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As for being a single character, this game is not only alt friendly, but it seems to prompt people to make alts. A good thing is to make a character of at least the three roles. One dps, one healer and one tank. In OP's case, Warrior and priest would do the three roles, as warr can tank and dps. Having experience from the three roles helps players understand how party mechanics work.
As for priest and IoD, yes, it's slower than all other classes. Only pointers I can give is to make your priest into a scroll crafter and craft dps scrolls. if you have Elite account, you will need to replace the attack speed scroll with a crit power scroll. Also, Dreadnaught gear is easy to enchant so you can make a DPS staff and glove set, farm ABNM or use shade tokens to buy crit jewelry and get yourself 4 keen vyrsks. That's how I was setting up my priest for IoD when I was more active. Also do note that Spiteful crystals don't benefit a priest, as many of their attacks are considered close range. I tested this myself a few months ago. As with doing IoD with any other class, if you are confident in your repositioning ability, go for full back crit weapon crystals.
Your entry is spent the moment the dungeon is engaged. Aka, when somebody hits a mob and you are either inside at that moment or enter afterwards.
Depends on the priest and which BAMs.
My warrior is in MT, my healer in HW (soon to be fey forest), i made a healer from scratch, no elite, no anything, like i just started the game. I just felt like doing that.
For that reason, i am nowere near the gold needed to make any crafting(u meant make my priest etching master?), 4 keen vyrsks are like half my gold at the moment too.
As for experience, i have plenty as a dps, but very little as a priest, i have a lot to learn.
No, it doesnt, a priest in dreadnought doesn't solo kill bams fast. Dont matter who it is. I would be surprised if you put all of the classes together in the same gear to see which one kills 10 bams in less time and priests aren't last, i would be mindblown.
It takes like 30 secs per bam with my warrior, and maybe 1 min and seconds for giants, i didnt even try doing it with my priest, theres no way i can even get near that timing, and i dont feel like spending 20+ minutes killing 10 bams i usually kill in 3-4 or less.
Not master etching. If I remember, scrolls are made by alchemists. I'm not sure because I have not gone there in awhile but I think Artisan (650) should be enough to make a crit power scroll good enough for IoD. As for vyrsks, you don't need to buy them all through broker. They cost 600 vanguard credits at the vanguard shop. Buy some one way, buy some the other way. Spread resources. As for DPSing as a priest, it's actually at the core, much easier than warrior. Start each fight tossing the debuffs you usually toss at enemies when doing heal dungeon runs (e-stars, glyphed triple nem). The rest is using the 3-4 attack skills a priest has, from behind if possible. Priest isn't strong but can be quite a fast attacker. Their attack skills also have short cooldowns and some hit with a decent punch. You also get a targeted sleep you can use in an oh-sh*t moment. So, yes, it takes practice and will be slower than other DPS anyway, but it doesn't need to be abysmally slow, plus it can be fun if you make it so. In the end, patience and some training can win the day.
If you aren't queuing for dungeons on HW, you sure as hell aren't getting into the almost non-existant LFG groups. Clearly, you aren't doing dungeons. Unless you solo CW or something.
Just because you can't make a party, doesnt mean i can't. It's suprising how no1 creates parties, but everyone joins very fast, its a weird thing, when i played in MT actually making a LFG party was not that great, because there are so many, but in HW no1 creates them so its very easy being a healer and needing only 1 more healer 1 tank and all dps.
Is not that hard to find 6 more people to run DFxx, and ive joined a couple of DSL premades too.
Nah even IOD giants are ez. I can spike to 2000ms ping and still kill them on non-fotm classes.
The problem about "new players not being able to compete with older players" isn't really mitigated with limited entries and dailies now that there is a limit of how strong your gear can be (ie the BiS VM gear each patch), but I agree that the ability to infinite gold grind will make the economy bad. Most gamers focus on "gold" but not "materials", hence there was my question of why materials aren't really farmable outside of dailies.
To be really honest proper players don't need gold in dailies. They need mats. In the current system where you need a specific "ore" to craft every single gear, I am surprised why they aren't uncommon/rare drops from IoD instead of the current token system. IoD bams while easy to farm aren't bottable, so there should be that option.
But still. I am honestly surprised why you don't queue for anything below SSNM. No matter how trap they are you can still clear them pretty quickly. I tick every single dungeon from FI downwards on all my priests (yes including sabex and the rest) just because I can. And I got all of them crystals for PvP and dreadnaught is honestly not as fodder as you think if you aren't targetted.
Yeah, what Tera needs is, indeed, more RNG.
Priest lvl 69 Bam Hunting
Priest lvl 67 Bam Hunting
and just throwing this in there cuz i finally achieved my goal last week.
Priest GhillieHM under 30 seconds
You are actually an exception. A highly skilled player with VM +15 gear will of course do these very quickly AND find the activity boringly easy. In OPs case, he's a priest in DN gear with not that much experience with the class and few resources because he just started in that server. Of course, he fixes his problems by practicing more and building resources, which is what he should be doing anyway.
Now, this thread is old-ish, wonder how is OP doing nowadays.
well i just joined the forum community last night so yea im late...was just searchin thru priest threads old n new.
n ur right it does get boring on my +15 gunner n +15 ninja. guess since priests skills are lacking its fun having a some challenge
n ps...i only got that dumb +15 SF staff because it was originally made for healing with all heal, cdr, atk spd rolls BUT tested against slaughter staff heals fell short with +15SF the +13-15 heal bonuses are trash and all the pretty +healing % dont mean crap...just cuz slaughter doesnt show all those pretty stats it actually heals pretty good...full slaughter did the job in all the HM dungeons just fine.