Blessing

Skill Type. Blessings are often a special temporary bonus granted by an NPC.

Acquisition
Blessings are granted by the following NPCs, typically requiring a payment in gold: 
 * Avatars of gods, summoned at a statue of the respective god.1
 * Luxon Priests and Kurzick Priests, found in Cantha near Resurrection Shrines of their respective home region.2
 * Sunspear Scouts, Wandering Priests, Vabbian Scouts, and Ghostly Scouts found in Elona near Resurrection Shrines.3
 * Asura, Norn, Beacon of Droknar, Ebon Vanguard Scouts, and Ascalonian Refugees found in GW:EN near Resurrection Shrines.3
 * 1) Only when the world has the favor of the gods.
 * 2) Dependant on the Kurzick-Luxon border.
 * 3) Does not require a payment in gold, however these NPCs may have a reputation or promotion point rank which they will offer the blessing.

Characteristics

 * Blessings cannot be removed or otherwise abused by foes. As they are not enchantments, the do not satisfy the while enchanted requirement of upgrade components or skills.
 * They end when you zone, but not when you die.
 * Blessings granted by avatars of the gods usually last 20 minutes.
 * Blessings of the same type do not stack.
 * Most blessings are only given to individual players and only affect that character. (The sole exception is Holy Blessing: the health benefits are also granted to the player's heroes.)

Avatar blessings (Tyria)

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Kurzick / Luxon blessings (Cantha)

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Note: it is possible to get both of these blessings in an area that is contested (currently crossed by Kurzick-Luxon border), in which case the blessings stack. The number of kills are counted separately for each blessing; however, it is deemed that the benifit of gaining the two types of faction points at once is nullified when the faction points are turned in for faction rewards.

Canthan New Year blessings (Cantha)

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Avatar blessings (Cantha / Elona)

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Bounty (Elona)
Bounties, also commonly known as "hunt" or "conscription order", are special blessings that allow you to collect double XP and Sunspear Promotion Points or Lightbringer Points for killing creatures of certain species.

Reputation Blessing (Eye of the North)
There are several affiliations in the Eye of the North expansion who give blessings. These blessings allow for a raise in reputation rank for those specific affiliations.
 * The Beacons of Droknar give the Dwarven Raider blessing to increase your Deldrimor rank.
 * The Ascalonian Refugees and Ebon Vanguard Scout give the Vanguard Patrol blessing to increase your Ebon Vanguard rank.
 * The various Asuran Krewe members give the Asuran Bodyguard blessing to increase your Asura rank.
 * The Norn give the Norn Hunting Party blessing to increase your Norn rank.