Gods And Heroes: 4th Beta Journal Added at Gods & Heroes!

Thats right, today we got another look inside the world of Gods & Heroes!

--- Core Tester Beta Journal - Vol. 4 ---

I am late getting this to Binky because I really wasn't sure what to write about this week. Someone wanted to know about God Powers. I for one use God Powers sparingly. In order to use God Powers (in the current build) you need to be in good standing with your god and also be in favor with him/her. Favor and standing can be gained from doing Deity Quests. Complete the quests and your god is happy with you; he or she will either bestow a new God Power upon you, raise the one you have up another rank, or fill your favor and standing (the quickening effect) back up to full. You can also gain temporary favor by making donations to one of the priests or priestesses, and that seems to work like a buff.

It's hard to explain the God Powers spells as many of them, along with most of the class Feat Trees, are being changed. When things are more settled I will revisit that topic again.

Someone wanted to know about downtime. Currently, there is none. Depending on who you are this is either a good thing or a bad thing. For me, I've always hated down time, part of why I always hated casters until this game. While casters had their downtime it was a good time for 15 people to take an afk break-I'm usually one of them. There are, however, potions and food for restoring health and energy in game. So I imagine soon there will be some form of down time, but I am not sure how much or how long.

Right now energy regenerates pretty fast. Just this past week we could fight literally all day and not get below 80% energy usage. This has been slightly tweaked, however, to where now we get some drainage but it still doesn't require we sit down to recover. I don't know what the dev's have in mind. Fighting one or two mobs at once is far different then all out warfare, as has been promised in later levels. It could be our energy is geared towards those types of battles, but this is speculation on my part.

Since so many things are currently changing this week I thought I'd just speak on some of the things I have seen, as that is probably the safest thing for me to do at the moment. I'd hate to say this and next week it's something different.

Combat as you know is a locked system. This will take some people some getting use to, especially if you belong to the bunny hopping generation. In game you will stand toe to toe with your opponent, and the animations make it fun and even a pleasure to watch.

Read the rest of the journal over at the Gods & Heroes Website!