Raise Dead Scroll Donations?

[Lorien_the_First_One]

On my clerics at all levels I accept all donations with thanks. I also tend to vastly increase my willingness to use my own resources (even beyond whatever is donated) if I know that a party is being generous with me.

I will sometimes ask if the clerics needs anything and then support them if they say yes. Long time players often say they are fine. If I'm asked in that way I do tend to say that I'm fine, but I also do up willingness for my own resource use.

Tipping at the end of a tough quest is nice, but it doesn't help the party out as much.

[sirgog]

Most often in the mid levels I will offer CSW wands as donations if the group is low in level for whatever quest we are doing.

If it's a quest where deaths are likely (VON3) or highly disruptive (XC - gotta HATE the only rune puller getting KOed) then I'll often pass a broke cleric 2 to 5 raise scrolls as well.

[Fenrisulven6]

Anyway just stated this, had a couple of people thank me, but have now had two people basically laugh that I'm giving them 5 scrolls and calling it a donation.

Poor form for them to laugh at generosity made in good faith.

Raise dead scrolls are expensive and an excellent resource for clerics below 9th. And even after you get the spell, its still nice to have a small stack to fall back on in case Murphy strikes.
But its also an item you can only use on others, so maybe thats where they're coming from.

Cheaper solutions are CSW wands. Always appreciated. Esp mid-quest.

But yes, mana pots are the favorite donations, simply because they offer versatility and help offset all the mana you wasted life-lining the WF dps barb.

All that said, its cool of you to offer anything. Esp if the group completed without wasting the cleric's resources.

[DoctorWhofan]

My clerics generally don't accept anything most of the time except mem pots. I can give others their mana back, but nobody can do it for me (except another cleric)

[Pyromaniac]

My cleric generally takes donations of any kind (other than heavy sets of armor) if the quest required a lot of resources and shouldn't have. Mana pots are liquid gold, I'd use 100 heal scrolls before a major

[Elsbet]

You're tipping someone. It's a GIFT. Give whatever you want. It can all be sold for plat if the cleric doesn't want it. They also have the option of saying, "Thanks, but I don't need it."

By this point, my capped clerics don't need the tips. Staying away from the AH and shopping temptation (I can spend way too much money there ) and a haggle bard mean I'm doing fine on plat and scrolls. I don't turn them down because it's nice to be appreciated.

Anyone who complains to the tipper/gift giver that the tip/gift they got is inadequate is rude. Thinking it is less than they spent or that it isn't as useful as a mnemonic is fine, but saying that to the tipper is not at all nice. Politely decline the tip or say thank you and vendor trash it. The true generosity is in the offer.

[S1gma]

Yep, any cleric that laughs at your offering is just rude.

Offering something, anything, after a quest is nice and should be well received. Maybe though, you don't need to go "gift-shopping". Give out the scrolls, pots, wands etc that you collect but won't use. And rather than go to the store for a gift, just offer the plat you would have spent.

You could also offer the rez scrolls or CSW wands beforehand. I know that if someone does that, I am certainly not going to let them die because of my inattention.

[kinar]

I generally won't ever accept donations before a quest unless it is expected to be a difficult run and there is a potential that we would end up needing to trade something in the heat of the action.

After a run, I might accept a donation if it ended up being a particularly harsh run and someone offers. But only if I actually used resources outside what I normally would have expected.

Any other time, I simply explain that it is not needed to obligatoraly tip a cleric.