Greetings Avatars,
In Release 39 the first iteration of Town Blessings will be going live. Owners of Player Towns will have the ability to place 11 different Devotionals to the 8 Virtues and 3 Principles in their towns.
Each Devotional offers a different blessing and the power of the blessing is based on how many people live in the town. To receive a blessing you merely need to stand near a Devotional that has been placed in a POT (or NPC town). Players can only have one blessing active at any time so visiting a Devotional while another blessing is active will overwrite the current blessing. These Devotionals also attract the attention of the Cabalists and there is a chance that your town will come under siege if you have them placed (this will come online in R40).
Here is a list of the base level Devotionals that are included with each POT and the associated blessings (each one listed is a placeable decoration, see pictures):
- Truth: Intelligence Buff
- Love: Dexterity Buff
- Courage: Strength Buff
- Humility: Magic Resistance Buff and Fishing Bait Recovery Buff
- Honesty: Focus Buff and Alchemy Buff
- Justice: Fizzle Reduction and Cooking Buff
- Honor: Focus Regeneration Buff and Agriculture Buff
- Spirituality: Adventuring Level Buff and Fishing Level Buff
- Compassion: Dodge Buff and Tailoring Buff
- Sacrifice: Health Regeneration Buff and Carpentry Buff
- Valor: Health Buff and Blacksmith Buff
Devotionals are considered NPC buildings so are therefore limited by the number of NPC buildings your town can support. Those NPC Building limits per town are:
- Holdfast: 1
- Hamlet: 2
- Village: 3
- Crossroads Village: 4
- Town: 6
- City: 10
- Metropolis: 15
These devotionals will also appear in NPC towns starting in R40. Please note that these Devotionals are new decorations and not the original items tentatively planned to be associated with Blessings (Hooded Statue, Titan Statues, Dragon Bones, etc.). All town owners will receive these new devotionals as rewards and the original items can continue to be used as NPC Buildings. You will need to claim rewards at a bank to receive these rewards.
Here are all the Devotional symbols:
Truth
Love
Courage
Humility
Honesty
Justice
Honor
Spirituality
Compassion
Sacrifice
Valor
What do you think of these blessings? Let us know in the forums!
I really think this is cool. And it will be interesting to see what ones everyone goes for. Although some of them are a bit odd combos I guess there is a reason for it. So I see lots of town polls going on in the next few weeks everyone chiming in to their govenors what they want to see. Wish the ratio was a bit better. Holdfast only gets one. Even that size pot is not really that small….so they should at least get 2. Just my opinion. I am sure others will scoff at the ratio once it gets into game
Logically, the Titan statues should no longer count as NPC buildings but only as decorations, don’t you think ? Furthermore, Belladone Rose is right, limitations in Holdfast are way too binding. I know bigger town have to stay attractive but you can hardly do anything in a Holdfast, when it is supposed to be able to accommodate 21 village lots.