I need to ask is sacrament really needed? Unless Irowiki is wrong all it does is lower the fixed cast time, which usually is so low that level 5 sacrament really won't be noticable at all. I am debating on wasting all those points for a mostly worthless skill like sacrament, or using them to get Adoramus, something my AB would actually make use of. Its just the benefits of Sacrament seem so tiny that it'd really not make any diff. Now if it was cutting variable cast time by half at lv 5 that'd be a diffrent story, it might even make casters playable for me.
Now ME.. is there anyway I can get some cast time reduction? because the spell takes so long to cast with 95 int and 80 dex that I end up almost dying before it finally casts. Due to heal also deciding to glitch out and refuse to cast when I try to use it. Using orleans body so its not interuptable, would be even worse with a phen clip. Also where could I Ivl with ME/Judex as a 100 AB? I tried Niff but the exp there is kinda lackluster. I am 99 right now so no judgement set yet, but I am almost 100.
High Heal, Is higher than level 1 really needed? Looking at the heal amountsa to sp cost and cooldowns it seems casting 2 level ones is much more efficent in terms of amount of healing and sp costs (costs 50 less sp to cast 2 level 1's compared to 1 lv 5, also heals a total of 4x heal value, compared to lv 5's 3.2)
How good is Judex eactly? I am debating on getting it first with my first 5 job skill points just so that I have something I can kill non-undead/demon's with. Would this be a smart move? Planning on getting the Judgement set which boosts Judex damage if I remember right by 50% on the end of the calculation.
Thanks all.
Uh, okay. So sacrament isn't something you need to use before you cast each skill, the way suffragium is. It lasts for a fixed period of time for all the skills you use until it wears off, which instantly makes it more useful than suff, IMO. When you reach 150 and you're in WoE or doing MVPs and stuff, the people that are casting are going to have their variable cast time reduced by a LOT most likely. So say somebody has their variable cast time reduced by 80%. So you now have like, 40% of the original cast time left, and half of that is fixed. So now you'll drop it to 30% for 2 and a half minutes because of Sacrament. Also, some skills don't have much variable cast time at all. Things like Acid Bomb, and dragons breath, and suicidal destruction and then there are skills like energy coat and sacrifice whose ENTIRE cast time is fixed. Not to mention it allows you cast your own buffs faster, since you can use the skill on yourself, unlike suff. That might sound silly, but it's definitely noticeable on my own FS AB, the decrease in time it takes me to buff an entire party.
There are many things you can use to reduce ME cast time, from % cast time reduction gears, to your stats themselves. My Adoramus/ME AB has a cast time of 1 second on ME. (100% reduction of variable cast time with full buffs). I have 120 int/dex, and with all my buffs, I have over 180 of each stat. Conveniently enough, those stats which reduce my cast time, also greatly improve the damage of the skill
And I was still able to get 80 vit, so I'm not too squishy either. But to survive the cast time at low levels, you'll need to get gears to reduce it, and stand in Safety Wall while you cast (taking no damage for the first 12 hits while casting makes a world of difference, trust me)
The cooldown is the same for all levels of high heal now. They probably haven't updated the wiki, but every level of high heal has the 3 second cooldown. Using a Light of Cure ring with the "Cure lv. 1" enchantment makes the cooldown 1 second. (this is an accessory that you can obtain from Mora) The difference in the amount you can heal is also pretty amazing. My level 1 High heal does about 6K, where my level 5 can do almost 12k heals. And because of that accessory, I can use high heal almost as fast as normal heal.
Judex is a powered up, tiny AOE version of holy light. It has very little damage, and you will probably never use it in any serious kind of leveling, even against undead/demon monsters. It is fun to mob up like, 70 monsters in payon 3 and murder them all with one judex, however.
I will point out now, that because of the number of points to get sacrament, I never did get it on my Adoramus/ME AB. To get it higher than level 1, I would have had to get level 1 high heal instead of level 5. I took the silentium skill tree, and maxed that skill. Not only is silentium useful in WoE once you get to 150 (you can silence almost anybody in the screen that isn't 150) it is amazing in the later stages of leveling an ME priest. The most dangerous part of mobbing in nameless island level 2 is the Sonic Blow from Zombie Slaughters, but with silentium, you can silence them all to prevent them from using it, and mob twice as many monsters before casting ME, because you don't have to worry that 5 of them are going to cast Sonic Blow at the same time and murder you.
Edited by Kuropi, 16 September 2012 - 01:51 PM.
, I do that, haha. B-but it was the Rangers who asked me first! Nah, jk. That's handy to know, though!
