God Damnit!

[ZakarnRosewood]

I noticed that during the character creation the one choice I took a lot of time to decide on was which deity to follow. This turned out to have little to no impact on the game itself as far as I could tell. At one point it was sort of referenced when taking Leve's to the extent you gained a blessing (extra exp) for doing a Leve but the deity you picked didn't make any difference in its effects.

Also from what I've heard (haven't encountered it yet) there are the symbols of the deities scattered around the higher level zones. Don't know what it does but I'm assuming you get an achievement for finding them all.

I would like to know if your deity choice will have more of an impact on your game in ARR than it did in 1.0. I also hope, if they decide to keep it, they add the option to select "No Deity". I've seen other games provide this option (Elder Scrolls series for one) where your choice of god provides a small bonus or extra skill and even having no deity will provide a special bonus.

I'm really hoping SE has plans to make the deities have a greater impact on game-play and story or just remove the choice all together if it is basically inconsequential. I'm thinking there was an initial idea to do so but when they made the decision to rebuild the game the importance of it fell by the wayside. With any luck in the months to come some light will shine through the clouds and strike us all with a divine lightning bold of wisdom on this subject.