Your Prophet/Hierophant.

Hello all, I am HotDogBun; a level 78 Hierophant on Hindemith. My class has gone through alot of hardships and many others of my class would agree, but we are not here for that. I have another reason.

I'd like every Prophet/Hierophant MAIN (not buffpet or alt) to tell me why, if you can point it out, why you enjoy your class so much.

I'll go first: I have always been fascinated by heavy armor classes that can do healing, buffing, etc. My first character was a Paladin (my first character was a Paladin on every MMO I ever played that had it as a class). I eventually rerolled a few times, Paladin->Swordsinger->SE->TH-> and the finally Prophet, it was origionally going to be a replacement for a friend I lost I played with alot, but after playing her for a while I realized it was more fun than any of my other characters. So I stuck with her. Things I really like about Prophet/Hierophant: Robes/Light/HEAVY armors, can use ANY weapon decently if you utilize the system well, I like to buff, and heal (even though they ain't great :P), and I like to fight with my heavy armor and duals, not because my damage is great or anything, but because it is fun. I even tank for parties sometimes when tank may go AFK or something.

My Hierophant:
HotDogBun (Female)
Level 78
Keshenberk*keshenberk+4
Tallum Heavy Plate
Pheonix Jewelry
+4 STR, -4 CON
+4 DEX, -4 CON
+4 WIT, -4 MEN

I love my class, even moreso since I got PoF- it's so fun! I can make really good parties when I want and my friends love it to. Making people stare at their patk/atk speed and say 'Wow you are awesome' makes me really happy, and then partying with friends is great!

I hear Hierophants are pretty good in Olympiad, but I don't know- I am not even noble, level 80 looks more fun than Noble for me! =D

Please my fellow Prophet/Hierophants; tell us why you enjoy your class so much. =)

Bun

Level 78
Keshenberk*keshenberk+4
Tallum Heavy Plate
Pheonix Jewelry
+4 STR, -4 CON
+4 DEX, -4 CON
+4 WIT, -4 MEN

maybe ppl would take you guys more seriously if more of you has that sort of build
sucks that you are on another server, you would be welcome to any of my parties any day

O and get better jewles :P

I'm not sure if I qualify as a main since I two-box - but all three of my usually boxed characters (EE/PP on one account, the prophetess on her own pretty much) have the macro bars that allow me to play them on the 'off' computer.

I love how FAST everything is with prophet buffs (<3 zerk) and playing a challenging class (my original challenge was 'run groups without VR' - therefore the EE/PP duo) - it's also fun to play a rare class (buffpets don't count!). Root and Word of Fear are also great fun to use as CC.

My current setup is
BW Heavy (ironman solo or duo with EE), BW Robes (big groups, yuck!) or Doom Light (duo with PS, groups)
Kris +3 Focus, SoV Acumen while buffing (down with mana up)
+4 DEX/-5CON (+3/-3 coming soon, as well as +STR/-CON)
+4 WIT/-5MEN (I'm cheap, bite me >.<)
... and lux store jewellery. -.-

PS: Who could say no to a human mystic in the doom heavy mesh? Prophets are the most **** buffers there are!

PPS: The only other battle prophet I know on Lionna is SCUM. :(

My Hierophant:
HotDogBun (Female)
Level 78
Keshenberk*keshenberk+4
Tallum Heavy Plate
Pheonix Jewelry
+4 STR, -4 CON
+4 DEX, -4 CON
+4 WIT, -4 MEN

I've heard of and seen a few different ways of playing a Heiroplant in Olym, and PvE. I will discouse how I liked playing mine. Which I did for about a month on the PTS.

For PvE I prefered a drac with focus. And +4 str, this was the best dmg for 77+. even tho your acc is less, I had on a normal bases 99 acc (fully buffed). You can go to the HS and get lvl 5 and below curse and your acc gets upwords of 114 (with bow) sometimes higher.

As a side I also carried a angel slayer with Haste, and a Arcadia mace with Acumen.

As for armor: I tried many different ones. Some where good some not quit so good.

I tried IC set: but I didn't like it so much. -2 dex isn't so hot specially if you plan to use a bow. then you also have a much lower cast speed in IC(heavy armor), and your masteries don't make up for that.

Maj heavy: nice set, weights too much, good acc, specially with a bow, and pretty good dmg out put! like IC I didn't care for the lowered cast speed...but I'd deffenetly would keep one of these around.

Tallum Heavy: I really liked this set, good dmg, but atk speed was awesome, I could get atk speed close to what any normal Archer has once I got PoF. This set is best used if your going to fight nuking mobs (like in pagens/MoS). But watch out, with a bow and constantly using PoF means your mp will wear out fast!

Light Maj: I liked it, close to Maj heavy a lil less acc. a good set if you face stunners alot. I'd stick to Maj heavy unlees you need to heal alot, and if your not using a bow, then I'd not use the set.

Drac light: this was my primary set, great atk speed, great P atk, and pretty **** good P df. Simular to d/c light but has more weight limit, and better P df, also don't have the para resist that d/c light has.

I'll tell you, When I did the olympiad, I was 87 and 8. on the last week gaining 468 points. I have +9 root chance, +9 mana burn power, +5 sometimes more erase cost (doesn't have chance).

I've seen a few different styles in there, but what I found that works best for me, was no tattoo, or +4 dex - 4 con. I preferred Drac light over IC, cause of the cast speed, and P atk/P atk speed in drac. I used a IC shield, cause it has the highest P df for a shield, and I can utalize my Bless the shield buff, and blow alot of atks, very useful VS's archers, close meely, and Shields can now block Magic atks.

For this reason I went with Angel slayer W/ Haste, that I managed to get to +8 (infact got it to +11 before it broke going to +12 :( ).

For that I was able to get about 700+ atk speed. With zerk 868 to 900. with Fury close to 1k. (tho I have baium)

So I'd buff up using sps (not Bps), and dc robe set, and arcadia mace.

You'd also would need A drac with focus, and a drac with crt slow. Reason being is you need to be able to range while in the olym, and if you face a Destro with their high dmg, and high HP/CP you need to kite them to win, block WW helps alot, but if you can get crt slow to land switch to d/c set and kite with the bow, they hurt bad if you stay in close and try to meely with them. expence set up, sure totally think it is...would you make back on this totally.

you'd win 95% of your matches. like I said I was 86 and 8...I lost only to lucky lethal's. really good glads, and destro's that got in close, or to SR that drained my mp so I couldn't heal any more. Ol's are easy to beat. Mages are easy to beat, Tanks are easy to beat, Archers aren't too hard. summoner's are a pain (mana burn them after you erase)...daggers are easy.

Do you need boss jewelry to win: no, but it helps, specially if you have zaken, baium, and antharas. Tho how underrated it is, I'd highly recommend that PP's get orfen for the ++ hp heals. Every lil bit helps!

Sigh.....a buffpet and an alt so far....no one taking this seriously -.- This is not PTS; you can't "Reccomend" boss jewelry ...................................

Setup:
Lv 76
Spiritual Eye /Mana Up + NM Shield
Majestic Robe Set
Tallum*Dama (not yet, have to wait for monday, right now +6 tsu*sls)
Majestic Heavy Set
Tateossian/Majestic jewelrymix (working on to complete the tatset)
+4 wit -4men
+3str -3con

Why I play my class?
Because I was told so and liked it. Played a nuker (SH) in C1/C2, but quited L2 for wow. Got back to it in C3 and asked my old friends who still played what class to choose (I wanted to play some kind of wanted char, since my nuker wasnt grouped much and that was one of the reasons I quited). Since they lacked a buffer I wanted to try one out and got stuck to it somehow ^.^ (there were times I wanted to reroll, yes, but never did and im quite happy I didnt).

What I <3 about my class?
That it is needed and I got my place somewhere in the world. Besides being a stupid buffpet there are so many jobs to do, like being the (emergency-) healer (same battleheal as SE/EE, same group heal as EE), the lil assisting DD (and I dont need to put on heavy or light, I can use my melee weapon in robe if I need some castspeed/mp regen) or just the guy who saves the day (get aggro by spam battleheal, run away and return, or run through the rooms to clear the path for the rez team and return)

Sigh.....a buffpet and an alt so far....no one taking this seriously -.- This is not PTS; you can't "Reccomend" boss jewelry ...................................

wow...

You know what I can recommend what ever I want to...it's in the game. Just cause you can't afford it don't mean .... . It doesn't matter if this is PTS, or live client....it's the same game. Don't be so naive.

I liked the class, but I'm disappointed in it at the same time.

And tbh I'd rather play a PP as a buff pet then to try to lvl one again, It's not worth it. PP's is like that old saying "master of one thing, master of nothing." (I think thats how it's said, I've not heard it in a while...sorry)

I'm just trying to help out the community in what I thought worked good, and made playing it enjoyable. if you don't like my suggestions then you can shove it where the sun don't shine. (**** it now you made me negative)

Jack of all trades, master of nothing.

master of one thing, master of nothing...do you even read what you type?

Get boss jewels...excellent advice...which class would you not recommend do that?

Setup:
Lv 76
Spiritual Eye /Mana Up + NM Shield
Majestic Robe Set
Tallum*Dama (not yet, have to wait for monday, right now +6 tsu*sls)
Majestic Heavy Set
Tateossian/Majestic jewelrymix (working on to complete the tatset)
+4 wit -4men
+3str -3con

Why I play my class?
Because I was told so and liked it. Played a nuker (SH) in C1/C2, but quited L2 for wow. Got back to it in C3 and asked my old friends who still played what class to choose (I wanted to play some kind of wanted char, since my nuker wasnt grouped much and that was one of the reasons I quited). Since they lacked a buffer I wanted to try one out and got stuck to it somehow ^.^ (there were times I wanted to reroll, yes, but never did and im quite happy I didnt).

What I <3 about my class?
That it is needed and I got my place somewhere in the world. Besides being a stupid buffpet there are so many jobs to do, like being the (emergency-) healer (same battleheal as SE/EE, same group heal as EE), the lil assisting DD (and I dont need to put on heavy or light, I can use my melee weapon in robe if I need some castspeed/mp regen) or just the guy who saves the day (get aggro by spam battleheal, run away and return, or run through the rooms to clear the path for the rez team and return)

Good reply =) Thank you friend Hierophant.

I'm currently working on completing my IC set - so I don't have to borrow all the time. Heh.

I have a Forgotten Blade w/ focus
Arcana Mace w/ acumen
Hero weapon

Full +3 Tat set with the exception of a +4 Frintezza necklace.

I have Majestic Robes - use Tallum in Olympiad and an IC shield.

My very first clan leader suggested I'd like prophet better than bishop back when I was nearing 40. He was right. I have been frustrated that we have no skill to kill like Bishops, EEs do (the undead skills), but with the advent of PoF and a really good DD weapon, I enjoy soloing when there's not much else going on.

I hate being called a buff pet - I've been playing since Open Beta. As my sig should say, I'm 79 and still xping. :)

Hmm my Prophet.
I am not sure why I play it. Maybe I am lazy to reroll, I like my toon too much, I would rather quit than reroll i guess. And I am too wellknown as prophet as Nya to reroll.
And I have few friends ingame who party me, so I cant complain about lack of groups atm.
I always try to play the class to the max, dding, healing, debuffing, ccing, seeding etc etc, and trying to find new ways of hunting. (IT trio is one crazy thing).

Equip:
Maj robes for big groups, raids, aoe.
Arcana robes for pvp, small groups (if I dont have to heal much), oly.
ICset solo/oly, some special raids.
Forgotten blade w/focus, arcana mace w/acu, draconic bow w/focus, stick of faith w/manaup :).
Tat ring +3, tat neck +3, zaken +5, orfen +4, antQ +4.

Dyes: +5wit -5men...I would like to get something like +str w/e for pve, but oly/pvp>pve.
I have TH sub which I play from time to time, but i like proph much more.
And I had sorc sub, have necro sub...but dunno, its boring.

We seriously need better mp management, we need to get out of WC's shadow who got BOOSted in interlude agian and we got that stupid spell turning (another thread). I even asked korean player and he said that even there, most prophets are just buffpets that prophet cant get groups if WC is around etc. So I wonder what makes korean devs happy with our situation. But Ill keep playing proph till I have friends who play with me, I have few goals which (baium ring, get hero again, get some augmented weapon, 80(100%), OE more skills, get drac set). But i am definitely not happy with our situation.

Hierophant vs WC....

Yeah, it's a struggle - however - I have some clannies who have been very good to me in IT groups where CoV is a must. What I do is this - Arcane Wisdom to full buff the entire group - takes me to about half MP - and then I'm able to keep PoF up on the damage dealers in the group - usually 3 archers (the rest of the party is support).

I will also go into catacombs w/ as small a party as possible (hehe) with the BD having vamp dance - and no healer. The smallest group was a duo w/ said BD. Easy to keep PoF up.

There are good combinations that can be made. With the new passive skill, clarity, and Arcane Wisdom - that same IT group - I use no more than 40% of my MP.

Yeah, WC take a lot of the groups - and grudgingly I get it.. But I have appreciated those who are willing to work with me and help me get that SP.

Last night - heavy armor - melee group on Dino Island. Had WC in the party so I just supplied little extras like zerk, bless soul for the healers, ww... That was great fun not having to be the main buffer... ^^

an alt

If you're talking about me, I don't think having several characters I play regular makes me less a player of any of them. '__'; My prophet isn't the alt - if she was, I wouldn't have quit the EE so she could get groups again.

an alt

If you're talking about me, I don't think having several characters I play regular makes me less a player of any of them. '__'; My prophet isn't the alt - if she was, I wouldn't have quit the EE so she could get groups again.



I read both of my posts and nowhere do I even see the term alt mentioned. I really wish people would stop attributing things to me I don't say. >.<

Edited to add this... ALL the time I was in Heartbreakers all the enemy would throw in my face that I was in an 'alt' clan. So, unless you are me. You can't throw alt at me. LOL been there, done that - it's soooooooooooooooooo old. Only I deserve to take exception to the term alt. LOLOL

PPS: The only other battle prophet I know on Lionna is SCUM. :(

And who is this directed at?

What is difference between active prophet and battleprophet btw?

my prophet is +wit +dex, i picked dex so she doesn't loose af, and she does'nt need much hp, i can scroll rez her if she dies anyway, no one cares.

I don't think I need to name names, but she drops items to junk up people's inventories in order to collect more drops herself.

And the quote is from Bun, not from you. I used quickreply, I apology for the confusion.

Nice posts LadyKay and Nya; glad to see even more high level prophet mains =) Though I've known Nya a while :P More Prophet/Hierophant mains please post; I'd like to read more from fellow people who enjoy the class =)

I don't think I need to name names, but she drops items to junk up people's inventories in order to collect more drops herself.

And the quote is from Bun, not from you. I used quickreply, I apology for the confusion.

I confess I thought that was directed at me after your reply seeming quoting me. Since I don't do that, I'm glad to know it wasn't me. ^^

TY for clarifying... I do really try hehe

Jean Luc Picard is so ****. :D

Although I have not been on Lionna in a good year+, I can vouch for LadyKay being a good battleprophet.

EURI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish to try your dual samshirs to see their matk (forget the fact I have my own set equipped...)

Ah, no one tries to scam me anymore. It's not fair. LOL

How have you been? Ah, I miss the good 'ole days. :)

TY for the kind words.... Nice to hear from you ^^

I don't know you, therefore it couldn't have been directed at you. ;) I didn't even know you were a prophet until you posted here.

I wouldn't presume anything like that of a total stranger. The person in question is really a case of 'I always thought people make this crap up in forums to make the playerbase seem bad'.

Oddly enough, Euri is still sitting there on Lionna w/ BW Robes and Dual Shamshirs...look never gets old.

The good ole days were fun. I'm doing ok, playing on Gustin these days. Trying hard to hit 75.

I don't know you, therefore it couldn't have been directed at you. ;) I didn't even know you were a prophet until you posted here.

I wouldn't presume anything like that of a total stranger. The person in question is really a case of 'I always thought people make this crap up in forums to make the playerbase seem bad'.

I'm the hero hierophant on Lionna.... ouch >.<

Oddly enough, Euri is still sitting there on Lionna w/ BW Robes and Dual Shamshirs...look never gets old.

The good ole days were fun. I'm doing ok, playing on Gustin these days. Trying hard to hit 75.

Come back sometime to say hi <3

LadyKay, you have to start spamming forums with emo posts about WC>Proph and then you will be wellknown here, Hero doesnt mean anything sadly.

I dont remember you Nya because ya spam emo posts, but thats maybe cuz im in the same boat.

However, I remember you from your screenshot hittin lvl80 since I dont know other lv80 buffpets.

And cuz I like your sig :)

LadyKay, you have to start spamming forums with emo posts about WC>Proph and then you will be wellknown here, Hero doesnt mean anything sadly.

Ppppft, no self respecting Prophet would every say WC > Prophet.

I go cry RL tears now at the suggestion.

(BTW, the other guy PLAYS my server. That's just wrong)

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