Priestess

## Skills

 Regeneration Pact
 Pray

 Moon Shadow

The  **Priestess** is a playable character. She has blonde hair, aqua eyes, and is wearing a white hooded robe.

Once unlocked, she can also be encountered during a run as an NPC, wielding the Wooden Cross (unupgraded). Upon interaction, she will heal the player's health by 4 once per floor.

## Unlock & upgrade

The Priestess can be unlocked at the cost of 12,000 gems.

Each upgrade changes the stats slightly.

1. +1 HP - cost: 500 gems
2. +1 Armor - cost: 1,000 gems
3. +20 Energy - cost: 1,500 gems
4. -2s Skill Cooldown - cost: 2,000 gems
5. Skill Upgrade - cost: 2,500 gems
6. "Improve potion effectiveness" buff - cost: 5,000 gems
7. Enhance Starting Weapon - cost: 8,000 gems
8. Write Shepherd's Book (for Dimension Travel Guide) - cost: 10,000 gems

## Statistics

The Priestess has good armor and energy, but bad health and melee damage.

## Alternate Skins

The Priestess currently has 17 alternate skins, which include:

* 9 gem skins
* 1 fragment skin
* 1 season trophy reward skin
* 5 paid skins
* 1 fish chip skin

## Regeneration Pact

### Basic:

*Cast a pact that restores the health of you and allies.*

### Skill Upgrade:

**Gain a buff that regenerates the armor.**

### Cooldown:

14 (12) seconds.

Basics
*Cast a pact that restores the health of you and allies.*
* Creates a magic circle that replenishes HP to herself and allies that stand within it.
	+ Heals 1 HP to characters up to 3 times for 2 seconds.
	+ Restores 5 HP per tick for Pets, Followers, and items bought from the Mechanical Engineer in The Origin.
	+ The Potion Effectiveness Buff increases the healing for players from 1 to 2 per tick. Does not increases the healing for Pets and Followers, however.
	+ Cannot heal a Pet while its health is depleted.
* When the magic circle finishes healing, it will flash once before disappearing, dealing 20 lightning damage to enemies caught within the AoE.
* This skill has a cooldown of 14 (12) seconds, and it starts as soon as the magic circle appears.

Skill Upgrade
*Gain a buff that regenerates the armor.*
* All players within the pact also gain the Armor Boost status effect

Mentor Upgrade
*Restore more HP.*
* Each tick heals 1 more health.

## Pray

### Basic:

*Restores the health and armor of all friendly units nearby, and increase movement speed and attack speed.*

### Cooldown:

14 (12) seconds.

How to unlock
Unlocked at the Design Table using 8 Torn Page (Pray) (dropped from Anubis and Elite Mummy (Staff)).
Basics
*Restores the health and armor of all friendly units nearby, and increase movement speed and attack speed.*
* Casts a blessing aura that lasts for 5 seconds on herself and other nearby teammates.
	+ Upon activation, targeted characters will be healed by 2 health and 2 armor, while Pets and Followers are healed by 5. This occurs once immediately with each skill activation.
	+ The Potion Effectiveness Buff increases the healing to 3 for players and 8 for Pets and Followers.
	+ While the blessing aura is in effect, targets will have their movement speed increased by +2 and their fire rate by 33.3%.
	+ The Pray's effect covers a 20 tiles radius area around the Priestess.
* This skill has a cooldown of 14 (12) seconds, starting as soon as the skill is used.

Skill Upgrade
*Defense +1 when skill is active.*
* The blessing aura also reduces damage from all sources by 1. Stacks with similar buffs (Milk and C5H6O5 Alike).

Mentor Upgrade
*Healing lasts longer.*
* Pray lasts 9 seconds, recovers 1 more health for players (2 more for pets and followers) and the speed, attack speed boost effect is increased.

## Moon Shadow

### Basic:

*Continue to shoot moonlight missiles and shadow missiles.
Moonlight missile: prioritized to heal friendly units.
Shadow missile: chance to burn enemies on hit.*

### Cooldown:

10 (8) seconds.

How to unlock
Pay $1.99 to unlock this skill.
Basics
*Continue to shoot moonlight missiles and shadow missiles.
Moonlight missile: prioritized to heal friendly units.
Shadow missile: chance to burn enemies on hit.*
* This skill will automatically create orbs of either moonlight or shadow missiles that orbit around the Priestess. When a valid target is present, the missiles will fly toward the enemy and damage them.
* When the skill button is pressed, the Priestess will switch between her light and dark phase, affecting which missiles are created and fully restore the number of missiles:
	+ Generate Moonlight missiles in light phase:
		- Moonlight missiles prioritize healing, each missile heals 1 HP for the player and 4 HP for Pets and Followers.
		- With Potion Effectiveness Buff, the missile will heal 2 HP for the player and 8 HP for Pets and Followers.
		- It will give the player Armor Boost instead of HP when the player HP is full.
		- The missiles can still attack enemies for 8 damage each if no nearby entities require any more healing.
		- They generate approximately every 3.6 seconds.
	+ Generate Shadow missiles in dark phase:
		- Shadow missiles will only attack enemies. Each missile deals 8 damage and will inflict burn on a critical hit.
		- They generate approximately every 1.2 seconds.
		- Elemental Staff Buff will allow shadow missiles to deal double damage on a critical hit
* Priestess at dark phase will appear as a shadow version of normal state.
* A maximum of 2 missiles can be orbiting around the Priestess at a time.
* This skill has a cooldown of 10 (8) seconds.

Skill Upgrade
*The number of missiles +1.*
* Priestess can hold up to 3 missiles at a time.

Mentor Upgrade
*Max missile +1*
* The capacity for missiles is increased by 1.

## Quotes

### Interaction in the Living Room

* *"Follow the right path."*
* *"You are trendy!"*
* These two lines might be directed at Necromancer in front of her.

 As Golden Cicada:
* *"%¥x! #%&x......x#!"*
* *"I am from the Great Tang in the East, Heading to the Western Heaven for Buddhist scriptures."*
* *"A monk shall be merciful."*
* *"Wukong, behave yourself."*
* *"Don't be afraid, My disciples may appear unsightly, but they are kind at heart."*
* *"I was blessed of being a Golden Cicada in my previous life... Alas!"*
* *"As the saying goes if I don't do it, who else will?"*
* *"Do not litter!"*
* *"He gets it, do you?"*
* *"May I know your name?"*
* *"That would be your fault, if I must say!"*
* *"Don't be so impatient"*
* *"Don't eat me. I'm not the Elixir of life..."*
* *"Bajie! Bajie? Rise and shine~"*
* *"Wukong, let me change your tightening band for suitable size."*
* *"Wujing, hand the parcel to Bajie if it's too heavy"*

Prior to v2.5.0:
* *"Quite a **chilly room** we got here".*
* This could be explained by the fact that she used to stand directly next to the Fridge, since the outer surface of a fridge is cold, or could be a reference to the company's name, ChillyRoom.

When interacted with in the Living Room during the Chinese New Year update, prior to v2.5.0:
* *"Feels warm and cozy around here"*

### During a run as an NPC

* *"Got hurt? Patching you up now"*
* *"The church maintains order in this world"*

## Trivia

* The Priestess as an NPC was carrying Staff of Light before Update 2.0.0.
* When the "Sound of Paradise" skin was added in Update 2.0.0, NPC Priestess didn't have wings.
* The Werewolf mentions Priestess upon interaction in the Living Room during Chinese New Year, but only on the original phrase when the language is set to Chinese (*"Gonna enjoy sweet dumplings with Priestess at Lantern Festival. Not gonna transform this time."*).
* Pray was added in Update 2.2.2.
* Under the  condition, where if the Priestess uses Pray and has the Cooldown Buff, her skill can be used again before the previous one ends. At Update 2.3.0, doing so will cause a glitch that her second use of skill has no lasting effect while giving full healing correctly.
* Moon Shadow was added in Update 2.7.0.
* In Update 3.0.0, Priestess's default, Sound of Paradise and Boyi the Valor skins received a re-texture.
* Prior to Update 5.1.0, Priestess name was "Priest", which is inaccurate as it usually refers to a **male** who performs religious duties.
* When using Regeneration Pact with Statue of the Priest, the range of the statue's effect will extend to the same size of this skill's circle, as to fill in the empty areas and complete the Pact.
	+ Said statue also has the exact same cooldown as the Regeneration Pact.