Deity points

Deity points are sort a high-level pool of guild points, available to both priests and followers. They are used to perform "special" task.

Read all about them in Dasquian's original post on the priests board!

Checking your God's deity pool

Using the ritual "devout inquisition" you can check the amount of DP left in your God's pool. When it runs low you should pray to refill it! When your God runs out of DP, your followers, fellow priest and yourself will be unable to use rods or bestow rituals!!

Deity points and faith rods

There are two stages in faith rods that use DP:

1. Bestow'ing: Bestowing a ritual onto a rod will cost DP. Hence it's possible that sometimes you will be unable to bestow.
2. Performing from a permanent rod: Perform a ritual from an impressed or imprinted rod will cost DP. So make sure you don't become to dependant on it! You might find yourself without rituals at awkward times!

Obsecrate

High Priests have a special command called obsecrate. With this command they can ask the deity to alter various things about the way deity points are spent. You can get rough details on the current setup with the devout inquisition ritual.

The things they can currently do are:

• Reduce ritual costs - up to 30% of ritual costs can be set to be shouldered by the deity point pool.
• Increase ritual costs by taking tithes - rituals can be made to cost 30% more than usual, with some of the surplus being put back in the deity point pool. This is a more efficient way of converting gp to dp than praying.
• Make rituals easier and better - self-explanatory really, this can chew up a large amount of dp.

As usual, heretics are unaffected by all of this.