Niff too busy? Alternative Leveling Guide for Priests/High Priests
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Well first things first, this is the first guide I've ever attempted to make, so if you see some areas that I could improve in, please don't hesitate to correct me!
Recently I've found that that Skellington is getting ludicrously overpopulated, and decent mobs are hard to come by. So I started looking around for any place that is even semi decent at all for experience. Before you read any farther, this guide assumes you have level 10 ME and IC, that is a must for getting the most experience out of the places you'll be going. Also, as a second disclaimer, Priests may have trouble with some of the later places I'll be sending you, so be sure you can hang in there before you try.
Gears Required/Recommended: Kahos, Missy mids, PCB (not required), Evang/Quad Drops/Dex Surivivors, Holy Robe (recommended), Khalitz, Dev, Eddga recommended for shoes but not necessary, Celebs/sting gloves/sting brys.
#1 Beach Cave
Alright, so the basic idea here is to just ME all the Medusas you can here, and teleport away as fast as possible looking for more. It should be fairly easy, almost no one is ever in here. Medusas have barely 16k HP and low MDEF, so if youre well equipped, you can 1 hit them with ME. If not, it should only take 2 waves. The thing I like about medusas is they give more exp than dullies, theres a pretty darn decent amount of them in the cave, and they die quickly. Also, if youre feeling confident, you can easily take on the MVP in here, Tao Gunka. He moves slowly, is an easy target for ME, just under 200k HP, and drops some pretty decent loot.
#2 Odin's Temple 2
I recommend this only for either well geared players, or for players who are willing to take a challenge. /gg
All in all though, its not entirely complicated, the only problem here is getting absolutely crap job experience, so its better suited to priests than high priests. The strategy is simple enough. You can only really kill the Skoguls/Frus here, so dont try any other monster, the skeggs will destroy you, and the plasmas just suck anyway. But anyway, the simple idea is to get no more than 2-3 skoguls/frus at a time, SW yourself, and lay down the MEs. Always remember to have at the VERY least 2 SWs up. Just because I like to play it safe with my precious experience meter, I usually have 3 up. Its simple enough, and if you have evang, you can frost nova them for some breathing room, because they seem to freeze really easily. Level 80-89 trans can get anywhere from 1-4% exp per skogul/frus, so its pretty darn good experience.
#3 Britoniah Guild Dungeon
Now obviously, youre going to need to be a part of a guild that owns a Britoniah Castle, but if you do, its really easy/fast experience. Simple enough, everything in here dies to ME. So just run around if you have eddgas, get a mob and boom, easy experience without the hassle of other people trying to take them from you. Oh, by the way, unless youre really confident, I would STRONGLY recommend you NOT try to solo DL as a priest. Even as a High Priest, he is fairly difficult, so just... be careful. you don't want to lose your hard earned experience.
#4 MVPing
Now before you get in a tizzy and say, "ZOMG NO WAI CAN I MVP THINGS, THEY ARE SO HARD!!1!1!!" Just read what I have to say. Obviously High Priests are MUCH easier to MVP with, but dont let that stop you as a confident young priest. With the right gears/mindset, you can MVP any monster thats Demon/Undead. Priests are terribly strong with or without MVP carded gears, you just have to know how to use them. So here is a list of MVPs and the strategy to kill them.
My favorite farming MVP- LoD
Now, granted, you have a choice, find him in Niffleheim, where hes actually harder to kill, but easier because theres no difficult monsters slamming you while you attack him, or find him in Geffen 4. Geffen 4 is my personal choice, because if you luck out and can lure him over to an area where theres not many other monsters, hes REALLY easy to avoid. Obviously the strategy here is to simply lay down the ME and run circles around him like a chicken with its head cut off. Obviously youre going to want eddgas, as he has a couple ranged moves that could cause you to flinch at the wrong time, and then *WABAM* dead priest. Other than that, make sure to keep yourself buffed with agi and bless and it should be fairly easy. Also make sure to keep either Fly wings or teleport hotkeyed just in case.
Dracula
Dracula is depressingly easy. His map is so easy to kill everything, and his mob is a bunch of familiars... I mean come on... you should be able to solo him even without IC.
If you really need advice to kill him, you probably shouldn't be trying to kill him, but if you do leave a reply and I'll answer any question you have.
Doppleganger
Doppleganger is also one of those depressingly easy MVPs. The only thing is you're probably either gonna have to ME and fly wing away, or ME and SW, cause he moves pretty fast. Thank god his mob also sucks, dies in one ME wave.
Tao Gunka
Another one of those easy MVPs. Moves decently slowly, its just hard to run around as its a crowded place. Drop an ME and run around. /no1
Alright, the rest of these MVPs are for the REALLY well equipped (i.e. Evang, sting brys, etc.)
Eddga
Simple enough, just run around and cast CB all the time. He should drop fairly quickly
GTB
LOL, had to put it in here simply because hes easy to kill, just stand across the gap in culverts, and CB him.
Evil Snake Lord
ESL is easy to kill with evang, just have to have patience and eddgas. But he also doesnt give enough experience for how long it takes to kill him, so you're basically going for kudos/items. Takes like 100 CBs and I think I only got... 12 or so % @ level 89. The strategy is a little complicated though. You need to keep blessing and inc agi hotkeyed for sure, wraith deads cast curse on you, and evil nymphs cast decrease agi on you. ESL also Frost Divers you, but he and his mob just don't hit hard enough to really matter. The thing also is, the Hermit Cloud guys have a pretty decent range and were doing 100 or so dmg a hit. Not too much, but still irritating enough to have to heal every once in a while.
#5 LH3
Alright, so I've done LH3 enough to relate my own personal experiences about it.
Equips Recommended:
Kahos
Missy
Pest Armor
Celebs/Sting Brys
Raydric/Deviant swap
Evang
DL Sleips
Toad Valk
General Advice: Avoid mobs of more than 3. You're going to get KS'ed constantly by champs that are either asses, or they think they are helping you. Just deal with it and tell them to kindly screw off. Status armor is an absolute MUST. If you keep dying, feel free to ask for advice here.
How to kill each one:
Whitesmith: This one is simple enough in theory. Make sure to have 3-4 SWs up and just keep CBing him. Personally I find that he takes too long to kill, so unless you have no choice just avoid him.
Sniper: Wear pest armor, wait for her to stone. Then just Lex Divinia her. After that its cake, swap to devi cause she won't be able to use elemental attacks, and CB her every time she stones. Protip: If shes taking a while to stone, Lex Aeterna her while you wait.
LK: This one is the easiest by far. SW yourself and CB away. Should be no problems here really, just make sure to keep up a few SWs to walk to.
SinX: Also easy. Wear pest, wait for him to stone, then Lex Divinia. Swap to devi, and CB away, no need to wait for stone.
HW: Generally, you should avoid her, but for the sake of completeness I'll tell you how to kill her. Wear GTB/Pest. Wait for her to stone, Lex her. Swap to devi/toad. Wait for her to stone again and CB her.
HP: Once again, one of the ones you should avoid. Regardless, wait for her to stone, use green pots if she silences. Silence her, and CB away.
Quote from: Dew
Just thought I'd clarify, you don't need a drake to lh3 and still get faster exp than niff.
It's simple once you get the hang of it. You can even have multiple mobs on you and be fine. *Most I'll do is 3, any more is pushing my luck*
But yeah, add this to your guide.
WS: SW + CB, very easy, but also time consuming since my CBs average about 6k on it. I really only take the time to kill it unless I have to.
Sniper: Pneuma w/ pest, wait till she statuses. Silence her. Put a sanc behind you, so it only touches you. HL away.
You can also use pneuma instead of sanc, but with assump it's easy to tank her dps.
LK: By far the easiest. I roughly do the same thing as WS, but seeing as it has almost no chance of killing you, I like to play around with how I kill it.Various methods work, but you can figure them out for yourself. :3
Sinx: Another easy one. Status him however you like, silence.Mitigate damage with a sanc just behind you, so it doesn't hit him. Again assump murders their damage.If you happen to be tanking multiple mobs by status, play it safe with SW instead."Holy Light !!"
HW: Pain in the ass. ~_~ Avoid. *She has mdef*If you MUST kill her though you're going to need a ton of mdef. GTB will block your heal.
HP: Another pain in the ass. Avoid Again. *She has mdef too*
It's for at first, but the fights are always the same, and asshat champs will KS you left and right, so it gets old.All-in-all though, superior training to niff.
Edit: Thought I'd add that you don't have to be very well geared for this.You can even do it without evang! Though it will be hard enough to not be worth it. ^^
Recommended base gear:
Top - Kaho
Mid - Missy
Lower - Doesn't really matter.
Armor - Pest
Wep - Evang
Shield - Thara
Garment - Immune
Shoes - DL
Quote from: Lucy~Nyu
Quote from: -John-
