New empowerment strategy?

[licker]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:



By the way, do those items you get change your skill levels on the overland map or just in combat?

I guess the general concensus is that bless effects do not change with subsequent empowerment of the pretender or with the pretender's disempowerment by death and being called back?

The items that say something like "1 level nature" or whatever increase the magic path on both the strategic and tactical maps.

The devs have said elsewhere that your blessings are fixed at god creation, so no amount of empowerment or death will effect them.

[SurvivalistMerc]

licker,

Thank you for clarifying that. I guess now that is a reason not to be a pure rainbow as I have started to be.... 3 in everything but blood, 2 in blood. Which is nice...the feeling that I have "given up" something makes me feel less guilty about all those magic sites I find.

Has anyone ever found a holy or unholy site? I've had priests search but always come back having found nothing.

[Taqwus]

Holy/Unholy sites do exist, just a bit rare.
A few sites do give blood income (Damned Merchant, for instance; there's also some non-blood magical academy site that does, too) or blood summoning bonuses, but they're far rarer than brigand lairs et al. But blood slaves are mostly captured, not received from sites. There's also a Demon Lord which gets free slaves, but not at a terribly quick rate.

[SurvivalistMerc]

Thanks, Takwus,

Right now my only blood mage in some instances is my pretender. Which is not really all that impressive for the use of blood magic. He has better things to do that just walk around hunting blood slaves. Like finding magic sites or contributing to research or forging major magical items that only he can do with all his rainbow magic.

I wouldn't want to miss out on a nice site like that.

It's also good to know that there are priestly sites. I guess I'll still send those guys around looking even though they usually won't find anything.

Does anyone think that a nice idea for a theme might be one wherein taking blood slaves did not yeild increased unrest? Perhaps costing 40 points or so?

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
Has anyone ever found a holy or unholy site? I've had priests search but always come back having found nothing.

I find it especially nice to make a prophet from a holy mage, so that it can site-search at holy 4 as well as 2 other fields. I've found quite a few holy sites, although yes, they are rare... and I think most of them are above level 2, so cheap priests aren't too helpful. I've never found an unholy site, but some of them are very nice, from the descriptions.

[SurvivalistMerc]

With ulm, I'm not going to have any 4-holy priests. Especially not with order 3, unluck 3. I guess I can go search with my prophet, who is my smith with toughness.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
Does anyone think that a nice idea for a theme might be one wherein taking blood slaves did not yeild increased unrest? Perhaps costing 40 points or so?

You know, that might actually make the "Blood of Humans" theme worthwhile! I would say "half unrest", though, because no unrest for unlimited slaving in the capitol is a bit... omnipotent=)