The majority of my characters aren't empowerment characters and empowerments are never going to be a signifigant portion of them.

Simply because empowerment started off as iffy, and then when partial i.e. level-barrier empowerments came along, it went from iffy to just plain bad.

The amount of cleric type classes though in the game versus the rest are very balanced right now, though. But it's unfair that the biggest reason for this perfect balance is because so many hopeful ideas are shattered on the rocks of reality: Your god's playtimes and desire to be present and interacting with players are going to negatively impact your enjoyment of your character if you're still waiting to be empowered.

Sure there are people who often get empowered in a few days. Others don't mind waiting two weeks.

But that doesn't change the fact that a good percentage of us go largely ignored for obscene amounts of time due to naievely picking an inactive imm and NOT being pointed in a different direction. I remember one time someone was courteous enough to give an echo to a Mynawk follower that he needed to 'express his anger in other ways' because Mynawk is inactive or gone. That doesn't happen nearly often enough because alot of people are going to throw up their hands and hope someone else 'who knows better' will take care of it, and it never does because they don't want to offend the person who is largely inactive and likely wouldn't care anyway.

I've been on both sides of the coin and it's enough that the negatives drive me away. There's enough CON, time and stuff to lose on other things that you need a certain imm present to do, that empowerment just isn't worth the *overall* (i.e. encompassing all possible empowerment possibilities) slim chance that you'll get an enriching roleplay experience.


In a perfect world, empowerments should be happening in the first 20-30 hours of a character, 2 or 3 RL days, or be told that they'd be better off to delete or find something else to pray to.
Quite frankly, the skillsets aren't worth going beyond that. This isn't induction into a cabal, here. Fifty hours is absurd, and people have waited four times that long just because someone wasn't around and no longer has the desire to play.

At the very least, I'd say go back to one-shot empowerments/unempowerments upon ####ups. But that's just my calculated opinion and isn't taking into account how easy/hard each imm's difficulty varies when you actually do meet them.