Temperance and Blessing of TemperanceFollow

Could anyone please help me track down the information for these quest. I'm going nuts trying to find it. Thanks for your help.

Temperance is the result of a Quest. (and a useful spell).

Blessing of Temperance is a stupid waste of LDoN points (ie it is vendor bought with points)

The LDoN spell of group temperance is only 150 points, very well worth it in my opinion (iirc its from takish aka north ro camp) and any cleric with right mind would be in that camp anyway for the plate!

I've only seen Blessing of Temperance used once, and the person casting it had a hell of a time getting enough people in the group to offset the 3x mana cost.
Blessing of Austerity, if I remember right isn't that 650 points or something absurd? I'm REALLY looking forward to that, I seem to remember the level limit on BoA is even over 46... could be wrong.

ARE YOU WELL??????????????????????? Huge money is made...maybe the toons are cheap on your server but i can buy and sell you 50 times over from the plat i've made Temping. There isn't any item in EQ that can be bought that i cannot buy......and its all from Temping. I have a full set of toons all outfitted to their peak because of my cleric. Just a few days Temping and I make enough plat to hand out just for the hell of it. Toons come to me to sell their loot instead of bazaar because i got the plat to put out. My guild is uber because of me, a cleric, selling Temp. PFFFT!!!!! Not my prob your on a poor sever. Ypu speak as though you speak for all cleric's. NOT!!!!!! Now....if you'll excuse me.....I have uber amounts of plat to make.

As a level 57 cleric, I find that I am still buffing my group in PoV with Blessing of Temperance. Granted the 1 or 2 ppl in the group may have Virtue, but everyone else the group Temp is more mana efficient. And those that have Virtue, when that goes away are asking for Temp too. Considering that most ppl will either ask for Virtue or Temp and forget about Aego, I will probably still be cast Blessing of Temp well past lvl 60.

Was just looking at your magelo and I got to say, I am a bit confused why you don't have a mana preservation focus effect but you do have Improved DamageIV?

Well. And he also completely missed the issue. No one said that temp wasn't a good spell to get. The issue was over the group version. I can see an argument for the group temp on long groups when you are too low level to cast virtue or aego. The savings in terms of both mana and dots for being able to temp your entire group in one shot is worth it.

On the other hand, odds are you'll level up to where you can cast virtue soon anyway. There's a very narrow range where temp is worth it. 150 AP is 150 AP. You could have bought some of the trap disarming spells, or a remove curse spell instead (which you'll still get use out of at level 65 possibly).

But group temp is absolutely worthless as a buffwhoring spell. People come in groups for KEI (and it's just mana anyway, so there's no need for a full group). People come individually for temp/virtue. They expect to hand you the cash/dot and get the spell cast on them. Done. You're not going to use Blessing of Temperance to sell the spell in PoK. You're only going to use it on a group.



I am a bit curious about Temp versus Aego though. I've always been of the opinion that you should buff your melee's with the best melee buff you've got. If that's aego, that's aego. I don't think that any caster *needs* a component costing buff except on raids. This, of course, is why the group versions are nice, since you get get the whole group for about the same cost that you'd spend doing your melee's anyway. But I would never waste time/money temping a caster in an exp group. They should't be taking enough damage during the group to need it. Certainly, expecting me to spend money so that they can more safely do something stupid is a bad idea. But that's just me...

Can a Lvl 61 cleric solo these mobs?

Heh well I purchased Blessing of Temperance after I was able to cast Virtue...why? At the time many of my guild members were starting alts, Using this spell saved me time and mana when I would drop by to buff a guild members group in PC or HHK. Also the other night during an MGB fest in PoK on The Rathe server..I heard an ooc to the effect of "what about the little guys?" Hrmmm ok got another Cleric to cast HoV and announced
"MGB Temp!" maybe I'm just a sucker for gratitude but the cheers were more than worth a few dots to me...

Later Days
Hillarion

I have to assume this was aimed at me even if by an illiterate nincompoop.

By inserting punctuation in a few places it might be interpreted as meaning that he disagrees with my opinion on the spell, feels that it is "great" and goes on to imply that my scorn for it is caused by envy of those who have wasted 150 AP on it.

Since he totally fails to explain why it is "great" I see no real need to argue.

The point that some have raised above that does make some sense is the ability to MGB it for lower levels left out of the MGB Virtue etc. This seems a good and very laudable use of it especially as it is probably by people for whom 150AP is small change. In a group setting at 49 I would still not waste the points on it. getting it at a higher level when points are much easier to come by and using it to help guildies etc might well make sense.

Heh, semantics made silly.