Arch Bishop

Job Base(s):

Priest
High Priest

Job Type:

3-1

Job Level:

60

Race:

Human

Changes At:

Prontera Sanctuary

Number of Skills:

19

Total Skill Points:

104

Total Quest Skills:

0

Job Bonuses

STR	AGI	VIT	INT	DEX	LUK
+6	+5	+7	+10	+7	+2

Overview

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Arch Bishops are the pinnacle of the Priest classes. Their names are often abbreviated and referred to as "AB". They have a wide variety of skills at their disposal allowing them to better support large parties while striking down a greater range of enemies with Holy magic.

Job Change Guide

See Arch Bishop Job Change Guide for detailed information.

Changing into an Arch Bishop from a Priest or High Priest requires the player to complete a number of tasks:

A Holy Pilgrimage
A Prayer for the blessing of the Gods
Granting relief to a tormented Valkyrie

After completing these tests, the player will be transformed into a Arch Bishop. The journey begins in the Prontera Sanctuary!

Tactics

Party Menu Healing / Buffing

The most effective way to heal and buff a party is through the Party Menu (accessible through Alt + Z). Trying to heal a party by manually clicking players can become impossible when players become mobbed or are bunched up, and can lead to players dying. This is why it is strongly recommended to make use of the party menu. Another benefit to the party menu is the ability to monitor all players' health. Ensure that the "Lock Menu" feature is on (by clicking the picture of the lock) when using this system to avoid opening private messages when trying to heal / buff a player.

Party Assessment and Communication

Often when a party fails or is not doing well, the blame can be put onto the Priest class. This can be an unfair judgement and the fault of it should not always be placed onto one person. Make sure a party is adequate before it even starts. Check to see if the party has at least one or two effective AoE killers, and at least one dedicated primary tank. For newer / less geared Arch Bishops or tougher battle situations, sometimes having another person also playing Arch Bishop is very nice as well. Communicating to the party or party leader is key here.

Here is a breakdown of a standard setup of an effective party:

Healer / Primary Support:

One Arch Bishop (two recommended)
- Arch Bishops and Priest classes are unique in that they are the only class capable of healing large amounts of HP at higher levels (High Heal) or in an AoE (Coluseo Heal and Sanctuary). Also provides the most primary support buffs in an AoE fashion (Clementia, Cantocandidus, Magnificat, Praefatio).

AoE Killer(s):

Ranger with Arrow Storm (typically the best PVM AoE class)
Every third class has an AoE of some sort. Classes that tend to have a reliable, large, effective AoE include:
- Sorcerers with good cast reduction
- Offensively built Warlocks
- Geneticists or Mechanics especially when buffed with a Maestro's Magic Strings skill
- Higher level Rune Knights with Dragon Breath build when buffed with a Maestro's Magic Strings skill and also an Arch Bishop's Sacrament
- Shadow Chasers tend to copy AoE skills such as Arrow Storm to help AoE
An effective party tends to have two or more primary AoE killers

Tanker(s):

Suras with Mental Strength provides the best reduction, but has a slower walking speed
- Some Suras using equipment with a lot of % reduction and also using many Healing Items may opt for using Snap to drag and tank monsters quickly
Royal Guards and Rune Knights, typically wearing reduction gears and also using Healing Items
Geneticists with a Sera Homunculus with the Pain Killer Homunculus skill are amazing tanks in PVM. Also can be cast on other people.
Guillotine Crosses can sometimes act as a "puller" to mob monsters for the party. Make sure they mob them onto another class that can tank or tank the monsters themselves, and do not let them mob the monsters into the party, especially the more squishy classes.
Any class has the capability to tank, provided they are wearing reduction gears and also have an adequate amount of healing items

Secondary Support:

Sorcerers are very popular in parties because of their ability to give SP to party members with Soul Exhale. Also has other useful support skills such as Striking.
Maestros using Magic Strings can increase the DPS of the party by quite a bit. Also very helpful for the Arch Bishop to cast skills faster and with less delay in between.
Wanderers with Gypsy's Kiss are great for party members to conserve SP. Sorcerers usually cannot replenish an Arch Bishop's SP pool fully because Soul Exhale only gives half of the Sorcerer's SP, so a Wanderer's Gypsy's Kiss is actually very good support for an Arch Bishop.

SP Conservation / Restoration

One of the biggest issues new priests have when playing the class is maintaining their SP. There are many ways for priests to ensure that they always have SP for those dire situations. These are some important methods on maintaining SP:

Always ensure that Magnificat is on at all times. This skill will not only keep a much higher regeneration rate of SP for the Priest, but also to the killers in the party that rely on SP for skill use as well. Keeping this buff up will make parties much smoother for everybody. Try not to wait until SP is bottoming out to cast this spell, because at that point it will already be too late.

Make use of the Assumptio (Transcendent only) or Kyrie Eleison (often abbreviated as "KE") skills. These skills are incredible for keeping people protected and will drastically save SP on healing in the long run. These skills can help fragile AoE killer classes such as Rangers or caster classes (Wizard / Sage) a lot. These defensive skills can also help the party tank quite a bit. Note that any character cannot have both buffs on at the same time. An Arch Bishop can also use Praefatio, which will give KE to all party members. If the Priest notices that certain party members are lagging behind, using KE on them will give them time and leeway to retreat back to where the party is.

Stack SP Regeneration or Max SP increase equipment. Gearing a Priest up with equipment that will increase their SP regeneration or SP pool will vastly help a player to maintain SP at all times.

Always have SP regeneration consumables on hand. All players should have SP consumables on hand at all times to regenerate SP, at least in emergencies, and this includes Priests as well. As most classes should have HP healing items of some sort on them at all times, Priests should also have SP rejuvenating items on them.

Some common items that can be easily obtained for SP regeneration include: {{Strawberry Easily farmed off Spores or Yoyos, or bought from Vendors {{Blue Potion Can be made by Alchemists or purchased from Vendors {{Blue Herb Can be farmed off Mavkas for high drop rate. Can be turned into potions by Alchemists. {{Grape Juice Farmed off Dragon Flies. Can also be made with the Juice Quest {{Royal Jelly Farmed off Enchanted Peach Trees and Vitatas {{Orange Farmed off Baby Desert Wolves, Peco Pecos, Condors {{Green Ale Usually only available through holiday quests. Recovers a fixed % amount of SP and HP. Can also be purchased off Vendors.

Primary Arch Bishop Skills and Usage

There are several skills that every Arch Bishop should have to be a successful support class for their party.

Clementia: AoE party Blessing, should be kept up at all times.

Cantocandidus: AoE party Increase Agility, should also be kept up at all times.

Sacrament: The single most important buff that Arch Bishops have. It reduces fixed cast time by 50% and should be casted onto the Arch Bishop themselves at all times. In PVM situations, prioritize Warlocks, Sorcerers with this skill in typical party situations. This is also useful for Suras for quickly re-casting Mental Strength and Zen, good if a Rune Knight is using Dragon Breath to help kill for the party, and for Royal Guards using Sacrifice. For MVPs, the Geneticist, Sura, and Rune Knight classes must always be buffed with Sacrament.

Coluseo Heal: AoE Heal with a boosted rate based on number of party members. It is very useful but can be SP consuming; it should be used scrupulously as needed.

As an extension to the Priest class, Arch Bishops still rely on some first and second class skills in order to maximize efficiency and conserve SP.

Meditatio: This skill should be maxed. Increases the player's Maximum SP and SP regeneration rate. Meditatio also increases the amount of HP that is restored using the Heal skill.

Heal: cheaper to use than High Heal and good when a party member has taken only very little damage.

Magnificat: Priests rely on this heavily for SP regeneration.

Resurrection: Mandatory for PVM / MVP party situations, as deaths are inevitable. Always have this skill maxed for instant resurrection.

Some Useful Tips

Arch Bishops should remember that Lex Aeterna loses its rather long after-cast delay if used under the effect of Magic Strings, to the point when it can be constantly casted. This is a great way to double the damage output of parties, especially in single target situations such as MVPs.

Some skills in the priests arsenal may not serve a strong use while still leveling as a Priest, but many may have uses in MVP situations or other specific scenarios. These should be hotkeyed as well, and often an Arch Bishop will have all four rows of hotkeys used up. Some of these include:

Pneuma: a very powerful and necessary skill for Endless Tower runs as well as when fighting ranged mobs within a party. Certain ranged mobs and ranged skills are very powerful and this spell can save players a lot of stress. Make sure the party members are positioned correctly. Nine people can actually fit into one Pneuma's area of effect!

Aspersio: This skill will greatly improves a party member's physical damage when the monsters are weak to the Holy element, as they are.

Status Recovery and Cure: Priests must pay attention to debuffs used by monsters and should use the two skills on their party members accordingly.

Sanctuary: This spell has great healing power for a low SP cost (but uses one blue gemstone). Heavily recommended to have this skill at level 7, as that already provides the maximum healing power already (8-10 is just longer duration).

Equipment

Weapon

Holy Stick [1] - When used in combination with Shoes Of Punishment this is the best weapon for Adoramus users
Mace of Judgement [2] - A great weapon for Adoramus users, part of the Judgement Mora set
Empowered Mace of Judgement [1] - A more powerful version of the Mace of Judgement, part of the Judgement Mora set
Divine Cross - A great weapon for ME users, especially in the early stages (Priest, High Priest, newly changed Arch Bishop)
Wand of Affection - A good weapon for FS Arch Bishop, part of the Affection Mora set
Empowered Wand of Affection [1] - A more powerful version of Wand of Affection, part of the Affection Mora set
Glorious Cure Wand - A great weapon for FS Arch Bishop, make sure to +10 it to get the full effect
Elder Staff [3] - A decent healing weapon for FS Arch Bishop
Healing Staff - An Alternative weapon for FS Arch Bishop when you're on a budget, overupgrade it to increase your healing power
Recovery Light [2] - Another alternative weapon for FS Arch Bishop when you're on a budget, overupgrading it will increase your healing power, but it also increases your sp consumption
Croce Staff [1] - Combo with Clergy Nurse Cap [1] and Rosary Necklace.

Best Carded with:

True Margaretha Sorin Card - Increases Adoramus damage.

Shield

Valk's Shield are good, especially carded with elemental card, to reduces elemental damages received, though you might wanna plan first before going through instances/fight

Mad Bunny Special [1] - Reflect 10% of short range physical damage back to the attacker.

Adds a 10% chance that for 2 seconds there is a 60% chance to reflect all magic damage back to the attacker. If refined to +7 or higher, adds an additional Atk +5, Matk +5. If refined to +9 or higher, adds an additional Atk +15, Matk +15. If refined to +12 or higher, adds Crit +10 and prevents skill casting from being interrupted.

Round Buckler [1] - Decent shield for those who only have small finance.
Valkyrja's Shield [1] - Pretty much the best. Great DEF, some MDEF, reduces common elemental damage.
Bible of Promise(2nd Vol.) [1] - Can use Odin's Power Lv 2.

Best carded with Alice, Neo Punk Card and big ben card ignores 50% of Formless and Demon monster's Magic Defense Rate, Hodremlin and Elemental Reduc cards. Also you can use nightmare arclouse and nightmare mimic card to ignore 50% magic defense Undead monsters.

Armor

Abyss Dress - At +9 or higher Increases physical and magical damage on Shadow and Undead property as well as Demon and Undead race targets by 40%, Shadow element
Kardui Robe [1] - Armor against demi-human, great for bio4 leveling. Best carded with Angeling Card if refined to +9
Medical Scrub [1] - Greatly increase DEF, reduce cast delay, improve recovery rate of skills and increases incoming recovery skills.
Nectar Suit [1] - Max HP + 1% and Max SP + 1% per 2 upgrade levels of the item. Vit +3
Orleans' Gown [1] - Makes your cast uninterruptible at the cost of increasing Cast Time by 15%.
Geffen Magic Robe [1] - Enhanced Orleans' Gown.
Diabolus Robe [1] - Adds SP.
Brynhild - Godly item, only if you have access.

Aebecee's Raging Typhoon Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (wind)
Saphien's Armor of Ocean [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (water)
Lucius's Fierce Armor of Volcano [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (fire)
Claytos Cracking Earth Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (earth)
Azure Dragon Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (water)
Chiu Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (shadow)
Kirin Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (holy)

Can be carded with:

Elemental resist cards
Dame of Sentinel Card - For every 18 base points of VIT, gain 1 DEX.
Obsidian Card - For every 18 base points of DEX, gain 1 VIT.
Pest Card - Cast Stone Curse when inflicted with physical damage.

Headgear

King Of Spirit Circlet - At +10 or higher upgrade Bypass 100% MDef, Reduce Fixed Cast Time 70%, and Reduce Aftercast Delay 20%,
Sacred Crown - At +10 or higher upgrade reduce the number of required Gemstones by one for most skills (Mistress card effect), +100% Adoramus and Judex damage, and if Clearance is level 5 +25% magic damage on bosses.
Clergy Nurse Cap [1] - Increases healing rate and uninterruptible casting without any drawback. Combo with Croce Staff [1] and Rosary Necklace to greatly improve healing rate per refine level.
Yggdrasil Crown - Largely increases healing rate on others and yourself (both apply when healing yourself!).
Old Mitra [1] - All Stat + 1, Max HP + 1% and Max SP + 1% per 2 upgrade levels of the item. Atk + 4 and Matk + 2 per upgrade level of the item. Increases the damage of Judex by 20%, Increases the damage of Magnus Exorcismus by 10%, Increases the recovery rate of recovery skills by 2% per 2 upgrade levels of the item. Mdef + 5
Chibi Pope [1] - Increases healing effect on others, by a lot when combo with a Blush or Blush [1].
Shrine Maiden Hat [1] - Increases Magnus Exorcismus damage
Moon Rabbit Hat [1] - DEF +2, ATK +5%, MATK +5%; for each upgrade past +5, additional ATK +1%, MATK +1%.
Crown of Deceit [1] - DEF +3, MDEF +10, INT +4, -10% variable cast time of skills; increased when refined to +7 and +9.
Cat Ear Beret [1] - DEF +5, if +5 or higher, +2% physical damage to and -2% physical damage from Demi-Human enemies per refine level.
Dress Hat [1] - ATK +2%, MATK +2%, +5% effectiveness of healing skills and +stats; additional ATK and MATK when refined to +7.
Koneko Hat - DEF +3, MDEF +3, MaxSP +3%, MATK +3%, -3% skill after-cast delay
Red Pom Band [1] - MDEF +5; if +5 or higher, +2% magical damage to and -2% magical damage from Demi-Human enemies per refine level.
Rabbit Bonnet [1] - DEF +10, ATK +10, MATK +10, -3% damage from Demi-human enemies, -3% skill after-cast delay; if +7 or higher, -5% damage from all elements.
Black Devil's Mask [1] - Slotted and +1 to all stats.
Black Frame Glasses [1] - DEF +2, MDEF +2, INT +1.
Ninja Scroll - MATK +1%.
Well-Chewed Pencil - DEX +2, hit +3
99 Love Balloons - All Stats +1
Mob Scarf and Sunglasses [1] or Sunglasses - Max HP + 5% for every combined sum of 80 base Agi and Vit. Matk + 120 for every combined sum of 80 base Int and Dex. Reduces the variable casting time of skills by 3% for every combined sum of 80 base Int and Dex.Increases the recovery rate of recovery skills by 10% for every combined sum of 80 base Int and Dex.

Best carded with:

Kathryne Keyron Card - -1%*(refine level of compounded headgear) variable cast time of skills; if compounded headgear is +9 or higher, MATK +2%
Incubus Card - INT -3, MaxSP +150, -20% SP recovery; when worn with, Succubus Card, INT +4, +30% SP recovery
Arc Angeling Card - When base of LUK 77 or higher, 100% SP regen and HP regen, MHP+300

Garment

The best of the best, do consider to have at least a Nid's Shadow Garb if you can't afford the other 2;

Fallen Angel Wing [1] - Enchantable via Dark Luhir NPC in Eden Kitchen. Preferable EA Enchant / Spell Enchant ( your choice ).
Heroic Backpack [1] - Only needs minimum of base 90 stats points to achieve bonuses. Versatile garment.
Nidhoggur's Shadow Garb [1] - DEF +25, MDEF +3, -7% damage from attacks of all elements, MaxSP +((BaseLevel/3)+(refine*10)).
Etran's Undershirt [1] - Increases max HP, best to refine to +10 for anti-knockback. Combo with Pantie [1] for Int + 15, Max HP and SP + 5%.
Skin of Typhon [1] - At refine level +8 or higher Matk + 15 & Def + 20 for every combined sum of 20 base Agi and Vit,

Best carded with:

Deviling Card - -50% damage from Neutral attacks, +50% damage from non-Neutral attacks.
Raydric Card - -20% damage from Neutral attacks.
Noxious Card - -10% damage from ranged attacks, -10% damage from Neutral attacks

Footgear

Shoes Of Punishment - At +7 or higher gives additional Matk + 10%, Holy property magical attacks + 10%. Combo with Holy Stick [1] to greatly increase Adoramus and Judex damage and has further damage increases if points are allocated to required skills.
Pilgrim Shoes - Reduces the global delay of skills by 6% per level of [Praefatio] known and Def + 50 per level of [Sacrament] known
Survivor's Shoes - Combo with all types of Survival Rods to Bypass 50% MDef.
Enhanced Variant Shoes [1] - Upgraded to have more DEF.
Temporal Dex Boots [1] - Runaway Magic Enchant and Spell enchant work best.
Temporal Int Boots [1] - Runaway Magic and Spell Enchant work best.

Can be carded with:

Firelock Soldier Card - nice card for shoes/boots as it gives extra +MHP and +MSP at 9+ refine state.
Gold Acidus Card - MaxHP and MaxSP +4%; if refined to no higher than +4, additional MaxHP and MaxSP +4%, +5% HP and SP recovery.
Verit Card - MaxHP and MaxSP +8%

Accessory

Class Data

Skills

See Priest Skills or High Priest Skills for 2nd class Skills.

Skill

Description

Levels

SP

Cast Time

Cooldown (Cast Delay)

Type

Adoramus

Deals Holy magical damage to a single foe (MATK * 6~15 * (BaseLV / 100)), (4~40% + JobLV / 2) inflicts Blindness and reduces target's AGI by 3~12. 12 cells range. Consumes a Blue Gemstone unless adjacent to an Acolyte-class character.

10

20~56

0F + 2V

2 (0.5)

Offensive

Ancilla

Creates 1 Ancilla used for several other Arch Bishop skills. Ancilla recovers 15% SP when used.
Consumes a Blue Gemstone. Maximum of 3 Ancillas can be carried and are character bound.

1

30%

1

Active

Cantocandidus

Casts Increase AGI (at the highest level learned on said skill) on party members in a 3/7/15-cell radius around you. Additional +1 AGI per 10 JobLVs.

3

?/?/240

1F + 3V

Supportive

Clearance

Removes the following status ailments and status buffs from target monster or party member at 68~100% chance: Blind, Frozen, Stone, Bleeding, Stun, Chaos, Poison, Curse, Sleep, Silence, Hallucination, Guillotine Cross Poisons, Venom Impression, Fear, Rune Knight rune buffs, Burning, Freezing, Crystallization, White Imprison, Force of Vanguard, Blood Sucker, Mandragora Howling, Shadow Formation, Body Painting, Deep Sleep, Harmonize, Despair Song, Siren's Voice, Gloomy Shyness, Saturday Night Fever, Critical Wounds. Cannot self-target. Cannot target hostile players.

5

54~78

0F + 5V

10

Active

Clementia

Casts Blessing (at the highest level learned on said skill) on party members in a 3/7/15-cell radius around you. Additional +1 bonus stat per 10 JobLVs.

3

?/?/360

1F + 3V

Supportive

Coluseo Heal

Casts Heal (at the highest level learned on said skill) on party members in a 3/7/15-cell radius around you. +2.5% bonus healing for each party member affected.

3

?/?/240

1F + 3V

2

Supportive

Duple Light

For 90~360 seconds, 12~30% chance of inflicting either ATK*1.1~2 damage (with your weapon's element) or MATK*2.2~4 neutral element magic damage on each successful non-skill melee attack.

10

55~100

2F + 2V

Active

Epiclesis

Resurrect friendly dead players in a 5x5 area on the ground. Enchants that area with a holy tree for 18~30 seconds: Increase maximum HP by 5~25%; Restore 3~5% HP and 2~4% SP every 3 seconds; uncloaks hidden creatures every 5 seconds. Does not affect undead element players.
Requires 1 Holy Water and 1 Ancilla.

5

300

2F + 0.5~2.5V

60

Supportive

Eucharistica

Increase attack power and resistance against Demons and Shadow monsters by 1~10% each.

10

Passive

Expiatio

Target ally's attacks has 5~25% defense bypassing for 30~150 seconds.

5

35~55

1F + 1V

Supportive

Full Throttle

Fully restores HP when cast and increases movement speed increases for the skill's duration. All stats +20%.

1

0

3000

Active

High Heal

Heals target with 2~3.2x power.

5

70~190

0F + 1V

3

Supportive

Judex

Deals Holy magical damage to target foe and its adjacent foes within 3x3 area (MATK * 3~4 * (Base Level / 100)).

5

20~32

2.5

(0.5)

Offensive

Lauda Agnus

50~80% chance to remove Frozen, Stone, Blind, Freezing, Crystallization, and Burning from party members. Party members not affected by these statuses have 5~8 VIT for 60 seconds.

4

50~80

0F + 1V

3

Supportive

Lauda Ramus

50~80% chance to remove Silence, Sleep, Stun, Mandragora Howling, and Deep Sleep from party members. Party members not affected by these statuses have 5~8 LUK for 60 seconds.

4

50~80

0F + 1V

3

Supportive