The Sims Medieval Peteran Priest Hero Class Guide

Popularity, Leveling, and Earning Money with the Profession

Hero Overview
The Peteran Priest Hero Profession provides religion to your Kingdom in The Sims Medieval. The Peteran approach to faith is preaching salvation through love and kindness and is much different from that of the Jacoban. Peterans confer with the Watcher and bring his will to the Kingdom. In this Guide to the Peteran Priest, I'll teach my fellow Watchers of the benefits Priests bring to your town, income generation through religion, and the special abilities of the Priest profession.

Leveling the Priest
With each level, Peteran Priests get a higher success rate in converting Sims through Sermons, Evangelism, and the Convert Sim to Peteran Faith social action. They'll also earn more money per day from their base salary. You will receive income at noon on all days but Sunday. While daily earnings start quite low, they will eventually rise to the hundreds of Simoles per day, giving the Priest plenty of money to spend on luxuries and food. One idea for spending his money in the later levels is to beautify the Monastery's main hall, improving the mood of Sims who visit and worship there.

Earning Money as a Peteran Priest
Priests can actually do quite well for themselves but need to keep up the work to make money. They can't hunt like the Knight, or collect ores like a Blacksmith. Their money comes from their followers, salary, and writing. It's especially important to seek more income in the early levels when salary is low.The primary method of making money is to give good Sermons. See the section on Sermons below for tips at gauging mood. During the off hours, they can also Write with the Watcher to create scrolls to sell which can be quite valuable. Unfortunately, selling at the Village Shoppe does not give more profit from writing. Either option will also generate XP, which in turn leads to salary hikes.

Peteran Faith Popularity
During Sermons or while Evangelizing, you will see a Popularity bar. This is a measure of how far the faith has spread throughout the Kingdom. Priests take an active role in converting souls and may accomplish this goal in a variety of ways. All are impacted heavily by level.

The most direct way of increasing popularity is to go about converting Sims one at a time. It actually makes a big impact, and is perhaps the most efficient method. We discovered this during a Quest that required the Priest to generate enough popularity to produce a miracle. it's generally very easy to do thanks to the constant stream of Sims into the Monastery.

Evangelizing outside the Monastery can also convert Sims. Be sure your Priest's focus is high to improve his success rate. It is quite unreliable however, as only some of the attending Sims will be agnostic. The final way is to deliver good Sermons. Sims may be converted this way, but more importantly, Sims will not like it if the Priest doesn't attend the scheduled Sermon. You may find some luck avoiding a popularity hit by scheduling sermons well into the future and continually doing so. That way, the Monastery is never flooded by disappointed Sims expecting to hear the word of the Watcher.

Peteran Monastery
Your Kingdom cannot have the Peteran Priest until you've built the monastery. The building will bring +3 Culture capacity and +1 Knowledge Aspect Capacity to the Kingdom. The building comes with a Scribe Table, Podium, and Evangelism Platform which are all used for Priestly duties. Of course, they are also given basic amenities as well.

The Monastery will be frequented by Sims seeking religion and guidance. Often, you'll notice they act as though they own the place, even coming into the Priest's bedchamber to stand about and talk while he sleeps. This does get annoying, but when it comes to completing Priestly tasks, it's nice that they come to you.

Good Traits and Fatal Flaws for Peteran Priests
Scholarly is good here, as it will give the Priest incentive to read the books that are available to him. I like Good for the Peteran as well. He's a holy man, and doesn't have a lot of room for ameneties in the monastery. He can get a buff donating some cash to the poor. I found Drunkard to be Ok as a Fatal Flaw, but it was very annoying how many people came to drink his stash. Putting it in his room begs for Sims to get blocked near the entrance. Cowardly is not a bad fatal flaw choice for the priest, nor Puny. Weak Constitution will also make a minimal impact on his daily duties.

Priestly Activities
Priests can do several different activities that are quite different from those of other Sim Heroes. This is a list of all the things unique to Priests of the Peteran faith.

Pray Click the Priest, and tell him to Pray. This will give the Priest the Watcher's Smile focus buff granting +10 focus for 7 hours and give some XP.
Sermons are delivered at the Pulpit in the Monastery's main hall. Click it to set a time in the future. Sermons can be given at 8am, 1pm, 6pm, and 11pm. If it is 8:01am, selecting to do a Sermon at 8 will have to wait until the next day, so your next option would be 1pm. During a Sermon, you will be able to select a tone. There are four total options: casual, humorous, somber, and insightful. The latter can only be performed if the priest has Studied with the Watcher in the hours before the Sermon. Level 10 priests are able to give Insightful Sermons without this study. Set the game speed to normal during the Sermon. If the crowd is booing, they're unhappy with the Priest's tone and it should be changed. Their mood seems to be random. Insightful seems to be the most effective. Laughter, even at somber Sermons will indicate a positive result. After the Sermon is over, the Priest will get some cash if it was well-received.
Pray with Sim Clicking a Sim will allow this interaction. It will help to build the relationship between Priest and follower and grants XP.
Convert Sim to Peteran Faith only appears if the Sim is not already a Peteran. This will help to raise popularity, which can result in better, more profitable Sermons. Also, Sims of a similar faith seem to get along better. You should try to convert as many Sims as possible. The XP is great for such a fast action. Convert is heavily based on focus, so be sure to get some good buffs -- shoot for a little into the green so that the rating of the action is at least yellow. Don't even bother if it's red.
Blessing of the Watcher This action isn't really helpful for most Sims, but is very helpful to fighters before they go into combat. If they should happen to lose with the Watcher's Blessing having been cast on them, they'll be revived when health drops to 0 and come back to the fight.
Study the Watcher Studying the Watcher is done at the Archive in the Priest's quarters. Doing this before a Sermon will allow them to use the Insightful tone, which Sims are often very receptive to. A great way to ensure a good worship session for Sims in attendance.
Write with the Watcher This action is also found at the Archive, and can actually generate some money for the Priest. It takes a couple of hours, but will result in a scroll that can be sold by dragging to the Simole box to the left of the inventory. I have seen several scrolls worth over 100 Simoles. It's a decent way to earn XP and make money when the Peteran isn't giving Sermons.

Daily Responsibilities
As with all Medieval Heroes, Peteran Priests have two tasks each day, which appear at 9am. You're given plenty of time to complete them if you stay on task although it's not a bad idea to put them off for later if you have something more pressing to do. These activities provide good XP, but not nearly as good as delivering Sermons and finishing Quests. Completing them will prevent your Sim from being hit with a powerful shirked responsibilities buff which delivers a major blow to focus.

Pray with 2 Peterans They have to be peterans, so make sure the convert action isn't there. You could always convert them, then pray!
Pray for 2 Hours total. Click the Priest to begin praying
Write With the Watcher accomplished with the Scribe Table in the Priest's Quarters
Convert 2 New Peterans Look for the interaction to Convert other Sims by clicking them, under the Priest menu. If it's not there, the Sim is already a Peteran.
Evangelize for 2 Hours The Evangelism Platform is outside the church
Study the Watcher for 2 Hours
You'll need to perform this action twice on the Scribe Table, as it defaults to one hour.
Deliver a Sermon This one is important to get to fairly early, as you are only able to deliver Sermons at certain hours and have to schedule the time for a point in the future. Do this at the Podium in the Church's main hall.
Bestow Blessing of the Watcher on Another Sim Found under the Priest menu when clicking another Sim, this is an easy responsibility to complete.
Reflect on the Watcher for 2 Hours
Click the Priest himself to do this. While it may end early, just keep repeating the action until it's done. The time impact is cumulative.
Pay Taxes The fastest to complete by far, as there is a post just outside the Peteran Monastery. If you can't afford it, look for buffs to improve focus to minimize the impact of shirked responsibility. The price is based on your Priest's current Simoles and seems to range from 100 to 500. A hundred Simoles is a lot for a starting Hero. Just buy some boar meat instead to get a +30 good meal buff to offset the -20 of the shirked responsibility.