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[TheSquishy]

Wait to be healed.
Wait to be buffed.
Wait to be healed, dammit!
Do not run 3 screens away at 10% HP and magically expect to survive.
If your priest says they have no SP, THAT MEANS THEY HAVE NO SP!!!!
If a priest takes the time out to lex a monster, that means you need to go kill it.
If you don't run off like an idiot, you won't miss mag.
It is uncommon for priest to ride pecos or have endure.
Try to keep mobs off your priest. Contrary to popular belief priest have limited HP.
Bgems ain't free.
Pillar, corners and stairs are not good places to be if you want to be healed. No line of sight equals you dead, okay?

Sorry this is my rage...

[Raidius]

i understand maybe the sp thing, but usually have blues. dont wait till last second to buff or heal never had that issue myself as ab or priest, stopping for buffs slows killing rate. KE works as endure so....

but yeah there are lot of retards that run into mobs that they cant tank causing a big mess. if they take a healable amount of dmg go ahead rush all you want imo

[TheSquishy]

Reasonable people will stay close enough to you so that you can keeps heals/buffs up.
Reasonable people won't constantly do stupid stuff that makes you burn your emergency sp items out in the first 10 minutes.
Reasonable people understand that KE is generally not insta-cast, is not spammable and has a significant delay.

[Elinu]

(Classic)
Usually I rebuff every 3 minutes, as buffs are due every 3:45. (Bless/Agi) (Or is it 3:59? One or the other) Bless is instant cast no delay/nexttonodelay, then I do agi after. (Bless them, bless me, Agi them, agi me) Sometimes I agi myself later if my partner runs ahead, and when they stop for a second, I take that time to cast AGI if they're not in danger. I start working on Dex right after 9X INT and get it to base 30 (depending on bonuses, etc.). It doesn't go further than that on my regular priest-- this is so I can cast buffs without slowing down the party much and to prevent my partner from being stupid and me from being behind. I bless and agi while fighting monsters depending on the situation, or while were running. The wizard/whatever won't run too far ahead of me. Actually yeah, a lot of times I'm tossing off buffs while were running and searching for mobs.

Mag is cast depending on the class and mob. I try to recast mag 30 seconds before it's due. The second the wizard is done with a mob--- maybe after 3-4 mobs, mag goes off the SECOND the sg finishes all the monsters-- or like if there's something frozen and they're taking the time to JT, I set Mag off. That gives me time to finish my mag before they finish their JT and run ahead/too far ahead. Monks are rarely in danger at, no worries with timing the mag properly for the most part. Usually if I'm partying a monk, I wait till I see 2/3 monsters around and throw off mag at almost any given opportunity so they can entertain themself while I'm improving party play. Hunters-- pretty much the same thing for monk. It depends on the danger when I set mag off, but if I know we won't be in danger, I take the opportunity to throw one out.

Assumptio is cast after the wizard kills every single mob. On a high priest, I pump dex EARLY to a good amount.

I've had issues with lex as well depending on the class. Monks are more than thankful for it. Hunters don't usually DS the thing I lex.. likely they ran out of SP anyway, and I try to lex something depending on what the wizard is killing in the SG. (IE. Lava Golem, sometimes orc archer, etc.)

As for KE, iunno depends on the situation. I'll try to keep it up on the wizard running in front of me, on the hunter that's constantly countering TI while they're fighting.

I haven't really had too much of an issue with my partners leaving me behind. I had a few issues with wizards, but I generally try to cast buffs while they're fighting a mob/the second they're done with it and before they move. Just depends on the danger of the situation.

Iunno that's what I do.

I actually never carried emergency blues, although I should have o.O I haven't played this game in a while.

Without equips... lol.. just I guess people need to stop being stupid with mobs and don't mob the entire room. I guess as a priest if I were to think about mobbing, I could grab the entirety of the room, and run around in circles as the gearless no phen wiz is waiting to cast SG-- and while frozen, depending on the freeze time, I can use that time (depending) to cast some simple buffs-- maybe throw a KE on the wizard to make sure he/she gets the level 10 SG off since cast time sucks.

Also I remember I used suff like constantly-- not when they wizard was about to cast, but I just spammed it on him as I ran behind him like every..... 8 seconds? Doesn't slow down you from walking either technically, so why not?

Also if you get into a huge mob and your buddy decides to run away for another mob when he's at 10% health, he's stupid.

With equips...
On mobs I ended up tanking the entirety of, depending on where I leveled, my best friend was /q2 and to scroll up for whites pot spam/healing at the same time. Simple places like Clock Tower and magma, with equips, it wasn't too hard to tank a large portion of the map. Nameless... Safety wall cells in front of me, run into it, safety wall wizard, wizard casts, SG, spam safety wall on the wizard while potting massively to avoid dying from necromancers.

Blah blah... that's what I remember from playing priest. Sorry for the choppy paragraph.. I was just grabbing from my memories.. and I'm sleepy.

Also on high priests I always had emergency assumptio level 1.

Edited by Elinu, 11 July 2012 - 11:43 PM.

[BoingBoing]

The best priests have fwings hotkeyed.

[TheSquishy]

I just realized the problem....

A failure to realize that priest =/= pot.
A priest is there for more than to just heal you.

I party with pretty much everyone indiscriminately, but some people deserve to level alone till the end of days or server close.

[RubberDucky]

I think people need to realise that Priests don't have extremely fast reflexes and bring pots along as well... :|

[Axeon]

I thought everyone knew it was always the priests fault? Back in the day I would pull 10 mobs or so in bio3, then when I would die everyone in vent would blame the priest for not sacrificing themselves to keep me alive. I think a lot of that stuff stems from playful humor which is why you hear guilds say stuff like, "it was Quatre's fault for not killing them fast enough."

In all seriousness, just keep a mental note of who's good to play with and who's bad. Pug groups tend to be highly hit or miss, and it's better to just let said person die a couple times if they're acting stupid. That's what I did when I was on my priest, and I never had people acting dumb around me. Back when I played RO seriously I would NEVER party with someone outside of my core group of 3~12 people, because quite frankly most people on RO suck. Partying with people who you know are good helps eliminate these dumb party-member scenarios.

Good luck to you though. I like seeing priests who complain about other people acting dumb because from my experience it means they're pretty good players and are used to playing with smart people.

Edited by Axeon, 12 July 2012 - 01:32 AM.

[Aralyne]

I feel the same way when I play my FS priest and people rush off before I finish buffing/healing them, then they spam "heal!" or "rez!" or whatever from two screens away. Sad really, as I always thought that most of the stuff mentioned in the first post was common sense, but I guess it's not ~__~

Admittedly though, when it comes to dropping mobs onto priests, I don't do it when I'm in a random TI party with priests I don't know. But if I'm partying with my own guildies - in particular one of them who is a resident priest player from back in the days of Loki and actually gets a kick out of tanking huge mobs - I always drop mobs on them because I know they can take it XD

But yeaaah... I only do that to priests I know, and only when we're partying and chatting through vent at the same time, so I can warn them that I'm dropping a mob on them. It's pretty rude to do it - intentionally or otherwise - to players you don't know.

[sco0t]

I used to play as a priest, this pissed me off to no extent, even more in big parties when 1 or 2 don't want to wait for me to finish buffing and the rest follows them.

[Unifan]

ive played priests, and yes it pisses me the hell of when i party with stupid people, even they are on vent. they would yell BAPS PLZ YO BUFFZ when i dnt even know whos asking, and when i finally realise who it is, they not even on my screen, and expect me to fly accros their screen when i have other people to deal with. THIS IS pre renewal server by the way, not baby fed renewal mode when u have party buff where u can press 5 button. (party bless,agi, KE, mag, heal.). i would like to make a priest soon, but by the sound of the op there are people thats going to give priests a hella hard time partying.

[Delitus]

What this thread reminds me of:
http://www.howtoprie...c.php?f=4&t=452

[CeruleanGamer]

That's why I refuse to party with more than 1 person as a healer. xD Getting a QQ from 1 direction is tough enough but 8 different directions, HELL NO!

Edited by CeruleanGamer, 12 July 2012 - 03:17 AM.

[Awenhj]

I know how you feel... I have always been a priest, and always party with everyone who wants it... There are a very great amount of idiots, but usually talkin to them really nice, and explain how it will work better, really helps... Some friends tell me that they listen because i'm a girl and don't get pissed and scream like a crazy biatch XD but oh well...
Normally they listen and wait, but if they don't and keep on dying and do all wrong, well... bye bye

Edited by Awenhj, 12 July 2012 - 03:43 AM.

[FatherBob]

The worst is when you identify a line of sight issue, devise a plan to mitigate said issue, and the mother-_-ing party refuses to listen to you, especially when you're in a dire situation where you are barely getting by to begin with!

[ayako2]

MOTHER-FRAKKIN' WORD.

I hate when the killer (esp a squishy wiz) runs ahead leaving like 10 monsters on me that make it impossible to move at a reasonable speed while mobbing another 10 on themselves and then act surprised/pissed when I'm not there and they die. This is why I hate partying with anyone other than my trusted friends. Just had to leave a party with a rude player screaming for mag every 5 seconds (without ever waiting around for it... it's not insta-cast y'know, buddy) or to keep up (maybe if you'd kill the crap on me instead of ditching me I could.. seriously there's no need to mob half the dungeon...). It's probably my fault for partying with someone WhO tyYpEesS LikE DiSs but what's a FS to do when she's sick of heal bombing?

Edited by ayako2, 12 July 2012 - 04:43 AM.

[Niji]

see and this is exactly why i am a -_-ty priest, you run away oh well no buffs for you, you get too far away oops u dead buy me blue gems, you have to run where an obstruction is you have to die. end of story i don't stress myself over your dumb asses hence why you NEVER want to party my priest hahaha.

[Teffa]

I thought everyone knew it was always the priests fault? Back in the day I would pull 10 mobs or so in bio3, then when I would die everyone in vent would blame the priest for not sacrificing themselves to keep me alive. I think a lot of that stuff stems from playful humor which is why you hear guilds say stuff like, "it was Quatre's fault for not killing them fast enough."

In all seriousness, just keep a mental note of who's good to play with and who's bad. Pug groups tend to be highly hit or miss, and it's better to just let said person die a couple times if they're acting stupid. That's what I did when I was on my priest, and I never had people acting dumb around me. Back when I played RO seriously I would NEVER party with someone outside of my core group of 3~12 people, because quite frankly most people on RO suck. Partying with people who you know are good helps eliminate these dumb party-member scenarios.

Good luck to you though. I like seeing priests who complain about other people acting dumb because from my experience it means they're pretty good players and are used to playing with smart people.

I can't read this. Thank to your avatar. Just keeps..moving.. and moving...
Mustaches everywhere ...

But back to topic. I've been in parties where the GXs are screaming at me (only AB) from half across the map.
And cursing thanks to they died.
So, I was like: Screw this. I am making something else, I don't want to keep jerks alive.

But now I re-made my AB, and never heard any complains.
And I lover her!

Edited by Teffa, 12 July 2012 - 04:51 AM.

[KingOfBabylon]

i understand maybe the sp thing, but usually have blues. dont wait till last second to buff or heal never had that issue myself as ab or priest, stopping for buffs slows killing rate. KE works as endure so....

but yeah there are lot of retards that run into mobs that they cant tank causing a big mess. if they take a healable amount of dmg go ahead rush all you want imo

Tell me all about the mass amount of blue potions flowing through Classical RO

[kasshin]

I can't read this. Thank to your avatar. Just keeps..moving.. and moving...
Mustaches everywhere ...

But back to topic. I've been in parties where the GXs are screaming at me (only AB) from half across the map.
And cursing thanks to they died.
So, I was like: Screw this. I am making something else, I don't want to keep jerks alive.

But now I re-made my AB, and never heard any complains.
And I lover her!

Think they are mostly talking about classic RO in this thread, but the situations are similar for both pre-re / renewal. I haven't found many GXes with bad attitude lately due to the fact that they get discriminated pretty badly and they probably don't wanna piss people off or they won't be able to get into parties again.

[Teffa]

Think they are mostly talking about classic RO in this thread, but the situations are similar for both pre-re / renewal. I haven't found many GXes with bad attitude lately due to the fact that they get discriminated pretty badly and they probably don't wanna piss people off or they won't be able to get into parties again.

Forgot how everything is about Classic.
Guess I am stuck in the past

[Tomberry]

see and this is exactly why i am a -_-ty priest, you run away oh well no buffs for you, you get too far away oops u dead buy me blue gems, you have to run where an obstruction is you have to die. end of story i don't stress myself over your dumb asses hence why you NEVER want to party my priest hahaha.

Hehe, that or find a competent noobie and train them up. When you party almost exclusively with a priest on a squishy, you either learn fast or you get ditched and anyone with half a brain would realise that being a good player and doing right by their priest gets them where they wanna be That being said, whether or not you're the priest, it goes both ways, the priests have a job to do and will do it, but the other player has a job to do too, if they're not, then to hell with them, its a game, personally I play to destress, I don't need the extra stress from trying to carry idiots.

[Niji]

Hehe, that or find a competent noobie and train them up. When you party almost exclusively with a priest on a squishy, you either learn fast or you get ditched and anyone with half a brain would realise that being a good player and doing right by their priest gets them where they wanna be That being said, whether or not you're the priest, it goes both ways, the priests have a job to do and will do it, but the other player has a job to do too, if they're not, then to hell with them, its a game, personally I play to destress, I don't need the extra stress from trying to carry idiots.

exactly, this is why i party my kid cause if she ticks me off i can throw a pillow at her...

[Ramen19]

Weird how these kids in warpportal complain about priesting when they say the killer runs off, I've never had a problem cause I always catch up maybe you're just too slow. However, if you're partying a wizard, that wizard better know YOU'RE tanking, not him.