Holy Light

Hello,


I'm just reading up on priest. I read where Holy Fist is a physical not magical attack, so I guess it does not use MATK. But I cannot find if Holy Light is the same or a magic attack?

Thanks,

[witch]

 

Thanks so much, I was looking more at breaking up a proration, so good to know one is a physical attack, and the other is a magic attack.

Thanks!

[witch]

 

Just an update, I saw an online translation or the .jp tiramisu description where it states both are physical attacks. Of course that doesn't mean this version is..

[witch]

 

Holy Fist is a physical based on 50%atk and matk. equipping a staff makes it 75%matk and knuckles use 75%atk.

Holy Light is a magic skill based on 100% matk. it partially ignores the targets mdef.
equipping a staff increases it's power by 30%, knuckles increase the pierce effect by 30%.
this skill is very good for knuckles, but not so for staffs. other magic gets a 50% bonus with staff, so holy light will always be weaker, unless the target has very high mdef. if you use a staff, save this skill for later and learn other stuff first.

 

Holy Light also has a long Cast Time and it only hits 2 times, very low damage for its cost. In my point of view its only a "pre-requisite skill" for the next skill (Priest Skills Lv3) which will be unlocked at Lv110. A skill which is just a bridge to the next skill. Similar to Bullseye, Snipers have it as the bridge to get Snipe but practically no one uses it.

 

the cast time is the same as magic arrows, but instead of 6/10 hits, it hits only once (with staff, maybe knuckles get 2 hits, didn't test them).
i can't remember exactly when i used it, since there was that bug with magic pierce not working correctly, so it might be better now...

as a magic skill it's good for knuckles, especially the ones without MD sub.
for staff users it's just a niche skill and usually inferior to magic arrows.

 

I just tested it with a fresh character, level 5. No stat points assigned. Same ATK with Knuckle and MATK with Staff (starter weapons).

* Holy Light has the same cast time as Arrows but the animation in the end makes it around .200-.300ms longer to deal the hit.
* The power of the single hit the skill deals at Lv10 is equivalent to the damage done by 2 Arrow hits (Lv10). So if your 6 Arrows hit 1050 each, Holy Light hits 2100. This only applies with Staff, with Knuckle the damage of HL is nearly the same as a single Arrow hit.
* Each skill level increases it's damage by 10%. If you dealt 1k with it at Lv1, at 10 it hits 2k dmg.
* The skill's damage is very weak with knuckle. While my average damage on a Raffy Lv1 was 50 using Staff, it was only 11-12 with Knuckle. My stability was higher than 90% with the knuckle and around 80% with the staff (Killer Coat, Curled Horns, Thorny Twig).

This is the second time I try the skill, now I analyzed it much better and I still have the same thought about it.
The only effective use I can see on it is to battle dark element enemies with Swift effect, as a combo filler.
Other than that, is just a pre-requisite for Priest Skills Lv3.

 

it might more effective against monster with high magic defense, like planet heads, space wolf and shining gentleman, but my char was too low level to test this.
all mosters up to lv40 didn't have enough mdef to make this skill better than others. (even if they had dark element)