Friar

As members of The Defenders of Albion and brothers within the church, the Friar has access to the basic buffs and healing abilities that their Cleric sisters and brothers use. Friars are the natural fusion of a Cleric and a Fighting class. Their healing abilities make them very helpful to groups, but their offensive abilities make them wonderful fighting companions both in monster hunts and realm wars.
Friars, though offensive in many ways, are limited by their armor, leather. They have access to Evading skills up to the fifth level as well as many advanced forms of self-only buffs, which increase the survivability of the Friar in tight situations.

## Abilities & Specialization

Cloth Leather
**Weapon**
Staves Crushing Shield (Small)
Battlemaster Perfecter
**Sub Classes**Disciple Elementalist Fighter Mage Rogue
Armorcraft
Basic Crafting
Bountycraft
Clothworking
Fletching
Gemcutting
Herbcraft
Leatherworking
Metalworking
Siegecraft
Spellcrafting
Tailoring
Weaponcraft
Woodworking

## Tactics

### PVE

Friars are an excellent choice for player versus environment, especially if you enjoy playing a warrior-type class. You can take two routes, one being the assistant healer or the other role as the tank. The former requires some specialization in rejuvenation which will give better heals. Most friars, however, choose to take the latter approach since many friars are able to defeat powerful monsters by themselves. With a high specialization in staff (many choose 50 staff for Excommunicate) and enhancement, you will be able to defeat powerful enemies like Colossals. It's not uncommon for friars to take on monsters which con grape or red.

As a healing class, you will often find yourself underestimated by your teammates. Friars provide excellent healing and like all other healing classes, it is best to use weak, minor heals during battle to avoid enemies turning to you. Often tanks will hold aggression from enemies by using taunt styles so it is better to wait for tanks to deal a good amount of damage before starting your heals. Healing aggro (when enemies start attacking you due to your healing) is often hard to get rid of so it's best to avoid it. If you do get healing aggro, it's usually best for you to hold your ground to let tanks and casters turn that aggression back onto themselves. Many will choose the perfector master level path as it provides your team with Power Font, one of the most significant power replenishing tools in the game.

Overall, friars are a good first pick for Albion if you are getting started with the game. Even without specialization in rejuvenation, they can provide basic heals while in or outside of battle.

### RVR

Friars are useful in small fights but get left out of the 8man set-up most of the time. They provide base buffs, attack haste plus group heal proc. buffs, and resist buffs for Heat,Cold, and Matter if speced in Enhancement (which most do). Friars with (44+) Staff spec are good DPS (damage per second) while they have haste/celerity running and can toss an ok heal in clutch situations. Since they only wear leather and can heal, the Friar can be a 'primary' target at times.

### Realm Rank 5 Ability

 **Effect** | PBAE attack that does moderate damage and makes all melee targets in a 350 radius unable to attack for 6 seconds.