No love for Holy??

[HoneyBadger]

Not quite, but pretty close...

[Crevan]

Stealthy preachers? Huh, they`re quite good when you use them with attacking enchantments...but I like to use priests as battle mages
MA Marignon can summon angels and (!) seraphs - and powerful mage-priests in Capital. If you are playing against Oni, Ernor or any player, who using undead/demon commanders, just 2-3 priests with 2-3 lvl Holy can easily destroy everything on the battlefield. Banishment kill ANY undead (Pretender too) with single strike

[thejeff]

Banishment is unlikely to kill undead pretenders with a single strike. It does MR resisted hp damage. On a lucky roll it could kill a low hp pretender outside of it's dominion, but I wouldn't rely on it for killing any undead thugs or SCs.
It's great for blowing away hordes of undead/demonic chaff, especially if you've got high level priests. Powerful single undead require other measures.

[Crevan]

Originally Posted by thejeff

Banishment is unlikely to kill undead pretenders with a single strike. It does MR resisted hp damage.

Seraph with holy sword kills Ghost King on Deathmatch with single strike. Just yesterday. I lol`d

Originally Posted by thejeff

It's great for blowing away hordes of undead/demonic chaff, especially if you've got high level priests. Powerful single undead require other measures.

Great massacre: five priests l.3, one angel with guards and about 25-30 prov.def. vs 200+ undeads of Ernor. Enemy failed to capture my prov.

[thejeff]

Of course it can also be useful to keep enemy dominion around.
I'm playing around in SP with LA Mictlan, terrible scales to finance the abusive bless. While you don't benefit from good enemy scales, even neutral scales can be better than what you've bought. Targeted preaching, or in Mictlan's case blood sacrifice, lets you bump your dominion up to reduce enemy scales that are bad, but leave your dominion low to keep neutral scales in place.

Does anyone know the mechanic for scales changing actually is?

[Edratman]

Crevan,

No need to apologize. You did very well.

This a very friendly forum, so you won't have to waste any energy worrying about the grammer police.

[JaghataiKhan]

I have questions as well. I see a lot of priest spells well above holiness level 4, but I have no idea how to reach it. Can't I just make a holy book as an artifact and give it to a priest? Priests should have their levels upped per 2 levels of experience imho. A well literate priest with years of hard experience should know how to preach and pray.

Plus, I want a "Pimp my Religion" feature. Mine involves sacred Mass of Tuna Fish every Thursday, with the Tuna sandwiches SYMBOLICALLY become the flesh of my God(not literally), anime is sacred, and gay couples can marry as long as they swear to run a Tuna Fish farm and give tithes to priesthood.

We accept tithes and donations in silver coins, tuna fish, columbian coffee and anime in cbr. format.

It is a sin to harm kittens, even greater sin not to photograph a kitten in a weird situation and make a LOLCAT out of it.

[Gregstrom]

For H5...

Prophetise a Seraph. Or prophetise a H3 priest and use one of the artefact H boosters.

I like the 'Pimp my Religion' idea - but how about a ritual where the flesh of your god symbolically (or not) becomes tuna sandwiches? Much more interesting.

[Epaminondas]

Originally Posted by Gregstrom

For H5...

Prophetise a Seraph. Or prophetise a H3 priest and use one of the artefact H boosters.

I like the 'Pimp my Religion' idea - but how about a ritual where the flesh of your god symbolically (or not) becomes tuna sandwiches? Much more interesting.

What's the benefit of getting H5? H4 priest can cast all the battle spells, no?

[Jazzepi]

Originally Posted by Epaminondas

What's the benefit of getting H5? H4 priest can cast all the battle spells, no?

It'd make your banishment, and probably your smite/word of power, more difficult to resist, and in the case of banishment, have higher damage/AoE.