Re: Do priests ever level up?
 

Priest level outside combat also strongly affects preaching and sacrificing. So besides re-animation, preaching, sacrificing, and searching for holy sites, priest level doesn't affect anything outside combat http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

That's a nice idea about the crystal shield though, especially for a bless nation that normally only gets H2 priests.

Re: Do priests ever level up?
 

Oh, yeah, Communion Master works too IIRC. This is nice for nations like Marverni that have priests (Druids) with Astral. Marverni doesn't really benefit from a bless but Fanaticism is always nice; 4 communion slaves will boost a Druid to H4. For nations that don't have this you can use a Crystal Matrix to do the same thing. However, a Crystal Shield is really less hassle if you don't need H4 spells.

-Max

Re: Do priests ever level up?
 

iirc the crystal shield only works for priests if they also have some other magic skill.

Re: Do priests ever level up?
 

Oh, bother! It looks like mivayan is right. Sorry for the misinformation--I noted the H-boost in passing a while ago on a unit I was boosting for other reasons, and it never occurred to me to check it on a pure Holy unit.

-Max

Re: Do priests ever level up?
 

Note also that the Crystal Shield is a Tower shield and thus can't be used by mounted priests, as I found out when I got one from a random event as Vanheim.

I thought, briefly, I'd have another Divine Blesser.