Priest Guide
From EUO Manual
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Up to Date Priest Guide
Priests are a young class in EUO. Not many people know how to do a priest well at this point, but hopefully this guide can point you in the right direction.
NOTE: Priests do not gain any benefit from intelligence other than mana and magic resistance. Having a high mana is not advised, as your combat skills are going to rely heavily on strength.
The Priest Skills
Priests have three main skills. One weapon skill, and two classes of magic.
Blessed Maces
Blessed maces is a clone of the fighters' mace skill. Blessed maces are what you need to base your build on. Mostly strength with moderate dexterity is your best bet, but it's up to you.
Divinity
You'd probably imagine that a priest's power relied on their magic, but that's not the case. Divinity is all about blessing your weapon and buffing yourself and others. The first spell you'll learn with divinity is bless mace, which turns any regular fighter mace into a blessed mace for the use of a priest. You'll have many other spells, like identify item and detect traps/curses, and even a few summoning spells.
Piety
Piety is all about keeping yourself and your party members healthy. You get a wide range of spells that heal damage and cure status effects.
Armour
Priests get the full defense bonus from heavy armour (like fighters). That being said, it should be known that priest magic is NOT based on intelligence! Having +intelligence armour as a priest will do you no good, other than giving you a little bit more mana (which, if you have a piece or two of good vigour gear, you won't need).
Pilgrimage
Being a priest, you'll be doing a lot of traveling between towns in the beginning of the game, seeing as how you have to buy all of your spells. I'd suggest doing a few quests to make some gold, and searching every town you come across for spell trainers.
How Do You Want to Play?
Priests are a support class for the most part, but are also very well built for solo survival. You could sit back and heal your party members while they do all the dirty work, gaining experience while you do so, or you can head into battle alone with your mace and heal yourself whenever you need to. How you play is entirely up to you.
