Faith
Description
Faith gives priests the ability to cast spells at certain levels - see the information on each god for more information on these spells.
You gain faith (and some favor) by praying at altars after converting to a religion. The maximum amount of favor you can get while praying is equal to your current level of faith. You can gain faith 5 times per real-life day, but you must leave 20 minutes between these prayers. Any prayers in between these 5 prayers will not raise your faith but will get your prayer skill up.
You cannot raise faith above 30 without becoming a priest.
At 30 faith, you may travel to the Altar of Three(WL) or the Bone Altar(BL) (depending which of the Gods you follow) and become a priest of your god. If you're on the Freedom server, you'll need to find a priest from your religion with 40 faith to perform a ritual for you in order to become a priest yourself.
At 40 faith, you can identify to which god an item was blessed: examining a blessed item will have "It bears an aura of <god>" in its description.
At 50 faith, you can become a champion of your god on the Wild server; this does not carry over to Freedom, however. You can also randomly get flint, salt, and gems from praying.
Other Information
- Faith gain is not affected by sleep bonus or by praying at different types of altars (i.e. made of gold, silver, stone, or wood). Faith skill is not lost when a player dies.
- It can take a player approximately a month (praying five times a day) to reach the 30 faith needed to become a priest.
- It can take a player approximately 100 days (praying five times a day) to reach 70 faith, at which point most spells are available.
Sermons
Holding a sermon will reward a preacher with a faith related bonus when preaching to a group of listeners. A valid listener is a premium player, of the same religion (both follower or priest), which has not received an alignment gain in the past half hour and is near the preacher (4 tiles). (note that 100 alignment does not exempt you from the 30 mins timer, its still 30 mins after each sermon or any type of alignment gaining action)
- Sermons give 0.02 faith per valid listener (priest included) in the area, minimum listeners for faith gain is 4 and maximum gain seems like its 2.50 (not confirmed).
- Sermons reset the prayer counter for the preacher if 6 valid listeners attended.
- A sermon has a three hour cooldown for the preacher. Although, within this window that same preacher can be a listener in another priest's sermon.
- Alignment gains are notorious for breaking a sermon, make sure this requirement doesn't disqualify one of your listeners.
Tools
Online Faith gain Calculator - [1]
Titles
- Padre/Norn at 50 faith
- Devout at 70 faith
- Enlightened at 90 faith
