Donations

[HammerHead]

As it has becomed increasingly expensive donating to the church, I was wondering if there were any point to it other than the occasional potion.

Will I become pope or saint or something or should I save my gold for more worthy causes?

C

[WillowIX]

Originally posted by HammerHead: As it has becomed increasingly expensive donating to the church, I was wondering if there were any point to it other than the occasional potion. Will I become pope or saint or something or should I save my gold for more worthy causes? C

Yes donations are very nifty indeed. If you donate your presence will increase with one every time. Of course when you have reached a certain level there is no need to donate further. Consider it training in presence. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[bsftcs]

I am glad to see that I am not the only one who did not discover that at first. I had already completed the game once when I found out that donating at the temple will increase the donating character's presence.

[HammerHead]

Thanks

So I guess it,s worth the gold after all.

C

[Bungleau]

It's worth it until your presence hits 18. After that, there's no more bonus.

Edit: Unlike the other abilities, where you can train to level 20, even though it says you can't.

[ 03-02-2003, 10:54 PM: Message edited by: Bungleau ]

[moiraine sedai]

Is the only thing you get cure potions???????

Does anyone feel like making a list of possible items (Radek... [img]smile.gif[/img] )????

Cheers,

Moiraine Sedai

[Radek]

Donations seem to be the only way of getting Cure Potions early in the game. The potions are as rare as artifacts. In fact, they are seen more rarely than any artifact. I have seen very few ones late in the game (when you do not need them) but really very few ones.
Therefore, the potions belong to the most valuable items in the game. Collect them, use them only if you really must, and inherit them from game to game. They can solve problems with a diseased character, especially, in the beginning of the game.
Other potions from the temple are less valuable. You can also get
- Stone to Flesh Potion
- Mana Max Potion
- Restore Health Potion

As it has been said, donations train your PRE. Summary:
- you can train PRE only until you reach 18.
- you do not get any potion when you try to donate with PRE 18.
The PRE stat is meaningful only for companies. The character with higher PRE is attacked more frequently(?!??!? - you are punished for being nice, I would expect the contrary: the character with the lowest PRE is attacked more frequently). On the other hand, the actual value of PRE does not matter. The monsters will behave the same way when your whole company has PRE 3 as when your whole company has PRE 24. For a solo character, the PRE stat seems to have no meaning at all.
In the other words, PRE is rather useless stat. The only reward for donating in the temple is the occasional Cure Potion.

[Bungleau]

I thought I've seen PRE affecting the prices in the shops. The higher the PRE, the better the price for you. Was that just my imagination?

[Radek]

I haven't noticed any price dropping. More precisely, my characters always begin with PRE 9 or so and end with PRE 24. Within these limits, I haven't seen price dropping.

[bsftcs]

The prices in the shops drop if one has the merchant trait. The effects of the merchant trait is then determined by the character's WILL.