Acolyte

Acolytes serve the Church as careful healers and protectors of the good people of the Rune-Midgarts Kingdom. Raised in the capital, Prontera, they use their new holy magic to keep the party fighting and to drive back Undead monsters, and they know force is sometimes needed when talking fails. This page follows the current International Ragnarok Online (Renewal) data.

Acolytes cannot use bladed weapons. Their stat bonuses are fairly even, and players lean either toward INT (MATK and SP) or toward STR (ATK), depending on which path in the Church they plan to follow.

At job level 10 as a Novice, enter the Church in northeast Prontera, take the first portal room on the right and speak to the Cleric at the far end of the hall. He makes you an Acolyte, gives you a Novice Mace [3] and teaches Holy Light for free.

Older test (Pre-Renewal / Classic): the Priest sent you to visit one ascetic outside town (Mother Marthilda in the Sograt Desert north of Morroc, Father Yosuke east of Geffen, or Father Rubalkabara east of Prontera) and then back to the church. Talking to the ascetic also moved your save point there. irowiki marks this test as no longer used on iRO Renewal.

An Acolyte has 14 skills and 90 skill points (Renewal values). Heal and Blessing can also be cast on Undead monsters as attacks: hold Shift while clicking, or type /noshift once.

Icon	Skill	What it does
	Heal	Restores a target's HP, or damages Undead targets (10 levels).
	Blessing	+1–10 STR, DEX and INT and +2–20 HIT for 60–240 s; halves DEX and INT of Undead and Demons, and removes Curse.
	Increase AGI	Faster movement, +3–12 AGI and +1–10% ASPD for 60–240 s.
	Decrease AGI	Tries to lower a target's AGI by 3–12 (42–60% chance).
	Angelus	Party buff: soft DEF +5–50% and Max HP +50–500 for 30–300 s.
	Pneuma	Shields a 3×3 area from ranged attacks.
	Cure	Removes Silence, Blind and Chaos.
	Ruwach	Reveals hidden enemies in a 5×5 area and hits them for 145% MATK.
	Signum Crucis	Lowers the DEF of nearby Undead and Demon monsters by 14–50% (27–63% chance).
	Demon Bane	+3–30 ATK against Demons and Undead (passive).
	Divine Protection	+3–30 VIT defense against Demons and Undead (passive).
	Teleport	Jumps to a random spot on the map or to your save point; not in PvP.
	Warp Portal	Uses a Blue Gemstone to open a portal for up to 8 players to your save point or a memorized spot (0–3 memo points, 10–25 s).
	Aqua Benedicta	Makes 1 Holy Water from an Empty Bottle while standing in shallow water.
	Holy Light (quest, job level 30)	Holy attack of 125% MATK on one target; cancels the target's Kyrie Eleison. Free when you change job at the church.

• Support build (INT): help a party with Heal, Blessing and Increase AGI, or play alone by heal-bombing Undead and using Holy Light. Pick this if you plan to become a Priest. Hiring a mercenary to do the killing is another way to level solo.
• Battle build (STR): buff yourself and beat monsters one by one with a mace. It is cheap, keeps you alive with your own support skills, and is the build to use before becoming a Monk.

With the Catherina Von Blood [1] weapon you can level in the Sunken Ship from base level 3 up to 56: pay Fisk in Alberta 250 Zeny for the trip and use Magnum Break from a Marine Sphere Card, since the class has no area skill.

Without that weapon: kill Willows for the Payon Bounty Board until level 21 and Bigfoots until 41, then Orcs, Orc Ladies and Orc Babies for the Eden Group quests until 55 and for the Geffen board until 60. The Orc and Orc Lady kill counts of both quests can run at the same time.

• Eden Group equipment quests start at level 12 and give free gear for your class that is good enough up to level 99.
• In Izlude, the Enchanter Mounds quest adds Max HP +100 and Max SP +50 to the Cotton Shirt every new Novice gets, which stays useful after the job change.
• Stat and skill resets are available, so a build can be fixed later; see Stats for what each stat does.