Anyway, on another note: a planning report.
We need Bronze Foundation in order to train Wind Thief. This is thus, obviously, a priority. Similarly, maintaining progress on spiritual cultivation is vital if we are to hit our targets and not be roadblocked anywhere, and hope to perhaps reach Green 5 before the tournament.
Similarly, as always at the start of a new stage our priority is to get our cultivation arts down so we can maximise benefits from them. Now we are in Foundation, we can finally also blow Argent Genesis out of the way and get its (hopefully) sweet sweet permanents.
Current plans for the next two months are thus to focus on base cultivation, which should get our cultivation arts done and get us Bronze 3 so we can train LFWT and do a darkness art turn in Month 8 with the pill we brought. Thus, the basic outline for our plans is roughly:
| Month 6 | Month 7 | Month 8 OF DARKNESS |
|---|
| Spiritual x4 | Spiritual x4 | Spiritual x4? |
| Physical x4 | Physical x4 (Bronze Foundation) | Physical x3? |
| EPC x3 (mastered) | SSC x4 (softcap) | LFWT x3 (softcap?) |
| AG x4 | AG x3 (mastered) | SNR x4 (level 3) |
| 3 AP spare | 3 AP spare | BKSD x2 (softcap) |
| | UGM x2 (softcap?) |
Arts: Songseeker's Ceremony, Argent Genesis, Laughing Flight of the Wind Thief, Starlit Night's Reflection, Beast King's Savage Dirge, Unstoppable Glacier's March
Thus, the main point of nerd arguments for the next two months has focused on what to do with our 3 spare AP in each of months 6 & 7. The lobby to which I belong favours using those AP to shore up our current weaknesses in stealth, fade, and social. Thus, we do something like ENM x2 + Archive (social) in Month 6, and then probably train our new social art in Month 7. Others have argued to instead master HDW, or to go to the archive for a different stealth art.
Another point that should be noted is that we really want more pills for our DARK MONTH OF DARKNESS. Firstly, we want pills that can send appropriate overflow to base cultivation if possible to take advantage of all that art xp. Secondly, it would be nice if we could get some more dice there. Currently UGM and LFWT are cutting it a bit close, and it would be good to get better odds on them.
ALSO: while I imagine people want to jump on our cool new darkness arts ASAP, we really don't have the meridians for them. We need, at minimum, 1 lung, 5 spine, and 3 heart for what's described above. That's 5 AP of meridian opening. A strong case can be made that we should push DARKNESS out to month 9, since we can only equip LFWT anyway.
We do, after-all, have HDW and SES to master, and a *lot* of PLR to train. As well as potentially CDE successor, social art etc...
