Arch Bishop

Arch Bishop
Job Base(s):	Priest High Priest
Job Type:	3-1
Race:	Human
Changes At:	Capital City
Number of Skills:	19
Total Skill Points:	104
Total Quest Skills:	0
Job Bonuses
STR AGI VIT INT DEX LUK +6 +5 +7 +10 +7 +2

Overview

Arch Bishops are the pinnacle of the Priest classes. Their names are often abbreviated and referred to as "AB". They have a wide variety of skills at their disposal allowing them to better support large parties while striking down a greater range of enemies with Holy magic.

Job Change Guide

See [Job Change Guide] for detailed information.

In GatheringRO you don't have to go through the official job quests to change your job. Simply talk to the Job Master NPC who's waiting for you in the Capital City.

Builds

You can see all the latest player created class guides right here.

[Player Created Class Guides]

Equipment

Weapon

• Holy Stick [1] - When used in combination with Shoes Of Punishment this is the best weapon for Adoramus users
• Mace of Judgement [2] - A great weapon for Adoramus users, part of the Judgement Mora set
• Empowered Mace of Judgement [1] - A more powerful version of the Mace of Judgement, part of the Judgement Mora set
• Divine Cross - A great weapon for ME users, especially in the early stages (Priest, High Priest, newly changed Arch Bishop)
• Wand of Affection - A good weapon for FS Arch Bishop, part of the Affection Mora set
• Empowered Wand of Affection [1] - A more powerful version of Wand of Affection, part of the Affection Mora set
• Glorious Cure Wand - A great weapon for FS Arch Bishop, make sure to +10 it to get the full effect
• Elder Staff [3] - A decent healing weapon for FS Arch Bishop
• Healing Staff - An Alternative weapon for FS Arch Bishop when you're on a budget, overupgrade it to increase your healing power
• Recovery Light [2] - Another alternative weapon for FS Arch Bishop when you're on a budget, overupgrading it will increase your healing power, but it also increases your sp consumption
• Croce Staff [1] - Combo with Clergy Nurse Cap [1] and Rosary Necklace.

Best Carded with:

• True Margaretha Sorin Card - Increases Adoramus damage.

Shield

Valk's Shield are good, especially carded with elemental card, to reduces elemental damages received, though you might wanna plan first before going through instances/fight

• Mad Bunny Special [1] - Reflect 10% of short range physical damage back to the attacker.

Adds a 10% chance that for 2 seconds there is a 60% chance to reflect all magic damage back to the attacker. If refined to +7 or higher, adds an additional Atk +5, Matk +5. If refined to +9 or higher, adds an additional Atk +15, Matk +15. If refined to +12 or higher, adds Crit +10 and prevents skill casting from being interrupted.

• Round Buckler [1] - Decent shield for those who only have small finance.
• Valkyrja's Shield [1] - Pretty much the best. Great DEF, some MDEF, reduces common elemental damage.
• Bible of Promise(2nd Vol.) [1] - Can use Odin's Power Lv 2.

Best carded with Alice, Neo Punk Card and big ben card ignores 50% of Formless and Demon monster's Magic Defense Rate, Hodremlin and Elemental Reduc cards. Also you can use nightmare arclouse and nightmare mimic card to ignore 50% magic defense Undead monsters.

Armor

• Abyss Dress - At +9 or higher Increases physical and magical damage on Shadow and Undead property as well as Demon and Undead race targets by 40%, Shadow element
• Kardui Robe [1] - Armor against demi-human, great for bio4 leveling. Best carded with Angeling Card if refined to +9
• Medical Scrub [1] - Greatly increase DEF, reduce cast delay, improve recovery rate of skills and increases incoming recovery skills.
• Nectar Suit [1] - Max HP + 1% and Max SP + 1% per 2 upgrade levels of the item. Vit +3
• Orleans' Gown [1] - Makes your cast uninterruptible at the cost of increasing Cast Time by 15%.
• Geffen Magic Robe [1] - Enhanced Orleans' Gown.
• Diabolus Robe [1] - Adds SP.
• Brynhild - Godly item, only if you have access.

• Aebecee's Raging Typhoon Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (wind)
• Saphien's Armor of Ocean [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (water)
• Lucius's Fierce Armor of Volcano [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (fire)
• Claytos Cracking Earth Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (earth)
• Azure Dragon Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (water)
• Chiu Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (shadow)
• Kirin Armor [1] - Elemental Reduc Armor (holy)

Can be carded with:

• Elemental resist cards
• Dame of Sentinel Card - For every 18 base points of VIT, gain 1 DEX.
• Obsidian Card - For every 18 base points of DEX, gain 1 VIT.
• Pest Card - Cast Stone Curse when inflicted with physical damage.

Headgear

• King Of Spirit Circlet - At +10 or higher upgrade Bypass 100% MDef, Reduce Fixed Cast Time 70%, and Reduce Aftercast Delay 20%,
• Sacred Crown - At +10 or higher upgrade reduce the number of required Gemstones by one for most skills (Mistress card effect), +100% Adoramus and Judex damage, and if Clearance is level 5 +25% magic damage on bosses.
• Clergy Nurse Cap [1] - Increases healing rate and uninterruptible casting without any drawback. Combo with Croce Staff [1] and Rosary Necklace to greatly improve healing rate per refine level.
• Yggdrasil Crown - Largely increases healing rate on others and yourself (both apply when healing yourself!).
• Old Mitra [1] - All Stat + 1, Max HP + 1% and Max SP + 1% per 2 upgrade levels of the item. Atk + 4 and Matk + 2 per upgrade level of the item. Increases the damage of Judex by 20%, Increases the damage of Magnus Exorcismus by 10%, Increases the recovery rate of recovery skills by 2% per 2 upgrade levels of the item. Mdef + 5
• Chibi Pope [1] - Increases healing effect on others, by a lot when combo with a Blush or Blush [1].
• Shrine Maiden Hat [1] - Increases Magnus Exorcismus damage
• Moon Rabbit Hat [1] - DEF +2, ATK +5%, MATK +5%; for each upgrade past +5, additional ATK +1%, MATK +1%.
• Crown of Deceit [1] - DEF +3, MDEF +10, INT +4, -10% variable cast time of skills; increased when refined to +7 and +9.
• Cat Ear Beret [1] - DEF +5, if +5 or higher, +2% physical damage to and -2% physical damage from Demi-Human enemies per refine level.
• Dress Hat [1] - ATK +2%, MATK +2%, +5% effectiveness of healing skills and +stats; additional ATK and MATK when refined to +7.
• Koneko Hat - DEF +3, MDEF +3, MaxSP +3%, MATK +3%, -3% skill after-cast delay
• Red Pom Band [1] - MDEF +5; if +5 or higher, +2% magical damage to and -2% magical damage from Demi-Human enemies per refine level.
• Rabbit Bonnet [1] - DEF +10, ATK +10, MATK +10, -3% damage from Demi-human enemies, -3% skill after-cast delay; if +7 or higher, -5% damage from all elements.
• Black Devil's Mask [1] - Slotted and +1 to all stats.
• Black Frame Glasses [1] - DEF +2, MDEF +2, INT +1.
• Ninja Scroll - MATK +1%.
• Well-Chewed Pencil - DEX +2, hit +3
• 99 Love Balloons - All Stats +1
• Mob Scarf and Sunglasses [1] or Sunglasses - Max HP + 5% for every combined sum of 80 base Agi and Vit. Matk + 120 for every combined sum of 80 base Int and Dex. Reduces the variable casting time of skills by 3% for every combined sum of 80 base Int and Dex.Increases the recovery rate of recovery skills by 10% for every combined sum of 80 base Int and Dex.

Best carded with:

• Kathryne Keyron Card - -1%*(refine level of compounded headgear) variable cast time of skills; if compounded headgear is +9 or higher, MATK +2%
• Incubus Card - INT -3, MaxSP +150, -20% SP recovery; when worn with, Succubus Card, INT +4, +30% SP recovery
• Arc Angeling Card - When base of LUK 77 or higher, 100% SP regen and HP regen, MHP+300

Garment

The best of the best, do consider to have at least a Nid's Shadow Garb if you can't afford the other 2;

• Fallen Angel Wing [1] - Enchantable via Dark Luhir NPC in Eden Kitchen. Preferable EA Enchant / Spell Enchant ( your choice ).
• Heroic Backpack [1] - Only needs minimum of base 90 stats points to achieve bonuses. Versatile garment.
• Nidhoggur's Shadow Garb [1] - DEF +25, MDEF +3, -7% damage from attacks of all elements, MaxSP +((BaseLevel/3)+(refine*10)).
• Etran's Undershirt [1] - Increases max HP, best to refine to +10 for anti-knockback. Combo with Pantie [1] for Int + 15, Max HP and SP + 5%.
• Skin of Typhon [1] - At refine level +8 or higher Matk + 15 & Def + 20 for every combined sum of 20 base Agi and Vit,

Best carded with:

• Deviling Card - -50% damage from Neutral attacks, +50% damage from non-Neutral attacks.
• Raydric Card - -20% damage from Neutral attacks.
• Noxious Card - -10% damage from ranged attacks, -10% damage from Neutral attacks

Footgear

• Shoes Of Punishment - At +7 or higher gives additional Matk + 10%, Holy property magical attacks + 10%. Combo with Holy Stick [1] to greatly increase Adoramus and Judex damage and has further damage increases if points are allocated to required skills.
• Pilgrim Shoes - Reduces the global delay of skills by 6% per level of [Praefatio] known and Def + 50 per level of [Sacrament] known
• Survivor's Shoes - Combo with all types of Survival Rods to Bypass 50% MDef.
• Enhanced Variant Shoes [1] - Upgraded to have more DEF.
• Temporal Dex Boots [1] - Runaway Magic Enchant and Spell enchant work best.
• Temporal Int Boots [1] - Runaway Magic and Spell Enchant work best.

Can be carded with:

• Firelock Soldier Card - nice card for shoes/boots as it gives extra +MHP and +MSP at 9+ refine state.
• Gold Acidus Card - MaxHP and MaxSP +4%; if refined to no higher than +4, additional MaxHP and MaxSP +4%, +5% HP and SP recovery.
• Verit Card - MaxHP and MaxSP +8%

Accessory

• Arch Bishop Ring [1] - FS AB
• Recovery Ring [1] - FS AB
• Valkyrie Drop [1] - ME AB
• Perverse Demon Mask [1] - Adoramus AB

Class Data

Skills

See Priest Skills or High Priest Skills for 2nd class Skills.

Skill	Description	Levels	SP	Cast Time	Cooldown (Cast Delay)	Type
Adoramus	Deals Holy magical damage to a single foe (MATK * 6~15 * (BaseLV / 100)), (4~40% + JobLV / 2) inflicts Blindness and reduces target's AGI by 3~12. 12 cells range. Consumes a Blue Gemstone unless adjacent to an Acolyte-class character.	10	20~56	0F + 2V	2 (0.5)	Offensive
Ancilla	Creates 1 Ancilla used for several other Arch Bishop skills. Ancilla recovers 15% SP when used. Consumes a Blue Gemstone. Maximum of 3 Ancillas can be carried and are character bound.	1	30%	1		Active
Cantocandidus	Casts Increase AGI (at the highest level learned on said skill) on party members in a 3/7/15-cell radius around you. Additional +1 AGI per 10 JobLVs.	3	?/?/240	1F + 3V		Supportive
Clearance	Removes the following status ailments and status buffs from target monster or party member at 68~100% chance: Blind, Frozen, Stone, Bleeding, Stun, Chaos, Poison, Curse, Sleep, Silence, Hallucination, Guillotine Cross Poisons, Venom Impression, Fear, Rune Knight rune buffs, Burning, Freezing, Crystallization, White Imprison, Force of Vanguard, Blood Sucker, Mandragora Howling, Shadow Formation, Body Painting, Deep Sleep, Harmonize, Despair Song, Siren's Voice, Gloomy Shyness, Saturday Night Fever, Critical Wounds. Cannot self-target. Cannot target hostile players.	5	54~78	0F + 5V	10	Active
Clementia	Casts Blessing (at the highest level learned on said skill) on party members in a 3/7/15-cell radius around you. Additional +1 bonus stat per 10 JobLVs.	3	?/?/360	1F + 3V		Supportive
Coluseo Heal	Casts Heal (at the highest level learned on said skill) on party members in a 3/7/15-cell radius around you. +2.5% bonus healing for each party member affected.	3	?/?/240	1F + 3V	2	Supportive
Duple Light	For 90~360 seconds, 12~30% chance of inflicting either ATK*1.1~2 damage (with your weapon's element) or MATK*2.2~4 neutral element magic damage on each successful non-skill melee attack.	10	55~100	2F + 2V		Active
Epiclesis	Resurrect friendly dead players in a 5x5 area on the ground. Enchants that area with a holy tree for 18~30 seconds: Increase maximum HP by 5~25%; Restore 3~5% HP and 2~4% SP every 3 seconds; uncloaks hidden creatures every 5 seconds. Does not affect undead element players. Requires 1 Holy Water and 1 Ancilla.	5	300	2F + 0.5~2.5V	60	Supportive
Eucharistica	Increase attack power and resistance against Demons and Shadow monsters by 1~10% each.	10				Passive
Expiatio	Target ally's attacks has 5~25% defense bypassing for 30~150 seconds.	5	35~55	1F + 1V		Supportive
Full Throttle	Fully restores HP when cast and increases movement speed increases for the skill's duration. All stats +20%.	1	1	0	3000	Active
High Heal	Heals target with 2~3.2x power.	5	70~190	0F + 1V	3	Supportive
Judex	Deals Holy magical damage to target foe and its adjacent foes within 3x3 area (MATK * 3~4 * (Base Level / 100)).	5	20~32	2.5	(0.5)	Offensive
Lauda Agnus	50~80% chance to remove Frozen, Stone, Blind, Freezing, Crystallization, and Burning from party members. Party members not affected by these statuses have 5~8 VIT for 60 seconds.	4	50~80	0F + 1V	3	Supportive
Lauda Ramus	50~80% chance to remove Silence, Sleep, Stun, Mandragora Howling, and Deep Sleep from party members. Party members not affected by these statuses have 5~8 LUK for 60 seconds.	4	50~80	0F + 1V	3	Supportive
Offertorium	Increases the efficiency of High Heal, Coluseo Heal, Sanctuary, and Heal while increasing SP Cost of all skills.	5	30~150	5~1		Active
Oratio	Reduce Holy element resistance of enemies in a 15-cell radius around you by 2~20%, with success rate of 45~90%.	10	36~62	5	2	Active
Praefatio	Casts Kyrie Eleison on party members in a 18-cell radius around you. +2% absorption limit for party member affected.	10	60~150	1F + 2V	13~40	Supportive
Renovatio	For 90 seconds, recover 3% HP every 5 seconds on non-undead target. Deals (Caster's Base Level x 10) + (Caster's INT) damage to undead target.	1	30	2F + 3V	1	Supportive
Sacrament	For 60~180 seconds, target ally has -10~50% fixed cast time.	5	100~180	1F + 1V	(0.5)	Supportive
Silentium	Inflict Silence status to foes in a 4~8-cell radius around you for 20~60 seconds.	5	24~40	0F + 4V	15	Supportive

Equipment Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	SP	Cast Time & Cool down	Type	Equipment
Odin's Power	For 60 seconds, +70 Equipment ATK and MATK. -20 Equipment DEF and MDEF.	1	70	Instant	Supportive	Bible of Promise (1st Vol.)
	For 60 seconds, +100 Equipment ATK and MATK. -20 Equipment DEF and MDEF.	2	100			Bible of Promise (2nd Vol.) or Valkyrie Drop [1]

Job Bonuses

Stat\Amount	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8	+9	+10
STR	18	19	24	28	46	54
AGI	26	27	38	39	52
VIT	3	10	11	34	45	53	57
INT	1	7	8	22	32	40	41	49	55	60
DEX	5	14	15	36	44	50	59
LUK	51	58

ASPD

Equip Attack Speed From 2nd Class Bare Handed 151 −5 Shield -5 0 Mace 0 +3 Rod (One Handed) -15 +5 Rod (Two Handed) -10 +10 Book +1 +5 Knuckle -5 +15

ASPD Potions Usable Concentration ✔ Awakening ✘ Berserk ✘

Skill Tree