Are there holy sites?

brxbrx · #1 January 29th, 2011, 02:44 AM

yeah, they usually decrease unrest, kill undead and demonic troops, and let you recruit priests.

13lackGu4rd · #2 January 29th, 2011, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by brxbrx

yeah, they usually decrease unrest, kill undead and demonic troops, and let you recruit priests.

ummm, no... where did you get that from? the most common holy site by far is the UW site that gives +1 pearl. above the seas it's rarer to find holy sites but they're still there. when I finally run into a holy site, either in SP or MP, it usually generates a random pair of gems.

brxbrx · #3 January 29th, 2011, 05:49 AM

those are the ones I've encountered.
such as the Hidden Temple/Monastery.

Kobal2 · #4 January 29th, 2011, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by 13lackGu4rd

ummm, no... where did you get that from?

There's one holy site that blasts any undead in the province - which is a good indication one needs to search there

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Other than that though, I haven't looked up the various dbs but I believe from personnal experience that:

- holy sites tend to be a bit more likely in open plains and farmlands, where regular magic sites are rarer
- even so they're about as rare as Blood sites, so 1 in 10-15 provinces.
- the UW sunken temple is a lot more common than the overland one, presumably because the complete list of UW sites is shorter.

The grand majority give at least an astral gem, some a few randoms, and I know at least one lets you recruit regular indie priests without a temple.
Mostly they're not really worth getting a headache over unless you're really hurting for Astral. If your nation has decent sitesearchers who also happen to be H1-3 then great. Do that instead of remote site searches if you've got the time. If not, meh.