Calling God Back

[Thufir]

Can anyone tell me if there is a forumula for how much priest power is necessary to call your God back?

TIA,

Thufir

[Endoperez]

Priest levels of all priests calling him back are summed together. When this sum exceeds or equals 40, he returns.

[Thufir]

Endoperez said:
Priest levels of all priests calling him back are summed together. When this sum exceeds or equals 40, he returns.

Perfect - that's just what I need to know! Thanks.

[Arryn]

Endoperez said:
Priest levels of all priests calling him back are summed together. When this sum exceeds or equals 40, he returns.

A more accurate statement is when the sum is greater than or equal to 40 level-turns the god returns. Endo's statement implies that nothing happens until you reach a "critical mass" of 40 levels, which isn't true. A L2 priest, alone, can call god and take 20 turns to succeed. The more priests you throw at the call, the faster god returns.

[The Panther]

Arryn is correct, that is exactly how it works. Each turn's worth of priests is added to those already finished with the task. This is important if you are a high priest race, such as Pythium, which has mage/priests.

You do not want to put every Pythium priest on calling god when he dies. You just put 20 level 2 priests on it and you get your god back in one turn. The other priests can continue to do other tasks.

[The_Tauren13]

The Panther said:
You just put 20 level 2 priests on it and you get your god back in one turn.

why would you have 20 level 2 priests lying around, unless youre fighting ermor?

[Thufir]

The_Tauren13 said:

why would you have 20 level 2 priests lying around, unless youre fighting ermor?

Well, in Pythiums case their level 2 priests are the cheapest researchers, so you might have quite a few of them in order to boost your research level. There's other races whose mages are also priests - I think the designers have done this as much to give certain races more economical research and cheaper access to mages as much as for thematic reasons.

[archaeolept]

while theurg acolytes only cost 90, and have a reasearch of 6 under 3 magic, real thueurgs are only 150 for a research of 9, which is something like 90% as efficient (higher, of course, if magic is less than 3). Given how much more combat power a theurg wields, I end up almost exclusively buying them, and only having a very few acolytes for menial tasks.

[The Panther]

In the case of Serpent Cult Pythium, ALL national mages are also priests. SC Pythium is probably the single best killer of AE or SG Ermor in the game.

[archaeolept]

?? how you figure?

base pythium is surely the best killer of undead.