Spirituality Knight? What does that do?

[mihali]

"Virtue
Spirituality is gained by using targeted heals and resurrections on other players including bandages, close wounds, heal, greater heal, gift of renewal, cleansing winds, and rejuvenate. Spirituality is expended through the virtue menu, double click the humility virtue to bring up a targeting cursor.

Reward
Targeting a living player or pet will grant a Spirituality shield that will absorb incoming damage based on Spirituality path and consume some Spirituality points,

• Seeker: 5% shield, with 50 shield HP
• Follower: 10% shield, with 100 shield HP
• Knight: 20% shield, with 200 shield HP"

What does 20% shield with 200 shield HP mean? Also does it have a duration? Any one using this virtue? I just became Knight and have no idea. There is no clear explanation in uoguide.
Ty in advance.

 

[Pawain]

It absorbs 20% of the player or pets damage for 200HP worth of damage. When the 200HP is used it ends.

Instead of taking 20 damage on a hit the target will just take 16 and those 4 points go toward the 200HP.

Most tamers and mages are Knights in this just by vetting/healing.

I use it on my pet once in a while.

You could use it on yourself or a melee player on a mob.

 

[mihali]

It absorbs 20% of the player or pets damage for 200HP worth of damage. When the 200HP is used it ends.

Instead of taking 20 damage on a hit the target will just take 16 and those 4 points go toward the 200HP.

Most tamers and mages are Knights in this just by vetting/healing.

I use it on my pet once in a while.

You could use it on yourself or a melee player on a mob.

Thanks for info. I also found this on old stratics:
"
Virtuous Title & Abilities: When a character has achieved enough Spirituality points, he is considered to have achieved a certain step on the path of Spirituality.

• When a player moves his cursor over the Spirituality symbol, a title will be displayed, indicating the step currently achieved in Spirituality for that character.
  • First step: Seeker of Spirituality
  • Second step: Follower of Spirituality
  • Third step: Knight of Spirituality
• Players who progress any number of steps on the path of Spirituality, but do not continue to actively pursue it, may discover that this Virtuous title reduces in steps over time.
• Characters who have achieved any steps on the path of Spirituality will recover from being dead faster than other characters, resurrecting with a few more hit points and mana than normal.
  • The exact numbers are still to be determined, although it is not likely that they will exceed 50% of the character’s maximum natural stats.
  • A player who resurrects through use of his Sacrifice power will not gain these additional, post-resurrection recovery points.
• Ghosts are normally only understood by those who successfully use the Spirit Speak skill. Characters who have achieved any steps on the path of Spirituality will be understood by anyone while as a ghost, including those who listeners who are not using Spirit Speak."

Interesting, if that still holds true currently.

 

[AntyvasII]

Interesting, if that still holds true currently.

Which part? Decay should be suspended unless it is an exception.

 

[Pawain]

My tamers do not have more HP when ressed. And the ghosts are not seen by the living until they speak or go to war mode.

 

[PlayerSkillFTW]

• Characters who have achieved any steps on the path of Spirituality will recover from being dead faster than other characters, resurrecting with a few more hit points and mana than normal.
  • The exact numbers are still to be determined, although it is not likely that they will exceed 50% of the character’s maximum natural stats.
  • A player who resurrects through use of his Sacrifice power will not gain these additional, post-resurrection recovery points.
• Ghosts are normally only understood by those who successfully use the Spirit Speak skill. Characters who have achieved any steps on the path of Spirituality will be understood by anyone while as a ghost, including those who listeners who are not using Spirit Speak."

Interesting, if that still holds true currently.

That is old, outdated info. That's the *suggested* implementation for Spirituality that they had, but they changed their mind and made it into a damage shield ability (functions just like Exceptional Swamp Dragon Barding) instead.

Most tamers and mages are Knights in this just by vetting/healing.

Healing yourself or vetting your own pet does not give Spirituality gains. Interestingly enough though, while casting Heal/Greater Heal on a pet doesn't give you Spirituality gains, casting Cleansing Winds or Gift of Renewal (every healing tick gains it) on your own pet does gain Spirituality.

Spirituality is most useful when used on a Tanking pet, or a character that isn't riding an armored Swamp Dragon.

 

[AlistorMcCoy]

Spirituality is most useful when used on a Tanking pet, or a character that isn't riding an armored Swamp Dragon.

Does the damage reduction not stack?

 

[Poo]

Healing yourself or vetting your own pet does not give Spirituality gains. Interestingly enough though, while casting Heal/Greater Heal on a pet doesn't give you Spirituality gains, casting Cleansing Winds or Gift of Renewal (every healing tick gains it) on your own pet does gain Spirituality.

I don't think that is accurate.
all of my tamers are Knights of Spirituality and I don't heal other people's pets.
and I'm constantly getting the message that I'm capped and can not gain more when I do heal my own pet.

I'll have to go look at it, I don't honestly pay that close of attention to it.

 

[Jennifer-Marie]

You do not get a “You have gained in Spirituality” notification when you heal yourself or your own pet. I can’t speak for cleansing winds or anything outside of Magery/bandage healing, but those two methods of healing yourself and your pet do not give you virtue gains.

Healing and resurrecting any other player or pet does give you gains. And because spirituality doesn’t decay unless you use it via the virtue gump for the shield effect, you can maintain Knight of Spirituality indefinitely.

 

[Picus of Napa]

I remember one of my bards would receive that message while running songs but I don't know which one, clearly the group healing one.

 

[Drakelord]

It absorbs 20% of the player or pets damage for 200HP worth of damage. When the 200HP is used it ends.

Instead of taking 20 damage on a hit the target will just take 16 and those 4 points go toward the 200HP.

Most tamers and mages are Knights in this just by vetting/healing.

I use it on my pet once in a while.

You could use it on yourself or a melee player on a mob.

Yep I gain a lot vetting or healing pets and people and will use this to hit Knight on a player or pet that is the tank. Regarding the remarks above I always cast gift of renew on my pet and gain a lot of Spirit, as well.

 

[Pawain]

Yep I gain a lot vetting or healing pets and people and will use this to hit Knight on a player or pet that is the tank. Regarding the remarks above I always cast gift of renew on my pet and gain a lot of Spirit, as well.

GoR and healing others is probably why we are always at Knight. I did think of this and use Spirituality last night on a pet fighting Scalis.