Favorite Deity?

[Maylith]

Access to Stone school: Again, getting Stone Prison would be awesome, but the skill points aren't worth it.

You might actually consider rethinking that. Stone Prison is an extremely powerful spell for dealing with summoners and other nasties, like, say, Ancalagon or Sauron.

Stone Skin is nothing for a melee character to sneeze at, either.

Stone Skin I might try (and would Divine Aim gain me much, really?).

Re: Stone Prison: ya think? I agree it sounds like a fantastic spell, but at a cost of (if I calculated this right ) 60 skill points?!

Tulkas char at skill level 5 in prayer can cast a level 4 spell.
Stone Prison = level 25 spell.
4/5 = 25/x
4x = 125
x = 31.25
round up to 32: Need skill level 32.
Already at skill level 2.00 => need to make 30 more skill levels.
Gain at 0.500 => Need 60 more skill points to make skill level 32 in piety to be able to cast Stone Prison.
Am CL 38 => have 12 * 5 = 60 skill points more available (aside from any I get from FF) by the time she makes it (IF she does ) to CL 50.

So if I put every single skill point aside from FF into piety between now and when she makes CL50 (well, she has 2 right now that I haven't spent) then she could cast Stone Prison at CL50. The real problem is, I never found the first Relic Maybe if I can find a Staff of Wishes....

I appreciate the encouragement and I'm *definitely* going to keep this spell in mind for future and hopefully less-flawed characters, but do you really think it's worth that much to this char?

[Tirpen]

Didn't you do any of the god quests? There is a maximum of five quests and you get three skill points in prayer for each one (more for the last one, don't remember how much) If you take them all you'll already have around 15 points and only have to spend 34 to get stone prison.

[Rubinstein]

Didn't you read the whole posting?

The real problem is, I never found the first Relic Maybe if I can find a Staff of Wishes....

Btw: Maylith, what do you have in mind with the SoW? And: Does such a thing actually exist? I thought, only scrolls of wishes exist...

[Maylith]

Didn't you read the whole posting?

The real problem is, I never found the first Relic Maybe if I can find a Staff of Wishes....

Btw: Maylith, what do you have in mind with the SoW? And: Does such a thing actually exist? I thought, only scrolls of wishes exist...

Look about 5 topics down from this one in the Strategy forum. There's better advice than mine there....

But in at least a couple of different places in the fora, there is mention that you can wish for a Piece of the Relic of {god's name}. Or something like that... I may not have gotten the parsing correct. And that will turn the quests back on.

[Rubinstein]

Oh well, they actually talk about Staves of Wishing!
But then a (hopefully) silly question: They are *not* rechargeable, are they?

[zasvid]

They are *not* rechargeable, are they?

No, they aren't.

[Serin]

I chose Eru because your piety can only decrease if you are a)unlucky or b)dumb. The only reason I don't like manwe or melkor or yavannah is that your piety decreases with time, I suppose that I should stop leaning on the keys when I am tunneling or trying to open a lock and press the 0 button on the number pad....

[cajela]

Manwe for speed!

I'm running a Manwe priest at the moment; intending to max prayer by god quests (as my last one did before that nasty business with the skull drujs in Mordor). Manwe's own prayers are good, noxious cloud is very useful, and the conveyance would be handy if I weren't a thunderlord already.

The piety problem is easily solved. If not a priest, adopt Manwe after you finished the barrowdowns. A priest has a disadvantage, but once you're mindwaving caverns full of orcs it ticks back up very nicely. Also, you can level up in the swamp and angband surface without losing piety.

Just don't count on him in early game.

I also like Eru and Tulkas, for different characters. I don't do evil and Yavanna is AFAIK useless. Has anyone actually run a character with benefits from her? Who are you 1% folks? Got any stories for us?

[Quixote]

I have very simple tastes.

Tulkas for Melee characters.

Eru for Magic Users.

Occasionally I used Manwe for Magic Users but I went back to Eru.

After I finish with my pet project (Sir Physt) I'm thinking of trying a 'naughty' Dark Priest so I will get my first taste of Melkor.

[too lazy to register yet]

Ever try a wood elf archer that follows eru? AFAIK, missile weapons arnt effected with the no sharp things rule, and the semi-free ID rules... even though it takes 14 skill points... its worth a bit more if you wait for FF to give you spirituality first...

and the spell levels to back it all up...

[Xandor Tik'Roth]

What I want to know is who said they used Yvanna? That person should be given an award or something...

[Helk]

What exactly DOES the MAnwe spell avatar do for you?
I prefer ERU as my god, though as im playing my first true warrior... Im trying to decide between Tulkas and Manwe.

[Massimiliano Marangio]

What exactly DOES the Manwe spell avatar do for you?

It is a nice boost before a fight, or if you lack some resistances. Sadly, the duration is too short to keep it all the time.

[Atarlost]

What exactly DOES the MAnwe spell avatar do for you?
I prefer ERU as my god, though as im playing my first true warrior... Im trying to decide between Tulkas and Manwe.

Stick to your rut and play an Eru worshipping haftedmaster. :P

[Helk]

I went with the tried and true Tulkas... of couse I've managed to find TWO lower piety traps on level 20 of Mirkwood. SO now im near -3000 piety. DOH!