I like this one because its pure utility, and probably very useful to most clerics!

(320) Pastor's Promise

Duration: 120 minutes (not refreshable)

When cast on a fellow adventurer, upon their death, they will be preserved equal in duration to as if the cleric had cast the spell on them. Also, the casting cleric will be able to see the location of the fallen adventurer from Anywhere in the lands, regardless of the corpse's status.

A cleric may cast this spell on 1 adventurer and an adventurer may have only one cleric's promise at a time. A cleric may cast on 1 additional adventurer at 20, 50, 90, 140 and 200 ranks in religion lore and at 50 and 100 ranks in the cleric spell circle for a maximum of 8 adventurers at any given time.

Unlike most other spells, any adventurer may STOP this spell, regardless of their spell knowledge.

-James-
player of Fremie

Mirayam says, "You are not a rogue, sir."

Mirayam exclaims, "You are noble!"

A 20th level spell slot for that? Sounds like an addition to 308 to me.

For twenty mana, I'd say you clerics should get more bang for your buck.

Perhaps open it up to a group cast, with lores extending the duration of cast /LK.

Also, tie this in with chrism. Chrism raises keep a touch more exp with this.


Ack! Scarab!

yea I hear the "more bang for the buck" ... since this doesn't really help the cleric as much as other adventurers. but then again, there are a lot of spells like that simply to fit in the scheme of things with a certain profession.

I actually considered the group version for a moment, but realized that there could be problems with something like that...

I think it should remain targeted. However, I do like the idea of having to be in the cleric's group to receive this promise, and the cleric should also have to be the leader of the group or vice-versa (only works via cleric and leader of group or cleric may cast on anyone in their group if they happen to be leading)

Think of this as a watchful bond for your friends. After playing a cleric to level 35 in the current medium of Gemstone (playerbase, spells available, mechanics in hunting areas) and with clerics being the "save my butt" profession for all intents and purposes for the game, they need an ability like this.

Say my cleric's friends went hunting, but he didn't know exactly where they were going. He could simply cast this Promise on them, and if they happened to be buried while dead on the glacier, the cleric's watchful prayer would guide him to that friend without having to search the entire glacier over and failing attempts at using the Locate Person spell. But even if they went to the other side of the Dragonspine and were buried by a critter, you would know exactly where they died! It is a direct bond, unlike the Locate Person spell, which would be vastly inferior but useful to find people you did not or would not normally use a Promise on.

Not only is that a powerful feature to a spell, but this prayer also "life keeps" your friend, so you have time to run to them, search them out of necessary, grab them, and get out of harms way as quickly as possible without having to worry about them decaying while you deal with a Sanctuary, Fog, etc.

-James-
player of Fremie

Mirayam says, "You are not a rogue, sir."

Mirayam exclaims, "You are noble!"

This spell would be really useful for mid-level clerics that RP.

Capped clerics, MA pocket clerics and Lich users don't need it, but they are all overpowered already.

The only real problem I see is the similarity to Voln. It would be giving clerics a power that is currently a society speciality. I am sure clerics would love a 320 that allowed them to turn spirit into mana too but the game design at the moment is that you get that power via a society. Seeing when your friends are in NEED and getting SIGHT of where they are, is a speciality of Voln.

>>TLDR: Cleric could pull the corpse to him, resurrect him, and could go resurrect someone else with no delay if the 308 timer was already long enough when activated by the 320 cast. You can't keep 320'ing the same person, though. Have the cooldown between 320 casts on the same person be the cooldown for a normal use of 308 at the time of resurrection.

That would be so amazing during invasions.

>>Expensive process, but still, it gives the cleric options.

Options are good, I like this idea a lot.

Vivaldi: You can't handle the Roh

Laphrael: no, roh-handler, i deny your roh-handling skills!

~~ 'o (the cleric formerly known as Rohomobo Fash'apos'troph'ilim'inzel Illistim or Rohomobo '''' for short)~~

I like this idea...maybe it could even make the cleric have an easier time of dragging the person that they've promised. I don't know about the rest of you, but my cleric is usually weighed down by crap when someone dies, and dragging someone millions of miles with 10 second RT each room sucks.

relieve burden should be castable at deaders.


-farmer

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That's just what we want, criss-crossing furrows all over the town streets from someone wandering through with their animated plow super buddy.

-Strath

nice! I really like that idea farmer.


-James-
player of Fremie

Mirayam says, "You are not a rogue, sir."

Mirayam exclaims, "You are noble!"

>>All the same, I would rather see the cleric gain the ability to summon the corpse to him.

while I am sure clerics would like this, most corpses wouldn't... so it wouldn't really see much use if this was a "feature" of the spell.


-James-
player of Fremie

Mirayam says, "You are not a rogue, sir."

Mirayam exclaims, "You are noble!"

original concept never had teleporting of any kind, intentionally.

-James-
player of Fremie

Mirayam says, "You are not a rogue, sir."

Mirayam exclaims, "You are noble!"

I think I understand what you are getting at... please allow me to suggest an alternative possibility.

the original concept of the spell was to lifekeep, thus extending the period until decay, and giving the cleric exact location of the fallen individual (even cross-realm), so they would have enough time to travel to another town if neccesary to fog to the victim and make the rescue before a decay.

I do understand that being able to teleport the corpse to you would be a HUGE bonus in some respects, since it would allow clerics to "rescue" a corpse without having to travel into an area they would not be able to survive in (ie: a level 25 cleric teleporting a corpse from Illoke Stronghold).

I am not saying it is a bad idea. In fact, it may work perfectly fine with such an addition, IF implemented properly. But there are definitely situations in higher level hunting areas where you don't want to be teleported out of the hunting area until certain other criteria are met (ie: recovering an item).

I would also see such an ability be an addition to the spell at a certain threshold in cleric spells ranks and/or lore training, not something able to do right off at the 20th spell rank. I think requiring a nexus gem would make it difficult to code as nexus gems already have an implemented function, and there is already enough demand for such gems in the game for a multitude of others tasks.

Something along the lines of this maybe,

At 20th spell rank, the "promise" will simply lifekeep the target and reveal their location to the cleric, regardless of realm.

At 40th spell rank, the Cleric may then recast this spell and it will Link the cleric and target as well as initiate a teleportation ritual along with the 15 seconds of round time. This is only possible IF the cleric is in the same realm as the target and they had already "promised" the target. The cleric must be in a minor sanctuary for this link/teleportation to be possible, or the effects of the second cast will fail.

Along with the normal 15 seconds of RT for Linking to a corpse, there is a 15 second period between the time the cleric casts and the teleport of the corpse actually happens, and the corpse may Unlink from the cleric to prevent any teleportation from occurring at all (mechanically, no Link = no teleport). Doing so will also result in the lifekeep aspect to drop as well, negating the entire promise. The corpse will get some messaging to know when their promised cleric is trying to teleport them.

And to restate, in case there was any confusion, the teleportation effects will not work if the corpse is cross-realm, the cleric will have to travel to within the same realm as the corpse.

I could see this being a very useful spell idea for clerics. It isn't combat oriented (in fact it is more pacifist then anything!) and has a huge utility effect with more training in the cleric spell circle.

-James-
player of Fremie

Mirayam says, "You are not a rogue, sir."

Mirayam exclaims, "You are noble!"

>you still almost certainly won't be able to rescue a corpse from the Stronghold or the Bowels simply by waving your hands and chanting a spell.

At least, not unless you had so much lore that you could probably waltz in/out of the place.