The purpose of the religious altars, from a pragmatic standpoint, are to benefit from the additional craftables and as an end result: summoning avatars.
Ancient history: summoning a protection bubble and altar light.
Otherwise some consider having the T3’d altar visible on the map as being prestigious, they role play or for aesthetics.
The craftables, aside from additional armors and weapons, vary from altar to altar. Set has potions that remove poison, disease and other status effects for instance. Zath has the globe of yezud which is a weapon that spawns a spider.
The avatars you summon are giant forms of the god that you control and can be used to destroy flora and Fauna, NPCs, monsters and for PVP: bases. On PVE an avatar can be used to raid the siege of Al-Meryah.
In order to summon an avatar you’ll need a T4 priest of the sect and 500 zeal. The religious tool you can craft is used in a sacrificial ritual performed on dead NPCs where you’ll receive favor. This favor is used to convert to zeal on the altar. There are craftables that also create zeal. Once you summon the True Name avatar, the altar is destroyed and T4 priest vanishes. The True Name token is placed in your inventory and you can interact with it to summon.
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