Editing Earth priest tips (section)

== "What race should I pick? What _sec guilds?" ==


Depends. If you want to be a caster, pick race with cheap int, wis, and good spr & heartbeat. Like Spellweaver or gnome.
If you want to throw from behind your minion, pick some race with better dexterity.


For EQ parties, probably only a "caster" build will work. Because you need spmax to spam spells and buff and ress.


One EQ-party build: 

 60 lvls Earth priest.  
 15 levels [[Crossbow militia]] (instant shooting, uses endurance points which you can replenish yourself at regens, instant reloads, so free damage. dont even need to wield the weapon, but need to wear a quiver tho). 
 15 levels of [[Changelings]] (stun immunity (Tree Form), or spregen if can be stun immune with Embrace). 
 2 levels of [[Teaching of elements]]. 
 5 levels of [[Chronomancers]]. 
 3 Levels of [[Clan of the mountainfolk]] (crossbow virtuoso, earthforce etc). (cant remember if you could take Weapon maintenance with profession levels, if not, then just take 2 racial guild lvls)


or some combination of: 

 60 EP, 
 10 levels [[Unification of Dhubr]] ([[Vestment of souls]] for own survivability, [[Phantasmal shroud]] for party buff (breaks skills and spells))
 15 levels of [[Vampire thralls]] ([[necrosis]] to increase other players damage if no Scions around), 
 or maybe 15 Changelings, 
 or  15 [[Gathering of assassins]] for [[Shadow barrier]]-partybuff, 
 or 15 [[Scions of pain]] for dream-buffs and Venom Ward etc. 
 2 levels of [[Teaching of elements]]. 
 5 levels of [[Chronomancers]]. 

This will allow you to take full racial guild levels, and maybe some stat guild levels. 
(60 + 10 + 15 + 5 + 5 + 2 leaves you with 3 "extra" levels)


'''Running exp with minion:''' 
 I recommend you either take xbow, bow, or throwing if you want to kill bigger, single target monsters for exp (EPs own spells are not very good against single targets, coffin gets resisted and loses dmg on combat sense etc, 
 and touch is... well, just low dmg).
 Other way is to focus on aoe spells and running bigger mob packs (killing multiple monsters at once), which would work well with either [[Scions of pain]]
 + [[venom ward]] blessings + coven belt ( [[https://icesus.org/wiki/index.php/Black_leather_belt_with_a_tarnished_silver_buckle | Link]] ) (x3 for best performance) or [[Inborn psionicist]] for [[psychic storm]] spam. Venom ward is more dmg, 
 but uses sp, while psychic storm allows you to use sp and psp (sp for Bane of the living and psp for storm), even if its lower damage than ward (but its better than Bane with higher psi-masteries).
 Races depend on the build, if you want xbow for example, might want to take some combination of spmax/spr and steady focus/other xbow skill [[Stories]] in your new reinc, and you can focus on dex too if you choose, and dont use spells much.
 And for caster (aoe) build naturally you want to focus on int/wis/spmax/pspmax/spr/pspr depending on your choise. possibly some related spell % from reinc aswell.

=== Racial guilds ===


For max spell damage and caster-related thingies such as potion making perks (potions are important for EP!) go with [[Little people's league]].

For max crossbow shenanigans go with [[Clan of the mountainfolk]]. (maybe take psi_sec too for unfold mind archery crit access)

For max infusion-related stuff (for minions damage) maybe try [[Nomads of the wild]]. Also offers throwing damage. And archery damage.

[[Slumdogs of czardom]] help you with minion repairing (vicissitude), carrying capacity and treasure chance, more money when selling items etc

[[Civilized city dwellers]] dont offer much: More exp rate when leading, more money from selling, and i am not sure if the infusion bonus worked when it comes to minions or not.

[[Cult of the devourer]]: +heartbeat, +spelldamage,+regens,reduced sleep cd, +1 to all charms. Could very well work for eq parties.