Wraiths - what are they good for?

[Levi DAmico]

So I have a really strong RP reason to dump my Wraith in favour of a human thrall, but before I do that, I'd like to get a comprehensive understanding of the benefits of keeping a Wraith.

I'm not willing to increase Levi's Charisma stat to 20 just to have an extra thrall because his attributes are strongly aimed toward self-defence. True, Charisma does help with Businesses, which is his second priority, but not to the extent that warrants a complete redistribution of his skill points.

Any advice you have will, believe me, be greatly appreciated!

[Alexandrea]

In my experience, the only ways a wraith thrall are useful at all is for scouting. They have more energy, can walk on water, can go up in raids without keys and to *some* player characters they are invisible on the grid so they can spy.

The list of ways to use a human thrall, however, are too numerous to list off the top of my head. There is a thread at the Q ooc board called 'the care and feeding of thralls' that I put together which I *believe* was pretty complete at the time of writing, and I don't think too much (or anything) has changed for thralls since then.

[Myk]

Indeed you did!

I have to switch accounts to read it, but, it's totally worth it. Ironically, Myk wouldn't care to know any of that information. He's wonderful like that. <.<

What I'm hearing is, "Do et, Claire. Sacrifice the useless Wraith and make your weird dreams come true."

ETA

Hold the freaking phone, now. You get accounts on the forum for your Thrall? Sign me up!

[Candy Zuckerberg]

You sure do, honey!

[Levi DAmico]

How does that work?!

How can you create that forum account?

[Alexandrea]

you need to do it from the thrall's settings page on the grid

Subject: UPDATE: Thrall Roleplay Accounts & Thrall Gifting

Here's one for the roleplayers!

You can now create forum roleplay accounts for your thralls, with the click of a button. You can also use this same function to, instead, gift those thrall roleplay accounts to another writer, to let them permanently take over the roleplaying of your thrall.

You can set this up via the settings page, under "account", while logged in as a thrall. If you want to keep the thrall as your own, keep your own character's name entered on the last page of the thrall account set up. Otherwise, enter the name a character belonging to the writer you wish to take over roleplaying as this thrall.

The thrall's forum account will have the same password as the person it has been gifted to (or your own password). You'll be able to sign in as the thrall, set up a banner for them, an avatar, and so on. All RPP you earn with your thrall account will be passed to the writer of the thrall, rather than the grid owner of the thrall (if the two are indeed different).

Deleting the thrall will delete the forum account for the thrall also, so be sure to talk it over with the thrall's writer before you do away with your thrall.

If you prefer to roleplay as your thrall the old fashioned way, that's completely fine too.

This update applies to both Blood and Path.

While we're on the subject of RPP: all future RPP boost days / weeks will come in the forum of RPP conversion rates, rather than points earned per post. This means that it's useless saving up all of your roleplay stories to post during a bonus week; you may as well post all your roleplay now, and save up the RPP ready for the bonus week. However, remember that exchanging RPP usually costs energy, so you might have too much RPP and not enough time to exchange it! Long and short of it is: get roleplaying.

[Levi DAmico]

I am so happy right now. O.O

[Varnava]

And just because this is literally what I do and now I need to know, because I've been wanting a Wraith for one of my other characters: can you only have either a thrall OR a wraith and not both? That's what I got from this thread, but I just wanted to check explicitly.

[Alexandrea]

you can have one of each kind, how many you can have depends on your charisma

http://www.mooncalfstudios.com/pathofth ... s#Charisma

getting the allurist mastery power allows you two of one type (in addition to one each of other types, if charisma allows)

http://www.mooncalfstudios.com/pathofth ... s#Allurist

[Varnava]

you can have one of each kind, how many you can have depends on your charisma

http://www.mooncalfstudios.com/pathofth ... s#Charisma

getting the allurist mastery power allows you two of one type (in addition to one each of other types, if charisma allows)

http://www.mooncalfstudios.com/pathofth ... s#Allurist

GET OUTTA HERE. There are so many aspects to this game. So that charts tells me Varnava can have 4. And the only way to get 4 would be to get that power to add an extra of each, right?