Hiya folks!

I've made a few changes to what happens to field exp and scrolls when a character dies. Upon death, it will still look as though all is lost, but if you are brought back to life through Resurrection, Murrula's Flames, or Spiteful Rebirth then you will gain back a percentage of lost field exp, and have a chance at remembering lost scrolls.

For Resurrection there is a boost to both the exp gain and the spell scroll percentage based on the number of favors you have. The bonus does cap out, though not until you reach a fairly healthy number of favors. Yet again, a good reason to carry a bunch of favors. The skill of the cleric will not matter for this particular boon.

MF has a slightly better set of percentages, and the range it provides is based on the potency of the cast. Prior to this update MF did not use a potency score and would always split potency values into duration and integrity.

SRE for now has a set percentage of exp saved, as well as chance for scroll saving. Special thanks to GM Abasha for the messaging SRE uses during this process.

This is live in Plat and Prime, and will move on over to TF assuming it doesn't explode.

AGM Ricinus
Dev Systems
Cleric Advocate

I don't see anything about taxes.

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Awesome. Thank you for the new changes!

Furthermore.. would it, er.. be possible for the cleric to somehow perceive what the actual chances are of bringing them back with a scroll spell and their field experience? Maybe when you perceive the corpse showing how many favors they have, it'll also pull an appraisal check so you get "You are confident/certain (etc) that <name> will retain one scroll spell and a small percentage of their knowledge before death if resurrected.", etc.

>>For things like this, I'd rather have the possibilities obfuscated.

Fair enough. I was just thinking specifically in regards to invasions.. assuming they happen more often, and we have a lot more dead people. A fair share of the clerics, at least on the higher end, are often out there in battle, while the younger clerics are the ones staying in key areas to rejuv and resurrect the dead. Now EVERYONE (or at least most) will be wanting to be raised instead of getting a rejuv and departing. This will cause a lot of backups, and the young clerics will likely get flak for being "slow", especially for those that are not keeping high favors. So being able to appraise to see a meager/minor/small/fair/decent/half field experience rating and an appraisal rate of chance of scroll being kept would perhaps give the edge. But, I guess at the end of the day, the dead person wouldn't care if it was meager or half, it's still more than one and will sit there and wait.

On the upside, hopefully this will encourage people to get more favors so that raising is not as difficult for the youngins. People are still running around between favorless and two favors, and getting an attitude when they aren't getting raised..

>If you keep a lot of favors, you'll notice better exp saving and more often restored scrolls over multiple deaths

I assume this 'lot' is relative to circle like death's sting/Resurrection difficulty?

Perhaps maybe the number of favors aren't the factor for each of the vague messages, but maybe a rato of favor to circle. Say a circle 10 has 5 favors. thats every 2 circles he has 1 favor, then that many, but if say circle 200 has 10 favors, he has few. That help the cleric determine how hard someone will be to raise, and perhaps a guess to their chances of retaining scrolls.

Nice changes. Puts some importance back into resurrection.

Madigan

You sense the Clarity spell upon you, which will last for about seven thousand eight hundred thirty-six roisaen.
You sense the Anti-Stun spell upon you, which will last for about seven thousand eight hundred thirty-five roisaen.

Not sure if it is a bug or not. I departed Item last night with a lot of experience and for some reason I still had full had a full pool ( mind lock ) in shield after departing.

- Erixx

I love you. No more 'MYGAWDWHATAFREAK' looks when I tell or someone finds out I have 65 favors.


Say, if you could elaborate (I'm sure you can't but i'll still ask) is it possible to get 100% exp/scroll retention?

If not, what is the maximum chance?

Could you say at how many favors this is achieved?

To throw out a data point, I died 4/23 with 1 scroll memorized. I had 27 favors in the tank and kept my scroll spell upon raise.

>>Do we have an equal chance to save either scroll?

Yep, each scroll that is lost on death gets an equal roll to be remembered again.

AGM Ricinus
Dev Systems
Cleric Advocate

Yep, and the messaging if you happen to piece the knowledge back together when you get back alive should make sense for it to be that way.

AGM Ricinus
Dev Systems
Cleric Advocate