Best race for a priest

[I was promised cake]

Hi all, just downloaded the game today and wanted to make a priest. I was going to make a dwarf but i noticed that they seem to have the least mp out of all the races. Does it matter that much, or will being a dwarf screw me in the end? (no pun intended)

[The Faceless Man]

MP can be pretty important since it doesn't regenerate over time. However, Priest and Mage get an abundant amount of MP and at higher levels, the Priest's heal spells have reduced MP cost. Still, in a boss battle, taking the time to recover your MP via a camp could very well lead to the death of your teammates.

Most will say Gnome is the best race for a Priest, since the PIE stat increases the effect of healing. That being said, you may not be a Priest forever since you can always class change later on. Even if you don't, the difference in race won't make that huge of a difference. Stats like VIT, HP, and LUK tend to serve all classes fairly equally as well.

[I was promised cake]

thank you very much

[The Faceless Man]

Actually, after reading this again, I noticed you weren't exactly clear what type of Priest you wanted to make.

For primarily healing, Gnome would be the way to go.

However, Priests make viable magic-defense tanks (they can wear mage gear for higher mdef rating). They can also wear the 2nd-best physical defense gear. A dwarf would work well for this.

Some suggestions here in this thread: https://forums.station.sony.com/wo/index.php?threads/the-holy-church-priest-class-discussion-thread.2666/

[Forlorn]

You could always go for a human priest... just increase the PIE... they are pretty balanced!

[CEO of Ghouling]

yes humans are all around no m atter what so they are pretty well fit for a priest

[Dhregin]

Gnomes make the "Best" priests due to their high Piety (Stronger spells), and their solid Strength/vitality for the semi-off tank role the priest can serve as.
Dwarves make somewhat good priests, but have low mana. Their piety strength and vitality really helps them serve as a solid frontline priest.
Elves make good priests due to their high mana, and not-bad piety. Their low strength and vitality makes it so they are heavily invested in casting spells, and not so great at murdering and taking hits because of their low hp.

Porkuls and Humans make the absolute worst priests. Both have 20 base mana which hardly makes up for their stats. Humans have pitifully low piety. Porkul piety isn't much better. Without a substantial mana pool, they are blowing a higher % of mana for weaker spells compared to other races. Dwarves aren't much better off in this area, as they are blowing extremly high %'s of mana, but the difference is that their spell strength is also higher.

Humans do benefit on the side of being a front line priest, stun smashing things and buffing himself to victory due to solid strength and vitality, but porkuls really do have the hardest time as a priest because all three viable priest stats (Piety-Vitality-Strength) are rather low. Well, piety is more in a medium area.

Hope this helps.