Vates Guide

This guide will guide you through the first job as a Vates.

The 2-1 Druid and 2-2 Bard classes jobs will be added soon in this same guide.

Vates

Vates

Advantages and Disadvantages

• Vates are able to use their healing spells to recover their own HP or an ally's HP. Heal spells are also effective at damaging undead type monsters.
• Vates are also the only class that can effectively recover abnormal status, making them very important to a party.
• Vates is the only class that has Light property attacks, which are very effective against darkness property foes.
• Vates is mostly a party-oriented class due to the lack of effective offensive skills (except against Undead and Darkness enemies), in addition to the weakness of light property spells against Fire, Wind, Earth, and Water enemies. Vates lack effective solo capabilities, but are always welcome in parties because of their supportive nature.

See also: How to become a Vates

Types

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• Full Supportive - Stats focus on - VIT>MAG

VIT is for your defense to ensure that you can survive longer without healing yourself if get attacked, thus you are able to support your party for a longer amount of time. MAG is for your healing strength, your maximum MP, and your MP recovery rate. This type will have high def, more HP, and strong heals, but slow casting speed.

• Full Offensive - Stats focus on - DEX>MAG=INT

MAG is for magic attack strength,DEX if for your chant speed so you can cast your magic faster, and INT is for your minimum magic attack damage. This type will have strong magic attacks and heal, faster cast speed, but weak defense.

• Hybrid - Stats focus on - MAG>VIT>DEX=INT

The hybrid type does not specialize in any types, but is good for overall. It's a combination of both offensive and supportive.

• Holy - Stats focus on MAG=VIT

This is a type that dedicated to Holy Globe skill, and of course this type can be act as supportive and offensive too. In other words the stats follows on Supportive type but the skill follows as Offensive type. The main skill of this type is Holy Bolt, Holy Globe, Heal, max this 3 skills, others is up to you. Holy Globe is hard to use but its really strong if you able to use it correctly.

• Conclusion

• Stronger Heal and M.Atk = MAG
• Stronger Defense and HP = VIT
• To increase the chant/cast speed = DEX
• Minimum M.Atk for consistent damage = INT
• For physical attacks in the event of running out of MP = STR & AGI

See also: Stats Attributes

Choosing Race

Races only effect the initial stats of your character, be noted that you able to add freely your status points to each stat that you want when you level up.

• Emil - Has the highest VIT, but lowest MAG - Good for hybrid/supportive vates
• Titania - Has the highest MAG and average of all other stats - Good for all types of vates
• Dominion - Has the highest STR, good MAG, and good DEX, but lowest VIT - Good for hybrid/offensive vates, and easy to start out due to stronger melee capabilities.

(Titania is the best and recommended race to become a Vates, but it's way too common. You can try Dominion or Emil too, to be unique, but keep in mind that the job change quest and stat requirements for the job change quest are obstacles.)

Required Skills

In ECO, skill points are very limited, so you are unable to learn all of your classes' skills. However, it is possible to gain extra skill points by way of completing special quests, so if you want to learn additional skills past what is available via job levels, try completing these extra skill quests. See Also: How to get bonus skill points

Icon	Job Level	Name	Description	Notes
	1	Heal	Recovers a target's HP.	A must have skill. Max it regardless of what type of Vates you are.
	5	Increase Maximum MP	Increases Maximum MP.	Max it if you are an Offensive type. Other types have no need to max it or no need to learn it at all.
	5	Increase MP Regeneration	Increases MP Recovery Rate.	A must have skill. Max it regardless of what type of Vates you are.
	6	Holy Light	A magic attack that does light damage to an enemy.	Max it, as it is your main offensive spell for awhile. Support types should just keep this at level 1.
	12	Undead Knowledge	Increases the item drop rate from undead monsters.	It's good to have this skill.
	30	Resurrection	Revive a dead target.	Supportive type should max this. The higher the level, the quicker the chant time and the more HP you restore when you revive your party members. As you cannot resurrect yourself, Offensive type, level 1 is enough.
	32	Holy Shield	Decreases the light and dark damage a target receives.	If you fight undead and darkness a lot, then max this.
	35	Holy Weapon	Imbue a target's weapon with the power of Light to deal extra damage against darkness and undead type enemies.	Supportive types should max this. Offensive types don't need it because they fight with magic rather than weapons.
	40	Turn Undead	Inflict light damage to an undead	A good skill to have.
	50	Holy Globe	Shoot a holy globe that knocks back and damages everything in its way.	Offensive type should max this. Supportive types should suffice with level 1 or need not learn it at all.

These are only recommended skills that you can learn without any skill points bonuse. You can decide on your own which skills to learn too. Skill Points

See also : Entire Vates' Skill List

Druid

Druid

coming soon

Bard

Bard

coming soon

External links

• Stats and Skills Calculator