faster prayer sequence that costs more exp please.

Yes, please.

quote is Rynn

I think you're gonna need an actual justification for this type of change.

5 minutes is a long time. to be doing nothing

To quote Doctor House, "You idiot!"

Edit: Justification: If you're doing something stupid enough to cause your character's death, you deserve to sit in a corner for five minutes.

2 1/2 minutes, actually.

So, sitting in the Clocktower in Cyrene doing Senate paperwork when i get instantly choked to death because a raid started up.. I did something stupid and deserve to wait 5 minutes to do anything again?

And yes, most times that I die, I end up praying. Especially with my lack of geographical skills to find a forest and only two people who actively care enough to resurrect me and have the patience to guide me to a forest.

It's not that bad, go browse on a website, get a drink, turn on a tv.

I'm pretty sure the five minutes is to give some of you out there a lil cooldown from the txtrage.

EDIT: Or go priest. I can't remember the last time I had to pray.

^qft

The current prayer sequence is only annoying when you die 2-3 times <10 minutes, otherwise it's fine.

Agreed

Prayer plays an important balancing role in large-scale conflicts; the only way to gain a strategic advantage is to get people out of the fight for a couple minutes by making them pray. If the only countervailing interest is "this is annoying, I'm bored," I'm not convinced there should be a change.

I have no opinion on the requested change. I pray all of the time and just wonder around or read forums while praying.

I was simply saying that fau.. Manny's comment about praying meaning that you were stupid and deserved to pray was pretty stupid in and of itself

2 1/2 minutes (it's not 5 minutes, it's 2 1/2, I clocked it myself) really isn't that long and I don't see why it needs to be reduced.

Furthermore, the "faster praying, higher experience loss" is an even worse idea. I'll take 2 1/2 minutes of waiting versus all the bashing I'd have to do to get back that experience.

I agree with Griffel, without a long praying duration raid/defense would turn into even more of a zerg situation than it currently is. The entire purpose of the pray sequence is to keep people out of commission for longer than it takes to redef.

I'm not saying the pray sequence absolutely shouldn't be rebalanced, but if it is I think it should be done with raids in mind (re-evaluate it completely, meaning it may take longer than it currently does in the end.)

Edit: I still see no logical argument to make it shorter.

kekekeke Mhaldor Rush!

What about changing the sequence altogether, to something based on the player character's alignment ie. darker imagery for evil, the current one for neutral-ish, and images of the sublime for the good-aligned? Then again I guess Maya does say She transcends the distinction of good/evil...

I pray a lot

I don't mind the praying sequence. I wish it would drop me off in the Inferno though

Delete Ressurrections.

You bastsards be thankful for what you got already you No.

I'm going to assume you live in Australia(I think I'm correct) and that you're not drinking in the AM.

Just make it possible to do a couple of commands while praying, such as 'honours', 'stat', 'score', 'stat stats' and 'readnews etc etc'... That way, it won't be -that- boring and annoying to pray.

-Firey-

Ooh, good idea.

I mean, you can already read the news while you're asleep...

Good idea.

Double pray-sequence time, half the experience lost. (Plus what Firey suggested)

No.

It's fine as-is, but what Firey suggested would make it better. 2.5 minutes is long enough to keep you out of the fray for enough time to make it count, and the exp loss is already damn high. If you don't want to pray, buy a gem of transmutation.

Firey's suggestion is fine. Yours is not.

The time and experience loss for praying is fine.

I don't know why, but I always laugh when I see someone mention "paperwork" that they "have to do" in this game.

My suggestion was sarcasm, Gorlasintan. Initial post being decrease time, mine being increase it. Both are unnecessary.

Leadership positions take paperwork, even in this game. I fail to see how that fact is at all remarkable.

No. It's fine.