to allocate to any skill of your choice.)
Lvl 71: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 72: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 73: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 74: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 75: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 76: 3 SP Holy Symbol (Level 15)
Lvl 77: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 78: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 79: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 80: 1 SP Elemental Resistance (Level 10) & 1 SP Mystic Door
Lvl 81: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 82: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 83: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 84: 3 SP Holy Symbol
Lvl 85: 3 SP Holy Symbol (Maxed)
Lvl 86: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 87: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 88: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 89: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 90: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 91: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 92: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 93: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 94: 3 SP Shining Ray
Lvl 95: 2 SP Shining Ray (Maxed) & 1 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 96: 3 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 97: 3 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 98: 3 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 99: 3 SP Summon Dragon
Lvl 100: 2 SP Summon Dragon (Level 15 - Prerequisite for Bahamut) & 1 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 101: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 102: 3 SP Elemental Resistance
Lvl 103: 3 SP Elemental Resistance (Maxed)
Lvl 104: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 105: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 106: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 107: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 108: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 109: 3 SP Doom
Lvl 110: 2 SP Doom (Level 20) & 1 SP Dispel
Lvl 111: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 112: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 113: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 114: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 115: 3 SP Dispel
Lvl 116: 1 SP Dispel (Maxed) & 2 Free SP (Feel free to allocate to any skill of your choice.)
Lvl 117-120: 12 Free SP (Feel free to allocate to any skill of your choice.)
