Priests

[vfb]

If you can make a crystal shield, then you can make crystal/slave matrixes, which don't care about paths other than holy. So, just use some of those. They won't bog you down with encumbrance like the shield does either. You really only need 1 crystal matrix if you have any astral mages. What nation are you playing?

[MaxWilson]

Hmmm? Crystal Matrixes do care about having real (non-holy) paths. If you aren't a mage, they don't work for you.

To OP: about prophetizing. Note that you can increase your H arbitrarily high by prophetizing multiple times. One way to do this is via Ritual of Rebirth (every time the Prophet dies, RoR him and re-prophetize). KO says this is thematic--a Prophet who comes back from the dead 4 times is obviously holier than a regular old Prophet (H7!). I don't know of any other way to do this other than maybe Charming someone else's Prophet (he keeps his H3) and prophetizing him yourself.

-Max