Priest

Priest is the second ability class in the game, and costs 70  to unlock. Priest is best known for being a healing class, that has most of its abilities and skills revolving around gaining more health.

## Abilities and weapons

Priest has 2 abilities: Healing wand and Vitality. Healing wand increases your maximum health, while also restoring health for about the same amount. This ability works well with some of priest's skills, where Holy favor can increase the healing, and lay on hands will trade your maximal HP into new health. Where healing wand provides health instantly, vitality provides health over the course of the next runs. Vitality is always healing more health per mana than healing wand, but you have to run in order to get the health.

These abilities works great together, with one ability gaining a lot of max HP, and the other gaining health over a couple of runs. The vitality ability does not stack on top of each other, so you can heal a maximum of 1 health per run. This means, that it is a good idea always to have some vitality stacks going, so you always heal whenever you run. The rest of the mana should be spend on healing wand.

Priest only has the basic sword as its melee weapon.

## Skills

There are 3 skills for priest, that enhances the gameplay of the class. Holy favor and lay on hands provides priest with additional healing, while smite is an offensive ability, that deals damage to the enemy. Holy favor and smite both requires 1 attribute, being luck and strength respectively, while holy favor requires 3 points in charisma. This means that priest can quickly unlock the first two skills, while lay on hands requires more investment to unlock.

## Strategy and gameplay

Since priest has the ability to heal a lot, the obvious strategy is to get as much health as possible throughout the game. This can be very useful against the final boss, when you need a lot of health to defeat it. The big disadvantage for priest is, that it does not have a lot of damage, since the only source of damage in the abilities is the basic sword and the smite ability. Therefore, getting items that can help priest fighting monster is crutial if you want to be succesfull.

### Overall game plan

Since priest is able to get a lot of health, but not deal a lot of damage, the main goal is to gather as much health as possible before fighting the final boss. This can be done by getting mana, since it allows you to use your ability, and thereby heal. Another key way to do this, is to utilize the lay on hands skill, that allows you to trade your maximum health into extra health. This is useful when fighting the final boss, since you can keep on attacking, until you reach almost 0 health. Then, by using the lay on hands, you trade all the maximum health gathered throughout the game into extra health, that can be used to defeat the boss.

### Using abilities

Since you want to maximize the maximum health in order to increase your health obtained by lay on hands, you should use the healing wand as much as possible. However, since the healing becomes increasingly bigger and bigger, one should postpone the time to use the ability as much as possible, in order to get more health from the mana spend. It is also important not to run out of health, which is why you always want to be healing with the second ability: Vitality

### Fighting monsters

There are some monsters that are harder to fight than others for priest. In the early game before unlocking the smite [[skills|skill], it can be very tough to defeat monster with high attack such as Evil Goat, Mother-Drone and even Green Slime. After unlocking smite, the player can use this ability to avoid using the basic sword, and thereby reduce the damage taken.

In general, it is hard for priest to fight monsters with high attack. Buying items is a crucial part of improving the ability to fight monsters. Items like fire charge and bomb are effective ways to completely annihilate a monster, as well as rifle. Since mage has no natural way to gain EXP, items like dark grimoire and potion of experience can be crucial in order to reach a desired level.