| Pontifex | |||||||||
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| Roman Support Unit | |||||||||
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| Age Available |  Silver Age | ||||||||
| Conversion Rate | 10s (12) | ||||||||
| Conversion Range | 36 (30) | ||||||||
| Hit Points | 140 (150) | ||||||||
| Speed | 6 (7) | ||||||||
| Sight Range | 34 | ||||||||
| Train Time | 20s | ||||||||
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| Armor vs. cavalry | 0 (0.2) | ||||||||
The Pontifex is a Roman Support Unit in Age of Empires Online. PvP Values which are different are put in brackets ().
Overview[]
- He takes charge of converting enemy units for the Roman civilization, while the
Clinicus does the healing. - Longer Conversion Range than other priests.
Special Abilities[]
The Pontifex convert enemy units.
Equipment Slots[]
 |  |  |
| Holy Staff | Cloth Armor | Religious Item |
Upgrades[]
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| Scale | Shield Rim |
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| Chain | Shield Truss |
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| Pax Deorum | Laminar Armor | Shield Boss |
Development[]
The Pontifex was first revealed in Weekly Blog #12: Liburnian, Templum, Pontifex forum post on August 24th, 2019.
Pontifex Spotlight and Gear
- [Roman priest] is called a Pontifex (and will be upgraded to Pontifex Maximus). Other than that the Pontifex will convert troops, we are leaving any additional functions to the Balancing Team. Again, priests can often do several things, but with some Officer Units also performing various priest-like functions, we won’t know how all of these different unique features will feel until we try ourselves. We don't want the Romans to turn into a cocktail of buffs all the colors of the rainbow. So for today, we will leave it simply that the Romans will have an Age 3 Templum with a Pontifex who converts troops. We have some ideas for additional functions, but it’s too early to commit publicly.
Pontifex near the 
Templum with the 
Pax Deorum tech-
The 3D model of the Pontifex was first revealed, along the Pax Deorum tech, in Weekly Blog #13: Villagers, Age III TC, Pontifex 3D forum post on August 31st, 2019.
- Though our Templum and Pontifex do not directly reference Jupiter in some specific technology or ability, their models and icons do by featuring Jupiter’s lightning bolts (on the Templum icon’s book and on the Pontifex’s belt). Similarly, historical Pontifexes were priests of Rome and closely tied to Jupiter. So the name fits.
Gear progression of the Pontifex.
The unit model for the Regular, Uncommon, Rare, Epic Legendary fitted Pontifex were first showed in the Weekly Blog #26: Scorpio, Visual Updates on Units forum post on January 11th, 2020.
- We are also ready to show you how the different versions of the Pontifex (the roman Priest) look like with different levels of Gear equipped - though once again, they are not holding any special staffs