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Zayyeh at 11:07, 26 July 2016

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Zayyeh at 11:07, 26 July 2016

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Zayyeh at 10:48, 25 July 2016

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Zayyeh: /* Worshiping Gods */

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‎Worshiping Gods

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 Obviously, items like the {{i|Trisword}} and {{i|Alchemist Scroll}} work very well with the Priest, allowing you to get great leverage out of them, thanks to the Priest's natural dependency on Health Potions. {{i|Naga Cauldron}} makes potions overheal even when you are not debuffed, giving you 100% HP every time.
-If you have {{i|Pepper the Dog}} in your locker you can use it to "mark" a boss as undead if you want to make sure you get to use this against a boss.
+If you have {{i|Pepper the Dog}} in your locker, you can use it to "mark" a boss as undead if you want to make sure you get to use the Priest's damage bonus against a boss.
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 ''Humble folk of the cloth, Priests are not especially adept at combat. However, they tend to have a remarkably high constitution due to their vegan diets and morning aerobics sessions, which comes in handy when someone has to go deal with a local undead infestation. Stupid undead.''

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 ;{{a|GOOD HEALTH}}: An extra 3 health is gained per level

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 {{HaPr}}, {{OrPr}}, {{ElPr}}
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 {{g|Dracul}} doesn't like you drinking health potions and killing undead. Join him when you've exhausted both, and use a few of his boons to gain piety with him mid-fight with the boss. Or alternate Sanguine and Health Potions to keep your piety stable. He's a great deity for a Priest due to the Sanguine and Blood Swell boons, he's  just really tricky to use.
-{{g|Jehora Jeheyu}} is a great god for the Priest to worship thanks to his Boost Health boon. An investment of a single health potion for 20 max health - right away - can go a long way. The glyph will also help with both exploring and giving you much appreciated first strike. Just be sure you know what you're doing as you really don't like gettin poisoned.
+{{g|Jehora Jeheyu}} is a great god for the Priest to worship thanks to {{boon|Boost Health}}. An investment of a single {{i|Health Potion}} for 20 max health - right away - can go a long way. The glyph will also help with both exploring and giving you much appreciated first strike. Just be sure you know what you're doing as you really don't like getting poisoned.
-{{g|The Earthmother}} is the only one (apart from the {{g|The Pactmaker}}) who won't mess you up in any way, and will help you with both levelign and entangling enemies so you can get your big hits in. She's also good for farming up a lot of piety to use with other gods.
+{{g|The Earthmother}} is the only one (apart from the {{g|The Pactmaker}}) who won't mess you up in any way, and will help you with both leveling and entangling enemies so you can get your big hits in. She's also good for farming up a lot of piety to use with other gods.
 {{g|The Pactmaker}} has a few things you like, the {{boon|Warrior's Pact}} can get you a lot of health, and most other things are useful - but the most important thing is that he can't really mess you up. Just be careful about combining him with someone who can.
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 {{g|Taurog}} The thing about him is that he works rather well at lower difficulty with certain priests (Orc, Halfling), so he puts you in the wrong frame of mind about the nature of Priests. He likes you converting glyphs faster than most Priests want to convert their glyps. If you know you're going for a really melee-oriented priest, sure, go ahead, Taurog's cool, you like the damage and the resistances. If you're up against a physical resistant boss - then you're in big trouble.
-{{g|Mystera Annur}} She'd be a great deity if killing Wraiths wasn't so much of your MO. And for a spellcasting Priest it's even more pronounced than it would be for a purely melee one, since Wraiths are so vulnerable to it. As long as you're aware of this glitch - feel free to try her out, it's quite worth it with a prepped fireball, especially for the late-game Priests like Humans and Dwarves who love their glyph play while they explore and level up.
+{{g|Mystera Annur}} She'd be a great deity if killing Wraiths wasn't your primary target. And for a spellcasting Priest it's even more pronounced than it would be for a purely melee one, since Wraiths are so vulnerable to it. As long as you're aware of this glitch - feel free to try her out, it's quite worth it with a prepped fireball, especially for the late-game Priests like Humans and Dwarves who love their glyph play while they explore and level up.
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 It's not necessarily god mode, though, as while you'll have enough health refills to put Dracul out of bussiness, you still need to pick your targets, use your glyphs, maybe get your resistances up to make those refills worth more, get your damage up, and, and this is important, make sure you don't somehow screw up while worshiping gods. Because all those things you're looking for are most easily found by worshiping gods, and, as is so often the case with Priests, you're the guy most likely to randomly screw it up somehow.
-Keep in mind, though, that this combination plays many gods '''very''' differently than any other halfling would. Most of the time in a way which makes any other halfling a much better worshiper by comparison. Many halflings love to use interactions between gods and healing potions, such as piety rewards for converting them, trading them directly for boons, or simply grabbing an early health boost and blowing potions to level up. This is a big selling point of halflings, and a big part of what makes playing them enjoyable and deeper than it looks at first glance. The halfling priest is way more likely to hoard his potions and unlikely to  worship gods that allow for trademark halfling god shennanigans. This makes him a rather atypical halfling, and essentially the poster boy for the "Priests make lousy god worshippers" problem. It is compensated by the sheer lunatic power of endless 100% effective healing potions, but may leave a beginner with a strange idea of Priest, Gods, and Halflings. See the goblin entry for a less extreme example of this, although without a handy "exploit" to bail it out.
+Keep in mind, though, that this combination plays many gods '''very''' differently than any other halfling would. Most of the time in a way which makes any other halfling a much better worshiper by comparison. Many halflings love to use interactions between gods and healing potions, such as piety rewards for converting them, trading them directly for boons, or simply grabbing an early health boost and blowing potions to level up. This is a big selling point of halflings, and a big part of what makes playing them enjoyable and deeper than it looks at first glance. The halfling priest is way more likely to hoard his potions and unlikely to  worship gods that allow for trademark halfling god shennanigans. This makes him a rather atypical halfling, and essentially the poster boy for the "Priests make lousy god worshippers" problem. It is compensated by the sheer lunatic power of endless {{a|GOOD DRINK}}, but may leave a beginner with a strange idea of Priests, Gods, and Halflings, respectively.
-'''IMPORTANT:''' As crazy powerful as the combination is, it's a very melee oriented one. Even more so if combined with gods it actually works well with. This can make it fatally inflexible, as you will certainly discover if you try to apply it everywhere.
+'''IMPORTANT:''' As crazy powerful as the combination is, it's a very melee oriented one. Even more so if combined with gods that play somewhat smoothly with it. This can make it fatally inflexible, as you will certainly discover if you try to apply it everywhere.
 Otherwise, this thing does multiple badges on Vicious Dungeon runs easily, especially in experienced hands. In inexperienced hands, you can still just pick Taurog up, dump most of your glyphs (err, keep some first strike handy), charge at dudes, blow your potions to level up and still end up dropping a boss or two at lower difficulties. Or any difficulty. Binlor, too, halflings love their Stoneskins and damage buffs.

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	Keep in mind, though, that this combination plays many gods '''very''' differently than any other halfling would. Most of the time in a way which makes any other halfling a much better worshiper by comparison. Many halflings love to use interactions between gods and healing potions, such as piety rewards for converting them, trading them directly for boons, or simply grabbing an early health boost and blowing potions to level up. This is a big selling point of halflings, and a big part of what makes playing them enjoyable and deeper than it looks at first glance. The halfling priest is way more likely to hoard his potions and unlikely to worship gods that allow for trademark halfling god shennanigans. This makes him a rather atypical halfling, and essentially the poster boy for the "Priests make lousy god worshippers" problem. It is compensated by the sheer lunatic power of endless 100% effective healing potions, but may leave a beginner with a strange idea of Priest, Gods, and Halflings. See the goblin entry for a less extreme example of this, although without a handy "exploit" to bail it out.		Keep in mind, though, that this combination plays many gods '''very''' differently than any other halfling would. Most of the time in a way which makes any other halfling a much better worshiper by comparison. Many halflings love to use interactions between gods and healing potions, such as piety rewards for converting them, trading them directly for boons, or simply grabbing an early health boost and blowing potions to level up. This is a big selling point of halflings, and a big part of what makes playing them enjoyable and deeper than it looks at first glance. The halfling priest is way more likely to hoard his potions and unlikely to worship gods that allow for trademark halfling god shennanigans. This makes him a rather atypical halfling, and essentially the poster boy for the "Priests make lousy god worshippers" problem. It is compensated by the sheer lunatic power of endless 100% effective healing potions, but may leave a beginner with a strange idea of Priest, Gods, and Halflings. See the goblin entry for a less extreme example of this, although without a handy "exploit" to bail it out.
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		+	'''IMPORTANT:''' As crazy powerful as the combination is, it's a very melee oriented one. Even more so if combined with gods it actually works well with. This can make it fatally inflexible, as you will certainly discover if you try to apply it everywhere.

	Otherwise, this thing does multiple badges on Vicious Dungeon runs easily, especially in experienced hands. In inexperienced hands, you can still just pick Taurog up, dump most of your glyphs (err, keep some first strike handy), charge at dudes, blow your potions to level up and still end up dropping a boss or two at lower difficulties. Or any difficulty. Binlor, too, halflings love their Stoneskins and damage buffs.		Otherwise, this thing does multiple badges on Vicious Dungeon runs easily, especially in experienced hands. In inexperienced hands, you can still just pick Taurog up, dump most of your glyphs (err, keep some first strike handy), charge at dudes, blow your potions to level up and still end up dropping a boss or two at lower difficulties. Or any difficulty. Binlor, too, halflings love their Stoneskins and damage buffs.

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-|There are not many class/race combinations as single-mindedly streamlined as this one. {{a|GOOD DRINK}} is an unreal ability, it only makes any sense because the number of healing potions available to adventurers is somewhat firmly limited to 5, and doesn't go much above that in most circumstances. Halflings can turn any old junk into healing potions. This is in theory, and in practice, not all that far from what cheating would be like if there were such a thing in DD.
+|There are not many class/race combinations as single-mindedly streamlined as this one. {{a|GOOD DRINK}} is an unreal ability, it only makes any sense because the number of healing potions available to adventurers is somewhat firmly limited to 5, and doesn't go much above that in most circumstances. Halflings can turn any old junk into healing potions. A 100% health refill is an exceedingly rare thing in Desktop Dungeons, making acess to it as trivial as this little guy does is very much like what cheating would be if there was such a thing as cheating in DD.
-It's not god mode, though, as while you'll have enough health refills to put Dracul out of bussiness, you still need to pick your targets, use your glyphs, maybe get your resistances up to make those refills worth more and, and this is important, make sure you don't somehow screw up while worshiping gods. Because all those things you're looking for are most easily found by worshiping gods, and, as is so often the case with Priests, you're the guy most likely to randomly screw it up somehow.
+It's not necessarily god mode, though, as while you'll have enough health refills to put Dracul out of bussiness, you still need to pick your targets, use your glyphs, maybe get your resistances up to make those refills worth more, get your damage up, and, and this is important, make sure you don't somehow screw up while worshiping gods. Because all those things you're looking for are most easily found by worshiping gods, and, as is so often the case with Priests, you're the guy most likely to randomly screw it up somehow.
 Keep in mind, though, that this combination plays many gods '''very''' differently than any other halfling would. Most of the time in a way which makes any other halfling a much better worshiper by comparison. Many halflings love to use interactions between gods and healing potions, such as piety rewards for converting them, trading them directly for boons, or simply grabbing an early health boost and blowing potions to level up. This is a big selling point of halflings, and a big part of what makes playing them enjoyable and deeper than it looks at first glance. The halfling priest is way more likely to hoard his potions and unlikely to  worship gods that allow for trademark halfling god shennanigans. This makes him a rather atypical halfling, and essentially the poster boy for the "Priests make lousy god worshippers" problem. It is compensated by the sheer lunatic power of endless 100% effective healing potions, but may leave a beginner with a strange idea of Priest, Gods, and Halflings. See the goblin entry for a less extreme example of this, although without a handy "exploit" to bail it out.