How does Holy Aura work?

[kaqqao]

I got my priest's magic skills and Willpower to a comfortable level and am looking into expending. Holy Aura sounds like an incredible skill (you effectively get both Magic Resistance and Spell Penetration boost) but, without some numbers, it's impossible to say if it's actually good or not (Identification and Mana Restoration sounded good as well, but look at them). Did anyone raise it? Is it worth it? What other skills are good for a priest? Authority sounds interesting for flavor, and Alchemy seems cool for both flavor and effect.

[IronBudmeister]

i'm not familiar with how priests work since i'm a dedicated Brotherhood of the Righteous paladin man, but with all skills i would assume that they get much better the more points you put into them. and from the looks of it the extra things the rank gives you as you rank up the skill is also on top of your lower benefits of the skill i.e. youll still get the novice bonus as you rank up into student and whatnot hope what little info i can give you helps!

[Kovi]

From what I can see in the rules I have at my disposal, Holy Aura should work like this:

- Apprentice: The hit probability of "evil" NPCs lowers by 10% (if 2*skill level > NPC level - 1/2 of their Alignment).
- Disciple: +(skill level - 5)% to the Apprentice bonus.
- Journeyman: The spell penetration of "evil" NPCs lowers by 2*(skill level - 10)%.
- Master: Magic Resistance of "evil" NPCs lowers by 4*(skill level - 15)%.

Hopefully it does work like this in the game...

As far as my priest's skills go, I maxed Wisdom and Alchemy (I just had to mix a few elixirs to permanently raise my attributes). I also put a few points into Authority, but the effect on threatening isn't noticeable, I guess, and I didn't want my opponents to flee during combat (but Masters can paralyze them for a short time).

[kaqqao]

Thanks for the responses, guys!
Kovi, that's some very detailed stuff right there! Thanks a lot for digging that up!
Sounds like the skill is worth mastering as I presume most humanoid enemies are evil. As a reference, does anyone know the level for an average Lizardman/Orc/common monster?

[Kovi]

You're welcome. As far as the other information goes, there was a text file online that cointained an overview of most of the monsters. But it was deleted before it occured to me to download it. And it was too late by then. That player used paladin's Enemy Estimation skill to make this overview which is the only way to find the level and some other statistics about monsters.