Complete Heretic Class Guide for Best Support - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)

Complete Slayer Class Guide for high DPS - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)





A Heretic guide for the Battle of the Immortals Online (BoI) players

Heretics are the main support class in the Battle of the Immortals. Heretics are vital to any group of players because of their defensive magic ability in buffing and healing other team members. Successful heretics focus on improving his own defensive ability to keep their teammates alive through the dungeons. In terms of solo play, they deal mediocre light and dark magic damage which are inferior to other class' damage output.

Because of Heretic's importance in keeping a team functional and alive. A well geared and built BoI Heretic is a class always in need for instance dungeons and group PVPs. This guide will help to become a good support by helping you understand the stats, builds, end-game results, and skills of successful and effective supportive Heretic.


The Beginning - Stats and Builds

Stats of Focus
As a supportive magic class, your goal of being a Heretics is to as assist your teammate and keep them alive as much as possible in the world of Battle of the Immortals. Heretics is the best solo-able class because of its self-buffs and heals, although not effective because its damage output is far inferior compared to other classes. These two main points will lead to the conclusion that you should both focus on your own defense and improve your ability to assist your teammates. To excel as a great supportive Heretic, these are the main in-game stats that you need to find ways to boost:

Light Attack: Light attack stats boost light damage such as Holy Verdict and healing ability such as Heal.
Critical Strike: Critical strike is important because it will increase your healing ability when you critical strike a heal, which will double the amount of your heal output. In addition, the little more DPS in the critical strike helps too.
HP: This determines the survivability of your Heretics. In both instance dungeons and group PVP situations, you need to improve your HP count to stay alive and support your team mates.
Physical Defense: Physical defense is needed to improve your survivability similar to how the HP is important.
MP: This is the source of all your heals and magics. At higher levels your spells will cost quite a bit of MP, you need to find out ways to replenish or improve your MP counts.

Builds
Spr: This is the best build for Heretics at end-game scenarios. Pure Spr build will grant you around 4,000 more MP, however it is still limited at higher levels because all of your skills will consume great amount of MP.

Int: This build is only worthwhile during lower levels when you can achieve higher DPS. However, in most team and supportive situations. Heretics damage per second is far inferior compared to other classes that full int builds will be not worthwhile.

Spr/Int: This hybrid build takes in the mixture between spr and int builds. However there is no clear advantage with this build.

Vit: This is a possible build to allow you to be able to take in a couple extra hits.

End Game Heretics
End game scenarios for Battle of the Immortals are usually defined as level 85+. It is especially true for Heretics because that is why they get their first and only mass healing skill. However, the truly powerful Heretics are the ones who have highly upgraded Soul Gear with good gems. With great gears and pets, Heretics are the most needed class in all high level instance dungeons and PVP situations for the buffs and AoE healing.

Heretic Skills
Before you reach level 70, you mostly only need the buff skills because you will be leveling with teams of people most of the time. Upgrade your healing and support skills first such as Heal, Bless, Soul Link, Fortification, and Angel Barrier, with the exception of Death return to level 6 through 8. You could upgrade your damage skills only if your resources allows you to but you are better of teaming to with DPS classes because your damage output will always be inferior.

When you reach level 70 upgrade Spirit Fortify to increase your MP further. You as a heretic will be fully mature when you hit level 85 and obtain the mass heal skill Absolution.

For the details of the BoI Heretic skills, you can check out Heretic Skill Overview.

Equipments
To be a really good supportive Heretic in the Battle of the immortals, you need to have strong and aka expensive gears to be highly successful. Below are some of the guidelines that you can follow to obtain those gears.

Gems
Do not worry about putting gems in any gear below 60 Soul Gear because you out levels your equipments pretty fast compared to the time that you would spend to upgrade your lower level equipments

You should slot in high level light attack and critical gems in every possible gear, generally speaking you would need to have +3 gems or better. You could also consider HP gems to boost your HP to survive better in most situations. For the physical gems, they are only needed to help you to take and defend better against enemy hits - so you can support your team mates more easily.

For weapons, focus on Critical and light attack gems.
For other equipments, focus on HP and physical defensive being the least important.

Gear Fortification
You should save money for the major upgrades due for your level 100 Soul Gears. To be cost effective and save your coins, you could simply fortify your lower level gears to +4 for the gem slots. By level 100, you could spend most or all of your money to complete your level 100 Soul Gear to +10 or at least to +7 for 3 gem slots. You will become a very powerful supportive Heretic when you are fully gemmed.
Pet
In general, as a supportive class, your goal is to support your team mate as much as possible while trying to increase your team's DPS as a side task. These two conflicting roles will result in you having two sets of pets. In general you should have a DPS pet that can deal great damages with you when you are soloing. But at higher levels because the Spr pets can convert 30% of their MP into your MP, they become necessary in higher level dungeons because your skills are a MP sink. These Spr "petpots" will save you during the rough times by replenishing your MP.

Your DPS pets should have the following Moods:
Naughty: Increases attack rate by 15%
Reckless: Increases Critstrike rate by 3%

Your Spr pets should have the following Moods:
Calm: Increases Max HP and Mana by 10%

Before level 50, you should use the best strength pet that could assist you with your general leveling. However you should not spend any significant money or coins in fortifying the pet because you will outgrow it very soon.

When you are about level 70, you should really focus on getting a good Spr pet because by then you will most likely level in groups. And the additional MP comes from the pet will help you greatly.


To learn more about Battle of Immortals, visit the following links for amazing videos:
Official Battle of the Immortals Videos Released by Perfect World



To view my other Battle of the Immortal (BoI) guides and tables collections. Visit the following links:
Battle of the Immortals (BoI) Class-Specific Guides:
Complete Slayer Class Guide for high DPS - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)
Complete Heretic Class Guide for Best Support - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)
Complete Magus Class Guide for Offensive AoE - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)
Complete Champion Class Guide for the Ultimate Tank - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)

Battle of the Immortals (BoI) Class-Specific Skill Overviews:
Slayer Skills Overview - Battle of the Immortals (BoI) - Written on Google Knol
Heretic Skills Overview - Battle of the Immortals (BoI) - Written on Google Knol
Magus Skills Overview - Battle of the Immortals (BoI) - Written on Google Knol

Battle of the Immortals Leveling and Money Making Guides for all classes:
13 Ways to Make In-Game Coins Fast, Quick, and Easy - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)
Leveling Up Fast, Quick, and Easy - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)
In-Game Money, Coin, Salary, ZEN, Credit, and Bonus Explained - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)

Battle of the Immortals Unique Features Guide
Induction System Explained for Battle of the Immortals (BoI)
Marriage System and Skills Guide in Battle of the Immortals (BoI)
Mastership and Disciple Guide for the Battle of the Immortals

Pet Related:
Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Your Pet - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)
Pet Melding Guide - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)
Obtain Your Zodiac Pet - Battle of the Immortals (BoI)

EXP Tables:
Player Base Level EXP Chart Table - Battle of the Immortals (BoI) - Written on Google Knol
Pet Level EXP Chart Table - Battle of the Immortals (BoI) - Written on Google Knol

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