Praying

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Description

Praying can increase your faith and give occasional gifts and boosts. It used to contribute directly to how quickly you regain favor, but this is no longer the case.

In fact at the moment you only gain half the favor while praying compared to when doing nothing.

It is still being discussed wether or not prayer skill affects the type and amount of rewards given when praying at an altar. (see discussion).

Characteristics gained

Soul / Soul strength, Soul depth

Gaining Faith

You need to pray at an altar of your god to gain faith.

You can pray as often as you want but only five prayers, spaced at least 20 minutes apart, will increase your faith in any 24 hour period. The 24 hours is determined by server uptime. Use the chat command /uptime to check this. In other words, you can pray five times between zero uptime and 24 hours, five more between one day and two days, etc.

Praying Locations

You can pray at other locations than altars, depending on your god. While these actions will still give you prayer skill, praying at these locations does not increase your faith.

• Fo - Overaged trees.
• Vynora - Water tiles.
• Magranon - Rock tiles.
• Libila - Corpses.

Gifts from the Gods

The skill prayer can give a gift to the player. Here are some of the messages you may get and what effect it has:

• "You send your prayers to <god>."
• "<god> is pleased with your devotion." - Faith gain.
• "Your pocket suddenly feels heavier." - Gift of 1-10 iron coins.
• "Your legs tingle and you feel unstoppable." - Farwalker effect for 45 seconds.
• "<god> gives you some favor." - Instant 10 favor boost.
• "<god> puts something in your pocket." - Receive an item, can be either one of Mushroom, Flint, Salt or Gem. Higher skill increases chance of receiving a better gift.
• "<god> grants you faster favor gain." - Doubled favor gain for 5 minutes.
• "You are blessed with some Mind logic." - A gift of Characteristic for Vynora followers (+0.000099 up to +0.000101).
• "You are blessed with some Body Strength." - A gift of Characteristic for Magranon and Libila followers (+0.000099 up to +0.000101).
• "You are blessed with some Body Stamina." - A gift of Characteristic for Fo followers (+0.000099 up to +0.000101).
• "<god> heals you." - Heals at least up to a light wound, possibly higher.
• "<Pet's name> suddenly seems more loyal" - Increases the loyalty rating of your current pet by a small amount. Can appear if current pet is a zombie or dominated animal, though its effect in that case is unknown.
• "Nothing special seems to happen."

Titles

• Reverent at 50 skill
• No title at 70 skill