Shattered Kingdoms

Like warlocks with breath of life, shamans using raise dead do not have any loopholes for reducing the XP cost to zero.

Any info available as to HOW to request/command said NPC Priest to invest the clergy? I have a particular clergy character who's looking to get invested into a religion who has NO high follower at all (according to your religious head chart anyway) and I'm kind of stuck so this is perfect for said character. How would I go about getting the NPC to do it though?

Assuming you qualify for the religion, as soon as you enter the room the NPC priest will talk to you about it.

Got it. Thanks

My question concerns the healing "buff". Yes, someone with a good amount of wisdom can heal someone with a good amount of con very well, but the question is, does this apply also to other forms of healing? For instance, someone with a good amount of wisdom casting sanctuary on a resistant barbarian to heal them. Granted, there aren't many resistant barbs (maybe one?) in the game right now, but I'm curious as to how this would work. Or does this update only relate to strictly healing spells such as cure light, serious, crit and heal?

You put "buff" in quotes but I've never described it as a buff. There are some edge cases where it's stronger, but overall it's commonly break-even for clergy casters and a nerf for every other type of healing.

This includes MR Healing which receives the CON bonus but not the WIS bonus. Therefore, like item healing, it's been nerfed.

Overall, healing needed to be dialed down a notch. After the nerf to enhanced damage, healing needed to be recalibrated as well. But we decided to do it in such a way as to promote clergy casting and races that excel in those two stats.

Is healing rays affected?

Yes, every single way that you can be healed in the game is affected. Healing rays is in a muddy middle ground, because even though it isn't clergy, you can get the WIS bonus.

Also I want to make sure that cause and effect are not about to be misconstrued. The desire and proposal to make healing dependent on WIS/CON stats was made prior to the change to enhanced damage. We want casters to be better at healing than devices and we want priests to have another reason to actually prioritize wisdom as well as intelligence. And fighters making sure they have max con while fighting is now also more important. It adds a bit more strategy to builds.

But following the enhanced damage changes, it was more obvious we couldn't make healing any better without doing a reset and first making all types of healing a bit worse. So both of these factors came together when designing the system.

So is it based of max wis/con or modded?

It's whatever your stat currently is. If you have a way to raise your stat above it's normal max, that will obviously help even more.