Blessings of protection

[Mongwen]

... Are weak and overpriced. Doesn't say much for the All Father that you have to pay that much for very, very, very temporary protection. Just my two gold pieces and the opinion's probably not worth that much. Two or three rounds, max, of protection, only once, for 500 gold. I preferred 100 or 250 top price. I get 'em because I must at times, like for PG events or that Jirin-Nol, but 1500 is too much for so few rounds of protection. I realize he wants ways to get gold out of the game so people don't have thousands and thousands and thousands with nothing to do with it, but I prefer spending money on bigger permanent items, not blessings. Just a thought running through my head. time to try to kill the dragon again.

[thingirl]

They help in Zumryn's when you are out of ways to heal yourself and are down to single digits in the SP area.

[Lugwy]

Sometimes, 500-1500 bling is worth keeping your sanity in some of the more painful areas.

Two pieces.

[Mongwen]

True. I admit they're needed and that I buy them. I just don't like the price. For the money, they either need to provide more rounds of protection, or else the price needs to be lowered. Perhaps an alternative is to have levels of blessing. As an example, for 100 you get two or three rounds, 250 you get 3 or 4, and 500 you get at least five rounds. The priest says to be generous, and that would be one way of doing it, choose how much you're willing to give and it effects how long your protection lasts. The in-character is that novice priests do it on the lower levels as part of their training of blessing and they're not as in touch with the All Father.

[thingirl]

That's an interesting suggestion.

[shadowblack]

Wait, the Blessings cost something? I thought they were free. /joking

Joking aside, the cost of Blessings matters only in the beginning. After that it doesn''t matter at all. Most people wouldn't notice even if the price was 1000 gold for one.

Some history:
Initially the price was 250 gold. Later it was raised to 350, and then to the current 500 gold. But most of us have millions, and a single visit to Axepath/Yir-Tanon tends to earn me more than enough to compensate for the 1500 gold I spent on Blessings froim time to time.

[zmflavius]

At least, if you actually NEED to use your blessing in axepath/yir-tanon.

[thingirl]

Yeah, do Zumryn's/Tarn and then do Axepath/Yir-Tanon.

[Mongwen]

I have done a couple of the combat scenarios and undoubtedly will again. I'm trying to get all my powers and skills to at least 70 before continuing with the PG, so I need all the xp I can stumble across. I don't happen to have millions, but even if I did my opinion would be the same. Going to mud a while and get back into some srything. Trying to finish off Jirin-Nol, but he seems to be afraid of me now I've remade the wand and refuses to show me his face. Got to tango with that demon, too, and get the last band for my newly acquired finger. And on top of all that is that fellow in the Crimson Helm. I'm going to play his game again tonight. Oops, he says it's not sport. All righty, then, perhaps I should call it taking his test. ;)

[solitu]

... Are weak and overpriced. Doesn't say much for the All Father that you have to pay that much for very, very, very temporary protection. Just my two gold pieces and the opinion's probably not worth that much. Two or three rounds, max, of protection, only once, for 500 gold.

At first I too thought they were expensive.
I thought they were expensive because I use them a lot.
But if they were really expensive I shouldn't have used them that much.
But I used them that much because I needed them to save my life.
Thus now I don't think they are expensive.

[Oldschool]

Trying to finish off Jirin-Nol, but he seems to be afraid of me now I've remade the wand and refuses to show me his face.

Actually that's as far as one can go with the Vault of the Iron Dragon thus far.

Here's the wiki page on it. Spoilers abound for those that haven't remade the wand.

http://sryth.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_of_The_Iron_Dragon

[Badstench]

Even the Kingdom of Tysa suffers from inflation, and the priesthood is not exempt either! Have you any idea how expensive it's become to petition the gods for favours these days?

Use to be we could just ask for alms, but then illiterate peasants started hacking off their arms to swap for a bottled blessing, which they then sold to adventurers for a bit of gammy meat.

Charging 250gp was the only way we could stop the idiots from trading their own body parts.

The problem with charging for a blessing came when the royal tax collector turned a baleful eye our way. That's right, the church is not exempt from paying taxes.... and once we started paying a tax on that, we were slammed with a full audit and found to be owing an amount of money that could have bankrupted us.

We had no choice but to raise the price, and now we've been slammed with increased insurance premiums. It seems that carrying around a trio of blessings has become quite the 'in-thing' among adventurers, but when those blessing don't quite work the way they're supposed to, the adventurers cry foul and look to recoup their losses by blaming someone else.

Don't they realise that looking for a fault in the blessing is akin to looking for a fault in the god who bestowed it? And who's piggy-in-the-middle, eh? We are!

So, on top of tax collectors, grumpy customers and law suits from armless peasants, we've been hit by fines from the deities who are unhappy with all the blaspheming that's going on!

And another thing... (at this stage, the audience grew tired of the tirade and began to drift away until the priest was left ranting to no-one)

[Taleria]

True. I admit they're needed and that I buy them. I just don't like the price. For the money, they either need to provide more rounds of protection, or else the price needs to be lowered. Perhaps an alternative is to have levels of blessing. As an example, for 100 you get two or three rounds, 250 you get 3 or 4, and 500 you get at least five rounds. The priest says to be generous, and that would be one way of doing it, choose how much you're willing to give and it effects how long your protection lasts. The in-character is that novice priests do it on the lower levels as part of their training of blessing and they're not as in touch with the All Father.

That's a good idea. Makes perfect sense, and I agree that 500 gold is a bit much for a mere three rounds. It doesn't matter that I can afford it - I try to avoid using my Blessings at all if possible. In fact, I'll just let myself get killed in the replayables rather than use the Blessings. I have them for insurance, but every time I think about having to go back to the cathedral to get more, it makes me not want to use them. I'd be happy and more inclined to use them if it gave me four or five rounds for the current price. I'd also feel less anxiety about parting with 1500 tokens if I'm getting fifteen rounds of protection. *reps*

[SiannaDey]

I was one of those that complained when the price jumped from 350 to 500....I wished that it would guarantee a 3 turn immunity.....but most posters disagreed.

I dont like the pure randomness of it.....if say you rolled 11 or higher....then you get 3 rounds and if you rolled 10 or lower you get 2 rounds...it would have the same results the round you opt to use it....but the randomness is determined by something we cannot see....so it is frustrating to me at times as well.

I am used to the price now.

peace

[SiannaDey]

since the priests know when you have too many blessings...how about this?

when you have 1 blessing...it costs 250 gold

when your character has 2 blessings...the 2nd one costs 500 gold

to get a 3rd blessing placed on your character you have to put up 1000 gold.

that would be very pricy...and you would have to decide if you really wanted to use just one blessing as that 3rd one would be the expensive one to replace!!
:eek:

hahaha

[thingirl]

I like it, but then everybody would just buy 2 for 750 gold and not buy the 3rd. I rarely use more than 1 BoP in 1 battle, and almost never more than 2.

[shadowblack]

So 3 Blessings will cost 1750 instead of 1500. Considering the amount of gold most of us have the only ones affected by this would be new players.

[Zeriken]

Ehh, I'm fine with how it is now. I normally don't even carry them around XD. The price isn't actually all that crippling, either. A single run of Axepath should get you at least enough for 2 blessings... And you shouldn't require the use of a blessing in Axepath ;).


Just now did a run. I went from 14880 to 16808. That's a 1928 gold difference. Other than the better-than-common items I picked up, and the gold I picked up from the battles, there was nothing else to supplement this gold difference. And I wasn't really lucky with drops, either XD.