Heretic Bible

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Copyright 2010 Adeline Gan (aka Symphy), Justin Witol (aka DarkSeraphim), and Simon Bgelund (aka Zeras).All Rights Reserved.

Heretic - In-depth info

Adeline Gan (aka Symphy)

Justin Witol (aka DarkSeraphim)

Simon Bgelund (aka Zeras)

Last Updated: May 1, 2010


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To make use of the Ctr+F feature you can search for the text next to each listing in the ToC.

Table of Contents:

Copyright (COPY1)o Understanding My Rights (COPY2)

About the Authors (AA1)o ShackelBerry/Zeras (AA2)o Alenael/DarkSeraphim (AA3)o Rurua/Symphy (AA4)

Class Information (CBI1)o Background (CBI2)o Description (CBI3)

Stat Discussion (SD1)o Stat Distribution (SD2)o Elemental Stats (SD3)o Status Stats (SD4)

Builds (BUL1) Skills (SK1)

o Holy Verdict (Sk2)o Death returns (SK3)o Soul Siphon (SK4)o Heal (SK5)o Exorcism (SK6)o Ode of Doom (Sk7)o Fortification (SK8)o Resistance (SK9)o Soul Link (10)o Angel Barrier (11)o Silence (SK12)o Chain of Life (SK13)o Bless (SK14)o Dark Scream (SK15)o Twin Torrent (SK16)o Spirit Fortify (SK17)o Absolution (SK18)o Angels Discipline (SK19)

Gear Discussion (GRD1)o Gear Enchantment Bonuses (GD2)o Enchantment Scrolls (GD3)o Gear Building (GB1)

Builds For PvP Heretic (GB2)


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Builds For PvE Heretic (GB3)o Gems (GD4)

Gem Embedding Info (GE1) Offensive PvP Setup (GE2) Supportive PvP Setup (GE3) Offensive PvE Setup (GE4) Supportive PvE Setup (GE5)

Pet Discussion (PD1)o Support Pet (PD2)o DPS Pet (PD3)

Craft Discussion (CD1)o Research (CD2)o Alchemy (CD3)o Refining (CD4)

PvE Discussion (PvED1)o Solo (PvED2)o In the Team (PvED3)o Instances (PvED4)o Skill Ranking Priority (PvED5)

PvP Discussion (PvPD1)o Skill Ranking Priority (PvPD2)o PvP Skill Breakdown (PvPD3)

Special Thanks (SPT) Conclusion (CON)


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About the Authors (AA1)

ShackelBerry/Zeras: Orange (AA2)

Hei my name is Shackelberry here on the forums. I play a 6x Heretic mostly based on the SPRstat. Me and the other authors decided to create this In-Depth info about the class heretic cause the

devs were looking for guides for the class and the guides currently on the forum doesnt really sum up to

being a guide in my opinion. This in-depth info will be a work of the community meaning that everyone

interested can get access to it and edit in it. So Ill be looking forward to having people edit this

guide/compilation of info and drop it in the dropbox created for this, so I can go through it and edit the

original post which will be on the forums.

Alenael/DarkSeraphim: Light Blue AA3)

Forum name is Alenael but I am more commonly known by my Internet persona DarkSeraphim

(Yes I use it everywhere I go). I am helping in conjunction with the other authors to write a very detailed

and well documented class guide based on the class known as a Heretic within the game Battle of the

Immortals (Referred to as BoI from here on). My personal build revolves around the use of Intellect for

Crit and Spirit for my Mana and Mana Regen. I shoot for different percentages of Crit at different levels

and dump the rest of my points into Spirit. My build will be discussed more in our Builds section. If you

require any assistance feel free to whisper me and I will be glad to help you (/P DarkSeraphim HELP!!!!).

Rurua/Symphy: Purple (AA4)

My name is Rurua in the forums, and I hope you feel more knowledgeable after reading this

humble guide we presented to you. Personally, I loved being healers and supporters in any MMO Itouched on. They are likely one of the most needed roles but usually require a lot of devotion. Despite

the need of good supports in the instances as of BoI, they lack the ability to level quickly by soloing

unless you have good gear and a good build to follow on. Therefore, we bring you this guide, with

varieties of builds that you might follow or change as you require; guiding you to path which we think it

is recommended. Even those who are experienced should also take a look at some advanced factors in

playing a Heretic, since there might be factors you did not know of. Ill stop now, and we hope this guide

will be helpful to you.


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Class Information (CI1)

Background (CI2)Heretics come from a long line of religious fanatics. Once holy men, have now melded dark

magic with light magic. Capable of dealing medium levels of magic damage, Heretics also have the

ability to use magic defensively. Many of their abilities are capable of buffing or healing the caster.

Heretics are a key component to any group encounter, whether it be against monsters or other players.

Description (CI3)Heretic Zealous spell casters that control life and death itself. Heretics protect and mend the

wounds of allies with light and corrupt enemies with shadow. Heretics are invaluable to any group,

whether they stand against ancient evils or opposing factions. The heretic also remains a powerful single

force with excellent durability and destructive power.

More Specific Information (CI4)Heretics are a class that requires high stats to actually see any real difference in our ability to do

damage or to heal. Despite of that, Heretics are probably one of the best soloing classes easily. As a

heretic, you can: heal yourself and teammates, buff yourself and teammates, you have the second

highest defense in the game, and still de descent amounts of damage when played correctly. For

example, one of our main aspects when dealing damage is to not interrupt our auto attack which can

add some enjoyment when playing by timing the use of spells to maximize DPS.

However, when your overall attributes appear low you might feel like you are a leech because yougenerally do nothing but heal and auto attack (Which is a lot of the times what we do). But dont fret

because being a good support member is a large part of being a Heretic. Do the job well and youre

bound to get invited back by the members of that group!

In all, if you are willing to sacrifice your mp to help your teammates, this class is for you! Being a support

does have its own advantages and disadvantages when looking for a party, but if you do really like

support classes or feel devoted to help others, you can read on to know more about it!

And dont forget, having good pets to sync together with your character will help more than you have

ever imagined.


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Stat Discussion (SD1)As mentioned before Heretics stats dont really seem to affect us very much. Instead most of

our stats come from gear and its when we are wearing good (Or correct) gear that we notice how good

of a class we can be.

Below is some research done by a player named Iartnoob. Basically what these numbers show are the

different effects of having a Full Spirit, Full Intellect, or Full Vitality build at the same level with the same

gear. You can see at the bottom the small differences in damage/healing done when changing between

these three different specs and how neither of them really stick out as being that much better than the

others in any way.

Stats FullSP FullInt FullVit

pAttack 270-488 270-488 270-488

mAttack 809 906 809

Crit 3% 5% 3%

Accu 556 556 556

Eva 284 284 284HP Reg 3 3 3

MP Reg 16 11 11

PDef 277 277 277

MDef 251 251 251

LightAttack 105 105 105

DarkAttack 0 0 0

HP 10530 10530 12002

MP 18388 15913 15913

Vit 205 205 297

Spr 307 208 208

Str 55 55 55

Int 106 198 106

Dex 41 41 41

* What surprised me was how +92 Vit didn't add more HP Reg to the FullVit

build.

**Spells like Bless and Exorcism were unaffected by the stat changes

Heal 1537 1408 1408

Against lvl35 Elite Terracotta Warriors

RegAttack 700-850 800-950 700-850

HolyVer 1100-1300 1200-1400 1100-1300

SoulSip 454 + 450 444 + 450 444 + 450


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Stat Distribution (SD2)Vitality Vitality will give us more Health.

1 Vitality point equals 20 of Health over all 1 Vitality point equals # of HP Regen

Spirit Spirit gives Mana Regen and more total Mana over all.

1 Spirit point equals 15 Mana overall 1 Spirit point equals # Mana Regen

Strength Strength raises our Physical Attack

1 Strength point equals 1 of Physical Attack 1 Strength point equals 1 Accuracy

Intelligence Intelligence will grant us more Critical rating and more Magical Attack.

It takes 35-45 Intelligence points to give us 1% to Critical (Need to confirm exact numbers) 1 Intelligence points give us 1 Magical Attack

Dexterity Dexterity raises our Evasion rating and increases our Accuracy rating.

1 Dexterity point gives us # Evasion rating 1 Dexterity point gives us 1 Accuracy rating 1 Dexterity point gives us # Critstrike Rate

Note: If marked with a # it means the number is currently unknown. Help by submitted its actual

number if you know it.

Elemental Stats (SD3)

You may have seen that some of our skills use light/dark attack as amplifiers. At level 1 we have no

points in either light or dark stats. Light and Dark stats can only be obtained through gems and gear.

Hitting level 40 we gain a passive skill that increases our Light and Dark defenses called Resistance.

Light Attack Improves the damage of a lot of your spells and heals.

Light Defense Useful or facing other Heretics and some bosses.

Dark Attack Improves the damage of a lot of your spells and the amount healed when using certain

spells.

Dark Defense Useful or facing other Heretics and some bosses.

There are Fire and Ice Attack as well but they are useless for us but the resistance for them can be useful

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Status Stats (SD4)

Silence Resistance Helps fight against those who can cast silence on you.

Sleep Resistance helps fight against those who can cast sleep on you.

Freeze Resistance Helps fight against those who can freeze you.

Stun resistance Helps fight against those who can stun you.

Order of importance is: Stun -> Silence -> Sleep -> Freeze

I based this list off what I have seen in PvP so far. Generally I see myself being stunned or Silenced and

have yet to see a Sleep or Freeze on myself. These are all important stats however and we have hardly

scratched the surface of the game so we are unsure on how important each will be in PvE and PvP

content. This information needs to be updated but its really hard to determine what is and isnt that

important just yet so we need some discussions within the forum about it all before we go off making

random decisions about the actual importance.

Builds (BUL1)While different builds may exist, the stat points that your characters earn themselves are really

useless (Almost). With 40 points to spend (Equivalent to leveling from 20-40) you only get 600 Mana

from full Spirit and about 1.2% to Crit if you are pure Intellect. From these examples your skill attributes

you receive from leveling up generally wont give a whole lot when you began getting Soul Gear and

gemming it all. Since your gear is what is important we are only going to discuss builds that revolve

around going full points into a single attribute and the ups and downs of that choice and what bonuses

you get from it. The below stats are considering you reach level 100 with all points spent into a single

stat.

Full Vitality 2400 HP and some HP Regen

Cons:o HP Regen is useless for us since we can heal

Pros:o

HP bonus is not great but you could do much worse with a stat


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Full Spirit 4000 MP and some Mana Regen

Cons:o Mana Regen is currently bugged making it useless

Pros:o The MP gained isnt too bad but at higher levels that isnt even going to put a dent in

how much you have

o Also grants us more healing done which equals to about 200-250 points of healingdifference at level 100

Full Strength 160 Physical Attack and 160 Accuracy (If you get 1 point each attribute spent)

Cons:o Everything! This is a horrible idea nothing we have relies on Physical Attack

Pros:o Some Accuracy so we wont miss as often, yea thats about all

Full Intellect 160 Magic Attack and about 5% Crit Rating

Cons:o The Magic Attack isnt a whole lot considering, but can still useful at lower levels

Pros:o The Crit from this is pretty nice bonus

Full Dexterity 160 Accuracy (If you get 1 point each attribute spent), some Critstrike rating, and

Evasion

Cons:o Low amounts of Evasion to really make a difference, according to some Slayers who

went full Dexterity they cannot notice any difference in the amount of attacks they

dodge so why should we?

Pros:o The Crit from this appears to be a bit more than a Full Intellect build however that is all

this spec has going for it

o Some Accuracy so we wont miss as oftenNote: This section is still being improved please feel to contribute whatever information on the subject

of builds you wish to us so we can improve this section and others.


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Skills (SK1)

Holy VeCasts light upon the enemy's dark h

Magic damage plus x amount of Bo

Holy

Verdict

Exp.

Required

Mo

Req

1 0

2 3.500

3 5.000

4 9.000

5 16.000

6 34.0007 70.000

8 160.000

9 660.000

10 1.150.000

Comments: This is the strongest

spell starts off slow but with hig

of respect. I suggest only rankin

Do not waste time on this howe

Magic attack its damage suffers

Death RRip a spiritual rift in the area aroun

affected targets Attack Rate by x%

DeathReturn

ExpRequired

MoReq

1 0

2 3.500

3 8.500

4 16.000

5 34.000

hy), Justin Witol (aka DarkSeraphim), and Simon Bgelund

dict (SK2)eart, dealing magic damage and bonus light damag

nus Light Damage.

ey

ired

MP Cost Magic

Damage

Bonus lig

Damage

0 58 84%

1.365 75 88%

1.783 97 92%

2.772 126 96%

4.267 163 100%

7.511 211 104%12.910 242 108% 1

24.000 278 112% 1

69.467 319 116% 1

05.352 366 120% 1

spell you have in terms of large damage from o

crit, magic attack, and upgrades it will becom

it up to about rank 6 or so until you reach hig

er if you do not have the gear ready because

a lot.

turn (SK3)you, dealing massive damage to enemies around

for 5 seconds.

eyired

XP Cost AttackRate

Reduction

Duration

0 1000 20% 5 secon

1.365 1000 25% 5 secon

2.655 1000 30% 5 secon

4.267 1000 35% 5 secon

7.511 1000 40% 5 secon

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6 70.000

7 160.000

8 660.000

9 1.150.000

10 3.400.000

Comments: Try and upgrade this

damage you can do every now a

useless and do almost no damag

possible.

Soul SipDrains the life of the target enemy

Wound that corrupts its body from

10 seconds. Increasing your Dark d

Soul

Siphon

Exp

Required

Mo

Req

1 0

2 8.500

3 10.000

4 18.000

5 32.0006 70.000

7 160.000

8 330.000

9 660.000

10 1.850.000

Comments: Dont worry too mu

a nice effect so upgrade it when

it has become low enough. Durithat you get as it does free dam

your own health.


12.910 1000 45% 5 secon

24.000 1000 50% 5 secon

69.467 1000 55% 5 secon

05.352 1000 60% 5 secon

37.536 1000 65% 5 secon

whenever possible because it is a large amoun

nd then. If you fail to upgrade this too often it

e at all. Try to shoot for at least one rank every

hon (SK4)nd recover HP. You deal x amount of HP Drained a

within, dealing x amount of Damage(Dark & Spirit)

mage and Spirit will improve the life-stealing effec

ey

ired

MP Cost HP Drained Damage

(Dark &

0 132 150 12.5/s

2.655 164 200 19/s

3.000 208 250 25.5/s

4.662 252 300 32/s

7.177 320 350 38.5/s12.910 400 400 45/s

24.000 492 450 51.5/s

41.305 600 500 58/s

69.467 708 550 64.5/s

50.487 960 600 71/s

h about upgrading this too often. It does nice

ver you have extra EXP/Coins or whenever yo

g boss fights you should cast this on the boss age and will heal you meaning you need to pay

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ds

ds

ds

ds

t of free

ill become

10 levels if

nd then leave a

every second for

.

prit)

Duration

cond 10 second

cond 10 second

cond 10 second

cond 10 second

cond 10 secondcond 10 second

cond 10 second

cond 10 second

cond 10 second

cond 10 second

amage and has

feel the cost of

t any chanceless attention to


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Heal (SHeals a friendly nearby target with

x% of your Light Damage and Spirit.

Heal Exp

Required

Mo

Req

1 0

2 8.500

3 10.000

4 18.000

5 32.000

6 70.000

7 160.000

8 330.0009 660.000

10 1.850.000

Comments: This skill is one of th

other classes. This spell makes u

spell will make you very well lov

difference in completing an obst

this at least every 10 levels and

ExorcisDeals x amount of Dark Damage to

amount of Bleed Damage every 3 s

amount of Dark Damage dealt. The

Exorcism Exp

Required

Mo

Req

1 0

2 38.000

3 70.000

4 100.000

5 160.000

6 330.000

7 420.000


5)sacred light, recovering x amount of HP plus bonus

ey

ired

MP Cost HP

Restored

Light and

to HP reg

0 108 296

2.655 132 392

3.000 161 488

4.662 196 584

7.177 240 680

12.910 262 776

24.000 320 872

41.305 391 96869.467 476 1064

50.487 581 1160

e Heretics main spells that make them stand ou

s useful in a group while doing events, dungeon

d (Or hated for the lack of using it) and can ea

acle within the game. Like your XP skill you sh

ou should take this skill over another should y

(SK6)the target and also causes the targets wounds to f

conds for 30 seconds. The caster will heal HP prop

higher your Dark Damage is the better healing effe

ey

uired

MP Cost Dark

Damage

Bleed

Damage

0 224 50 30/3se

8.165 312 80 40/3se

16.870 412 110 50/3se

24.000 516 140 60/3se

41.305 560 170 70/3se

49.494 608 200 80/3se

105.352 656 230 90/3se

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healing equal to

Spirit converted

eneration

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

110%

120%

130%140%

150%

t among the

s, or PvP. This

ily make the

uld upgrade

u have chooses.

ster, dealing x

rtional to the

t it will have.

Bleed

Duration

ond 30

ond 30

ond 30

ond 30

ond 30

ond 30

ond 30


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8 1.115.000

9 1.850.000

10 3.400.000

Comments: Like Soul Siphon thisEXP/Coins or when the cost of it

on bosses any chance you get as

Ode of DStrikes out at surrounding targets d

equal to x% as damage from your S

Ode of

Doom

Exp

Required

Money

Require

1 0

2 38.000 8.1

3 70.000 12.9

4 100.000 16.8

5 160.000 24.0

6 330.000 41.3

7 420.000 49.4

8 1.150.000 105.39 1.850.000 150.4

10 3.400.000 237.5

Comments: The only AoE (Other

damage so try and upgrade it w

(Leave it to the other classes to

when you are able to deal dama

you want to rank up at least one


150.487 708 260 100/3se

237.536 760 290 110/3se

832 320 120/3se

spell should be upgraded only when you haveseems so small you wont notice. This spell sho

it is free heals for you and damage on the boss

oom (SK7)ealing x amount of Magic Damage and Additional D

pirit. Also paralyzes affected targets for 2 seconds.

MP Cost Magic

Damage

Additional

Damage

Spirit

Dam

0 173 100% 80

5 199 100% 110

0 228 100% 140

0 260 100% 170

0 295 100% 200

5 334 100% 230

4 376 100% 260

2 420 100% 2907 463 100% 320

6 509 100% 350

than our XP Skill) that we get for a while. It do

enever possible but chances are leaving it at 1

PS). However some dungeons and events reall

ge so you may feel that ranking this spell up is

damaging spell I suggest this one.

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ond 30

ond 30

ond 30

the extrauld also be cast

.

amage equal to

ge

Paralysis

Duration

50% 2 seconds

60% 2 seconds

70% 2 seconds

80% 2 seconds

90% 2 seconds

100% 2 seconds

110% 2 seconds

120% 2 seconds130% 2 seconds

140% 2 seconds

s some descent

will be just fine

y speed up

ery useful. If


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FortificIncrease the Vitality of all non-ene

minutes.

Fortification Exp Required

1 0

2 38.000

3 70.000

4 100.000

5 160.000

6 330.000

7 420.000

8 1.150.000

9 1.850.000

10 3.400.000

Comments: Great spell should r

upgrade this or Soul Link, pick S

ResistaIncreases Physical Defense by x am

Resistance Exp Required

1 0

2 70.000

3 90.000

4 160.000

5 330.000

6 660.0007 1.150.000

8 1.850.000

9 3.400.000

10 6.200.000


tion (SK8)y targets within the skills radius by x amount of Vi

Money

Required

MP Cost Vitality

Increase

0 230

8.165 258

12.910 286

16.870 314

24.000 342

41.305 370

49.494 398

105.352 426

150.487 454

237.536 482 1

nk this up as often as possible. When determin

ul Link it is simply a better spell in terms of use

ce (SK9)unt as well as Light and Dark Resistances by x%.

Money

Required

Defense

Increase

Light & Dark

Increase

0 20

12.910 30

15.588 40

24.000 50

41.305 60

69.467 70105.352 80

150.487 90

237.536 100

372.747 110

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tality for 15

Duration

2 15 min

7 15 min

3 15 min

1 15 min

0 15 min

9 15 min

0 15 min

1 15 min

5 15 min

0 15 min

ing if you should

.

Resistance

2%

3%

4%

5%

6%

7%8%

9%

10%

11%


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Comments: A very useful spell, h

70+ range. Other classes dont s

rank 1 until late into the game.

Soul LinIncreases the Physical and Magic A

minutes (tooltip explains 20 but in

Soul link Exp required

1 0

2 70.000

3 90.000

4 160.000

5 330.000

6 660.000

7 1.150.000

8 1.850.000

9 3.400.000

10 6.200.000

Comments: Great spell you shou

damaging spells. Only spells that

Try to upgrade it at least one ra

see fit.

Angel BSummons a magic shield that prote

seconds.

Angels

Barrier

Exp

Required

Mo

Req

1 0

2 70.000

3 90.000

4 160.000

5 330.000


owever, do not waste time ranking this up unti

art to hurt you in PvP for a long time so its fin

k (SK10)tack of up to 12 surrounding non-enemy targets by

eality it is 10).

Money

required

MP cost Melee & Ma

attack increa

0 228

12.910 285

15.588 351

24.000 419

41.305 500

69.467 580

105.352 690

150.487 800

237.536 935

372.747 1.100

ld focus on ranking this up over your other buf

should have more focus then this one is your

k every 15 levels or so until 80+ then finish lev

rrier (SK11)cts the target from the next x amount of attacks for

ey

ired

MP Cost Invulnerabl

e For

Duratio

0 264 2 attacks 10 se

12.910 369 2 attacks 11 se

15.588 474 2 attacks 12 se

24.000 579 3 attacks 13 se

41.305 625 3 attacks 14 se

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l at least the

keeping this at

x% for 20

ic

se

Duration

1% 10 min

2% 10 min

3% 10 min

4% 10 min

5% 10 min

6% 10 min

7% 10 min

8% 10 min

9% 10 min

10% 10 min

s and even

eal and Bless.

ling it as you

x amount of

Skill

Cooldown

onds 75 seconds

onds 72 seconds

onds 69 seconds

onds 66 seconds

onds 63 seconds


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6 660.000

7 1.150.000

8 1.850.000

9 3.400.000

10 6.200.000

Comments: Great spell as well s

skills. It is a bit expensive but we

Second Cooldown).

Additional comments: PvE Usag

One of the many usage is to use

runs, at the 2nd

boss. You would

heal your teammates who had l

teammates if they have lower h

before those Monkeys explode,

high damage attacks. But howev

take note.

SilenceSilences the target making it unabl

Silence Exp Require

1

2 1

3 1

4 2

5 4

6 7

7 1.2

8 2.2

9 4.1

10 6.5


69.467 675 3 attacks 15 se

05.352 729 4 attacks 16 se

50.487 787 4 attacks 17 se

37.536 849 4 attacks 18 se

72.747 916 5 attacks 19 se

ould be put under your buffs in terms of when

ll worth it when you reach rank 7+ (Blocks 4 att

: Foremost, I shall clarify this: The Attacks m

it on yourself before the bombs explodes durin

actually cancel off the damage of the bombs, al

st health due to the bombs. You could shield t

alth too. Another usage would be the final bos

ou could do it too. A great skill if you used it a

er, it does not work on DoT [Damage over Tim

SK12)to use any Skills for x amount of Seconds.

d Money Required MP Cost

0 0 406

6.666 17.706 434

0.000 19.342 463

0.000 30.474 493

0.000 49.494 525

6.666 77.727 558

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10 21.000.000

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1 0 0 1.662 7%

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8 14.400.000 701.282 2.589 21%

9 21.000.000 930.648 2.724 23%

10 29.000.000 1.185.549 2.859 25%

Comments: Hard to determine how effective this will be will update when we know more.

Gear Discussion (GRD1)Gears often make great differences in a character in most MMORPGs, and it makes much morein BoI. Getting ready different sets of gears for different purposes would make you a better Heretic,

although it might be troublesome. Once you start getting Soul Gear and start to gem it you are able to

make more eccentric gear for different purposes.

For starters, buy the gear from the badge vendors. Those are bought from the NPC that specializes in

Heretic gear just outside the Knights Jail. So we will not go in too deep into the aspect of obtaining gear,

because the important stuff is what you do with the gear you obtain.

Generally the set bonuses on a piece of gear will out way any individual item and if it doesnt chances

are you are looking at a blue item and not a green one. You can usually toss any green pieces you locate

while doing a dungeon away while hoarding the blue ones to use or sell yourself.

Gear Enchantment Bonuses (GD2)

[Combat Value Based]

Forceful Gear contains Min Physical Attack Bonus

Brutal Gear Contains Physical Attack Bonus

Spiritual Gear contains Magic Attack Bonus

Sturdy Gear contains Physical Defense Bonus

Agile Gear contains Evasion Bonus


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[Status Based]

Vitality Gear Contains Vitality Stat Bonus

Dexterity Gear contains Dexterity Stat Bonus

Spirit Gear contains Spirit Stat Bonus

[HP/MP Based]

Life/Defensive - Gear contains HP Bonus

[Elemental Attack Based]

Burning Gear contains Fire Attack Bonus

Frosty Gear contains Ice Attack Bonus

Bright Gear contains Light Attack Bonus

Dark Gear contains Dark Attack Bonus

Perfect Gear contains all the optimum stats for that gear alignment.

Note: Although it is perfect, it does not mean you will have the max bonuses. It would have the highest

chance of getting all 5 attributes inside that gear itself. It also means, although that gear might be for

Magic Attack, there is still a chance that it will contain stats like Strength and also Dexterity.

There is a chance for a non-perfect gear having better stats that you need than the perfect one. But

ultimately, the perfect ones have better bonuses overall.

The following tables show the minimum and maximum stat that each corresponding level accessories

will give.

Accessories [Rings& Necklaces]

Level Requirement Min/Max Stat Gains Min/Max [MATK] Min/Max [HolyAtk] Min/Max [DarkAtk]

4560 11/17 15/45 17/46 17/46

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Enchant scrolls (GD3)

Still under development

Gear Builds (GB1)

Builds for PvP Heretic (GB2)

As a PvP Heretic, there are slight differences to what gem you should embed into your gears.

And these are the following which might do you good:

Rank of Importance of Gems

Rank of Importance Type of Gem

1 HP Gem

2 Light Attack Gem3 Critical Strike Gem

4 Physical Defense

Comments: No matter which build you want to go in PvP. HP is the key of survival. Heretics are weak in

the HP sector, so we needed more HP gems to boost our HP up. Light Attack serves as the main

attacking and healing boost, especially at Heal and Holy Verdict.

Critical are needed as well, to boost our damage and heals through luck to a higher range of damage.

Might be better for healing since you can heal yourself or others times two the amount you could heal.

I placed Physical defense but not Magic Defense due to the fact that we have Silence. And usually

physical damage is much more painful and for magic damage: Against Heretics, you have Light and Dark

Resistance. Against magus, a single Silence will render them useless. Also, magus does have specific

elements of spells, so you can easily block them off using elemental resistance gems.


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Builds for PvE Heretic (GB3)

As a PvE Heretic, there are slight differences to what gem you should embed into your gears.

And these are the following which might do you good:

Rank of Importance of Gems

Rank of Importance Type of Gem

1 Light Attack Gem

2 Critical Strike Gem

3 Magic Damage Gem

4 Health

Comments: In PvE based, we will be putting more into Attacking. Even if it is for instance runs, this build

works fine, but perhaps switch health with Magic Damage and you are done.

Light Attack increases damage overall, you would be spamming Holy Verdict anyways. Also, it aids yourhealing too.

Sadly to say, we Heretics need to do critical to do decent damage. So if you want more damage, go for

more critical. If you wish to have stable yet average-high damage, go for Magic Damage.

Lastly, health is always the key for survivability, and to fend off sudden PKs, allowing you to run away.

Gems (GD4)

After you obtain all the Soul Gears or the best gear at your level range and if you think that you

require more power, you might want to look at this following guide.

Level of gems and their corresponding bonuses

Type of Gem / Level of Gem Lv 1 Lv 2 Lv 3 Lv 4 Lv 5 Lv 6 Lv 7 Lv 8

Physical/Magic Attack 8 17 32 55 85 111 130 145

Health/Mana 202 398 746 1277 1993 2637 3120 3482

Elemental Attacks -

Elemental Defense -

Physical/Magic Defense 4 8 15 25 37 49 57 64

Critical/Holy Strike -

Type of Gem / Level of Gem Lv 9 Lv 10 Lv 11 Lv 12 Lv 13 Lv 14 Lv 15

Physical/Magic Attack 155 163 169 173 176 178 180

Health/Mana 3754 3957 4110 4223 4308 4372 4419

Elemental Attacks -

Elemental Defense -

Physical/Magic Defense 68 71 73 75 75 75 75

Critical/Holy Strike -


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Gem Embedding Info (GE1)

Not all gears give you all four slots and some only offers two slots or even only one. This is where you

can pick choices to customize your character for PvP or PvE.

Caution: There are two types of gems, one being offensive another being defensive. Offensive gems

are usually based on attacking ability, from Physical Attacks to Elemental Attacks and to Critical

Strikes. Defensive gems ranges from Physical Defenses to Resistances and to HP/MP.

Offensive PvP Build Gem Setup (GE2)

1 v 1 Situation or as a spell caster to do powerful spells aligned to light element to players while

maintaining high healing potential.

Offensive Gems Setup

Gem

Slots

Recommended Gem Setup Remarks

1 Light Attack or

Critical Strike or

Magic Attack

Inc. in Healing and Holy Verdict damage.

Inc. in all damage and damage luck based.

Inc. in all damage, not healing.

2 Magic Attack + Critical Strike or

Magic Attack + Light Attack or

Light Attack + Critical Strike

Big inc. in damage and healing. Luck Based.

Focused on Healing and Holy Verdict.

Inc. in Healing and Light based spells.

3 Magic Attack + Critical Strike + Light Attack or

Magic Attack + Light Attack + Accuracy or

Magic Attack + Critical Strike + Accuracy

Full setup on Healing and spell damage.

Setup for Heal and Spells w/ Hit Rate

Setup for Spells w/ Hit Rate. Luck Based.

4 Magic Attack + Critical Strike + Light Attack + Accuracy Overall increased in healing and damage.

Comments: This is pretty much straight forward. Light attacks are the best towards damage followed by

Magic Attack. But the reason why Critical Strike is higher is due to the fact its for PvP. In PvP, raising

small amounts of Magic Attack might not really work, unless its a big boost. Ill suggest doing more

critical rather. But then again, its your choice. Accuracy comes into the picture where you have already

two main gems embedded. Thought that it could help out in hitting Slayers or some other players who

boosted Evasion.


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Defensive Gems Setup

Gem

Slots


1 Health or

Physical Defense or

Magic Defense

Higher rate of Survivability.

Decrease damage against physical attacks.

Decrease damage against spells.2 Health + Physical Defense or

Health + Magic Defense or

Physical + Magic Defenses

Survivability with a pinch of physical defense.

Survivability with a pinch of magic defenses.

Armed with two kinds of defenses

3 Health + Physical + Magic Defenses or

Health + Physical Defense + Mana or

Health + Magic Defense + Mana or

Health + Mana + Elemental Resistances [Fire/Ice]

Survivability with a both defenses.

Survivability and Mana Pool w/ Physical Def.

Survivability and Mana Pool w/ Magic Def.

Survivability and Mana Pool w/ Elem. Resist

4 Health + Physical + Magic Defenses + Elemental

Resistances [Fire/Ice] or

Health + Physical Defense + Mana + Elemental

Resistances [Fire/Ice] or

Health + Magic Defense + Mana + ElementalResistances [Fire/Ice] or

Health + Mana + Elemental Resistances [Fire + Ice]

Strong in defense against Fire or Ice Attacks

Strong in physical defense with Mana Pool

and against Ice or Fire attacks.

Strong in magic defense with Mana Pool andagainst Ice or Fire attacks.

Strong towards Fire and Ice attacks, with

increased HP and MP pools.

Comments: It is a good thing that the gems are split up into two sections and here is why. With the

diverse family of gems, we now have the defensive section. These gems might be more favorable to

most players, especially the HP gems. There is no need to explain why HP is first, without HP you are

died, simple. But on the other hand, there might be debates about Physical or Magic Defense. But to me

personally, you have your slience, so that would seal of magic attacks, hopefully. And your main threats

are actually the stunners, so having more physical defense would help you fend off attacks from Slayersand other high DPS classes.

Now now, what about magus? Well, we have resistance gems for them, so that would cripple their

damage against you. You have your own Resistance which increases Dark and Light Resistances, so those

relevant gems wont be that important.


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PvE Build Gem Setup (GE2)

Instance Runs with high healing potential and decent survivability. Could also be used to solo

quest and grinding.

Offensive Gems Setup

Gem

Slots


1 Light Attack or

Critical Strike or

Magic Attack

Inc. in Healing and Holy Verdict damage.

Inc. in all damage and damage luck based.

Inc. in all damage, not healing.

2 Magic Attack + Critical Strike or

Magic Attack + Light Attack or

Light Attack + Critical Strike

Big inc. in damage and healing. Luck Based.

Focused on Healing and Holy Verdict.

Inc. in Healing and Light based spells.

3 Magic Attack + Critical Strike + Light Attack or

Magic Attack + Light Attack + Accuracy or

Magic Attack + Critical Strike + Accuracy

Full setup on Healing and spell damage.

Setup for Heal and Spells w/ Hit Rate

Setup for Spells w/ Hit Rate. Luck Based.

4 Magic Attack + Critical Strike + Light Attack + Accuracy Overall increased in healing and damage.

Comments: Yes, same as PvP. Since Dark Attack doesnt affect the Dark based skills a lot, going for Light

is a better choice.

Again, Light Attack increases our damage ability, namely Holy Verdict and our normal attack. Also,

Critical strike to increase our damage potential since we cant do much damage as other classes. Lastly,

Magic Attack also do increase damage, but not to healing. You could swap Critical Strike with Magic

Attack, if you want stable damage.


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Defensive Gems Setup

Gem

Slots


1 Health or

Physical Defense or

Magic Defense

Higher rate of Survivability.

Decrease damage against physical attacks.

Decrease damage against spells.2 Health + Physical Defense or

Health + Magic Defense or

Physical + Magic Defenses

Survivability with a pinch of physical defense.

Survivability with a pinch of magic defenses.

Armed with two kinds of defenses

3 Health + Physical + Magic Defenses or

Health + Physical Defense + Mana or

Health + Magic Defense + Mana

Survivability with a both defenses.

Survivability and Mana Pool w/ Physical Def.

Survivability and Mana Pool w/ Magic Def.

4 Health + Physical + Magic Defenses + Mana Overall Setup that has HP and MP with

Defenses

Comments: Pretty much the same but without resistances like in the PvP build. I guess all of them

should be easily understandable. But if in doubt, this would be helpful: Choose Physical if you aregrinding at Physical Monsters more, Magic if it is Magic Attacking monsters. Although I would say, a

balance of the two would be the best.

Pet Discussion (PD1)Pets can be very useful anytime in BoI. Because of this having multiple pets that do different

jobs is usually a preferred method of staying on the top of your game. Generally as a Heretic you will

need 2 separate pets. One being a Support pet, healing/buffing, and the other being a DPS Pet, fordamage/tanking.

Support Pet (PD2)

A support pet is going to be the pet you want to always bring with you into dungeons and

instances and maybe into many PvP situations. The reason why is because a lot of your time will be

spent healing and not actually attacking an enemy. A support pet will continue buffing, healing, etc.

while you are also healing. But a pet designed for raw damage would not attack unless you are

attacking. A support pet should be made from one that gains Spirit as it levels. The reason behind this is

so it will have a lot of Mana to Buff/Heal with. You also want to teach it support spells of course. A good

one to start with is a spell called Focus. It will buff you giving you 10% increased Spirit for 30 seconds

(Advanced version gives 20% increased spirit). This buff will always be up and have no downtime

(Unless your pet dies) so it is a great free buff to start you off with.


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DPS Pet (PD3)

A good off-hand pet would be a pet that either focuses on STR or DEX, because this will boost

your overall killing speed when you solo those long and dreadful kill X of Y quests. A good thing is to

get a pet with high growth, dont focus so much on quality unless its perfect, high growth equals to

stronger pet, where high quality equals to faster leveling of the pet.

For a DEX based pet I would go with the Dark Elf pet from Rainbow valley, most of the time it

comes with a 5% more to DEX passive, if youre lucky enough to get it with a free attack slot, you should

immediately go and buy get either Shadow strike or Advanced Shadow strike to boost your killing speed

even further. I use this Dark Elf and am currently level 63 and my Dark Elf is 46 and it out damages me

skill-wise.

Craft Discussion (CD1)

Research (CD2)

Not going to say much about this craft. There will be a point where you will be wondering why

you cant level your other crafts anymore. The reason for this is because your research skill level isnt

high enough. So do remember to keep this craft leveled according to the rest of your crafting levels,

otherwise youll be stuck with leveling it for a day before you can level the others.

Alchemy (CD3)

I dont care what you say but picking up Alchemy as your craft when you start the game will

really help you out (Or having a friend who picks it up). With it you can make some very good food early

on that will save you a fair amount of coin and time restocking your food supplies (As well as having to

stuff your face with food every 30 seconds). Later on you can create potions with it as well that also help

out but become ineffective as you get into the higher levels and your overall mana becomes much

larger.

Refining (CD4)

A long side leveling alchemy you should remember to level up your refining skill, so that you can

combine more stuff and get higher tier of the former item. Ex. Copper ore refines into Copper chunk or

Fine copper. This will help you on some quests later on, where you need at least level 10 in refining to

solve some quests, including scenario and crazy shopping.


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PvE Discussion (PvED1)

Solo (PvED2)

While soloing you should just auto attack everything; pull out a pet that can do some decent

damage and it will speed killing things up a bit. I suggest you auto attack because while casting spells

you tend to interrupt your auto attack at times. This causes you to miss using your most damaging

moveauto attack. Yes you heard me your auto attack will easily do the same or more damage than

your other abilities and each attack is initiated quickly and requires no mana. This allows you to save

food/potions and allows you to focus on more important things like whos winning the ball game.

In the Team (PvED3)

No matter what you are told or what you may believe, you are a healer and everyone expects

you to be one as well. In a team keep a watch on everyones health and heal them up if you feel they aregetting to low. Try to help out as much as possible by auto attacking the target the people in your group

are targeting so you do not gain agro (hate) yourself. If you are having issues healing or dont feel its a

very fun concept then you may want to reconsider playing a Heretic. Sometimes when in groups you

may want to stow your pet thats meant for damage and pull out a pet better suited to helping the

group. A fine example of this is a pet that brings buff to you or other party members or is able to heal.

Remember if you do your job well in the group there is a good chance you will be invited back next time!

Instances (PvED4)

Dungeons are almost the same as when you are playing in a group. The largest difference of

course is enemies hit a lot harder and you are expected to heal even more. Try to keep everyone topped

off at full health for most of the dungeon. Some events may happen that make this challenging (Like

large AoEs and other things the bosses do) but try to keep calm and continue healing. The most

important person to keep alive is yourself, because, without you the group has no healer. So always take

priority of healing yourself back up to full. The next priority is the tank, because, without him the boss

may tear through everyone else with large hits. After yourself and the tank heal whoever currently has

the lowest amount of health until everyone is back to full health. Dont forget to use Bless while in

dungeons on yourself and others. Its really helpful for a DPS or Tank to continue doing their job when

giving them 1k+ mana every 30 seconds (This is considering rank 1 usage). Angels Barrier is another

great ability to make sure to use when you/party member start getting low on health. It can also be used

to avoid large incoming damage or an onslaught of crits on the tank. It never hurts to keep debuffs on

the boss as they will heal you and do damage to him. You should also spend time auto attacking the boss

while not doing any of the above. Finally make sure you and the rest of the group understand exactly

what is going to happen during the encounter you are attempting. It can make all the difference doing a

quick rundown of an encounter before attempting it.


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Skill Ranking Priority (PvED5)

The idea of this section is to give you an idea on what spells go over other spells. Its completely

your choice on which skill you should rank up and when you should rank it up and these are merely

suggestions for you to take when ranking your skills for PvE content. To read this I have split spells into 3

separate groups. Group 1 is the most important group with Group 3 being the least important. Listedunder each group are a list of Spells and the order I feel there importance should be when thinking of a

PvE experience. I only go up to level 55 spells by then you should understand more about your character

and be able to make your own decisions.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3

Heal Angel Barrier Soul Siphon

Bless Holy Verdict ExorcismSoul Link Ode of Doom Chain of Life

Death Return Resistance Silence

Fortification

PvP Discussion (PvPD1)

Skill Ranking Priority (PvPD2)

The idea of this section is to give you an idea on what spells go over other spells. Its completely

your choice on which skill you should rank up and when you should rank it up and these are merely

suggestions for you to take when ranking your skills for PvP content. To read this I have split spells into 3

separate groups. Group 1 is the most important group with Group 3 being the least important. Listed

under each group are a list of Spells and the order I feel there importance should be when thinking of a

PvP experience. I only go up to level 55 spells by then you should understand more about your character

and be able to make your own decisions.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3

Heal Soul Link Death Return

Resistance Bless Ode of Doom

Angel Barrier Soul Siphon Holy Verdict

Fortification Exorcism

Silence

Chain of Life


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PvP Skill Breakdown and Usage (PvPD3)

Now, lets go into each and every skill and breaking down them to usage and usefulness in PvP areas.

Just as a reminder, this section is purely written by prediction and estimations, the actual PvP

techniques must be further studied and developed by each and every player. This is just a guide on

which skills are useful and which arent. Of course discussions on usefulness as well, but its you, thereader that see fit which one is better than the others.

Name: Heal

Category: Restorative

Comments: Well, this skill is one of the staple skills for any situation. It is the skill that makes us Heretics,

so there is no need to further explain this.

Name: Resistance

Category: Self Passive Buff

Comments: We can actually compare this skill to Champions. But with a lower defense increase but

some light and darkness resistance. This self buff is great when facing Heretics as they do Dark and Light

Damage against you. It also does well against Slayers who focus on Dark Damage. The increase in

Physical Defense would not be too great, but it would be still great to have extra defense against

attacks.

Name: Angel Barrier

Category: Self/Targeted Active Protection

Comments: The one skill that makes people hate Heretics. Time it well to block off a series of combo

skills and you will laugh off their stupidity of wasting their skills on you. It is possible as this skill does not

cause much animation cancelling and at higher levels, this skill would be surely an asset to you while

PvPing since you can block more attacks with a shorter spell cool down.

Usage: This skill can be used on yourself and also others. You can cast it on an ally that is being attacked

to prevent any further damage for a few seconds and also heal his lost HP back. If it is used on you,

make sure you do not attack players as it would reduce the duration of the shield, try to support others

using buffing skills and also healing. Doing this would maintain the duration of the shield to its

maximum.

Name: Fortification

Category: AoE Allied Buff

Comments: Having higher HP is good and in PvP situations, it is always a plus. But just be sure you cast it

more than once since it only affects 10 people around you if it is a big PvP battle. If not, keep it always

up when PvPing, to gain extra HP.

Name: Silence

Category: Targeted De-buff/Disable


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Comments: One of the essential skills in the PvP area. This is one of the most useful disables; cast it on

those who use spells like Magus, or enemy Heretics to prevent them from healing and buffing.

Usage: It has a kind of long cool down. So it is up to you to select the player you wish to stop from

casting spells. However, I would target Magus and Heretics first. After all, they are the main backbone

of the PvP fight, AoE spells and also healings. If it is a 1v1 situation, this spell would usually be the tide-turner, but really, its all based on your prediction and judgment. Try to figure out the spell cool down of

your enemy.

Name: Chain of Life

Category: Self Passive De-buff on Enemies

Comments: A great skill to fend off attacks and run away when in trouble. Or in big PvP battles, use it to

run to a fellow teammate to allow him to assist you more. Do not underestimate this skill, the reduction

in movement speed and attack rate, does not only aid you to run away, but also allowing you and your

friends to chase the target.

Name: Soul Link

Category: AoE Active Buff

Comments: For this skill, it would bring more effects when you are stronger, as the increase is

percentage based. But anyway keep it up as always and it follows Fortification as well. They work the

same way anyways, just that this adds damage.

Name: Bless

Category: Targeted Active HoT

Comments: A good support skill that can be casted on those who need some recovery of HP and MP.

The healing still works when you are stunned or silenced, so keep it up at all times if you are in a 1v1

situation. If its a mass PVP, its all up to you.

Name: Soul Siphon

Category: Targeted Active DoT/Life Drain

Comments: It can be a bad or a good skill depending who you are targeting. Do note that Heretics have

dark resistance and the amount of HP drained is based on the damage you do to it. So try to select

targets that have lesser dark resistance for the best life leech.

Usage: A good skill that could do damage and still drain back HP. If you are a Heretic that adds more

Dark Attack, this might be your healing skill. But for those who prefers more Light Attack, do rely on

your heal more. However, this spell would still do decent damage if you are going for Pure Spirit, so tryto use it as often you can.

Name: Exorcism

Category: Targeted Active DoT/Life Drain

Comments: Same as above, just that this skill drains HP by intervals. However the main difference is that

this DoT effect lasts longer.


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Usage: A good skill that could do damage and still drain back HP. If you are a Heretic that adds more

Dark Attack, this might be your healing skill. But for those who prefers more Light Attack, do rely on

your heal more. However, this spell would still do decent damage if you are going for Pure Spirit, so try

to use it as often you can.

Name: Death ReturnCategory: AoE Nuke/De-buff

Comments: Well, it reduces damage to players, but it is a great skill to get rid of monsters that are

attacking you during PvP. But I guess its just that. The reduction of attack rate is great as well but due to

its high consumption in XP. Try to time well as to get a winning edge.

Name: Ode of Doom

Category: AoE Damage/De-buff

Comments: A great skill but it is not for doing damage. The paralyze effect is great though. But then

again, it is all about when you use it. Combine with other allied Heretics for a longer effect.

Name: Holy Verdict

Category: Targeted Nuke

Comments: Important and might not be important, this skill does Light Damage. I would think most

players will have fire and ice resistances up, but I might be wrong. In the case where they ignore light

resistances and went for fire or ice or both, this spell would work great on them. But then again, the

damage from this spell is still pretty average as compared to the others.

Usage: I feel that it is common sense but, you have to know that fellow Heretics that are PvPing you

have resistances to light as well. So do not use at them unless you have no other targets.


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where we retrieved some of our information from.

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Vitality (http://boi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=243471#post243471).

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