Faith and Black Magic

[Kiha]

I've played faith since essentially launch, so has Sanguine so I hope he pops in with his sense as well as we both had different rises to Radiant, I got a bunch of Drakanite gremlins, he had the god of faith grind, both were essential due to the fact you cannot stack prayers and so faith is also much more time gated for effort until you reach priest. I assume it's due to not needing to put your life on the line to get our equivalent of essence.

However, as it stands, faith users are in no way a real counter to black magic users, in fact, it's just like holy where occult is a direct counter, witchcraft seems to also directly counter faith.

So, here are some ideas I tossed up in the discord once that I think could be a good starting point:

Give radiants immunity to hex, and perhaps the ability to even give OTHERS immunity to hex. As it stands, our temp nerf priced buff is nullified by a single hex.

Change how prayer works. It's garbage, 5 mana will not do anything, and all it does is give you a point of faith. Changing it to +1 vit would be better, or giving 1% def of the faith user's choice on praying on someone.

Wardens if enough Radiants exist of a religion to punch nethradin in the face, or if not wardens, lore friendly variants for each faith. Ancestral giants, treeguards, warriors of Bastion???

Now, why should faith get more reward with less risk? Give witches and necromancers MORE essence/undeath by beating up faith users. Aren't they filled with the stuff of life? Take it from them, those goody two shoes don't deserve it.

deus vult