This build is focused on creating a Priest of Mitra (PoM) capable of solo grinding efficiently, while maintaining the core skills required to be an effective group healer. For the most part, the PoM community has a consensus about the important feats for leveling. This guide will explain the best order in which to select the feats and the reasons for picking them.
Summary
10-14 Improved Smite
15-19 Cleansing Fire
20-23 Holy Vengeance
25-25 Revivication (2 points)
26-30 Lance of Mitra
31-34 Divine Lance
35-39 Ether Flow
40-41 Glowing Radiance
42 Searing Light
43-44 Far Reaching Spirit
45-47 Spirit Armor or Grace or Vindicator
48-51 Presence of Mind
52-56 Holy Accession
57-60 Wrath of Mitra
61 Clarity of Mind
62-64 Force of Will
65-67 Purification
68-70 Improved Repulse
70-74 Holy Surge
75-79 Overwhelming Light
80 Empowered Repulse
Leveling Build (feat calculator)
Detailed Progression
NOTE: Some people like to invest 1 point in Lance of Mitra as their very first feat choice, before going down the Vengeance tree. It’s unnecessary, but it’s nice to have Lance of Mitra so early.
- 5/5 Improved Smite – More damage for your standard nuke.
- 5/5 Cleansing Fire – Much easier to use in solo situations than Lance of Mitra. At this level, people are spending most of their time solo, so this will be more useful.
- 5/5 Holy Vengeance or 5/5 Improved Rebuke – Both add to your DPS. Since you are always casting Wave of Life, HV is a nice added bonus. It works well if you are party focused and want one less thing to think about. On the other hand, Rebuke is a fast casting nuke that works well in the nuke rotation and quickly finishing off opponents. For PvP, Rebuke is more useful as well.
- 2/3 Revivication – 2 points is enough to ensure it will trigger early in every battle. You don’t ever have to worry about casting Emanation of Life (EoL) again when playing solo. Useful in tough situations and great for running away or traveling. Especially useful for PvP where you will get surprised a lot and spending 2 seconds to cast EoL is far too long.
- 5/5 Lance of Mitra – A great nuke, but requires positioning yourself properly to use it effectively. Melee mobs tend to surround you and usually two targets is the maximum you will hit using Lance. Use repulse to throw them back, giving you time to line them up for a Lance. By this level, most PoM’s probably have a guild or friends they usually play with. In a group, it’s very easy to use Lance to its full potential.
- 5/5 Divine Lance – Makes Lance of Mitra into a nuke and a heal. Very useful in groups. Useful in solo situations as well because it can heal you if it hits a nearby target. I recommend getting this skill prior to level 35 when most people start doing Sanctum groups. For most PoM’s, Sanctum is their first elite instance and it is extremely helpful to have all your healing tools available.
- 5/5 Ether Flow – By now, the PoM has upgraded versions of their skills and mana management starts to become an issue. If you have mana problems sooner, consider getting this skill at an earlier level.
- 3/3 Glowing Radiance – The debuff from Radiance also grants a +5% damage buff.
- 1/1 Searing Light – Gives Radiance a powerful AoE nuke that does damage on par with Smite.
- 2/2 Far Reaching Spirit – Significantly increases Radiance’s range.
- 3/5 Spirit Armor or 3/3 Grace or 2/2 Vindicator – A 3 point filler to get to the next feat. Spend 3 points in the 2nd tier general tree that best suits your playstyle.
- 5/5 Presence of Mind – Makes Radiance into an instant cast. This makes the emergency heal far more useful. It can be cast on the run. With Searing Light, it means Radiance is a powerful instant cast AoE nuke. Soon after you get this feat, you will start running out of quests and need to grind experience. Cannibal Caves is a great grinding spot in the 50’s and you now have all the skills required to kill groups of mobs efficiently.
- 5/5 Holy Accession – At 5/5, it triggers constantly, reducing the mana cost of your next nuke to zero. It is a great mana management feat. This makes it much easier to heal and nuke nonstop.
- 5/5 Wrath of Mind – Gives a significant damage buff to all your nukes. Scales with your level.
- 1/1 Clarity of Mind – The next nuke can be cast for no mana cost. 2 minute cooldown. Not that useful until you get Force of Will.
- 3/3 Force of Will – This makes the nuke you cast using Clarity of Mind do double damage.
- 3/3 Purification – Every nuke has a chance of triggering bonus damage.
- 3/3 Improved Repulse – Improves the damage of your highest damage AoE nuke. Great for PvE and PvP. There is some question whether this feat is working properly, but hopefully it will be fixed soon.
- 5/5 Holy Surge – Increases the critical strike chance of your nukes. Good way to increase your DPS.
- 5/5 Overwhelming Light – Increases the critical damage multiplier of your nukes. When you land a critical strike, it does more damage.
- 1/1 Avatar of Mitra – Instant cast, point blank AoE 5 second stun. 2 minute cooldown. Extremely helpful in both PvE and PvP.
- 2/2 Empowered Repulse – Increases the knockback power and distance of Repulse. This allows Repulse to knockback most players. Good skill for PvE. Great for PvP.
Alternative Feat Choices
- Blessed Armor of Faith + Unyielding Faith – Reduces the Armor of Faith holy damage penalty to -20 at level 80 and significantly reduces the mana penalty. Unyielding Faith reduces the unholy vulnerability to 20%. Armor of Faith provides a big defensive boost, which is invaluable to the relatively squishy PoM. This is an expensive investment, but one that many PoM’s are willing to make.
- Exemplar – Passive damage increase that stacks well with other damage boosting feats.
- Vengeance of the Gods – 20% damage buff that lasts 30s with a 3min cooldown. Great for PvP and difficult PvE encounters.
- Saintly Warrior – Provides mana and stamina when struck by melee. A good way to reduce your downtime.
- Purification of Mitra – Although the damage is much lower than it used to be, for only 2 points, it is basically free additional damage since you are always casting Wave of Life. Decent DPS increase for leveling.
General Advice
- Smite and Rebuke have a small AoE radius. Take advantage by adjusting your positioning to ensure both nukes always hit two targets. Backpedaling will usually force melee mobs to follow you and bunch up closer.
- Lance of Mitra takes some practice to learn how to maximize the number of targets. At close range, proper positioning can allow you to hit multiple mobs.
Great post, I love the information. I grabbed Lance early on as having a second nuke with the ability to take on multiple mobs helped for those moments when you were “between” levels. ie. Facing a 4-5 pull and you still haven’t gotten the next rank of EoL/WoL or Smite. So you have a bit of versatility early on. Although I agree that you can get by with smite and rebuke alone very easily.
I really love your guides !
Well documented, concise and absolutely gorgeous in their presentation.
A great help to junior as well as senior players !
Well done !
Thanks and you’re welcome!
I’m always happy to help out fellow healers.
Thank you so much, I just started play the game and I was totally lost as too how to spec my priest. This gave me some great tips to go off of. Thanks for taking the time to write this up!
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Great build mate
Alot of aoe powa! Yay 
Great job! Continue the good work 
Really improved my lvling
I like this build, but I really miss sacred lance (allows lance of mitra to heal yourself).
@Alana Sacred Lance increases the range of the heal. For leveling, usually the mobs are already right next to you and the standard radius you get from Divine Lance is big enough to heal you. If you want a bigger radius, just take some points out of another feat. You only need to put enough points in Sacred Lance to get the radius you need.
Great work! This is a really thorough look into a solid build, and it’s been a big help. I have a couple issues that I’d like to hear you weigh in on:
1 – When you need to spend filler points on general feats to advance the tree, wouldn’t ether discharge be an easy choice?
2 – A lot of PoM’s would say that armour of faith is an auto-include. Do you ever find you’re a little too squishy without it? What about on a PvP server?
Praise be to Mitra
*By armour of faith I mean the appropriate feat upgrades
@Smutch Yes, the AoF feats are very helpful and I do include it in the alternative feat choices section. The major problem is that it’s 5 (or 7) points deep in the Divinity tree. What are you willing to sacrifice to get it? I figured that by the time a PoM is at the level to make that choice, they would know from their own playstyle which feats would suit them the best.
For general PvE leveling, usually getting more offensive works out better, though.
As for Ether Discharge, testing showed that it’s not all that great. Getting a little more invulnerability, Grace or Vindicator is more useful. Mana potions can easily take the place of spending too many feat points in mana feats.
Thanks ferv0r!
This is a good feat tree for the PoM. I’ve been following it and have been very happy to say it works just fine. Course I’m only low 30’s but already I can see the PoM becoming more powerful everyday.
I’ve been leveling fast with very few deaths at all and taking on 3 or 4 mobs that are 3 levels about me and I come out standing.
Thanks for all your information!
I respecced from the spec I had to this spec, I’ve since put 13 levels on my character so have had good practice with this spec and have to say.. i’m loving it
I had no idea the power that my lance of mitra ‘could’ have, if i’d empowered it like this, really loving the damage i’m outputting and at the same time, my heals are pretty neat too. Messed up last night in a villa, ended up pulling no less than about 8 or 9 mobs, but with clever evasion but mostly using the feats granted by this feat build, i survived and thought ‘neat!’ 
I’ll keep following it to 80 because so far, i see no flaws in the advice given. Top advice, thanks for rejuvinating my PoM 
Well, i reached level 80 on the non-variation spec as detailed above.. couple all those goodies with the level 80 shielding spell and you are one tough cookie
great for groups, and solo play.
@Lazarius Grats and good timing! Hopefully within the week, Funcom will bring the massive gem nerfs to the Live servers and you’ll be pretty tough at PvP too.
Perfect guide! At first you get a list of skills which is easy to look up, and then you get a detailed description of each skill later + alternatives.
Just perfect!
Yeah this is awsome guides! ill follow them step by step, keep up the good work!
Great build, I’m at lvl 70, and with every lvl I get more and more powerful. I loved when a lvl 75 necro was suprised that I took out a group of mobs with two spells [repule with the +100%dmg buff, and then Radiance]
in this feat build u dont put enything on light of mitra. this makes to possible to recover stamina with the spell wave of life. would u recomend to put some skillpoints on recovery to regenerate stamina or just leave it with 0 skillpoints, and live with the fact that u dont need stamina. wouldnt it be smart to have light og mitra feat? great guide btw;)
@John
It’s been a while since I played my PoM, so my information could be outdated now. But from what I remember, the stamina regeneration was minimal at best and did not scale well at higher levels. It wasn’t worth it.
I recommend checking the official PoM forums…or just try it out yourself. It isn’t too expensive to respec and it’s fun trying various skills to see if it suits your playstyle.
Will this guild ever be updated because of the new 1.05 patch?