Tips for a battle priest

When creating a character, plan ahead what you want to do and find out how each stat affects your character's abilities. This way it's easy to distribute your stats and skill points in a way that fits your purpose. Less disappointments and remaking.
Understanding the mechanics of each stat and skill also gives you the opportunity to create your own effective non-cookiecutter build.
Research is the key to success. Whenever going to a new place, find out what monsters spawn on the map and what type, element, size, etc. the monsters are. This way you can equip yourself properly to avoid deaths.
Offensive Bless drops undead and demon (not shadow/dark!) type monsters' flee and hit rate. Cast Blessing on monster holding Shift, just like you do when heal bombing.
Use buffs before going into battle. You don't want to run out of buffs in the middle of a mob.
When supporting a party, buff yourself first. This way it's easy to know when it's time to buff your party members again.
Get a blacksmith in your party. Adrenaline Rush gives a great boost to your aspd, if you're using mace class weapons.
Utilize the great variety of game mechanics in your party setup. For example the soul linker class in combination of other job classes allow for interesting boosts.

Character

Name: Kuma Sutra
Job class: Priest
Created: August 5th 2004
Guild: EvilForceOfForcefulEvil
Server: iRO Chaos iRO Ymir

I'm often asked about the name Kuma Sutra and people think I've misspelled it, actually meaning the famous book. This "misspelling" however is intentional. I wanted to give my character a witty, funny name and thought of this when I was playing Tekken 4. Kuma is one of my favorite characters in the game. "Kuma" means "bear" in Japanese and "Sutra" means "manual" in Hindi.
Later when it was time to come up with a guild nickname, I thought Metal Bear Solid was quite fitting for a battle priestess and refers to the character name too. Gamers can relate the nick to the famous game series Metal Gear Solid in a heartbeat.

I was inspired to make this character after playing a monk, but getting tired of the constant sp regen. I had had a battle priest earlier on the Sakray server, but lacking good equipment leveling wasn't much fun. I chose a high agi, high dex and moderate str build to get a good aspd and hit rate. When I'm typing this, Kuma is lv95 and so far I've been very satisfied with the build.

My equips are the following:
+4 Orc Hero Helm, Romantic Flower, Gangster Mask, +9 De Luxe Muffler, +7 Buckler from Hell, +7 Hard Saint's Robe, +9 Superior Shoes, +7 Shoes of Hermes, Athletic Brooch, The Sign.

Weapons I use:
+5 VVS Ice Stunner, +7 Double Boned Morning Star, +8 Triple Hallowed Chain, +9 Double Bloody Boned Chain, +8 Triple Flammable Chain.

Currently I'm concentrating on my balance sniper and Double Attack katar assassin, so heavier investments in priest gear can wait.

Interested in seeing pictures? Go to the Photo Album. The Album will open in a popup window, so please enable popups to be able to view it.

Videos of Kuma in action:
You'll need DivX codec installed to view some of the following videos. You can download the codec for free at divx.com. Videos were recorded by DarkOverLord.

I <3 the way you pwn (6.11 MB) *DivX5 or higher required
Ninety-nine (4.65 MB) *DivX5 or higher required
Jungle Jam: Hidden Scenes (3.65 MB)
Jungle Jam (6.81 MB)
Metal Bear Solid: Bat Beater (11.1 MB)
Kunlun Arena (9.48MB)
Lv6 Signum Crusis :: Lv90, aspd 184 (1.29 MB)
Adrenaline Rush in Prison :: Lv83, aspd 183 (592 kb)
Kuma Sutra vs Rybio :: Lv83, aspd 183 (2.24 MB)
Mob ownage :: Lv83, aspd 182 (5.45 MB)

About

This site is dedicated to my battle priestess from the Korean MMORPG Ragnarok Online. The site name comes from the character's guild nickname.

The site layout features Amatsu Underground Shrine, the third level of Amatsu dungeon, which is filled with fascinating monsters like Shinobi, Tengu and Samurai Specter. Definately one of my favorite places in the game.

About - You're here
Character - Read about Kuma Sutra
Tips - Gameplay tips for success
Links - Some of my favorite RO links

Updates:

September 12th 2007 - Added a 190 aspd video to the Character page.

November 19th 2006 - Added some photos to the Album. Check out the Character page.

September 4th 2006 - lv99! Added a few videos to the Character page.

June 5th 2006 - Video of Kuma's first MVP attempt! Metal Bear Solid: Bat Beater (11.1MB).

January 31st 2006 - New video featuring Kuma and lord knight DarkBunny! Kunlun Arena (9.48MB). Check the Character page for other videos.

August 28th 2005 - New updated videos on Character page, old ones removed

August 24th 2005 - New screens in the photo album on Character page

April 4th 2005 - Added videos to Character page