Well we'd have to at the very least take the blood enhancement option to remove the two week debuff. Given Quickening is only so powerful because of the +progression boosting it I think there's definitely going to be voters more tempted to take the more powerful options the ring of blood offers then gamble on ruling ring options paying off.
The idea we won't take Gisena's buff is weird. We voted for her option two times in a row. She's also the one who can provide us with further curse mitigation. If anything, I am worried we will ignore other companion in her favour.
We've skipped Vanguard something like 4 or 5 times now. We finally voted to unlock Gisena buffs and in the update they're offered you're telling me we should vote for something else and that surely we'll pick some up later?
We also skipped the first option given to work towards unlocking her advancement and skipped picking retinue at the start which would have scaled her with us automatically!
If people are worried about Gisena falling behind why wouldn't they just vote for the option that buffs Gisena while still providing us with plenty of combat power? It's not like taking Gown stops us from giving her the moon ring later anyway. Evening Sky options even have Moon themes so maybe there's some relation there?
Chief dominion blood suppresses the domain of Life which was good for Fisher King and plants don't have blood, so isn't there anti-synergy for people hoping for Fisher King?
Except we already buffed her with the Blood! There's too many reasons to vote for Gisena's buff for it to not win more!
Actually, there is more synergy with blood domain than life! You should read the fluff!
That was just one of the passive effects of taking Blood as our Chief Dominion, taking that option and the one after it unlocked Gown as a choice this update which properly buffs Gisena by proccing her Sorcerous breakthrough. It also gives Gisena her own copy of Evening Sky so we'll be wearing matching outfits!
I think that's already part of what chief dominion lets us do. At the very least we can create a super human race given time.
I mean, we do want to eventually make our Forms compatible with Blood and the cost of paying them to carry our base stats is well worth it in my opinion.
It can be decorporated though! Better to vote for something that is harder to break like awesome blood! Ring magic has higher "conceptual" strenght than the alternatives so it's harder to remove!
If we get ruling ring, ring of bloods effects get folded into it I'm pretty sure, so we could just not take the anti-synergy choice now and then not have to pay extra arete to keep our forms working with an effect that's only a stepping stone.
I don't think that's ever happened to us before though! It's already very hard to break!
The example given by Rihaku was the Numenorean's from Lord of the Rings who I think could also use magic?
We have been here for less than two weeks! We haven't seen anything! If we are going to find someone capable of doing that, it will be deeper in the temple! It's an weak spot I would rather not have!
Yeah we trade in all the other Ring options to obtain Ruling Ring so we lose the blood specific effects I guess? We trade the bonuses of the other ring options for ++progression ++all stats and boosted reality warping with ring of power. Since none of those affects are limited to forms with blood I'd rather not go down the blood route if we're planning on taking Ruling Ring anyway.
It's less of a weak spot than not having access to our other forms is for Quickening! We can reliably enter our second form without the cloak discorporating so we still benefit from having an extra form at our full power.
It's because Letrizia has an interaction option here too.
The blood-thing is primarily a Hunger buff. The Gisena-buffing effect was always a side effect.
That's not true at all. The increase in power that Quickening + Cut provides alongside no arete option of Ruinous Valor in the future means that we will actually be powerful enough to be capable of saving for the Ring. It's explicitly the most powerful option here and it has excellent scaling and synergy with no arete picks.
