Alpha:Priest

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Skills

  • Good Health - +2 health gain per level
  • Good Drink - Health potions 100% effective
  • Good Golly - 200% physical damage to undead

General Strategy

Priests are a fairly simple class to use. Just hit the boss at a high enough level with enough health potions.

Priests can (and should) hit high level undead early.

Race And Deity Choices

Halfling is perhaps the most obvious choice of race for a priest, allowing for, at a minimum, 10 health potions in a standard game. This is especially useful for challenge dungeons. For halflings, carrying glyphs or leaving them on the ground until you actually need to convert them is a good idea. Humans are another solid choice, being able to use the attack bonus to take advantage of higher max health. Dwarves would potentially have another 6/level max health at their disposal, making it easier to take on slightly tougher enemies early on. In both cases, hitting high level undead as early as possible without wasting potions is a good idea.

Tikki Tooki's free health potion is particularly useful for priests and he can help you clear poison and mana burn if you leave a few level ones around; Golden Guardian obviously helps as you should be killing undead early and easily. Worshipping Dracul is forbidden for this class.

Challenge Modes

Snake Pit: Go halfling to make both bosses much easier, hit gorgons early on. Especially easy to take down Medusa early if you have a decent attack, as your potions will always make you non-petrifiable.

The Crypt: Double physical damage against undead makes this very easy. Finding ways (Golden Guardian, Taurog, going human, fine sword etc.) of increasing your damage will make this even easier.

The Library: Halfling makes everything easier, as usual, especially absorbing Aequitas' high damage. Fireballing high-level imps out of the way helps things along.

The Factory: Priest is solid at dealing with both of the low damage bosses, especially as a halfling (each potion offers you 2-3 extra hits on meat man/iron man). Usual ideas for factory (fireball high level animated armours, try to keep some potions back for the bosses) apply. File:Example.jpg