Blessings
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Blessings ========= The Gods of the elements can bestow blessings upon players who are in their favour. These blessings can improve various attributes of the player or be helpful in other ways. A player needs to have a sufficient amount of Divine Favors in order to gain a blessing and to maintain it. Blessings can be gained by praying to the Gods in the Temple of Elements which resides in the southwestern part of Vaerlon. The sign there will inform you of the exact commands to be used in there. You can use the "blessings"-command to view your blessings. We welcome ideas for new kinds of blessings. Becoming a worshipper --------------------- To get any blessings you have to worship an elemental god. Becoming a follower of a certain element is fairly easy, all you need to do is to find an altar of the god and worship it. Types of blessings ------------------ Blessings are of three varying degrees of power: minor, normal and major. Normal blessings give better effects than minor blessings, and major blessings give best effects. Naturally the cost for gaining and maintaining a blessing is also dependant on the degree of its power. Currently blessings can do the following: -improve one stat (str/con/dex/int/wis/cha) -improve your percentage in one skill or spell you already have studied or trained -improve your resistance to one damagetype -improve your hp-, sp- or ep-regen -do special things So, blessings of higher power increase your stats more than those of lower power, improves spell/skill percentage more and so on. Also note, that skill and spell blessings help only 1/3 above your train/study maximum at the guild. Blessings don't boost the skill / spell over 100%. Gaining blessings ----------------- To gain a normal blessing, you first have to have a minor blessing of the same category, and to gain a major blessing a normal blessing of that category. Current BASE costs for gaining blessings are: -200 Divine Favors for the first minor blessing -3200 Divine Favors for the first normal blessing -16200 Divine Favors for the first major blessing This cost is often modified according to what element you have chosen to worship. Current costs for gaining special blessings are: -50, 75 or 100 Permanent Divine Favors for a quarter of a constant blessing. The cost depends on your element. A full constant blessing will always cost a total of 300 PDF. -Varying costs for special blessings -Constant and normal DF blessings can't be stacked The cost for additional blessings of the same power as a blessing you already have is the cost for the first blessing of that power multiplied with the number of blessings of that power you have. This does not apply to blessings whose costs are in permanent divine favors (ie. constants and specials); their cost is fixed. Once gained, a blessing will not immediately be at its fullest power. Its power increases slowly with time. Only when it is at full power it gives full bonus. You will feel when the blessing reaches 1/4th, half, 3/4th and full power. Maintaining blessings --------------------- Blessings require divine favors to maintain their power if the player is active. If a player has one or several blessings, they will reduce her Divine Favors every time she regens hp, sp or ep. Since no upkeep cost is required when the player's hp, sp and ep are full, a player can idle without fear of her blessings being deactivated due to lack of Divine Favors. The current upkeepcosts are : -4 Divine Favors for a minor blessing -7 Divine Favors for a normal blessing -10 Divine Favors for a major blessing Please note that the your element modifies the upkeep costs of the blessings. Special and constant blessings do NOT require an upkeep cost. If a player doesn't have enough Divine Favors to maintain a blessing, it will start waning, ie its power will begin to decrease rapidly until it is completely deactivated. Deactivated blessings can be reactivated at the Temple of Elements. The cost for doing this is half of the cost for gaining that blessing in the first place. Relinquishing blessings ----------------------- If a player for some reason wants to get rid of a blessing, it can be relinquished at the Temple. Note that you cannot relinquish a minor blessing of something you also have a normal blessing of, and you cannot relinquish a normal blessing of something you have a major blessing on. The Gods do not like their blessings being relinquished. Although there currently is no averse effect from this, there will be in the future.