This thread is for all those people out there who don’t particularly care for healing and wish to be the best dang DPS Priests ever! I fully understand going into this thread that most people think a Priest should heal, and that DPS Priests aren’t as good as pure DPS classes. While the latter is true it doesn’t mean we still can’t min/max the heck out of out game!
I’m a long time WoW Shadow Priest player here looking to do some theorycrafting! From what I’ve seen and played skill-wise both the Shadow Priest and DPS Priest are set up very similarly, which means that DPS priests have a crazy amount of potential. The following guide-like thing is based on my experiences in seaRO2, and everything is subject to change in iRO2.
Pros & Cons of DPS and Hybrid
Full DPS
+ Extremely easy to level
+ Amazing AoE ability
+ High damage on multi-target fights
+ Packs a punch in PVP Colosseum (easy to farm PVP eq)
+ Good for farming stuff
- Below average single target damage
- Pretty much unwanted in Raids, for obvious reasons
- Skills do not scale well with Agi & Critical (only Holy Light and Genesis does)
- Priest EQ have virtually no AGI = low Critical