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You gain [[faith]] (and some [[favor]]) by [[praying]] at [[altar]]s after [[Convert#Changing_Religion|converting]] to a [[religion]]. The maximum amount of favor you can get while praying Faith is equal to your current level the ethereal power of faithreligious belief. You can gain faith 5 times per real-life dayIn Wurm, but you must leave 20 minutes between these prayers. Any prayers in between these 5 prayers will not raise your it also gives [[faithpriest]] but will get your [[prayer]] skill ups the ability to cast spells and commit to other unique activities.

At 10 '''*To gain faith'''(and also [[favor]]), you may a player can [[Exorcismpraying|desecratepray]] at an [[altar]]s. In order to do this, however, one must first choose and [[convert]] to a [[religion]].

At 20 '''faith''', there are god specific bonuses. [[Vynora]]*Praying may take place in back-Small Exp. gain / [[Fo]]to-Healing bonus / [[Magranon]]-Fight skill bonus / [[Libila]]back sessions, but a 20-minute cool-Fight down period is needed between prayers in order for each subsequent prayer to count toward further faith skill bonusgain, up to five times per day.

At 30 ''*While additional prayer attempts between these cool-down periods will not raise faith, they will increase the player's prayer skill. If faith'''is not gained from a prayer, you may travel to the [[Altar of Three]](WL) or action will not be counted against the five prayer per day limit. This scenario occurs when praying as non-[[Bone Altar]](BL) (depending which of the [[Gods]] you follow) and become a [[priestAccount types|premium]] of your god. If you're on the Freedom server, you'll need to find a priest from your religion with 40 faith to perform a ritual for you in order to become a priest yourself.

At 50 '''As a player gains faith'''along their religious journey, you they can become a [[champion player|champion]] of your god on the [[Epic]] Elevation server; this does not carry over expect to the Freedom cluster, however. You can also randomly get flintdiscover new, salt, and gems from [[praying]]faith-based abilities.The following are some but not all of those reported abilities:

- At 20 faith, god-specific bonuses become available. ([[Vynora]]-Small Exp. gain / [[Fo]]-Healing bonus / [[Magranon]]-Fight skill bonus / [[Libila]]--Fight skill bonus) - At 30 faith, it becomes possible to become a priest of your chosen god. For additional information on the process of achieving such priesthood at this point, see [[priest]]. At 30 faith, it also becomes possible to receive the rewards granted by global spell casts. - At 40 faith, it becomes possible to identify to which god an item was blessed: examining a blessed item will have "It bears an aura of <god>" in its description. - At 50 faith, one can become a champion of their chosen god. For more detailed information on championhood, see [[champion]]. ==Additional Notes== *Without becoming a priest, it is not possible to raise faith above 30. *Faith -gain is not affected any differently by [[sleep bonus]] or by praying at different altar or tile types of altars (i.e. made of gold, silver, stone, or wood); all faith-gain is the same.  *Faith skill is not lost when a player dies.  *It can take a player approximately 12 days Faith gained on sermon is affected by altar rarity. (praying five times a day+1% for rare, +2% for supreme, +3% for fantastic) to reach the 30 faith needed to become a [[priest]]. *It Faith can take a player approximately 100 days (praying five times a day) to reach 70 be lost when going Unfaithful and performing actions your deity does not approve of. The faith, at which point most spells are availableloss occurs even if the action is cancelled before it is completed.

 Holding a sermon will reward a preacher with is yet one more way in which a player may gain faith -related bonus when bonuses. This involves holding a service and preaching to a group of nearby listeners.   '''Procedure''' *To hold a sermon, activate a [[statuette]], '''right click''' an altar, and select '''Preach'''.*A valid listener is a [[premium]] player of the same [[kingdom]] and of any religion, who is within 4 tiles of the one giving the sermon (both follower '''being mounted or''' prieston foot within this distance does not matter; being embarked on any type of vehicle, cart, however, invalidates the listener), who has . Listeners are allowed to sit. They must also have not done gained or lost any actions that normally give [[alignment]] gain in within the past 30 minutes and . If the player is near already at maximum alignment, the alignment change might not be visible, but will still invalidate the preacher (4 tiles)listener. Note that listening to a sermon will always result in an alignment change. *Sermons give The minimum number of listeners for faith-gain to take place is 4. At a normal altar the priest successfully holding a sermon gains 0.02 faith per valid listener (priest included) in the area. Faith bonus for altar rarity is an extra 1% for rare, 2% for supreme, minimum listeners and 3% for faith gain is 4fantastic. *The priest giving the sermon does NOT not count as a listener. So you need 7 players total to reset the prays for the day (the preacher and 6 valid listeners). *Sermons reset have a three-hour cooldown period for the prayer counter for sermon-giver, and within this time, the preacher if 6 valid listeners attendedplayer cannot give another sermon. This counts only for Freedom serversWithin this cool-down period, however, preachers on the same preacher can effectively serve as a listener in another priest'''Epic servers do not get this benefits sermon.''' **If Note: if you did not gain at least 0.12 faith from the sermon itself, you did there were not have enough valid listeners present to reset your prayer counter.**Sermons do not reset the prayer  '''timerListener Benefits''*Followers of sermons now count as long as you have a deity and are in the same kingdom (since update of 2/05/2012)*A sermon has a three hour cooldown for the preacher. Within this time, the preacher cannot give another sermon. Although, within this window that same preacher can be a listener in another priest's sermon.**Server day reset does not reset the 3h cool down**If your listeners have less than 100.00 alignment , they may gain up to 4 alignment depending on the number of listeners (+ for [[Whitelighter|WL]], - for [[Blacklighter|BL]]) *Sermons made Note: sermons given by different priests need to be spaced at least 30 mins minutes apart in order to countcontinue to benefit the listener.*A player with an alignment gain in the last 30mins doesn`t count toward towards a sermon (they won '''Additional Priest Benefits'''t cause a Sermon to fail but they wont count so make sure you have enough listeners excluding them) **Alignment gains exceeding 100.00 still count as a gain Sermons reset the prayer counter for sermon purposes. Even the preacher if you have 100.00 alignment, doing any actions that would normally give alignment gain will still invalidate you as a listenerat least 6 valid listeners attended. *A mounted player ''can'' count as a listener (mounted on horse, but not embarked on a cart)*Sermons also indicate how much praying is required until the chosen god's ritual ([[Ritual of the Sunsun]], [[Rite of Springspring]], [[Holy Cropcrop]], and or [[Rite of Deathdeath]]) is ready. In order from right after casting the ritual to the ritual being almost ready (some messages may be missing, please add if you see some):performed.  **''Priestname'Holy sites' explains how ''Godname'' is in  Players can receive a map of a [[Holy site]] from giving sermons, but only on those actions that could possibly give faith. ==Faith swap==Priests may swap their faith to another god by purchasing a Faith swap token from the [[Silver shop]] for 40 [[Silver coin]]s or the waning crescent and needs you to do more [[Loyalty program|Marks shop]] for him so that he may manifest his powers27000 Marks.**''Priestname'' explains how ''Godname'' is still waning This bypasses the 7 day cooldown period that generally applies on PVE servers and needs you immediately changes the priest to keep working for her so that she may manifest her powersanother faith.**''Priestname'' explains how ''Godname'' is strong but still needs you If on a PVP server, changing faiths will be subject to work faithfully so that she may manifest her powersthe [[Convert#Changing_Kingdom|kingdom change cooldown period]].**This purchase does NOT give a token, but is used by right-clicking on an altar and selecting 'Swap faith'Priestname'' speaks of miracles soon to come.