Blessing only goes up to 50 times, after that, you can still cast them, but there are no additional effects. I suspect that's a hard cap in the base game.

This mod made my friend cry :'(

also one other issue is that while I appreciate the ability to both tunnel and passwall, the game system doesn't handle that combo well. If you passwall down, any movement you make after that counts as tunneling, meaning you can't passwall or tunnel back up. Essentially this means you can strand your merchant underground/in inferno, and ultimately you can't benefit from the value of the passwall ability.

I'm going to echo some of forrestomintero's sentiments, the rituals are very expensive and the experience was a slow grind.
Recommendations:
On paper having access to all the different types of resources sounds cool, but in practice you can't sell all of them so they just pile up. You could set up new units/rituals that use up a resource and give you another in exchange - or increase trade, but that would add more tedium and micromanaging. Abstracting to herbs, weed or fungus; and gems for a total of four diff. resources should suffice.
Consider reducing the cost of the expensive rituals.
Variation on hiring offers would be interesting.
Getting different recruitment options would add more interesting choices.
Bugs/Issues
If playing with AI that have the same class the player does not get the Crystal of Evergrowth.
If the Draconic Merchant dies early on it is difficult I am not sure you get a recruitment offer again to bring him back? Could be that it's a very low chance.

The only native way to gain life force I've found is to do one of the rituals that evolve your dragon merchant. I haven't managed to collect enough gold for the ultimate evolution so idk about that one, but the one that turns you into a statue gives you 1 life force per turn. So for 5k gold (counting the summoning cost of a new merchant) plus assorted other resources you can improve your bless once every 50 turns

I'm not against this class, it just needs a few more ways to stay competitive in the early game when the ai is running roughshod over the generic human recruits, and maybe the bless shouldn't be tied to life force because the process to unlock even a single point of income takes ages

this class sounds great in theory but the upsides are mostly gated behind massive grinds. The much-touted infinite bless costs 50 life force per cast. Unfortunately you have no way to generate life force natively until you perform one of the overwhelmingly expensive rituals that evolve your main character. Once you do perform an evolution ritual you generate 1 life force per turn. So it takes 50 turns to generate enough life force to improve your blessings once. There also aren't that many rituals, and there's not really a good use for most of your resources. my current run herbs are measured in the tens of thousands.

Basically the main values of this class are their ability to turtle and very slowly bootstrap their economy. The only pure upside is that you have access to almost every plane because your main mage can fly, swim, tunnel, and passwall. (the sacred can fly and swim but can't passwall so you have to summon more if you go underground without tunneling)

I also want to know how to acquire life-force...steal a pyramid from a scourge I guess?
It'd probably be a good idea to give the class the pyramid of power ritual.

What do you mean single commanders. When you have more than 10 it isnt nice to always buy skills again and again.

@jarpe

I disagree, this makes it more interesting, important and challenging to protect your single commanders.

sounds cool

They should know all ther rituals from the start. It is quite boring and tedious to trying to teach rituals to every new commander.

where do I get lifeforce from?