Sherui's Bishop Guide (wip)

Hi Iruna, I am writing this guide here for bishops of all kinds whether you are super rich and powerful, less fortunate, or just simply a newbie to our kind.  Also, I'm not sure if Tilt is still updating hers so I'll just post this for others as well as for my own convenience when I want to teach someone about bishop.  This is MY opinion on things.  I'm not saying this is the best... just my way... post questions only please

First of all I’ll list weapons, armors, adds, and special equips commonly used in bishop gear sets.

Weaons:
Rods:
Solve Rod: The best rod ever for bishops. It has skill delay, matk, and heal all wrapped in a nice package. This is your all-purpose rod that should be with you always.
Get:  Rare drop from Bosshiet (tower of zebul boss)
Stats:  atk 155-165-170, matk +5%, skill delay -0.5s, heal recovery +3%
            Solve Rod+ : atk 165-175-180, matk +7%, skill delay -0.5s, heal recovery +4%
                Get:  upgrade at Fort Bailune 
                Materials:  crysta of darkness x2 (sianas), old magical text (wargvel), high mythril (blacksmith)
                 
Phoenix Rod: This is a nice high matk rod that is like a stronger version of solve rod, except it is missing the crucial skill delay. I would only use this rod in sets containing –skill delay equips such as wolf ears or exelis upg.
Get:  Rare drop from Garel
Stats:  atk 170-180-185, dex +7, matk +7%, heal recovery +3%, mdef +7%, mp recovery chance by atk

Princely Rod:  The heavy hitting rod best used for bishops 180+ trying to one shot using nemesis. Again, this rod has no skill delay… but the skill delay on nemesis is so little you’ll not notice it anyway.
Get:  Fallen Angel Grecia (Dark Castle boss)
Stats:  atk 100-110-115, light attribute, int +4
            Queen Rod:  atk 120-130-135, light attribute, int +5, matk +4%
                Get:  upgrade at Kleya
                Materials:  gold scale x1 (arumeteus), azoth x1 (false grecia/schilingel), orichalcum x1 (various bosses)
            Empress Rod:  atk 140-150-155 , light attribute, int +5, matk +8% (hidden:  extended physical range)  
                Get:  upgrade at Port Spargas
                Materials:  Adamantine x50 (EXB-0716), broken rod (gankaku), ◇Fallen Angel Grecia

priest staff:  honestly, a rod for the rich / fortunate who can own 2s.  It is a good rod for healing, but can't really compare to the utility of solve rod.
Get:  Leopard (injie caves)
Stats:  atk 120-130-135, def 5, heal recovery +10%, -10% mp consumption
            Bishop Scepter:  atk 130-140-145, def 5, matk +5%, heal recovery +10%, -10% mp consumption
                Get:  uprated at Capital City Elban
                Materials:  Light crystal x4 (plazuda),  glowing wing x30 (meane), light bead x15 (mimic) 

Ice Book:  For tanking purposes only. However, without healing xtals or other heal up equips, the magnitude of your heal will be unfit for tanking.
Get:  Aqua Rocker (tower of ice)
Stats:  atk 130-140-145, def 4, int +1, maxHP +12%, water element
            Ice Book II:  atk  def 4, int +2, maxHP +12%, skill delay -0.5s, water element
                Get: upgrade at Port Spargas
                Materials:  powder snow x30 (nipasu), sorrowful eye x30 (dulin), mythril x30 (various mobs)

Sauro Stick:  The best beginners rod for mage clerics.... mainly because it's cheap and has cast time down with decent matk. 
Get:  rare drop from Master Sauro (Wibo)
Stats:  atk 125-135-140, def 3, int +3, dex +3, matk +6%, -10% cast time

Resty Rod: Super heavy-duty rod. It’s slow, so you can afford to use matk/mp consumption up xtals like isurugi.
Get:  rare drop from Beezldam
Stats:  atk 178-188-193, matk +10%, +0.5s skill delay, -20% hate growth, matk increase when defending
 
*Facts*
-refine value does make your matk go up
-5.5k+ heal is recommended (full bishop only)
-Heal 2 is sometimes more efficient than heal 3

Throwing: (used for farming materials and stuff on lower mobs)
Fuma Shuriken: Totally unnecessary for the purposes bishops use throwing weapons for but it’s nice anyway and has matk and skill delay.
Essentially any knife is good if you’re ok with the damage

Magic Sword: I personally wouldn’t use magic swords on bishop, but hey, it works.
Sinbad:  Not really a good sword imo, but good for high agi bishop (maybe use magic amp?)
Hexe Espada: What other magic swords are there??? haha

Armor:
Tunic:  My favorite of all time… tunic! Not only does the re-upg have matk, but it has amazing mana recovery as well.
Get:  Fire elemental (scorched tunnels)
Stats:  def 5-10, mdef +, mp+, mp recovery+
            Tunic upg:  def 7-12, mdef +12% mp+12%, mp recovery +40%  
                Get:  Upgrade at Kleya
                Materials:  aquatic raiment x10 (hydra), white popsicle x10 (albedo/snow), high grade fur x10 (leopard) 
            Tunic re-upg:  def 9-14, matk +5%, mdef +12%, mp +15%, mp recovery +40%
                Get:  Upgrade at Fort Bailune
                Materials:  empress hairpin x1 (mezzaluna), crystal of darkness x1 (sianas), high mythril x1 (blacksmith)

Mage Garb:  Nice armor like tunic. It has mana recovery, matk, and casting speed for nemesis. However, I find that the casting speed doesn’t really help very much on nemesis.
Get:  rare drop from wizaleon (eeros island boss)
Stats:
            Mage Garb upg:
                Get:  upgrade at Capital City Saterica
                Materials: 

Exelis: Skill delay *-*.
Get:  rare drop from schilingle
Stats:  def , atk 10, atk +3%, matk +3%, evasion +5%, magic R +
            Exelis upg:  def 6-10- , atk 15, atk +3%, matk +3%, evasion +5%, magic R +12%, skill delay -1s
                Get:  Port Spargas
                Materials:  ◇Metalbrow, titanium x1 (altadora), cobalt x2 (metalbrow)

Dark Priest Robe: Best for tanking magic bosses. Not only does it have amazing magic resistances, but it has a magic counter as well.
Get:  rare drop from dark drragon finstern (elf mountain boss)
Stats: 
            Dark Priest Robe upg:  def, matk +4%, autoskill +4%, mdef + , magic R+, magic counter (dark element), dark magic +10%
                Get:  Port Spargas
                Materials:   cotton x10 (), puffy pelt x5 (jakow), red pill x20 (fire cat)

Shushiwa: Matk and mp cost down. This is like an alternative to DPR but without the resistances.
Get:  make at Minaula blacksmith using bushi armor (crow samurai), bushi shoulders (bear samurai), bushi greaves (minenaga)
Stats:
            Shushiwa upg:
                Get:  upgrade at Caplital City Minaula
                Materials:  zirconium x1 (mezzaluna), high mythril x2 (blacksmith), torn cape x30 (velda)

Mereth:  A good armor, but does not support heavy mp consumption
Get:  rare drop from Jabek
Stats:
            Altoshear
                Get:  upgrade at Port Spargas
                Stats:
            Altoshear upg:
                Get:  upgrade at Fort Bailune
                Stats:

Additional:
Fox Scarf: The most optimal healing set add that has been released in English.
Get:  Raptor (map just west of Port Spargas)
Stats:  def, Heal recovery +10%, agi +5%, auto MP recovery +10, autoskill +3%

White Barrette: Has mp cost down
Get:  Kijimu (quest boss in the kijimu fields near kleya)
Stats:  def , int +2, mp consumption -10%

White Scarf: Like fox scarf, an equip for healing.
Get:  Piton (elf mountain)
Stats:  heal recover +10%, hate rise -

Grecia Helm: Has vit and matk, making it a good equip if you don’t want to spend a lot of spina.
Get: rare drop from False Grecia
Stats: def 8-13, vit +3, matk +5%, mdef +5%

Wizard Hachigane: A very nice equip… it has hidden matk and heal % up
Get:  Lava (from maze f11?)
Stats:  def, int +1, rod stats up (matk +5%, heal recovery +5% with rod?)

Priest Hat: I didn’t want to include this, but here it is. I still prefer white scarf and fox scarf over this though.
Get:
Stats:

Mercure: The to die for hat
Get:  rare drop from Vaseria
Stats:  def, matk +7%, mp cost -5%, hate rise -15%, skill delay -0.5s, wind R -20%

Special Equip:
Brave Bangle: This is the best for tanking/all-purpose spec. However, it is an x trade slotted mq item only given to warriors. Since we are mages, it is required that you purchase a second character slot, make a warrior, do his/her mq, and then transfer the bangle to your bishop.
Also, it is possible to obtain this bangle without spending any money by keeping your character as an app warrior until completing mq up to matar.  After receiving the bangle, change from app warrior to app mage->app cleric-> cleric etc.
Get:  mq (matar)
Stats:  atk -5%, physical res +5% 

Dragonewt bangle: Yet another mq item. 5% recovery is nice and it comes slotted! Best for those who can’t afford slotted special equips or are unwilling to purchase a second character slot to get brave bangle.
Get:  mq (beelzdam)
Stats: hp recovery +5%, mp recovery +5%

Spiritual Balm: For healing only.
Get:  Water elemental (tower of ice)
Stats:  heal recovery +5%
  
Battery: Gotta love that mana recovery =w=
Get:  that one flying thing (tower of zebul)
Stats: +30% mp recovery

Leafy Green Bangle: +20 mana recovery. Depending on the amount of mana you have, this may or may not be better than battery.
Get:  kijimu (flying ones before elban)
Stats:  mp recovery +20

Ghost Candle: Matk and –cspd for nemesis. However, not worth it if you can add mezzaruna to a different equip.
Get:  ghost lantern (shojo's map)
Stats:  matk +2%, cast time -10%

Medical Ring:  A ring for healing others only.  Not to be used by low lvl mage/cleric/bishop.  Again, I want to emphasize the priority of slot over stat in spec equip
Get:  Megaroche
Status:  heal recovery +8%, heal received down

Jar of Greed: Because. Just because everyone who believes in it should carry one.
Get: rare drop from Giant Rocker
Stats:  rare drop rate up, exp down by a lot
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Crysta:
Roar: Cheap. Works. Yay xD
5% heal recovery

Grail: Just for healing set
10% total heal in additional equip

Unicorn: The “best” xtal for healing bishops. However, to me the stat isn’t worth the price.
3% heal, 6% matk

Isurugi: Full atk xtal best used with Jabek
15% matk 50% mp consumption up / 12% matk 25% mp consumption up in weapon

False Grecia: Same as Isurugi except its more manageable
10% matk 30% mp consumption up

Jabek: A wonderful xtal for increasing the mana regen capabilities of bless.
100% mp recovery up 10% mp down

Rossam: An xtal that decreases the mp cost of spells. It’s good, but not the most optimal xtal to use.
20% mp consumption down

Gusanoth: An matk xtal that is good for solo bishops who don’t want to spend a lot of spina.
7% matk (removes autoskill from equip it is placed in)

Wargvel:
5% light/dark/neutral dmg 5% matk in armor
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Now that I have completed the equipment section, I would like to remind readers that MY preferences all have personal justification. So if you see me wearing some weird unorthodox far-from-optimal set… I have a good reason, I assure you.

The following will list sets that I think are good for bishops
First, is the one I am wearing.

Solve Rod (Gusanoth)
Tunic re-upg (Jabek)
Mercure (False Grecia)
Brave Bangle (Mezzaluna)

Heal Set: (generic)
Priest Staff/Bishop Scepter (roar)
Magic Garb/Tunic (roar)
Priest Hat/Fox Scarf/White Scarf (roar)
Spiritual Balm

Super-Expensive Heal Set:
Bishop Scepter (Unicorn)
Magic Garb upg/Tunic re-upg (Unicorn)
Fox Scarf (Grail)
Spiritual Balm (Mezzaluna)

Super-Expensive Speedy Healing Set: (optimized for mana recovery as well)
Solve Rod (Unicorn)
Exelis upg (Jabek)
Fox Scarf (Grail)
Battery (Mezzaruna)

Nemesis Set: average
Empress Rod (Isurugi)
Magic Garb upg/Tunic re-upg (Jabek)
Wizard Hachigane (False Grecia)
Any slotted spec (Mezzaluna)

Nemesis Set: continuous
Solve Rod+ (gusanoth)
Tunic re-upg (Jabek)
Mercure (False Grecia)
Any slotted spec (Mezzaluna)

Nemesis Set: power
Resty Rod (isurugi)
Tunic re-upg (Jabek)
Mercure (False Grecia
Ghost Candle (Mezzaluna)

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Skills
Holy Light 2
Lvl: 160
Get: King Elbano in Capital City Elban
Need:  kill naga x30, dryad x30; collect digestive juice x15 (moray), thick hide x30 (sandworm), powerful engine x 1 (altadora)

Priere 2
Lvl: 160
Get: Pub NPC Levia in Port Spargas
Need:  kill nipasu x50, tigris x50,

Nemesis 1
Lvl: 180
Get: Pub NPC Levia in Port Spargas
Need:  propeller blade x40 (bumble), torn cloth x40 (), pretty wing x20 (schmet), mysterious plume x1 (plazuda)

Sanctuary 1
Lvl 180
Get: Pub NPC Levia in Port Spargas
Need:

*soon to be implemented*
Divine Bless 2
Lvl: 200

Priere 3
Lvl: 200

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Now the fun part… leveling process!! xD

Lvls Current Class Method
1-20 Adventurer/App Mage Grind on whatever you can take…
Nepheels, goblins, broche, etc.

20-30 Mage
Grind on whatever you can take… hounds, gazers, nepheels, chiro, etc.

30-50 Mage
Skeletons Quest from Viena
Baums Quest from Nepherta
Flame rockers in Scorched tunnels

50-70 App Cleric
Dark Soldiers, dark warriors, Flame Rockers
Note that during this time, your role will likely be to bless the party and heal/revive

70-80 Cleric
Medusa Quest in Saterica

80-120 Cleric
Awaiting the Goddess quest from the Injie man npc

120-140 App Bishop   
Snakes in the Maze quest (maze of enzites f4) kill naga x99 for 410k exp

140-180 Bishop
Naga/Monsters in the Valley

180~ Bishop
Megaroche Grinding

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Builds

INT -> VIT -> DEX
    Tanker's build

INT -> DEX -> VIT
    Nemesis build

INT -> AGI -> DEX
    
INT -> AGI -> VIT