sprout
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Post by sprout on Mar 26, 2017 12:48:01 GMT
I am not very familiar with other WL priests besides Fo. I have always enjoyed the Fo passive "non-aggressive to animals" as i love to explore and don;t care much for combat. Because of pooled spells, what "passives" a priest has becomes the key element in deciding whch priest to choose. I see a lot of new players discussing they must go Fo priest for the passives (so they don;t die so much to aggressive animals). I am not familiar with what passives Vyn/Mag get, but if it is true that Fo passives are "better", then I would suggest a small passive to Vyn/Mag that perhaps come in the form of a bonus or maybe a mini "secondary affinity" in addition to the main affinity a character gets. I would think some 'relevant" passives would be: - Mag: small bonus to Mining
- Vyn: small bonus to Channeling
This would stay in keeping with their traditional roles and also allow an attractive "passive" to compete with the fo passives. If they already have very attractive passives (maybe Mag gets combat? or is that ONLY withn his domain?) then .. nevermind  I just did not want all new players to immediately pick Fo as the only "useful" priest passive. |
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Post by Drakeling on Mar 26, 2017 13:27:00 GMT
Priest of Magranon already have several passive abilities, given they have the required favor, like with Fo. Here are a few:
* Priests of Magranon with 35 faith can walk on lava without taking damage.
* Priests of Magranon with 40 faith and 20 favor receive a 25% bonus to damage dealt in combat.
* Priests of Magranon with 60 faith and 30 favor are inspired in their deity's favored terrains and have less stamina drain there. Magranon priests get the bonus on rock, and priests belonging to Mol-Rehan get the bonus on sand as well.
* Priests of Magranon with 60 faith 30 favor have a 75% chance to keep skills at death. Excludes fighting skill.
While perks of being a priest of Vynora are significantly less. The only interesting thing they get is:
* Priests of Vynora with 60 faith and 30 favor are inspired in their deity's favored terrain and have less stamina drain there. Vynora priests get this bonus on roads.
In Wurm Online the main perk to being Vynora used to be their spells alone, since they got Wind of Ages and Circle of Cunning, which were generally the most in demand spells. Since on this server all WL priest get all spells that's now gone by the wayside, so perhaps a small bonus to channeling would help make Vynora a more attractive option to players. Or something else altogether would be in order.
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Post by bdew on Mar 27, 2017 7:38:37 GMT
For Mag i think the main draw is the damage boost, and i think it's strong enough as is.
Vy has the skill gain bonus (which is technically a follower bonus), but i don't think it's powerful enough (especially on a 10x server). I'd like to add something interesting to her.
I don't particularly like giving a bonus to casting, as it will pressure people into having a crafter/caster vy alt while they use mag/fo as their "adventuring" main.
I'd like it to be some bonus that would be useful "in the field" like mag and fo, but right now i can't really think of any that would fit thematically.
Another thing is that Lib has no priest passives that are useful outside mycelium, and even those are kinda meh. But at least she got a few different spells.
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sprout
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Post by sprout on Mar 27, 2017 14:54:57 GMT
For something "useful" maybe a small boost to sailing speeds while being commander?
I always think of Vynora as being the mistress of sailing and merchant ships (as well as Knowledge and Enchantment). That makes it more of an "explorer's skill" than would a boost to Channeling, especially given how perfect this server is for boats. It would not be enough for me to roll a Vyn alt just for that -- but frankly neither would a boost to Channeling as it is still going to be a grind
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Post by bdew on Mar 27, 2017 17:38:48 GMT
Hm that's an interesting idea. The only problem is that ship speeds are already boosted and as i said in the other topic, there's a certain limit to how fast ships go due to network protocol limits. I'll need to check how close we are to that limit and whether it can take more bonuses.
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Post by bdew on Apr 12, 2017 2:12:47 GMT
I'm adding a 20% boost to boat speeds for Vy priests with over 60 faith in the next update. Note that due to technical limits this won't apply to ships that are already fast enough to hit the limit (e.g. a high ql knarr with a speed rune).
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Chime
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Post by Chime on Apr 12, 2017 3:58:50 GMT
Great idea, makes sense for our lady of Cthulu to have mastery over the wind and waves
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Post by mistvengery on Apr 12, 2017 5:03:43 GMT
Vyn boost is nice like it!
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I just did not want all new players to immediately pick Fo as the only "useful" priest passive.
