[Guide/Interlude]Cardinal -Not for low rates!

[Reptant_]

Today,i decided to do a guide for one of my favourite classes,Cardinal

Guide is applied to INTERLUDE

There is a chance ,that i will update it to latest chronicles,if i play bishop there.But this is for Interlude

Also notice that guide isn't for low rate servers/servers without mana potions

There,you act in a different way

 

Following this guide isn't gonna make anyone pro.Though,if you follow some things,you can still become a good player,surviving a lot.Then,with proper experience you can become too

 

You should follow some parts of the guide STRICT(talking about armory/buffs/dyes/jewels) and then build some own things

 

Anyway,let's start

 

To become a Cardinal ,you need to go through

 

[*]Human Mage

[*]Cleric

[*]Bishop

[*]Cardinal

 

Let's see the most basic skills of bishop.

 

Heals/Reinforcement skills!

 

Greater Battle Heal: Your best heal,quick and powerful,though it costs quite a lot mana :(

Major Group Heal: Your best group heal.It's more powerful than target heal,used in party,but it has bigged cooldown & mana cost.Requires Spirit Ores

Balance Life: It balances your party member's life.Very useful in PvP

Body Of Avatar: It gives quite a lot HP @ your party.It's power/CD depends on server,but it's still useful.It also gives the effect of Bless The Body (lvl6-doesn't stack)

Cleanse: Cancels almost all debuffs of your target.Requires Einhasad Holy Water

Resuccation: It res-es your target.

Mass Res: It makes res @ your nearby ALLIES.Quite bigger cd/casting time than simple res

Prayer: When you have this buff(party buff) heal effectiveness is increased

Celestial Shield: Makes your target invulnerable to any damage/debuff

Restore Life: Restores 30% of your targets max life.Useful on Tanks ;P

Salvation: Your target will auto ressed when dies.Use it on you :) .It has the same effect with nobless,also

Benediction: It restores FULLY your party's HP,if your mana is below 25%.Kinda big Cooldown

Group Heal: It restores your party's HP.Not so useful,but it adds a HP regeneration buff,too

Purify: It cancels paralyze attacks of your target

Divine Protection: Increases your targets resist to dark attacks(aka Necro ones).Useful when this buff isn't available  @ npc buffer ;D

Arcana Wisdom: Toogle.When used,decreases your cast speed,and MANA COST of skills.Consumes HP/second

Medication: Self-targeted skill.Put yourself into a paralyze,while your mana gets repaired.Your PDEF is also lowered

'Attacking' Skills

 

Trance: Puts your target into sleep.Little cooldown/casting time,nice success rate

Block Shield: It cancels your nearby enemies shield buffs + it adds a debuff to them,so they can't have any shield buff till it's over

Block Wind Walk: Same as Block shield,but for speed buffs

Mana burn: Burns enemies mana(quite useful in Oly)

Turn Undead: It has 50% possibility to make a LETHAL strike @ an Undead mob.Requires spirit ores

Mighty Heaven: Deals damage on mobs(88 power).Can be used ONLY vs Undead mobs.

Erase It sends enemy's PET into another dimension

 

Weapons

Just...get an acumen weapon

 

Better get a Sword Of Miracles,or Vahalla,cause they are acumen,and they consume 1 BS

And they are easier to obtain,than an AM ;P

 

Armors

Here,we have a deal

Imo,there are 3 choices

 

Dark Crystal

You have extra casting speed and speed.Mostly preferable choice

Stats

 

Major arcana

You have more PDEF and Stun/Cancel resistance.But you have less casting speed thatn DC

Stats

 

Tallum Robe

You have a bit more less casting speed than Dark Crystal,but more Mdef

Stats

 

Majestic Robe

A good alternative of Major Arcana,if you can't afford it(Stun Resistance)

Stats

My recommendation:

While playing random pvps,use Dark Crystal.Fast casting is a big +

If playing in a mage mostly server,use DC.Tallum isn't that good,imo

 

If playing in a fighter mostly server,use Major Arcana.You need that extra PDEF+ Stun resist

Especially in Mid Rate IL servers,where many archers/warlords exist in PvPs

 

Jewels

I won't give links/images of jewels this time

 

You should use Tateo jewel set.For start

 

Regarding about Raid boss jewels

 

Ring of Baium/Tateo

Tateo Ring

Zaken/Orfen

Antharas/Zaken

Frintezza/Valakas

 

Not 2 same rings at the same time!

 

You should NOT use AQ.It's useless

About baium,it's not a must

Orfen gives heal increase,so i'ts nice

Antharas/Zaken are needed for stun resist

Frintezza is better than Valakas,since it gives more resists(stun dark etc)

 

 

Dyes

Since you can't put any INT dye,you will have to decrease MEN

so

Wit +5 Men -5

(you can put +3-3 +2-2 or +4-4 +1-1 dyes)

Con +4 Str -4

Stun resistance + life,uber needed

 

Skill enchants

You can enchant your skills at OREN temple at Vadin

 

Your first priority is heal skills,among with Prayer @ time

 

Misc Items

Here are some items,you should ALWAYS have with you

 

[*]Mana potions

[*]Blessed Spiritshot same with your weapons grade

[*]Spirit Ores

[*]Einhasad Holy Water

[*]Elixir of Life:S

[*]Cp Potions

 

 

Buffs

You should focus on your defence and casting speed.

No Matk buffs allowed,so :)

 

We have the basic buffs.Shield,magic barrier,dance of contrancation,BTB etc.

 

Then,regarding server and buff limit we add resists

NEVER take Berseker

Always use COV

 

If server has 24 buffs slots,i prefer a balanced one.So,i add Divine+elemental protection(for resistance vs mages) and Advanaced protection/blessed shield (resistance vs Fighters)

If server is a mage one(fighters sax) replace 2 fighter resists with  unholy protection/dance of aqua or song of storm guard

If server has more slots,don't forget to take ALL resists you can,and don't forget NOT getting berseker and taking COV

 

Here are 2 examples,one with 24buff slots,and one with 36 or unlimited

Note that instead of nobless you should have Salvation

 

also,except 2 last buffs in 24 buff example,dance of aqua and song of storm guard should be in start(before bless shield- i was too lazy to rebuff :P)

 

 

 

Skillbar

You can see,that i have buffs in 3rd bar.That's why you should use shield/wind walk if someone has block windwalk/shield debuff,and acumen if someone cancels you

Berseker in case you get berseker lvl 2(to cast it on you)

All others are in your choice,but these are the important skills

 

 

General  Tactics

Playing as Bishop isn't an easy business

[*]First of all,you should turn your party's config to DEBUFFS,in order to Cleanse them

[*]You should always take care of every player in your Party.

        Balance Life and Major heal/Body of Avatar are better than Greater Battle heal

[*]You should have 2 armors.A DarkCrystal and a Major Arcana.If you are playing vs some archers/daggers,major arcana saves your ass,cause most time you should use DC

[*]If daggers attack you,try not showing your back,and just healing.

         Turn at them,use mass wind walk and shield,and trance them,while group healing.

[*]If mages attack you,try to heal yourself/trance them.They will deal shitty dmg anyway,since you will have many resists

[*]When a close range fighter comes,use mass block wind walk and try to get away(like vs gladiators/tyrant/titans/warlords).Use trance too,if they aren't wearing an IC

[*]Vs tanks,care for healing.Use group heals mostly,and keep your mouse cursor on your name.

[*]When you have tanks party members,use Restore Life at them

[*]When you don't have many mana pots left,consider using Arcane Wisdom(among with DC armor).It will save you :)

[*]Don't make Prayer if your party members don't have buff slots available.Leave party,make it alone and reenter.Or who doesn't want the buff,should do so

[*]If you are in a party with 2 bishops,always keep an eye on other bp's debuffs.He should never have debuffs,cleanse him asap

[*]When you get silenced,use CP pots/Elixir of Life and run

[*]Don't use Group Heal(i am not talking about Major one).In some servers it consumes 1 buff slots,and this is hard T_T.Plus,it's almost useless(little amount of heal)

[*]Use Salvation on your own first,and then at it's first re-use,do it at your tank.

         Always have a ready celestial when you start fighting,cause if you die,you will need to recast it on you

 

Xping

DVC/Imperial are good places to xp.Mobs are undead,and you can kill them by lethaling them

But you mostly look for parties,in high level xp zones.

There,keep using Group heals(in order not provoking mobs) .Remember ,you should not die->cause then,your party dies

 

 

About Olympiad

Here,i have almost none experience (:()

But :

You should use a bow/sword in order to attack

Burn enemy's Mana first,among with Trance

Use Mass block ww/shield in start

Use Erase vs Summoners

Αdded:Tactics by Pwnnnz0r^:

 

In the beginning:

-use a homunkulus conversion (for more mana)

-wear ur DC robe set (more cast)

-burn ur enemies MP (usually for mages, but also for fighters as gladiator, tyrant and others too)

-mass blocks

 

 After burning ur enemies mana and debuffed him:

-wear ur armor (i dont open l2 from months so i don't even remember what armor i used to use,, maybe draconic dunno)

-wear ur weapon (a dagger or a 1H sword, ofc u need a bow too)

-attack ? ;D

 

 

Also ,remember!

a Bishop's role isn't

 

One good video of a guy playing is

(though it's gracia+,mostly used skills are IL ones,so..)

 

 

Guess that's all.Remind me things that i have been mistaken,and maybe help me building more tactics for Olympiad

 

Thank you for reading this guide,made by ME(Finito)

 

[MasterDisaster]

Organize a bit you dummy!

[Pinaepple]

Thanks it's cool.

i think you have have wrong icon at mana burn skill.

 

[Reptant_]

Organize a bit you dummy!

Did,there was a bit mess at tactics,now fixed

Thanks it's cool.

i think you have have wrong icon at mana burn skill.

 

This fixed

 

I guess i 've made some more mistakes,as i wasn't copying the skill names,just writing them as i remember them by their icon ;P

[MixMasteR]

Thanks it's cool.

[PwNNNz0r.^]

I sometimes use Mana burns in pvps too, on other bishops

Especially if mana potions restores 200~ mana and it has re-use

Anyway i have some tips for Oly

  In the beginning:

-use a homunkulus conversion (for more mana)

-wear ur DC robe set (more cast)

-burn ur enemies MP (usually for mages, but also for fighters as gladiator, tyrant and others too)

-mass blocks

 

  After burning ur enemies mana and debuffed him:

-wear ur armor (i dont open l2 from months so i don't even remember what armor i used to use,, maybe draconic dunno)

-wear ur weapon (a dagger or a 1H sword, ofc u need a bow too)

-attack ? ;D

 

anyway the guide is nice gj

 

 

 

[bruceblbstajn]

guide nice and post from pwnnnz0r is good too, but i already do this. So we share tactic :D) gl hf

[Reptant_]

Updated guide with them

btw,there is one more skill,that increases MP consumption of enemy,maybe i will add it :)

[PrivaTe]

what about if you make a list of which skills with must use? f1,f2,f3 ? the best way that its good to put them!

By the way good guide !!!

[Reptant_]

what about if you make a list of which skills with must use? f1,f2,f3 ? the best way that its good to put them!

By the way good guide !!!

It's a matter of game style

 

But i will make one ,maybe today

[PrivaTe]

It's a matter of game style

 

But i will make one ,maybe today

good luck with it..most of us will use it 100% !

[Fanky]

Thanks it's cool.

[Reptant_]

Added a skillbar :)

[CrazyManiac]

Awesome Guide!!!! I was looking for this one sooo long, and now i found it!

 

thanks a lot brother!!!

 

-babylon

[GigiBecali]

Awesome Guide!!!! I was looking for this one sooo long, and now i found it!

 

thanks a lot brother!!!

 

-babylon

 

Lame,you are looking for a cardinal guide lulz and now you find it ? I can bet here in mxc we already have tons of cardinal topics but anyway thats unique as you say =))

E-Friend pixel detected.

 

PS:All ppl should start to make sh,wl&others guides in order to obtain a pixel gz.