TheMatron wrote:
I'm not looking to have her as a tank, just good enough to survive when the going gets tough.
If you're interested in survivability, that's a good thing for a priest to have because generally ranged attackers aim for the casters. Training CON and then HP if you can afford the points helps a lot.
For armor, since you're a heavy armor faith, find out where to get some adamantite and then enchant it, try to put greater magical protection on each piece. Putting that on each piece of armor will work a lot of magic when it comes to arrow damage, and on top of that the total magical protection on your equipment lowers the damage you take from damage spells, which will make you nigh unkillable through damage spells since you're also a deep-elf (half damage from magic spells).
The problem is, though, once your enemies figure out they can't kill you, they'll try to disable you, so one other very important factor is to make sure that you have good DEX; I'm talking in the high nimble/low acrobatic range of DEX, and that's because of one skill: Dirt kick. Dirt kick will totally screw up a caster, especially priests, but having a high DEX and being in the back row makes it extremely unlikely to land, letting you continue to heal/harm/whatever else you want to do without anything to stop you. In the same vein, make sure that you put good fortitude enchantments on your jewelry and armor, to keep blindness (including that from color spray) and petrification from landing.
Now that I've said all that, I'm going to contradict myself a little bit. I'd advise you not to "over-enchant" if you haven't been involved in much PvP: Mainly because the majority of the time when you get killed by another player in PvP they will take your corpse and everything in it as a prize of war, compensation for risking their own life, an IC deterrent to keep attacking them, etc etc. On account of that, if you're new to PvP I'd suggest keeping the work that you put into your suit manageable, and focus more on how to easily find and enchant it until you get some more experience under your belt. Not much kills the game more than spending a long time enchanting your armor only to have it taken/junked by someone who used a tactic in PvP you hadn't even thought of before.