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I think it just really depends on the Divine and whether they are fine with Order members beating on each other. Those that love combat probably would enjoy it. I know when Vastar was around, he was fine with killing Eleusian Farethi if we had to raid the city or vice versa with Eleusis in Ashtan.
Can always hunt up more essence!
I think maybe you read it wrong. It sounds like it's only available to that particular order and people who follow the order member who touches their master shrine.
I thought a lot of orders had their Master shrines in their temples now.
I'm assuming camping Master shrines won't be optimal, because the order members aren't open pk until they arrive in Nish and because the assaulting order will want to be in Nish gathering essence.
It could be a problem if Mark-heavy orders with no ally order to access Nish through got camped, but I thought Aurora's shrine was in her temple too now and I'm pretty sure Sartan's is, Babel's is, Deucalion's is. Not sure about Artemis/Gaia. I don't think it'll realistically be a problem.
- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
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Ok, let me see.
Re the avatar concerns: I'd not worry about this. The time investment to get avatar is pretty extreme, and it does not last long. Because it drains all stolen essence regardless, its mechanically impossible to have multiple avatars in one order at any time. Its intended as a very rare thing (a huge order achievement) and if it becomes otherwise we'll adjust the costs until that is the case.
Picking on small orders: this is basically the worst strategic move you can make. The only thing your choice of target influences is who you want to inconvenience with the negative side effects of having a badly damaged Master Shrine: by design you are going to be fighting everyone regardless, so your choice can not dictate anything in that respect and the smart choice is to degrade one of your enemies to get maximum value out of your essence.
As for timezone abuse/off hours, I'm sure this'll come up. However, its magnitudes harder to off hours when you're contending with the entire game for resources rather than just one org. I'm sure some people will do it, but I suspect they'll find that it becomes far more trouble than its worth (and will likely backfire enough due to the telegraphed windup that its just not a great idea).
Attacking an already damaged Master Shrine will cause less essence to be generated that crusade than a full one. Camping one order endlessly will yield very poor yields (a shrine that is completely damaged will produce nothing at all).
As for Master Shrine placement, the pilgrimage shrine power should really facilitate large movements of players to and from the Master Shrine, but regardless that's something that would have to go through the respective patron.
As a note before it comes up, you cannot raise yourself to Avatar. It requires someone else in the order to enact the miracle.
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..Okay, I mean, it is. But after a while it's going to be dull. And even moreso, being in an Order that prides itself on being all-inclusive, I'm not entirely sure which Order would actually find it worth their while to piss us off when they've bigger fish to fry. So we either stay out of it and the mechanic is ultimately wasted, or we get into it and then piss off an Order that then decides to focus on the smaller Order (us).
So yeah. Fence-sitting for @Prospero 's combatant here. We'll see how this pans out.
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On that note, kill them all!