Sword arm gives us plenty of potential. It gives us that by increasing our ability to murderize foes and get unlimited potential that way. To someone like us, that's basically the only way to advance.
The locals seem to think it is an expression of the soul's power on the Astral Realm, which in turn influences the material world. I'm not sure whether this world and our previous one share the Astral Realm, or if King's Scepter adjusted Accretion to connect to Astral when we came here.
Why does everything have to be about potential? We already have utterly broken potential.
Does curse of the tyrant make us attack people or do we just look at them like they are an alien and refuse to acknowledge what they said?
It doesn't all come down to potential. But if we are going to try and stay ahead of the Apocryphal Curse we do need more of it to advance.
I did link the quest on a couple Discord servers I was on to give context to some of the art I was sharing, but that was like last week?
Not to douse your enthusiasm, but we'd still have to pay an additional 7 Arete for that Deflection/Con against Exotic attacks.
Counter: Rank is the god-stat, but mortal life has benefits too. With Stranglethorn, we're all-but committed to seizing rank-ups until we're at least at where our boy was before seizing Hunger. That could be weeks of updates!
I mean we're not committed to that but is that bad? That would make us stronger than unshattered and we'd be up an arm and an eye potentially. Given a sizable portion of voters want once and future king which is better the more base rank we get, we're going to be taking a lot of rank upgrades anyway so we might as well take the option that increases their value now.
Because being better at social/combat/exploration now has vastly greater utility than the same later, obviously enough.
Quite. Spending 14 Arete for pure defense when we have Evening Opalesence/Iridesence/Pearlesence line is pretty ??? not gonna lie. For same cost you could get Dominion/Prominence and still have 5 Arete left over. Like, that's more than halfway through to 25!
If a "master" can exist, that seemed to me to imply some form of active skill as opposed to something that purely passively occurs around them. Meaning I was expecting something the average user without the theft ability is actively aware of doing. Even if it amounts to a vague "pulling his Astral mass down into the world to press outwards with the radiance of his Rank and drawing them into the rhythm of his legend" or "feeling the moment his Rank rasped across his foe's existence and lunging in to seize the opportunity" or even "By the byzantine dream logic of Accretion this attack was in a way equivalent to the time the Tyrant had ... and therefore he could counter it by ...".
Would growing impressive stuff with the Gardner power have counted for Craftmanship?
B-but Apex is recommended for Warrior-Mage build! If you want SORD, vote Sword Arm.
A valid concern given we had to deal with a literal soul nuke in Terrascape. After a dungeon, even!
Timeskips don't really enthuse me. I'm sure they're going to be inevitable after a while, of course, but that's some ways off.
