The increase in durations had been discussed in the past and the response had been no.

Not sure what class you are playing.

My warrior, currently level 56, has been in Sunfist for his last 15/16 levels and has never had issues with stamina/mana.

My Ranger, currently level 90, has been Sunfist for his last 50 levels and I have enjoyed the society a lot

My Sorcerer, currently capped, is not a member of Sunfist. However if the powers that be nerf COL, I will have him join Sunfist.

My advice to you is to continue to train in Physical Fitness so your Stamina increases and you get more back per pulse. Gain enough ranks in Harness Power so you can use the sigils. If you know you are going to run out of mana, before you hunt run sigil of concentration so you get more mana back per pulse. Eat mana bread.

You don't need to run Sigil of Major Bane or Major Protection all the time. Use them sparingly. My warrior never uses them. My ranger does in certain situations. Not having that plus 10 AS/DS up all the time will not hurt you.

If you can find them there are enhansives that will increase your stamina or increase your mana/stamina recovery.

Warcamps have become more challenging. But you don't need to hunt them all the time, except to gain that one rank.


Peace
Zhelas

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(Lord Paladin walks around Droit examining his equipment.)
Lord Paladin: How does he....How does he work?

My point is me being 71, fully 1x in physical training (max for my class), and 1x in harness, is not sufficient to keep up the sigils for an escort, or a hunt for 5 full minutes. If the only real suggestion is to not use the society, then what's the point? - this indicates a fundamental problem with the society.

(FYI, Arguments that include you don't NEED to use something are all inherently flawed, any class can use pick/disarm to level instead of hunting; and you can level to 100 by only killing one mob every 30 minutes which is ridiculous considering we play this game to PLAY with others and enjoy the society benefits, currently GoS comes up short.)

The developer of GoS should be horribly annoyed at the sigil costs also, so much work went into the society, and it is hindered horribly by something that's so easy to fix, I suspect alot of people would switch from the #1 dominant society by a large margin CoL to GoS if the sigil costs were fixed..

>What is your profession?

Race can make a big difference. Some races (e.g. dwarves) have vastly more stamina than others (e.g. dark elves) due to their racial bonuses and stats remain pretty important for stamina even with 70 PT.

Anyone know which GM is primary for GoS? maybe i'll try e-mailing them directly since posting on the forums is not eliciting any type of response.

There are no plans to adjust sigil durations/costs. The design intent of the sigils (and combat in general) is to require a degree of planning and tactics on when expend your limited resources (mana/stamina). The sigils can provide a powerful and diverse range of benefits, and it is not intended for them all to be active at all times during hunting.

As a side note for those not aware, the Focus and Minor/Major Protection sigils can be stacked with multiple activations to a maximum 3 minute duration.

Coase

that's a horrible intent; makes the game tedious with watching buffs fall and putting them back up, the game needs less tedium, more fun, the sigil system does not help in that respect; in addition it severely hinders being able to use other abilities, for me major protection and major bane were the only reasons I joined GoS; so telling me that we're not intended to use them, is a gigantic slap in the face. and yes, I realize they can be stacked multiple times.. but where does that get me if the problem was mana/stamina cost to begin with.. no where, same problem -

giving us not quite what we expect or want and making it a pain seems to be the new GS way (from the view of someone who returned several months ago after 10-12 year hiatus)

Maybe in a few years they'll let you buy a GOS Booster via Simucoin for some obsurd ammount of money.

so much for only needing 4x gear to play.

<so much for only needing 4x gear to play.>

You can advance on 4x gear and no society, that doesn't mean you can't get enhancives or do things to give you an easier time.

If you are having issues keeping up your sigils train up your harness power and physical training skills, or switch societies (that used to be near impossible).

I find Sunfist nicely balanced, and definitely a basket of delicious powers that can't all be used at once.

Playing a Voln wizard a lot lately, it's interesting to see the contrast. Voln's balancing is quite different; the powers are free, but have to be paid for with a focus on what you hunt, and don't work on everything. And both require time and labor to master.

Just saying I think they are nicely balanced.

-E

>Or just increase the cost and make the duration 5 minutes on everything.

This. Even if it cost 5x as much as the 1 minute does now. Its annoying constantly keeping everything up with my massive supplies of mana and stamina :D

Yeah, and the protection sigils do work that way, so why not the banes?