MapleStory Priest Guide v1.10 (Updated)

Being a Priest is so much fun and so much easy to train. If you love leeching, join a party of attackers. If you love soloing, just heal undead monsters all the way. Or, if you like the best of both worlds, go ahead and have lots of fun.


The Priest
Advantages: The Priest is a party favourite, has lots of supportive skills to aid him/herself as well as the party and shines the most when he/she advances to a Bishop.

Disadvantages: The Priest is described as a leecher by many.


Skills of the Priest

Elemental Resistance

This passive skill when maxed enables additional magic defence of up to 50% against elemental

attacks be they fire, poison, ice, lightning or dark magic.

Should this skill be maxed? Definitely yes.

Dispel

This supportive skill when maxed has a 100% success rate of dispelling status effects such as Curse, Seal, Poison, Weaken, Weapon Defence Up and Magic Defence Up casted by monsters or bosses.

However, this skill has its limitations. It is unable to dispel Super Weapon Defence Up, Super Magic Defence Up, Zombify, Seduce, Confusion, Weapon Attack Reflection and Magic Attack Reflection.

Should this skill be maxed? Definitely yes.

Mystic Door

This supportive skill opens a "door" where you and your party members can use it to return to the nearest town and come back to your current place again and again until the skill wears off.

Note: This skill cannot be used at boss maps, event maps and mini dungeons.

Should this skill be maxed? Not necessarily so.

Holy Symbol

This is the most favourite skill of the Priest both for him/herself and his/her party. When maxed, the party (with a minimum of 2 members) gains an additional 50% experience. If this skill is used for the Priest alone, he/she gains an additional 10% experience.

Note: This skill does not apply to quest experience rewards.

Should this skill be maxed? Definitely yes.

Shining Ray

This offensive skill enables the Priest to finally be able to attack several monsters (up to a maximum of 6) be they undead or non-undead as compared to Heal. It does an additional 50% damage on holy weak monsters but does relatively low damage on normal monsters.

Should this skill be maxed? Yes.

Summon Dragon

This offensive skill summons a small dragon that attacks any random monster once every few seconds. This dragon does neutral damage instead of holy damage. Each cast will require 1 summoning rock.

Note: This skill should be capped at level 15 to meet the requirement for Bahamut when the Priest has advanced on to a Bishop.

Should this skill be maxed? Definitely no.

Doom

This supportive/offensive skill when maxed has a 90% chance of turning 6 monsters into blue snails for a limited amount of time. The damage dealt by these snails is 10% of their original damage.

Each cast will use up a magic rock.

Should this skill be maxed? Definitely no.

(Skill build is now diversified, thanks to readers' comments and feedback.)
Skill Build For Independent Priests

Level 70: 1 Dispel (1)
Level 71: 2 Dispel (3) , 1 Mystic Door (1)
Level 72: 1 Shining Ray (1) , 1 Holy Symbol (1), 1 Elemental Resistance (1)
Level 73: 3 Holy Symbol (4)
Level 74: 3 Holy Symbol (7)
Level 75: 3 Holy Symbol (10)
Level 76: 3 Holy Symbol (13)
Level 77: 3 Holy Symbol (16)
Level 78: 3 Holy Symbol (19)
Level 79: 3 Holy Symbol (22)
Level 80: 3 Holy Symbol (25)
Level 81: 3 Holy Symbol (28)
Level 82: 2 Holy Symbol (30), 1 Shining Ray (2)
Level 83: 3 Shining Ray (5)
Level 84: 3 Shining Ray (8)
Level 85: 3 Shining Ray (11)
Level 86: 3 Shining Ray (14)
Level 87: 3 Shining Ray (17)
Level 88: 3 Shining Ray (20)
Level 89: 3 Shining Ray (23)
Level 90: 3 Shining Ray (26)
Level 91: 3 Shining Ray (29)
Level 92: 1 Shining Ray (30), 2 Elemental Resistance (3)
Level 93: 3 Elemental Resistance (6)
Level 94: 3 Elemental Resistance (9)
Level 95: 1 Elemental Resistance (10), 2 Summon Dragon (2)
Level 96: 3 Summon Dragon (5)
Level 97: 3 Summon Dragon (8)
Level 98: 3 Summon Dragon (11)
Level 99: 3 Summon Dragon (14)
Level 100: 1 Summon Dragon (15, Capped), 2 Mystic Door (3)
Level 101: 3 Mystic Door (6)
Level 102: 3 Mystic Door (9)
Level 103: 1 Mystic Door (10), 2 Elemental Resistance (12)
Level 104: 3 Elemental Resistance (15)
Level 105: 3 Elemental Resistance (18)
Level 106: 2 Elemental Resistance (20), 1 Dispel (4)
Level 107: 3 Dispel (7)
Level 108: 3 Dispel (10)
Level 109: 3 Dispel (13)
Level 110: 3 Dispel (16)
Level 111: 3 Dispel (19)
Level 112: 1 Dispel (20),2 Doom (2)
Level 113: 3 Doom (5)
Level 114: 3 Doom (8)
Level 115: 2 Doom (10),2 Mystic Door (12)
Level 116: 3 Mystic Door (15)
Level 117: 3 Free SP
Level 118: 3 Free SP
Level 119: 3 Free SP
Level 120: 3 Free SP

Skill Build For Community Priests
Level 70: 1 Dispel (1)
Level 71: 2 Dispel (3), 1 Mystic Door (1)
Level 72: 2 Holy Symbol (2), 1 Mystic Door (2)
Level 73: 2 Holy Symbol (4), 1 Mystic Door (3)
Level 74: 2 Holy Symbol (6), 1 Mystic Door (4)
Level 75: 2 Holy Symbol (8), 1 Mystic Door (5)
Level 76: 2 Holy Symbol (10), 1 Mystic Door (6)
Level 77: 2 Holy Symbol (12), 1 Mystic Door (7)
Level 78: 2 Holy Symbol (14), 1 Mystic Door (8)
Level 79: 2 Holy Symbol (16), 1 Mystic Door (9)
Level 80: 2 Holy Symbol (18), 1 Mystic Door (10)
Level 81: 3 Holy Symbol (21)
Level 82: 3 Holy Symbol (24)
Level 83: 3 Holy Symbol (27)
Level 84: 3 Holy Symbol (30)
Level 85: 2 Shining Ray (2), 1 Elemental Resistance (2)
Level 86: 2 Shining Ray (4), 1 Elemental Resistance (3)
Level 87: 2 Shining Ray (6), 1 Elemental Resistance (4)
Level 88: 2 Shining Ray (8), 1 Elemental Resistance (5)
Level 89: 2 Shining Ray (10), 1 Elemental Resistance (6)
Level 90: 2 Shining Ray (12), 1 Elemental Resistance (7)
Level 91: 2 Shining Ray (14), 1 Elemental Resistance (8)
Level 92: 2 Shining Ray (16), 1 Elemental Resistance (9)
Level 93: 2 Shining Ray (18), 1 Elemental Resistance (10)
Level 94: 3 Shining Ray (21)
Level 95: 3 Shining Ray (24)
Level 96: 3 Shining Ray (27)
Level 97: 3 Shining Ray (30)
Level 98: 3 Dispel (6)
Level 99: 3 Dispel (9)
Level 100: 3 Dispel (12)
Level 101: 3 Dispel (15)
Level 102: 3 Dispel (18)
Level 103: 2 Dispel (20), 1 Elemental Resistance (11)
Level 104: 3 Elemental Resistance (14)
Level 105: 3 Elemental Resistance (17)
Level 106: 3 Elemental Resistance (20)
Level 107: 3 Mystic Door (13)
Level 108: 2 Mystic Door (15), 1 Summon Dragon (1)
Level 109: 3 Summon Dragon (4)
Level 110: 3 Summon Dragon (7)
Level 111: 3 Summon Dragon (10)
Level 112: 3 Summon Dragon (13)
Level 113: 2 Summon Dragon (15, Capped), 2 Doom (2)
Level 114: 3 Doom (5)
Level 115: 3 Doom (8)
Level 116: 2 Doom (10), 2 Free SP
Level 117: 3 Free SP
Level 118: 3 Free SP
Level 119: 3 Free SP
Level 120: 3 Free SP

Author: Moo