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For now though, combat remains a fairly straight-forward affair involving pulling mobs with Smite and then smacking them over the head with your mace, keeping the debuff from Hallowed Strike active on your target as often as the skill is refreshed.  In between fights you may also find yourself obsessively casting your new Blessing of Health buff on other players in the area, or tossing them a quick heal if it looks like they’re running low on HP. Not only is checking the buffs and health bars of other players a good practice to get into as a healing class, but it’s an excellent way to meet people and potentially even get into your first groups.

Level five won’t necessarily alter combat mechanics as a Priest, though you do gain two more extremely useful skills. Blessing of Protection I increases the Physical Defense of your target by 10%, while Light of Renewal adds another important healing spell to your arsenal. Though weaker than Healing Light, Light of Renewal will be your first HoT (heal-over-time) spell.  Mobs around this level will start hitting a bit harder, but I’ve found that maintaining Light of Renewal throughout combat is typically enough to keep your health bar close to full and as an instant cast spell you won’t have to worry about it being interrupted in the meantime.

At level seven you’ll gain your first of a series of chained attack abilities. While you should already be pretty familiar with the chain opener, Hallowed Strike, the finisher is a new spell called Heaven’s Judgement I. Whenever you use Hallowed Strike, the icon will instantly be replaced by the next attack in the chain, which in this case is the direct damage spell Heaven’s Judgement which also has a short duration stun effect on your target. As the cooldown is 24 seconds on this new spell, I’ve found it’s best to hold off using it until later in each fight, as the stun affords you plenty of time to cast Healing Light if Light of Renewal isn’t providing enough health regeneration on its own.

As the ultimate goal of your early leveling experience will be to reach level nine and complete the ascension quest to earn your wings and become a Daeva, let’s take a brief look at what makes the two subclass selections for a Priest tick. This will hopefully give you some good insight into which side of the subclass fence your first few skills fall on so that as you advance through the initial storyline quests on your path to level nine you’ll have a better understanding of how they fit into the bigger picture.