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Newbie stuff

2011-09-23T07:20:16Z

Wizini: /* How do I join the Priests guild? */ removed urchins, they don't work, updated the link to kefkas maps

Welcome to the Priests Guild. This is a little guide based on the most common questions that get asked (to do with the guild that is, not 'can you ward this?', 'can you res me?' or 'can you passage me?'). If you have a common question you get asked which isn't here, feel free to add it to this page!

= How do I join the Priests guild? =
So, you've decided to join the Priests Guild. A most excellent choice...

Basically, first you need to worship a god. Which [[Gods|god(s)]] you can worship will depend on your [[alignment]], as you have to be in a god's alignment before you can worship them. You can set a basic alignment in the Newbie Area at the Priest's. There is a fountain (representing [[Pishe]]) with some beetles floating in it. Either by rescuing or drowning beetles you can set your alignment. Around 15 drowned beetles will make you very evil and suitable for [[Sek]] or you can get very good by rescuing 15 beetles and [[Pishe]] will take you in her loving arms. Affecting your alignment by killing NPCs of the opposite alignment is -especially for a newbie- a very long and hard process.

Once you have decided which god to worship, you need to find their temple. Take a look at the excellent Discworld [http://daftjunk.com/ maps]. Once in the temple, you must find the god's high altar and 'join' the priests guild. Congratulations, you are now a priest of the deity of your choice! Time to advance skills, learn rituals at the room with the religious instructor and become a famous priest!

= Can you give me any starting tips and info? =
Your primary skills are those of the [[skills|faith tree]], though the fighting skill tree is important to many priests who want to advance at a reasonable pace.

As you advance your faith skills, you will get a number of rituals (you are taught them automatically when you enter the room with your religious instructor, if you have the skills). To see what rituals you have, type 'rituals'. There is a help file for each of the rituals, simply type 'help <ritual>', e.g. 'help cure light wounds' and note you can also look up information on each of the rituals on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]].

To use the rituals, you use the command 'perform', e.g. 'perform cure light wounds on me', for more help type 'syntax perform'. That is however fairly long to type so most priests use aliases for rituals, type 'help alias' for a detailed explanation on what they are, but as an example, typing 'alias cl perform cure light wounds on $*$' will set up an alias where if you type 'cl me' or ‘cl valkyr’ it will work the same as the example of performing the ritual. For more details and extra functionalities (such as standard arguments), read the helpfile.

= How should I rearrange my stats? =
This is not something to rush into quickly. Make sure you have read "help rearrange" and "help stats" before you attempt this, as well as asking other players from the same deity for advice. There is no such a thing as the best rearrange for a priest anymore. A rearrange for a Sekkite who wishes to go PK will strongly differ from a rearrange for a Pishite who only wishes to restore and resurrect people.

I would advice you to answer the following questions for yourself, before considering a rearrange:
* Which [[:Category:Rituals|rituals]] do I want to be good at and what skills do they use? (For example, dust devil (*.area) and major shield (de.se) and maybe blight (of.ta))
* How important is fighting for me, and which fighting skills will I focus on? (Ex. Sword and parry; Mace and block; dagger and dodge)
* Do I have any other expectations? (Ex. I want a high perception bonus)
* Now that I have selected a couple of important skills, to what stats do they relate? (examine the [[Skills|skills-stats dependencies]])

Now that you have determined which stats are most important for you, you should experiment on [http://bonuses.darkmud.co.uk/ Acim’s bonus generator] with some different rearranges (what happens if I move one point from dex to int?) and pick the one you like best. Note that your stats also affect the rate at which your gp regenerate, and this can be calulated at the same site. Can you really afford that fighting heavy rearrange if it only gives 2 gp back every heartbeat? Do you want the maximum possible 4 gp regeneration and lose out on skills elsewhere?

There! You have now rearranged! Normally you are stuck with this rearrange for the rest of your character’s life. If you would happen to feel the need to make a minor adjustment (one stat point at a time), you should consider visiting one of the Retrophrenologists located in most large cities.

= How do I advance my skills? =
You can advance your skills in the worshipper area of your temple, also called the vestry. Type ‘info’, or ‘cost faith’ to see what you can advance in your primaries, what you currently have in those skills, and the experience cost to move up one level. You can also type 'cost faith to 50' for example, to see the xp cost of getting your overall faith to 50 from where you are now.

To advance, you can type 'advance faith' or you can advance the subskills by using 'advance faith.rituals.defensive.self', note that you can use the first two letters as a shortcut, ie 'advance fa.ri.de.se' or ‘advance fa.ri.de.se to 100’ or advance fa.ri.de.se by 10’.
You can also advance a little of the other skill trees, try typing 'cost fighting', 'cost other' and so on.

= What should I advance? =
To start with, you will need to advance overall faith (at least up to level 5, when you can advance faith.rituals, then you need 10 faith.rituals to be able to advance faith.rituals.defensive etc.) This can only be done up to level 50 however, at which point you have no choice but to advance the individual subskills shown in the list. In reality, no-one actually advances faith to 50, as you can get going better by advancing the subskills for the rituals you want instead.

As to what particular skills you should advance after or even before this, my advice is to look at what rituals you can get on the [[Gods|gods page]], or look on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]] to see which you would like to be able to use, then advance the subskill that the rituals you want use.

Note you should try and learn some fighting as quickly as possible, firstly the 10 levels available in the guild, then more off other players. The best practice is to take the fighting exercises in the newbie area. With any luck you can get your blunt, sharp, pierce, parry and dodge to level 5 without any cost!

Also recommended is advancing your adventuring.health in the guild to get more hit points. The 500 or so you start out with can disappear all too quick! The guild will let you advance this skill to level 25.

= How can I get money and experience, I can't even kill a cockroach! =
First of all don't rush through the newbie area too quickly. I know you are desperate to get into the action but completing all of the guild tasks will equip you with a nice set of basic skills. And don't despair, these are super cockroaches, really, they are, but with your skills from Pumpkin Town everything will get a bit easier. Those skills are cheap there and out on the Disc you have to pay for them with money and XP (eXperience Points).

You must understand that the priests guild is not the most easy guild to start a character off in. We are one of the few unlucky guilds that have no primary skills capable of doing direct damage to an opponent, instead we have to rely on the non-primary fighting skills. The 10 levels of fighting you can learn in the priests guild are probably not going to be enough to start killing anything beyond small rodents; you are going to need to learn more off another player. This is now fairly expensive to do, so you will need to earn some experience.

Without fighting you can get experience by idling and performing rituals. Once you have learnt a bit of fighting (I would recommend to concentrate on one weapon type at first) then you will be able to go out and smite mightily. At this stage, the only rituals which will be a great deal of help to you will be cure light wounds, dust devil and minor shield.

Now that you can get money and experience by killing things, you can go on your merry way, using this to learn more fighting to kill tougher things, or learning faith to get some of the more powerful rituals going (especially [[Major Shield|major shield]]).

= Why does it say my God's attention is elsewhere? =
Performing a ritual is an attempt to get your God(dess) to use some of His/Her power to aid you in something. How convincing you are in your attempt to get your God to do this for you depends on your bonus in the faith skills relevant to that particular ritual. If your God's attention is elsewhere, this means you did not have sufficient faith to convince your God to help you, and that His/Her attention turned to other things (drinking, eating, plotting…). You will need to increase your skills in the future in order to increase your chance to succeed your ritual.

= Pray and the burial commands don't seem to do anything, what do they have to do with alignment? =
Basically, they will move your alignment back into favour with your god, but how effective they are at it does depend on your faith.rituals.special bonus. Check the [[alignment]] section for more details.

= What is a square stone/ivory statue/black medallion etc. and what does it do? =
These are upgraded versions of the [[Holy symbol | holy symbols]] which are used in some rituals and are readily available in the temple shops. Any ritual that requires a holy symbol to perform can be performed with one of these as a substitute. Each god has a different one, and they can't be re-consecrated (you can try, but they're "too [deity-specific word] to change"). Another possible substitute, for every god, are charged [[prayer beads]]. They can replace a [[Holy symbol| symbol]], an [[Holy amulet | amulet]] and a [[Holy relic | relic]], all at the same time.
* '''[[Pishe]]''': Narrow ivory bracelet (old: small ivory statue)
* '''[[Gufnork]]''': Fluffy ball
* '''[[Gapp]]''': Golden thimble
* '''[[Sandelfon]]''': Square stone
* '''[[Fish]]''': Line of shark teeth (old: ritual fishing rod)
* '''[[Hat]]''': Brass feather
* '''[[Sek]]''': Black metal medallion

= Why am I slightly distracted from my prayers? =
It's a combination of being out of alignment and/or having low [[faith.rituals.special]]. Get into alignment (when in perfect alignment, "score align" will say that your deity is "very happy with you") and you'll stop seeing it, or get more [[faith.rituals.special]] and you'll have to be further out of alignment before you get that message.

Gods

2010-09-13T14:35:08Z

Wizini: just added that the dysk/player shop ,modiefier also applies to witches/wizard owned houses

This page contains an overview of all the joinable deities on Discworld. Each God has a short description stating his or her strong and weak point and which alignment they require. We will NOT give a rating to the different Gods. This is always subjective and we think you should make up you own mind, based on the [[alignment]], the rituals granted or role-playing possibilities.

= General Info =
How to join the Priests Guild, can be found in the [[Newbie stuff|newbie section]]. But first you should carefully consider which God you want to serve. Do you feel like fighting? Maybe you want to help people? Fond of fine clothes? All these things might influence your choice.

To make the decision a little easier, here's a list of factors that might influence your choice of a Supreme Being to Worship.

= God Related Bonuses =
Each God provides the opportunity to get an bonus in performing rituals, under special circumstances. These are:
* '''Pishe''': when outside in the rain, snow, or sleet
* '''Gapp''': when wearing enough (either three, or it varies) clothes of the right fashion ("<code>finger gapp</code>")
* '''Gufnork''': when carrying 7 fluffy items, or in a fluffy enough room (passage room, or a room with enough fluffy things/flueves on the ground)
* '''Sandelfon''': when indoors
* '''Fish''': when in the water
* '''Hat''': when in the company of 4 other priests, or when at any high altar
* '''Sek''': when in combat
* '''All Gods''': shortly after having prayed or buried a corpse using the ritual bury command. Duration appears to be defined by Faith.Ritual.Special bonus.
* '''All Gods''': when at your own high altar
* '''All Gods''': when close to a temple of your God

= Guild Point Usage, and Modifiers =
Quite recently, some priests have noticed a fluctuation in guild points used by rituals. Apparently some negative modifiers can increase the amount of guild points needed to perform a ritual. They also increase the difficulty of the ritual, making it harder to perform and less effective if it does succeed. These modifiers are
* nearly out of alignment (You can barely feel the presence of ...)
* far from a temple of your God (You are far away from holy ground)
* a state of drunkenness or being poisoned
* performing a ritual from a faith rod
* at another deity's high altar (unless you're a Hattian)
* far from the eyes of any God (seems to apply at the Dysk, at witches and wizards guild areas, and in player shops or houses owned by witches and wizards)
* you sense that the gods have averted their eyes from this place (at the Witches' Guild in Bad Ass, seems to be a very large modifier )
* darkness ("quite dark here") for rituals that require the "sight" power, as described by the "[[meditate]]" command: [[cool]], [[demoralise]], [[detect alignment]], [[detect magic]], [[divine guard]], [[divine sentinel]], [[find corpse]], [[haunting]], [[holy sanctuary]], [[raise dead pet]], [[relief]], [[see alignment]], [[see consecration]], [[warm]]
** Seems to have no effect on: [[agoraphobia]], [[bless]], [[chant]], [[clarify]], [[devout inquisition]], [[divine hand]], [[dust devil]], [[endless halls]], [[far sight]], [[feedback]], [[fumble]], [[light]], [[longsight]], [[minor shield]], [[major shield]], [[parch]], [[remember place]], [[soothing rain]], [[sotto voce]], [[sparkling shelter]], [[splash]], [[tongues]], [[totem]]
* <adjective> clothing is holy--only for [[mend]]. Applies when you're performing mend on an item of clothing that's currently in fashion.
* <adjective> clothing is an abomination unto Gapp--only for [[mend]]. Applies when you're performing mend on an item of clothing that's currently extremely out of fashion (presumably, the exact opposite of whatever's in fashion: if black clothing is in, white is out, but other colours give no message).

= Specific God Information =
* [[Pishe]] (as good as you can get - barely good)
* [[Gufnork]] (quite good - neutral)
* [[Gapp]] (quite good - neutral)
* [[Sandelfon]] (barely good - barely evil)
* [[Fish]] (neutral - evil)
* [[Hat]] (neutral - quite evil)
* [[Sek]] (barely evil - as evil as you can get)

= Places of interest =
Each deity has high altars and shops in a different set of locations (though each have high altars in Ankh-Morpork, Djelibeybi, and the red tower in Bes Pelargic (on the far east side of town, a bit north off the river)). If you already know which deity you'd like to worship, this will affect which starting areas will be easiest for you.
*[http://discworld.imaginary-realities.com/wiki/Ankh-Morpork Ankh-Morpork]: has the [[Temple of Small Gods]] and a high altar for every deity--most on the Street of Small Gods, the Pishe one in the Apothecary Gardens and the Fish one near the docks, just south of the river on the very west side of the city.
*[http://discworld.imaginary-realities.com/wiki/Bes_Pelargic Bes Pelargic]: has high altars for every deity in the red tower--near the imperial palace, just north of the river on the very east side of the city. There's also a Fish high altar, shop and advancement room in the shipwreck in Tuna Bay. The wandering charm peddler on Garden Walk sells symbols, prayer books, beads, amulets, and relics (of, it seems, whichever deity you worship).
*[http://discworld.imaginary-realities.com/wiki/Djelibeybi Djelibeybi]: has high altars for every deity, all northwest of the bazaar.
*[http://discworld.imaginary-realities.com/wiki/Genua Genua]: Has high altars for Hat (east side of the city, northwest corner of the docks) and Gapp (south part of the city, Darling Road).
*[http://discworld.imaginary-realities.com/wiki/The_Ramtops The Ramtops]: Has a high altar for Pishe, north of Lancre Town, south of Bad Ass, east of Mad Stoat, and very slightly west of the rugby pitch.
*[http://discworld.imaginary-realities.com/wiki/Ohulan_Cutash Ohulan Cutash]: Has high altars for Gufnork and Sek in the south part of town, on Sinner's Walk.
*[http://discworld.imaginary-realities.com/wiki/Sto_Lat Sto Lat]: Has a high altar and instructor for Pishe in the park, somewhat hidden.
*Temple of Cool: Has a Gapp shrine (no high altar) and a Gapp shop.
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
!Deity !! Temples !! Shops !! Newbie coffers
|-
| '''Pishe''' || Ankh-Morpork, Sto Lat, Djelibeybi, Bes Pelargic, and Lancre || Ankh-Morpork, Sto Lat, and Djelibeybi temples, and in the [[Temple of Small Gods]] (the miscellaneous shop) || Ankh-Morpork temple
|-
| '''Gufnork''' || Ankh-Morpork, Djelibeybi, Bes Pelargic, and Ohulan Cutash || Ankh-Moprork, Djelibeybi, and Ohulan Cutash temples || Ankh-Morpork temple
|-
| '''Gapp''' || Ankh-Morpork, Djelibeybi, Bes Pelargic, Genua, and Monks of Cool || Ankh-Morpork, Djelibeybi, Genua, and Monks of Cool temples || Ankh-Morpork and Genua temples
|-
| '''Sandelfon''' || Ankh-Morpork, Djelibeybi, and Bes Pelargic || Ankh-Morpork and Djelibeybi temples || Ankh-Morpork temple
|-
| '''Fish''' || Ankh-Morpork, Djelibeybi, and Bes Pelargic (two) || Ankh-Morpork and Djelibeybi temples, shipwreck in Tuna Bay || Ankh-Morpork temple and shipwreck in Tuna Bay
|-
| '''Hat''' || Ankh-Morpork, Djelibeybi, Bes Pelargic, and Genua || Djelibeybi and Genua temples, and [[Temple of Small Gods]] (Ben's shop) || Djelibeybi temple
|-
| '''Sek''' || Ankh-Morpork, Djelibeybi, Ohulan Cutash, and Bes Pelargic || Ankh-Morpork, Djelibeybi, and Ohulan Cutash temples || Djelibeybi temple
|}

Talk:Detect Alignment

2008-11-05T23:36:23Z

Wizini: New page: Added the scale levels for Sandy ~~~~

Added the scale levels for Sandy [[User:Wizini|Wizini]] 23:36, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Detect Alignment

2008-11-05T23:22:11Z

Wizini: /* Per-God Varieties */

{{RitualInfoBox
| name=Detect Alignment
| gp=10
| learntat=7 in [[faith.rituals]] or 20 in [[faith.rituals.misc.target]]
| skills=[[faith.rituals.misc.self]] or [[faith.rituals.misc.target]]
| grantedby=[[Pishe]], [[Sandelfon]] and [[Sek]]
| requirements=''None''
}}

Gives you a rough idea of a target's alignment.

__TOC__

= Description =
Gives a very precise indication of the target's [[alignment]] in the form of the priest receiving a vision of a number of objects doing something in one of two colours or type of object, with the number representing the degree of alignment from 0 (neutral) to 50 (as good/evil as you can get) and the colour or type of object indicating whether the target is good or evil. If the target is neutral, the priest's vision will indicate explicitly that nothing much has happened - '''this is not a failure'''. The details of the vision are god-specific. Additionally, the range of possible numbers is much smaller when the priest has insufficient skills; the exact nature of this reduced range has not yet been fully explored.

== Per-God Varieties ==
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! God || Object Type || Degree Indicator || Good Colour/Type || Evil Colour/Type || Ideal Alignment
|-
| '''Pishe''' || Coloured drops from a vial || Number of drops || Gold || Purple || 26 Golden Drops
|-
| '''Gufnork''' || || || || ||
|-
| '''Gapp''' || || || || ||
|-
| '''Sandelfon''' || Scale || Degrees on the scale || Degrees towards feather || Degres towards the stauette || Perfectly Level
|-
| '''Fish''' || || || || ||
|-
| '''Hat''' || || || || ||
|-
| '''Sek''' || Coloured flares from a brazier || Number of flares || Silver || Orange || 26 Orange Flares
|}

== [[Research and Ideas#Detect_Alignment_by_Garrion|Alignment Ranges]] ==
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
!Alignment !! Range
|-
| Extremely Good/Evil || 24 to 50
|-
| Very Good/Evil || 12 to 23
|-
| Quite Good/Evil || 6 to 11
|-
| Good/Evil || 3 to 5
|-
| Barely Good/Evil || 2
|-
| Neutral || 0 to 1
|}

There are rumours of an overlap in the ranges, where the same number may cover two separate textual alignments, but this has not yet been reliably observed.

= Help File =

The Detect Alignment ritual gives you an indication of the target's moral compass. Each god has a different way of expressing this, from mechanically precise to visceral and ritualistic.

= Example =
> perform detect alignment on taffyd
You recite the psalm of acquisition.
You speak the prayer of divination.
You close your eyes and indicate your desire to find out information about Taffyd.
Your eyes closed, you see Sandelfon, God of Corridors, sitting cross-legged by a complicated scale. On one side, there
is a feather, on the other a small clay statuette. As you watch, the scale slowly tilts one degree toward the feather.

= Granted By =
[[Pishe]], [[Sandelfon]] and [[Sek]]

= Learnt At =
[[Category:Rituals with conflicting or dubious learnt at information]]
* [[faith.rituals]] level 7 ([[Pishe]] and [[Sandelfon]])
* [[faith.rituals.misc.target]] level 20 ([[Sek]])

= Skills Used =
[[faith.rituals.misc.self]] or [[faith.rituals.misc.target]]

= Base GP Cost =
10 GP

= Requirements =
''None''

= [[Meditate]] =
{{MeditateBox
| type=m
| steps=3
| target=Objects, Others, Self
| components=None
| powers=Sight, Speech
| resist=n
}}

[[Category:Pishe Rituals]]
[[Category:Sandelfon Rituals]]
[[Category:Sek Rituals]]
[[Category:Rituals]]

User:Wizini

2008-11-02T03:01:52Z

Wizini: New page: Something about me: Priesthood of Sandelfon 15 Days old and Level 160

Something about me:

Priesthood of Sandelfon
15 Days old and Level 160

Talk:Newbie stuff

2008-11-02T03:00:25Z

Wizini:

= !!!Outdated Information!!! =

Basically, first you need to worship a god. Which god(s) you can worship will depend on your alignment, as you have to be in a god's alignment before you can worship them. This will depend on whether you pulled a lever when you were in the alignment room of the newbie area, if you are set on a particular god you may have to completely restart (i.e. deleting this character and starting a new one) and pull the correct lever (though the levers give different degrees each time, so take notice), or spend a long time killing things with the alignment opposite to which you want.

There are no levers in the newbie area anymore. There is a fountain in the newbie area where you can drown or safe bugs.
[[User:Wizini|Wizini]] 00:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

:info updated (verified it with a refreshed char), added link to kefka inside the text. [[User:Wizini|Wizini]] 01:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

= Can't kill a cockroach section =
Added some useful information about pumpkin town. You can advance the whole magic, faith and covert tree to 5 and most of the fi skills to 10 there. [[User:Wizini|Wizini]] 02:42, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

= Section Joining =
Edited some outdated information about joining. There is no need to pray and find the worshipping area to join. One can join directly at the high altar [[User:Wizini|Wizini]] 03:00, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Newbie stuff

2008-11-02T02:58:54Z

Wizini: /* How do I join the Priests guild? */

Welcome to the Priests Guild. This is a little guide based on the most common questions that get asked (to do with the guild that is, not 'can you ward this?', 'can you res me?' or 'can you passage me?'). If you have a common question you get asked which isn't here, feel free to add it to this page!

= How do I join the Priests guild? =
So, you've decided to join the Priests Guild. A most excellent choice...

Basically, first you need to worship a god. Which [[Gods|god(s)]] you can worship will depend on your [[alignment]], as you have to be in a god's alignment before you can worship them. You can set a basic alignment in the Newbie Area at the Priest's. There is a fountain (representing [[Pishe]]) with some beetles floating in it. Either by rescueing or drowning beetles you can set your alignment. Around 15 drowned beetles will make you very evil and suitable for [[Sek]] or you decide to rescue beetles you can get very good by rescuing 15 beetles and [[Pishe]] will take you in her loving arms. Affecting your alignment by killing NPC of the opposite alignment is -especially for a newbie- a very long and hard process.

Once you have decided which god to worship, you need to find their temple, either use an urchin, or take a look at the excellent Discworld [http://kefka.purplesunset.co.uk/ maps]. Once in the temple, you must find the god's high altar and 'join' the priests guild. Congratulations, you are now a priest of the deity of your choice! Time to advance skills, learn rituals at the room with the religious instructor and become a famous priest!

= Can you give me any starting tips and info? =
Your primary skills are those of the [[skills|faith tree]], though the fighting skill tree is important to many priests, if you want to advance at a reasonable pace.

As you advance your faith skills, you will get a number of rituals. To see what rituals you have, type 'rituals'. There is a help file for each of the rituals, simply type 'help <ritual>', e.g. 'help cure light wounds' and note you can also look up information on each of the rituals on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]].

To use the rituals, you use the command 'perform', e.g. 'perform cure light wounds on me', for more help type 'syntax perform'. That is however fairly long to type so most priests use aliases for rituals, type 'help alias' for a detailed explanation on what they are, but as an example, typing 'alias cl perform cure light wounds on $*$' will set up an alias where if you type 'cl me' or ‘cl valkyr’ it will work the same as the example of performing the ritual. For more details and extra functionalities (such as standard arguments), read the helpfile.

= How should I rearrange my stats? =
This is not something to rush into quickly. Make sure you have read "help rearrange" and "help stats" before you attempt this, as well as asking other players from the same deity for advice. There is no such a thing as the best rearrange for a priest anymore. A rearrange for a Sekkite who wishes to go PK will strongly differ from a rearrange for a Pishite who only wishes to restore and resurrect people.

I would advice you to answer the following questions for yourself, before considering a rearrange:
* Which [[:Category:Rituals|rituals]] do I want to be good at and what skills do they use? (For example, dust devil (*.area) and major shield (de.se) and maybe blight (of.ta))
* How important is fighting for me, and which fighting skills will I focus on? (Ex. Sword and parry; Mace and blokc; dagger and dodge)
* Do I have any other expectations? (Ex. I want a high perception bonus)
* Now that I have selected a couple of important skills, to what stats do they relate? (examine the [[Skills|skills-stats dependencies]])

Now that you have determined which stats are most important for you, you should experiment on [http://bonuses.darkmud.co.uk/ Acim’s bonus generator] with some different rearranges (what happens if I move one point from dex to int?) and pick the one you like best.

There! You have now rearranged! Normally you are stuck with this rearrange for the rest of your character’s life. If you would happen to feel the need to make a minor adjustment (one stat point at a time), you should consider visiting Ralph in OC.

= How do I advance my skills? =
You can advance your skills in the worshipper area of your temple, also called the vestry. Type ‘info’, or ‘cost faith’ to see what you can advance in your primaries, what you currently have in those skills, and the experience cost to move up one level. You can also type 'cost faith to 50' for example, to see the xp cost of getting your overall faith to 50 from where you are now.

To advance, you can type 'advance faith' or you can advance the subskills by using 'advance faith.rituals.defensive.self', note that you can use the first two letters as a shortcut, ie 'advance fa.ri.de.se' or ‘advance fa.ri.de.se to 100’ or advance fa.ri.de.se by 10’.
You can also advance a little of the other skill trees, try typing 'cost fighting', 'cost other' and so on.

= What should I advance? =
To start with, you will need to advance overall faith (at least up to level 5, when you can advance faith.rituals, then you need 10 faith.rituals to be able to advance faith.rituals.defensive etc.) This can only be done up to level 50 however, at which point you have no choice but to advance the individual subskills shown in the list. In reality, no-one actually advances faith to 50, but you can better start advancing the subskills asap.

As to what particular skills you should advance after or even before this, my advice is to look at what rituals you can get on the [[Gods|gods page]], or look on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]] to see which you would like to be able to use, then advance the subskill that the rituals you want use.

Note you should try and learn some fighting as quickly as possible, firstly the 10 levels available in the guild, then more off other players. The best practice is to take the fighting exercises in the newbie area. With any luck you can get your blunt, sharp, pierce, parry and dodge to level 5 without any cost!

= How can I get money and experience, I can't even kill a cockroach! =
First of all don't take the newbie area too easy. I know you are desperate to get into the action but completing all of the guild tasks will equip you with a nice set of basic skills. And don't despair, these are super cockroaches, really, they are, but with your skills from Pumpking Town everything will get a bit easier. Those skills are cheap there and out on the Disc you have to pay for them with money and XP (eXperience Points). But you must understand that the priests guild is not the most easy guild to start a character off in. We are one of the few unlucky guilds that have no primary skills capable of doing direct damage to an opponent, instead we have to rely on the non-primary fighting skills. The 10 levels of fighting you can learn in the priests guild are probably not going to be enough to start killing anything, you are going to need to learn more off another player. This is now fairly expensive to do, so you will need to earn some experience. Without fighting you can get experience by idling and performing rituals. Once you have learnt a bit of fighting (I would recommend to concentrate on one weapon type at first) then you will be able to go out and smite mightily, at this stage, the only rituals which will be a great deal of help to you will be cure light wounds, dust devil and minor shield. Now that you can get money and experience by killing things, you can go on your merry way, using this to learn more fighting to kill tougher things, or learning faith to get some of the more powerful rituals going (especially [[Major Shield|major shield]]).

= Why does it say my god's attention is elsewhere? =
Performing a ritual is an attempt to get your god to use some of His power to aid you in something. How convincing you are in your attempt to get your god to do this for you, depends on your bonus in the faith skills relevant to that particular ritual. If your god's attention is elsewhere, this means you did not have sufficient faith to convince your god to help you, and that His attention turned to other things (drinking, eating, plotting…). You will need to increase your skills in the future in order to increase your chance to succeed your ritual.

= Pray and the burial commands don't seem to do anything, what do they have to do with alignment? =
Basically, they will move your alignment back into favor with your god, but how effective they are at it does depend on your faith.rituals.special bonus. Check the alignment section for more details.

= What is a square stone/ivory statue/black medallion etc. and what does it do? =
These are upgraded versions of the holy symbols which are used in some rituals and are readily available in the temple shops. Any ritual that requires a holy symbol to perform can be performed with one of these as a substitute. Each god has a different one, but you can use another god’s if you first consecrate it at your high altar, which can be handy so that you can wear your holy symbol by consecrating a black medallion (for Sek) instead of carrying it in your inventory. Another possible substitute, for every god, are charged prayer beads. They can replace a symbol, an amulet and a relic, all at the same time.
* '''[[Pishe]]''': Small ivory statue
* '''[[Gufnork]]''': Fluffy ball
* '''[[Gapp]]''': Golden thimble
* '''[[Sandelfon]]''': Square stone
* '''[[Fish]]''': Ritual fishing rod
* '''[[Hat]]''': Brass feather
* '''[[Sek]]''': Black medallion

Talk:Newbie stuff

2008-11-02T02:42:34Z

Wizini:

Newbie stuff

2008-11-02T02:37:42Z

Wizini: /* How can I get money and experience, I can't even kill a cockroach! */

Welcome to the Priests Guild. This is a little guide based on the most common questions that get asked (to do with the guild that is, not 'can you ward this?', 'can you res me?' or 'can you passage me?'). If you have a common question you get asked which isn't here, feel free to add it to this page!

= How do I join the Priests guild? =
So, you've decided to join the Priests Guild. A most excellent choice...

Basically, first you need to worship a god. Which [[Gods|god(s)]] you can worship will depend on your [[alignment]], as you have to be in a god's alignment before you can worship them. You can set a basic alignment in the Newbie Area at the Priest's. There is a fountain (representing [[Pishe]]) with some beetles floating in it. Either by rescueing or drowning beetles you can set your alignment. Around 15 drowned beetles will make you very evil and suitable for [[Sek]] or you decide to rescue beetles you can get very good by rescuing 15 beetles and [[Pishe]] will take you in her loving arms. Affecting your alignment by killing NPC of the opposite alignment is -especially for a newbie- a very long and hard process.

Once you have decided which god to worship, you need to find their temple, either use an urchin, or take a look at the excellent Discworld [http://kefka.purplesunset.co.uk/ maps]. Once in the temple, you must find the god's high altar, and pray to that deity. You have now become a worshipper of that god. To become a priest, you must find the worshippers area and 'join' the priests guild. Congratulations, you are now a priest of the deity of your choice! Time to advance skills, learn rituals and become a famous priest!

= Can you give me any starting tips and info? =
Your primary skills are those of the [[skills|faith tree]], though the fighting skill tree is important to many priests, if you want to advance at a reasonable pace.

As you advance your faith skills, you will get a number of rituals. To see what rituals you have, type 'rituals'. There is a help file for each of the rituals, simply type 'help <ritual>', e.g. 'help cure light wounds' and note you can also look up information on each of the rituals on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]].

To use the rituals, you use the command 'perform', e.g. 'perform cure light wounds on me', for more help type 'syntax perform'. That is however fairly long to type so most priests use aliases for rituals, type 'help alias' for a detailed explanation on what they are, but as an example, typing 'alias cl perform cure light wounds on $*$' will set up an alias where if you type 'cl me' or ‘cl valkyr’ it will work the same as the example of performing the ritual. For more details and extra functionalities (such as standard arguments), read the helpfile.

= How should I rearrange my stats? =
This is not something to rush into quickly. Make sure you have read "help rearrange" and "help stats" before you attempt this, as well as asking other players from the same deity for advice. There is no such a thing as the best rearrange for a priest anymore. A rearrange for a Sekkite who wishes to go PK will strongly differ from a rearrange for a Pishite who only wishes to restore and resurrect people.

I would advice you to answer the following questions for yourself, before considering a rearrange:
* Which [[:Category:Rituals|rituals]] do I want to be good at and what skills do they use? (For example, dust devil (*.area) and major shield (de.se) and maybe blight (of.ta))
* How important is fighting for me, and which fighting skills will I focus on? (Ex. Sword and parry; Mace and blokc; dagger and dodge)
* Do I have any other expectations? (Ex. I want a high perception bonus)
* Now that I have selected a couple of important skills, to what stats do they relate? (examine the [[Skills|skills-stats dependencies]])

Now that you have determined which stats are most important for you, you should experiment on [http://bonuses.darkmud.co.uk/ Acim’s bonus generator] with some different rearranges (what happens if I move one point from dex to int?) and pick the one you like best.

There! You have now rearranged! Normally you are stuck with this rearrange for the rest of your character’s life. If you would happen to feel the need to make a minor adjustment (one stat point at a time), you should consider visiting Ralph in OC.

= How do I advance my skills? =
You can advance your skills in the worshipper area of your temple, also called the vestry. Type ‘info’, or ‘cost faith’ to see what you can advance in your primaries, what you currently have in those skills, and the experience cost to move up one level. You can also type 'cost faith to 50' for example, to see the xp cost of getting your overall faith to 50 from where you are now.

To advance, you can type 'advance faith' or you can advance the subskills by using 'advance faith.rituals.defensive.self', note that you can use the first two letters as a shortcut, ie 'advance fa.ri.de.se' or ‘advance fa.ri.de.se to 100’ or advance fa.ri.de.se by 10’.
You can also advance a little of the other skill trees, try typing 'cost fighting', 'cost other' and so on.

= What should I advance? =
To start with, you will need to advance overall faith (at least up to level 5, when you can advance faith.rituals, then you need 10 faith.rituals to be able to advance faith.rituals.defensive etc.) This can only be done up to level 50 however, at which point you have no choice but to advance the individual subskills shown in the list. In reality, no-one actually advances faith to 50, but you can better start advancing the subskills asap.

As to what particular skills you should advance after or even before this, my advice is to look at what rituals you can get on the [[Gods|gods page]], or look on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]] to see which you would like to be able to use, then advance the subskill that the rituals you want use.

Note you should try and learn some fighting as quickly as possible, firstly the 10 levels available in the guild, then more off other players. The best practice is to take the fighting exercises in the newbie area. With any luck you can get your blunt, sharp, pierce, parry and dodge to level 5 without any cost!

= How can I get money and experience, I can't even kill a cockroach! =
First of all don't take the newbie area too easy. I know you are desperate to get into the action but completing all of the guild tasks will equip you with a nice set of basic skills. And don't despair, these are super cockroaches, really, they are, but with your skills from Pumpking Town everything will get a bit easier. Those skills are cheap there and out on the Disc you have to pay for them with money and XP (eXperience Points). But you must understand that the priests guild is not the most easy guild to start a character off in. We are one of the few unlucky guilds that have no primary skills capable of doing direct damage to an opponent, instead we have to rely on the non-primary fighting skills. The 10 levels of fighting you can learn in the priests guild are probably not going to be enough to start killing anything, you are going to need to learn more off another player. This is now fairly expensive to do, so you will need to earn some experience. Without fighting you can get experience by idling and performing rituals. Once you have learnt a bit of fighting (I would recommend to concentrate on one weapon type at first) then you will be able to go out and smite mightily, at this stage, the only rituals which will be a great deal of help to you will be cure light wounds, dust devil and minor shield. Now that you can get money and experience by killing things, you can go on your merry way, using this to learn more fighting to kill tougher things, or learning faith to get some of the more powerful rituals going (especially [[Major Shield|major shield]]).

= Why does it say my god's attention is elsewhere? =
Performing a ritual is an attempt to get your god to use some of His power to aid you in something. How convincing you are in your attempt to get your god to do this for you, depends on your bonus in the faith skills relevant to that particular ritual. If your god's attention is elsewhere, this means you did not have sufficient faith to convince your god to help you, and that His attention turned to other things (drinking, eating, plotting…). You will need to increase your skills in the future in order to increase your chance to succeed your ritual.

= Pray and the burial commands don't seem to do anything, what do they have to do with alignment? =
Basically, they will move your alignment back into favor with your god, but how effective they are at it does depend on your faith.rituals.special bonus. Check the alignment section for more details.

= What is a square stone/ivory statue/black medallion etc. and what does it do? =
These are upgraded versions of the holy symbols which are used in some rituals and are readily available in the temple shops. Any ritual that requires a holy symbol to perform can be performed with one of these as a substitute. Each god has a different one, but you can use another god’s if you first consecrate it at your high altar, which can be handy so that you can wear your holy symbol by consecrating a black medallion (for Sek) instead of carrying it in your inventory. Another possible substitute, for every god, are charged prayer beads. They can replace a symbol, an amulet and a relic, all at the same time.
* '''[[Pishe]]''': Small ivory statue
* '''[[Gufnork]]''': Fluffy ball
* '''[[Gapp]]''': Golden thimble
* '''[[Sandelfon]]''': Square stone
* '''[[Fish]]''': Ritual fishing rod
* '''[[Hat]]''': Brass feather
* '''[[Sek]]''': Black medallion

Talk:Newbie stuff

2008-11-02T01:29:22Z

Wizini:

Basically, first you need to worship a god. Which god(s) you can worship will depend on your alignment, as you have to be in a god's alignment before you can worship them. This will depend on whether you pulled a lever when you were in the alignment room of the newbie area, if you are set on a particular god you may have to completely restart (i.e. deleting this character and starting a new one) and pull the correct lever (though the levers give different degrees each time, so take notice), or spend a long time killing things with the alignment opposite to which you want.

!!!Outdated Information!!!
There are no levers in the newbie area anymore. There is a fountain in the newbie area where you can drown or safe bugs.
[[User:Wizini|Wizini]] 00:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

----info updated (verified it with a refreshed char), added link to kefka inside the text. [[User:Wizini|Wizini]] 01:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Newbie stuff

2008-11-02T01:28:35Z

Wizini:

Basically, first you need to worship a god. Which god(s) you can worship will depend on your alignment, as you have to be in a god's alignment before you can worship them. This will depend on whether you pulled a lever when you were in the alignment room of the newbie area, if you are set on a particular god you may have to completely restart (i.e. deleting this character and starting a new one) and pull the correct lever (though the levers give different degrees each time, so take notice), or spend a long time killing things with the alignment opposite to which you want.

!!!Outdated Information!!!
There are no levers in the newbie area anymore. There is a fountain in the newbie area where you can drown or safe bugs.
[[User:Wizini|Wizini]] 00:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

info updated (verified it with a refreshed char), added link to kefka inside the text. [[User:Wizini|Wizini]] 01:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Newbie stuff

2008-11-02T01:27:01Z

Wizini: /* How do I join the Priests guild? */

Welcome to the Priests Guild. This is a little guide based on the most common questions that get asked (to do with the guild that is, not 'can you ward this?', 'can you res me?' or 'can you passage me?'). If you have a common question you get asked which isn't here, feel free to add it to this page!

= How do I join the Priests guild? =
So, you've decided to join the Priests Guild. A most excellent choice...

Basically, first you need to worship a god. Which [[Gods|god(s)]] you can worship will depend on your [[alignment]], as you have to be in a god's alignment before you can worship them. You can set a basic alignment in the Newbie Area at the Priest's. There is a fountain (representing [[Pishe]]) with some beetles floating in it. Either by rescueing or drowning beetles you can set your alignment. Around 15 drowned beetles will make you very evil and suitable for [[Sek]] or you decide to rescue beetles you can get very good by rescuing 15 beetles and [[Pishe]] will take you in her loving arms. Affecting your alignment by killing NPC of the opposite alignment is -especially for a newbie- a very long and hard process.

Once you have decided which god to worship, you need to find their temple, either use an urchin, or take a look at the excellent Discworld [http://kefka.purplesunset.co.uk/ maps]. Once in the temple, you must find the god's high altar, and pray to that deity. You have now become a worshipper of that god. To become a priest, you must find the worshippers area and 'join' the priests guild. Congratulations, you are now a priest of the deity of your choice! Time to advance skills, learn rituals and become a famous priest!

= Can you give me any starting tips and info? =
Your primary skills are those of the [[skills|faith tree]], though the fighting skill tree is important to many priests, if you want to advance at a reasonable pace.

As you advance your faith skills, you will get a number of rituals. To see what rituals you have, type 'rituals'. There is a help file for each of the rituals, simply type 'help <ritual>', e.g. 'help cure light wounds' and note you can also look up information on each of the rituals on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]].

To use the rituals, you use the command 'perform', e.g. 'perform cure light wounds on me', for more help type 'syntax perform'. That is however fairly long to type so most priests use aliases for rituals, type 'help alias' for a detailed explanation on what they are, but as an example, typing 'alias cl perform cure light wounds on $*$' will set up an alias where if you type 'cl me' or ‘cl valkyr’ it will work the same as the example of performing the ritual. For more details and extra functionalities (such as standard arguments), read the helpfile.

= How should I rearrange my stats? =
This is not something to rush into quickly. Make sure you have read "help rearrange" and "help stats" before you attempt this, as well as asking other players from the same deity for advice. There is no such a thing as the best rearrange for a priest anymore. A rearrange for a Sekkite who wishes to go PK will strongly differ from a rearrange for a Pishite who only wishes to restore and resurrect people.

I would advice you to answer the following questions for yourself, before considering a rearrange:
* Which [[:Category:Rituals|rituals]] do I want to be good at and what skills do they use? (For example, dust devil (*.area) and major shield (de.se) and maybe blight (of.ta))
* How important is fighting for me, and which fighting skills will I focus on? (Ex. Sword and parry; Mace and blokc; dagger and dodge)
* Do I have any other expectations? (Ex. I want a high perception bonus)
* Now that I have selected a couple of important skills, to what stats do they relate? (examine the [[Skills|skills-stats dependencies]])

Now that you have determined which stats are most important for you, you should experiment on [http://bonuses.darkmud.co.uk/ Acim’s bonus generator] with some different rearranges (what happens if I move one point from dex to int?) and pick the one you like best.

There! You have now rearranged! Normally you are stuck with this rearrange for the rest of your character’s life. If you would happen to feel the need to make a minor adjustment (one stat point at a time), you should consider visiting Ralph in OC.

= How do I advance my skills? =
You can advance your skills in the worshipper area of your temple, also called the vestry. Type ‘info’, or ‘cost faith’ to see what you can advance in your primaries, what you currently have in those skills, and the experience cost to move up one level. You can also type 'cost faith to 50' for example, to see the xp cost of getting your overall faith to 50 from where you are now.

To advance, you can type 'advance faith' or you can advance the subskills by using 'advance faith.rituals.defensive.self', note that you can use the first two letters as a shortcut, ie 'advance fa.ri.de.se' or ‘advance fa.ri.de.se to 100’ or advance fa.ri.de.se by 10’.
You can also advance a little of the other skill trees, try typing 'cost fighting', 'cost other' and so on.

= What should I advance? =
To start with, you will need to advance overall faith (at least up to level 5, when you can advance faith.rituals, then you need 10 faith.rituals to be able to advance faith.rituals.defensive etc.) This can only be done up to level 50 however, at which point you have no choice but to advance the individual subskills shown in the list. In reality, no-one actually advances faith to 50, but you can better start advancing the subskills asap.

As to what particular skills you should advance after or even before this, my advice is to look at what rituals you can get on the [[Gods|gods page]], or look on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]] to see which you would like to be able to use, then advance the subskill that the rituals you want use.

Note you should try and learn some fighting as quickly as possible, firstly the 10 levels available in the guild, then more off other players. The best practice is to take the fighting exercises in the newbie area. With any luck you can get your blunt, sharp, pierce, parry and dodge to level 5 without any cost!

= How can I get money and experience, I can't even kill a cockroach! =
Don't despair, these are super cockroaches, really, they are. But you must understand that the priests guild is not the most easy guild to start a character off in. We are one of the few unlucky guilds that have no primary skills capable of doing direct damage to an opponent, instead we have to rely on the non-primary fighting skills. The 10 levels of fighting you can learn in the priests guild are probably not going to be enough to start killing anything, you are going to need to learn more off another player. This is now fairly expensive to do, so you will need to earn some experience. Without fighting you can get experience by idling and performing rituals. Once you have learnt a bit of fighting (I would recommend to concentrate on one weapon type at first) then you will be able to go out and smite mightily, at this stage, the only rituals which will be a great deal of help to you will be cure light wounds, dust devil and minor shield. Now that you can get money and experience by killing things, you can go on your merry way, using this to learn more fighting to kill tougher things, or learning faith to get some of the more powerful rituals going (especially [[Major Shield|major shield]]).

= Why does it say my god's attention is elsewhere? =
Performing a ritual is an attempt to get your god to use some of His power to aid you in something. How convincing you are in your attempt to get your god to do this for you, depends on your bonus in the faith skills relevant to that particular ritual. If your god's attention is elsewhere, this means you did not have sufficient faith to convince your god to help you, and that His attention turned to other things (drinking, eating, plotting…). You will need to increase your skills in the future in order to increase your chance to succeed your ritual.

= Pray and the burial commands don't seem to do anything, what do they have to do with alignment? =
Basically, they will move your alignment back into favor with your god, but how effective they are at it does depend on your faith.rituals.special bonus. Check the alignment section for more details.

= What is a square stone/ivory statue/black medallion etc. and what does it do? =
These are upgraded versions of the holy symbols which are used in some rituals and are readily available in the temple shops. Any ritual that requires a holy symbol to perform can be performed with one of these as a substitute. Each god has a different one, but you can use another god’s if you first consecrate it at your high altar, which can be handy so that you can wear your holy symbol by consecrating a black medallion (for Sek) instead of carrying it in your inventory. Another possible substitute, for every god, are charged prayer beads. They can replace a symbol, an amulet and a relic, all at the same time.
* '''[[Pishe]]''': Small ivory statue
* '''[[Gufnork]]''': Fluffy ball
* '''[[Gapp]]''': Golden thimble
* '''[[Sandelfon]]''': Square stone
* '''[[Fish]]''': Ritual fishing rod
* '''[[Hat]]''': Brass feather
* '''[[Sek]]''': Black medallion

Newbie stuff

2008-11-02T01:26:13Z

Wizini: /* How do I join the Priests guild? */

Welcome to the Priests Guild. This is a little guide based on the most common questions that get asked (to do with the guild that is, not 'can you ward this?', 'can you res me?' or 'can you passage me?'). If you have a common question you get asked which isn't here, feel free to add it to this page!

= How do I join the Priests guild? =
So, you've decided to join the Priests Guild. A most excellent choice...

Basically, first you need to worship a god. Which [[Gods|god(s)]] you can worship will depend on your [[alignment]], as you have to be in a god's alignment before you can worship them. You can set a basic alignment in the Newbie Area at the Priest's. There is a fountain (representing [Pishe]) with some beetles floating in it. Either by rescueing or drowning beetles you can set your alignment. Around 15 drowned beetles will make you very evil and suitable for [[Sek]] or you decide to rescue beetles you can get very good by rescuing 15 beetles and [[Pishe]] will take you in her loving arms. Affecting your alignment by killing NPC of the opposite alignment is -especially for a newbie- a very long and hard process.

Once you have decided which god to worship, you need to find their temple, either use an urchin, or take a look at the excellent Discworld [http://kefka.purplesunset.co.uk/ maps]. Once in the temple, you must find the god's high altar, and pray to that deity. You have now become a worshipper of that god. To become a priest, you must find the worshippers area and 'join' the priests guild. Congratulations, you are now a priest of the deity of your choice! Time to advance skills, learn rituals and become a famous priest!

= Can you give me any starting tips and info? =
Your primary skills are those of the [[skills|faith tree]], though the fighting skill tree is important to many priests, if you want to advance at a reasonable pace.

As you advance your faith skills, you will get a number of rituals. To see what rituals you have, type 'rituals'. There is a help file for each of the rituals, simply type 'help <ritual>', e.g. 'help cure light wounds' and note you can also look up information on each of the rituals on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]].

To use the rituals, you use the command 'perform', e.g. 'perform cure light wounds on me', for more help type 'syntax perform'. That is however fairly long to type so most priests use aliases for rituals, type 'help alias' for a detailed explanation on what they are, but as an example, typing 'alias cl perform cure light wounds on $*$' will set up an alias where if you type 'cl me' or ‘cl valkyr’ it will work the same as the example of performing the ritual. For more details and extra functionalities (such as standard arguments), read the helpfile.

= How should I rearrange my stats? =
This is not something to rush into quickly. Make sure you have read "help rearrange" and "help stats" before you attempt this, as well as asking other players from the same deity for advice. There is no such a thing as the best rearrange for a priest anymore. A rearrange for a Sekkite who wishes to go PK will strongly differ from a rearrange for a Pishite who only wishes to restore and resurrect people.

I would advice you to answer the following questions for yourself, before considering a rearrange:
* Which [[:Category:Rituals|rituals]] do I want to be good at and what skills do they use? (For example, dust devil (*.area) and major shield (de.se) and maybe blight (of.ta))
* How important is fighting for me, and which fighting skills will I focus on? (Ex. Sword and parry; Mace and blokc; dagger and dodge)
* Do I have any other expectations? (Ex. I want a high perception bonus)
* Now that I have selected a couple of important skills, to what stats do they relate? (examine the [[Skills|skills-stats dependencies]])

Now that you have determined which stats are most important for you, you should experiment on [http://bonuses.darkmud.co.uk/ Acim’s bonus generator] with some different rearranges (what happens if I move one point from dex to int?) and pick the one you like best.

There! You have now rearranged! Normally you are stuck with this rearrange for the rest of your character’s life. If you would happen to feel the need to make a minor adjustment (one stat point at a time), you should consider visiting Ralph in OC.

= How do I advance my skills? =
You can advance your skills in the worshipper area of your temple, also called the vestry. Type ‘info’, or ‘cost faith’ to see what you can advance in your primaries, what you currently have in those skills, and the experience cost to move up one level. You can also type 'cost faith to 50' for example, to see the xp cost of getting your overall faith to 50 from where you are now.

To advance, you can type 'advance faith' or you can advance the subskills by using 'advance faith.rituals.defensive.self', note that you can use the first two letters as a shortcut, ie 'advance fa.ri.de.se' or ‘advance fa.ri.de.se to 100’ or advance fa.ri.de.se by 10’.
You can also advance a little of the other skill trees, try typing 'cost fighting', 'cost other' and so on.

= What should I advance? =
To start with, you will need to advance overall faith (at least up to level 5, when you can advance faith.rituals, then you need 10 faith.rituals to be able to advance faith.rituals.defensive etc.) This can only be done up to level 50 however, at which point you have no choice but to advance the individual subskills shown in the list. In reality, no-one actually advances faith to 50, but you can better start advancing the subskills asap.

As to what particular skills you should advance after or even before this, my advice is to look at what rituals you can get on the [[Gods|gods page]], or look on the [[:Category:Rituals|rituals page]] to see which you would like to be able to use, then advance the subskill that the rituals you want use.

Note you should try and learn some fighting as quickly as possible, firstly the 10 levels available in the guild, then more off other players. The best practice is to take the fighting exercises in the newbie area. With any luck you can get your blunt, sharp, pierce, parry and dodge to level 5 without any cost!

= How can I get money and experience, I can't even kill a cockroach! =
Don't despair, these are super cockroaches, really, they are. But you must understand that the priests guild is not the most easy guild to start a character off in. We are one of the few unlucky guilds that have no primary skills capable of doing direct damage to an opponent, instead we have to rely on the non-primary fighting skills. The 10 levels of fighting you can learn in the priests guild are probably not going to be enough to start killing anything, you are going to need to learn more off another player. This is now fairly expensive to do, so you will need to earn some experience. Without fighting you can get experience by idling and performing rituals. Once you have learnt a bit of fighting (I would recommend to concentrate on one weapon type at first) then you will be able to go out and smite mightily, at this stage, the only rituals which will be a great deal of help to you will be cure light wounds, dust devil and minor shield. Now that you can get money and experience by killing things, you can go on your merry way, using this to learn more fighting to kill tougher things, or learning faith to get some of the more powerful rituals going (especially [[Major Shield|major shield]]).

= Why does it say my god's attention is elsewhere? =
Performing a ritual is an attempt to get your god to use some of His power to aid you in something. How convincing you are in your attempt to get your god to do this for you, depends on your bonus in the faith skills relevant to that particular ritual. If your god's attention is elsewhere, this means you did not have sufficient faith to convince your god to help you, and that His attention turned to other things (drinking, eating, plotting…). You will need to increase your skills in the future in order to increase your chance to succeed your ritual.

= Pray and the burial commands don't seem to do anything, what do they have to do with alignment? =
Basically, they will move your alignment back into favor with your god, but how effective they are at it does depend on your faith.rituals.special bonus. Check the alignment section for more details.

= What is a square stone/ivory statue/black medallion etc. and what does it do? =
These are upgraded versions of the holy symbols which are used in some rituals and are readily available in the temple shops. Any ritual that requires a holy symbol to perform can be performed with one of these as a substitute. Each god has a different one, but you can use another god’s if you first consecrate it at your high altar, which can be handy so that you can wear your holy symbol by consecrating a black medallion (for Sek) instead of carrying it in your inventory. Another possible substitute, for every god, are charged prayer beads. They can replace a symbol, an amulet and a relic, all at the same time.
* '''[[Pishe]]''': Small ivory statue
* '''[[Gufnork]]''': Fluffy ball
* '''[[Gapp]]''': Golden thimble
* '''[[Sandelfon]]''': Square stone
* '''[[Fish]]''': Ritual fishing rod
* '''[[Hat]]''': Brass feather
* '''[[Sek]]''': Black medallion

Talk:Newbie stuff

2008-11-02T00:38:16Z

Wizini: New page: Basically, first you need to worship a god. Which god(s) you can worship will depend on your alignment, as you have to be in a god's alignment before you can worship them. This will depend...