Con+Int Priest dont survive very well. Your damage and healing without high int, is average at best. You have to decide before 19, what you want to do 17+.

Following the hybrid build simply means a slower death. Priest are meant to be support, they are under par pretty much all thier shelf life. (currently 29 priest).

I tried 2 builds , DrReed to 22 and MrReed to 29. DrReed was Con+Int, had a hellvu time soloing or grouping. Even with a padding of extra hp, you died rather quickly compare to other classes.

I did this to MrReed 25 con , 30 str , 30 dex , 80 int. I begun with con and int , then worked on str and dex. Light armor allows me to solo effectively , with armor buff 6 I m at 45% reducation in damage from melee. And my gear is suited to magic defense as well, I m 55% in metal , fire and water , the rest are at 40%.

My tactics are simple (maybe stupid) , I raise attack skills every chance I get sp to do so. I farm sp for my armor / magic buff , raise sap pour every 3rd level.

At 28 I begun raising dex and str to wear lvl 30 armor , my plan is buying or making -15% requirements or better. I use cheap 3 star gear when possible.

I dont worry too much about tanking mobs , I fly away , rest then retry.

Stones in armor I use mostly HP stones and physical defense stones. My lvl 20 glowie has 2 lvl 4 + magic attacks in it.

My end result by 60 , is gonna be 30 con , str+dex for light armor and rest int. Following the attack tree and buff lines. I think at 32 or so I get some debuffs.

Don't add too much con, for the love of god.
I'm lvl 45 and I regret it a lot. You're better off adding most of your points to int and investing in robe-class armor with extra defense and health. Priests get a lot less health per con point, so it's better to invest in the stat that'll give you most "bang for your buck" (int).

What I've done so far: I added con almost every level until lvl 20; it wasn't really required, but I liked the extra buffer. What you can/should do instead is cast whisht heart on yourself before you start fighting. Combined with potions if required, most enemies should die before you do D:

From my personal experience, the only attack spell you really need is plume quill; it's cheap, it's physical damage based on your magic attack, and the cooldown is as short as it gets.
Since you want to be support; I suggest you do something like this:

keep plume quill maxed for soloing;
keep whisht heart maxed for soloing/grouping (this stacks with other priests' whisht heart, making it a cheap and awesome heal);
raise either the slow or fast heal first; they're both great in use, where one is for tanks and after combat healing, and the other is for fragile people taking aggro/in combat self healing. You can't keep up with maxing them both, so pick one as your "main" heal, and the other one for later (I picked the slow one because I almost never heal myself while fighting, and most low health people are fine with my lvl 4-5 fast heal D: )
read over the buff descriptions and try to set an order of importance for yourself as to which ones should be maxed out first; I picked the phys defense buff because that's my lowest natural stat and a lot of monsters did physical damage until lvl 40-ish; there's more and more magic damage now though. At 40-something I finished with it, now I'm raising the remaining ones whenever I have sp left over
I completely ignored the magic damage skills we got, same for the curses.
I always raise resurrection when a new level is available (same for plume quill and whichever buff and heal I'm focusing on).

If you're still reading, my point is; you can't have it all, and as a priest, you'll lack sp faster than other classes (I've played 4/6 classes to 20+, the only class I ran out of sp with before 20 is my priests). You'll either be average/bad at everything, or you'll have some awesome skills, but never have everything you'd like at the highest level.

To answer your question: that hybrid build is just that; not too horrid at anything, but not good at anything either. Investing in good equipment once the levels start coming in slower will take you a lot further. I'd go with con - 5, str - equipment requirement, int - all remaining points, dex - 5. Supplement this with having + physical defense, + health/ +con on your stuff.
I strongly recommend you stick to robes for armor, as you can't keep wearing the best armor and the best weapon for your level if you use any other armor, and you need to use magic weapons to be able to cast anything. If your stats are too divided (which they will be for medium and heavy armor), you'll end up being pretty horrible at both surviving damage and doing it.
I'm going to shut up now D:
edit: some weird stuff.

Don't add con at all (at least till much, much later) if you're going with hiero's, nothing should be able to kill you in the 10 seconds it takes for your hiero to finish cooling down D: (note: going full/high int means you're better off with sapience pour, as pure heart will heal way too much when soloing). Same goes for your mana, it'll never end until your hiero runs out x_x *jealous*.
If you're not going hiero's all the time, start off with a very small amount, like 20 con or so tops (= an extra hit from mobs until, hmm, lvl 35-40 ish, not too sure anymore. More before that ofcourse.) We just don't get that much out of con unless you can invest loads, I'm afraid :-/ (the extra health regen can be achieved with one of our buffs). You'll kill a lot faster with those extra points in int, as they add up rather quickly.
As far as attack skills go, plume quill is a must even at the lower levels (I made a new priest to test something out when I answered you D: ), because mobs without an element take a lot more damage from it than the metal spells.
I know it's a ways off for you, but save some sp for your damage skills for thunder wield, it's incredibly powerful when you get it. I'd hop over feather razors and hurricane blast till later, and only level thunder sphere (the incredibly slow casted DoT) when you got nothing better to invest sp in.

Since cash isn't that much of a problem, you can invest in leveling up your trade skills and make/buy yourself appropriate high hp armor (there's a really nice chest and pants at lvl 30 that can be bought, and the lvl 29 purple quest gives a really nice hp belt, but you lose out on nice regen pants then.). Just socket with hp stones then if you rather have health than defense, gear makes up for most weaknesses in this game :3
You can also toy around a bit with your stats and buy restat scrolls if you're not happy with em, but this is a bit of a waste early on.

Keep in mind that pretty much everything is easy to play before lvl 20, things will slowly get harder after that.

As a newby (now lvl 54) i had no idea what to do, so i choose for strenght when i was about lvl 20-25.
When I read this part of the forum about stats, it seems that i've done it completely wrong.

I have over 150 Int (need it for weapon), Str about 70 (have 2400 physical def and can use medium armor and also about 2400 magic defense, if used all buffs)and agility about 68 or so (need it for medium armor too).
And Con........
Hahaha. Not even 20 if i remember well.

So my HP is very low indeed. With extra help from soulstones and nice selfmade equipment, now 1420.
So I always use HP hierograms (350.000) as an insurance. Dont need many times but.......
And use Power of Great Emptiness too, when i'm a "tanker" doing FB 19 for guildmembers. Just to spare the hierogram.

I think my attack still is ok and never have problems killing the mobs i need to kill for normal quests. Normal 4-5 but at most 6 hits with plume.
Yes, I only use Plume because I think that having 2 Main-Attacks lvl 10 costs double skillpoints, so is quite non-paying.
But maybe other priests have better results, so like to hear more about PVP against mobs.

(pe, the Tauron ...., lvl 54-55 hits me very hard with 200-220, but only can hit me 2-3 times and than already has been killed)

So if you are EP lvl 54-55.
Do you have more attackpower? (with lvl 9 magic attack-buff, my magic attackpower in general is now about 1500-1970)
Do you have more defense?

salayi, Illusion-guild.

There is a balance between the differend possibilities the stats give us.
Not easy to find your own preference.

Do you use the stats to get more defense by using Strengh, the less you need a high level HP.
The weaker you are, the higher your HP-level should be so the more Con you should use.
You have only one stat you cannot "play" with.
Int.
Because you need a lot of Int for your weapon.

I still find it very difficult to find the "right" way. And maybe there is not one right way but more a matter of personal feelings?
And don't be afraid of making a new char.
With your experience it costs you a couple of day's, maybe a week to make it lvl 20-25 again.
Salayi

Thank you both for sharing your thoughts with me.

Restat scrolls....completely forgot them....arrrghh.....I am getting old I guess

As for becomming a prime target in the warzone, I have no problem with that hiero's and a nice stock of self made "powders of great emptiness" will keep me alive for quite a while.

Time wil tell if I have choosen the right build for my EP, or just a crappy one.
My EP is now lvl22 (with 12K in skill points left to waste )
Currently the build looks like:
Con: 40
Int: 67 (might go for a Con-Int ratio of 1-2, not sure yet)
Str: 13 (need to pump it a bit for weps and armour)
Agi: 6 (not going to pump this one)

With Skill setting:
Pure Heart --> lvl 1 (not intending to pump it, it's a crappy skill)
Whisht Heart --> lvl 4 (will pump till maxed, I like this one)
Sapience Pour --> lvl 3 (usefull at times, will pump when I can)
Solid Shell --> lvl 5 (will pump till maxed)
Plum Quill --> lvl5 (will pump till maxed, it's my best offensive skill so far)
Spirit Gather --> lvl 1 (pump or not, have not made up my mind yet)
Plum Barrier --> lvl 1 (maybe I wil pump it at a later stage)
Great Cyclone --> lvl 4 (not as effective as Plume Quill, keep pumping or not?)
Thunder Sphere --> lvl 1 (pump?, it sure looks like it his great potential)


As a side note: I am not intending to spend skill points on the crafting skills, I will reserve crafting mastery for my main char (a sexy WF).

Greetings,
Aran

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~Delphi~
Lvl 75 EP

Max all buffs, max plume quill, cyclone, whisht. You can max plume barrier later. It's very useful in FB and HH if something goes wrong and you end up getting attacked.

The description for Zephyr is wrong. It doesn't have a "push away" feature. Instead, it has a chance to bind the enemies in place for 3 seconds. I don't think it's a very useful skill. Fly mastery is also useless unless you plan to stick with the starter wing.

I also disagree with the description for the sleep spell. I think it's one of the most useful skills. If anything goes wrong, you can put an opponent to sleep (at lvl 10, they sleep for just a bit over 36 seconds). If you pk with anyone and don't want anyone interrupting your skills, you cast the sleep spell first then cast your most powerful lightning spell.

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~meow~

Hi just wanna share what i knw

Im a player from the Phil. so some terms may be defferent.
*sorry for the inconvinience in advance. hehe

Ok Im a lvl76 YL(priest)

The built i use is practically pure int. its been pure with only 20-30 con until lvl60.
all armor are robes ( int type ) and there is definetly no problem in leveling.
as long as all ur buffs are at maxed << i mean max of d buff for whatever level u are. ex. lvl50 all buff maxlvl 8/9.
The pure int is easy to use. specially against magical. but ofcourse u'll have a small dificulty against physical but its fairly easy if you calm (continous healing - i dnt knw what its called in your versions) before attacking the physical monster its ok. just make sure u dnt get mobbed by them coz ur HP is too low to sustain.

at lvls 1-50 its effective and efficient. make sure to use Hp stones for your armor so u dnt have 2 go through d same hardships as me when i was lvl40-45. most monster are physical in that stage.

The thing is, you dont have 2 add too much con at first. but as i've observed. the AOE of most bosses after lvl60 really do hurt and if u dnt have enough con you will surely die. so i started adding con atlvl60. currect con is now 50 with 2220 hp.(all thnks 2 Dusk magic sword, its called sorrowful sword in my version +11 con)

So i guess its fairly enough to obtain a range of 70-100 con by lvl80. that way you wont die in supprting your party. specially since they count on you for heal.
Lastly, Dont Put Dex/Agi. Useless. if u want 2 crit on spells equipt items that have +crit.