It has more power than Saint but is less safe. It says so in Saint's description. Saint provides a similar if lesser level of power to Quickening, has the full power or forms to fall back on, can also take Ruinous Valor for mostly the same effect and most importantly for saving arete for the ring, doesn't open up a bunch more blood options that are explicitly superior due to +progression.
It's only safer during the small vulnerability period when we are in ghost form. Hell, the option has been described as basically giving us mini-FOR in flesh form!
Yes it's safer during the most dangerous time while we're in the most dangerous place. That makes it safer overall. There's no point in picking an immediate power option for safety if you're not actually safe when you need it the most!
I wasn't aware it was a breach of etiquette? It was the easiest way to alert all the War voters.
It also comes with massive increase in Con, halving wound penalty and tripled regeneration from Blood Ring. That's an massive increase in survivability. More so than what Evening gown gives to Hunger I would say!
Saint is the least likely to die.
Considering how much these people use Soul Evocations; I'm not sure just more CON and regen is a qualitative increase in survivability better than just Nullifying their stuff. There's plenty of bad touch effects, defense ignoring attacks, and just straight up field debuffs that are possible to encounter. Just the Magus had invisibility, teleportation, a direct soul attack with the Abhorrent Word, a gravity field, etc- and even the Archer had a paralyzing effect on his arrows. There's more to defense than just more Stats; Saint is the safest option for a reason. Add that to a very respectable amount of power with the Pseudo-Grace and Thousand Cuts and I much prefer it.
- Strongest increase in strenght, which means we can save arete for the Ring.
Mental Speed doesn't make us smarter, sadly. Neither does it makes us better at social.
But the thing is we aren't pick-starved when it comes to the Ring- we are Arete starved. Any enemies that we kill that would qualify for the domains while we don't have the Arete is essentially wasted. So going back to grinding right now is actually a bad choice if you want the Ring; we have to Recoup our Arete first. Some days of rest can give the thread time to do exactly that. Speed is unnecessary at this juncture, especially if we hedge into maximum safety with Saint.
If you think we can afford to sit back and relax, then sure, I don't think there is anything I can say that will convince you to the murderblender side.
Wits will make us better at social, maybe not as much as pure CHA but it's still a good improvement.
Well, Tolkien didn't tend to write obviously magical effects. Rather, persons of sufficient skill and might could perform actions and craft wonders with supernatural results. Sing a song that stops fire and arrows. Make a blade that burns evil, and warns its user that such is approaching. Redirect a river because you asked, or have it suddenly burst into a roaring flood to stop intruders.
Ehh, if more time to think between actions was so amazing Quest characters would be supergeniuses. That's clearly not the case however.
Can someone tell me where does it say that further Blood Advancements are locked behind Quickening. Hell, the very existence of Study the Ring implies otherwise. We aren't giving up advancing in Blood if we don't pick it here. The extra safety is far better than just more power in my view.
