Elliot

Rite of Spring Cast! Thank you to Raynesterror, Calypsso, Zario, Burgervyn and Geri and congrats on those journal completions! Enjoy the SB Cadence o/

Thank you for linking that. I should have used it from the get-go

Sorry for the confusion. As Bekador says, with the timezone and daylight savings time this may have been confusing. The cast is set to occur 8 hours from the time of this post. So 10:00pm Sunday EDT / 2:00am Monday GMT

That's right! For current Vynora followers or those naughty naughty faith swappin' bois and gals, gonna be a great chance to burn it all before this Sunday night, collect your full SB, and then use up in under 3 days for another full count! 10 hours or more in very short order.

Hey some more names slotted in. Thank you for responses so far! For slots filled now I have: 1. Raynesterror 2. Calypsso 3. Zario 4. Burgervyn 5. Geri 6. Naky and 2 more slots open still. Sorry about the timing for our EU time zone friends. I wish I could time it to make everyone happy, but please do take up Sinnjinn on his offer to join the Melody cast at a time that's more reasonable if you find yourself in the EU timing or can't make this one in general and thank you for the suggestion Sinnjinn to make sure as many get this done as need.

Still seeking more Vynoran priests who need this cast for their Benediction goal. I have backups to ensure it gets cast regardless, but don't want anyone who could use this to miss out ~ 6 slots open still as of this posting: Eclipse Bay P13 @ March 20th 10:00PM EST. I can Summon an hour prior to the event if someone needs a teleport to the site; just let me know the name here and I'll beam you in!

Thank you for responses so far! For slots filled now I have: 1. Raynesterror 2. Calypsso and 6 more slots open. Reply here with the priest name if you need the cast and I'll add you to the running list and anything left open we'll get filled with backups as needed. Looking forward to seeing all at Eclipse Bay on the 20th ^^

Mag is great! I know Rite of the Sun is primed as well as Libila's scheduled cast hence the 20th date. Trying to leave room for our Rock God to go first for whichever devotee schedules it.

Hi all Wurmians, Vynora is brimming with power on Cadence, so it's high time for a Rite of Spring cast (after those lesser deities, Libila and Magranon have their day that is)! The priest leading the cast, Elliott (me), can link 8 people, so please respond here to start filling slots or potentially supplant me as the casting priest if your channeling skill would enable more slots. I want to prioritize people who need the journal entry, but also would take some backups if we end up with link slots to spare. Eclipse Bay is easily accessible by boat or highway and thanks in advance to Rayen for offering his lovely locale for the event. Will look into making summons available as well! Location: Eclipse Bay (Port Rayen) P13 Date: Sunday, March 20th, 10:00pm EST/ 3:00am GMT

I thought this as well regarding that as a +2.5% favor regen as a possible reward. I know that on pvp servers there are a few special officer titles in player kingdoms for priests that give as much as double favor regen or 1/2 spell favor costs, so as a challenging goal completion reward, 2.5% bonus to favor regen didn't seem that OP to me, but I don't have all the contexts for how that would play in pvp vs pve or all modes of play. That specific reward or those goals are not central to my suggestion anyway as that was just an example set of challenges and a possible reward but the ultimate reward/s and goals if this were implemented would be up to what devs feel is balanced and made sense with the added oversight and context they have. For my part in whatever form it took, I just would like more goals to chase with some more rewards on par with what non-priests can go after towards the end of their journal. As for what other possible rewards beyond Benediction's awesome one you could apply for a more extreme challenge set of goals: yes picking a spell to gain from a diff deities' spell list (albeit this might need to be a limited set of choices for balance) or something like a more decent cut to spell favor cost, or maybe even a 'mastery' spell or ability gained (could be a 100 favor spell or just be a once per 18hr ability like meditate levels give) that differed depending on your faith: some things like a Stronger longer lasting zombie pet for Lib, or an AOE form of Wisdom of Vynora for Vyn (or maybe something else that enhances skilling like applying 3hr affinity of choice), maybe a randomized transmute ala the rod of transmutation but a little weaker for Mag and for Fo some kind of ultimate aoe buff acting as a heightened willowspine, forest giant strength and light of Fo combined for you and allies around. In any case, those are some very loose ideas for rewards beyond benediction that might be worth the effort of completing even harder challenges. Could also be as simple as a once per day ability that applies an expendable buff to you that guarantees your next cast will be over 75 or 80 (re-rolls result on the back end til' it gets a value over this) or a flat bonus to favor maximum that allows you to exceed 100 by 20 or something. Plenty of possible rewards that would be worth working towards beyond benediction I can imagine.

Great idea. Short of allowing a tile to collapse or collapsing it yourself and re-mining it out with the new desired ceiling height, there isn't currently an easy way to achieve what this would add and finer finished subterranean builds are a beautiful thing! Hope this gets considered.

Good points Davih, I don't want people to focus too heavily on specifics of the example goals and reward I mentioned as I am primarily just hoping to have the addition of some goal clusters with rewards beyond Benediction in the journal considered as an addition. Specific challenges and rewards I'm sure there are a lot of good ideas for (I like yours of maybe a specific priest related affinity being a reward for some goal cluster that could be added as the crafting tree has one that gives 1 new affinity of choosing). Some of my quirkier ones in the example like serving as a link while not hard per se' were more of an expression of including some goals that encourage you to help newer priests with their progression in the later phases of your own because I think that'd be cool for the community. I thought of some other ones like perhaps building a mission structure; temple, shrine, obelisk etc. but I'd love to see ideas from lots of more experienced players than I on what would fit in terms of challenges in a goal cluster and commensurate reward. I'm just happy if others like the general idea of adding a few more for the late/end game of the priest's journal and hope it sparks interest and consideration from the dev team as I think it would pay off well in game enrichment for the effort needed to implement. Fingers crossed and thanks for giving it a thorough read. o7

I thought this as well regarding that as a +2.5% favor regen as a possible reward. I know that on pvp servers there are a few special officer titles in player kingdoms for priests that give as much as double favor regen or 1/2 spell favor costs, so as a challenging goal completion reward, 2.5% bonus to favor regen didn't seem that OP to me, but I don't have all the contexts for how that would play in pvp vs pve or all modes of play. That specific reward or those goals are not central to my suggestion anyway as that was just an example set of challenges and a possible reward but the ultimate reward/s and goals if this were implemented would be up to what devs feel is balanced and made sense with the added oversight and context they have. For my part in whatever form it took, I just would like more goals to chase with some more rewards on par with what non-priests can go after towards the end of their journal.

Yes can see certain goals making it harder for others when there are only limited opportunities to fulfill them server-wide, maybe instead of something like 10 globals, a goal like serving as a link for another priest for a number or times or cumulative hours would promote helping others up or some other challenging goal that produces something productive for other players too like cast 20 95+ resistance enchants so there's more of that jewelry floating about.

Yep 2% would still be great and possibly more balanced. That suggested goal category and reward in the post are merely an example, but I'm mostly just interested in promoting the idea of more goals and challenges being added to the priest tree of the journal beyond Benediction in general; completely open to tweaking details of the requirements and rewards towards good balance. Added goals could add more interest to the priest role into later game long-play and most importantly more fun chasing increasingly difficult goals which is really my aim. And it just feels a little empty to me after benediction when I look at the many later game journal goals the crafter tree gets to chase. Having more mountains to climb under different game roles seems like an absolute positive to me.