ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
Analysis post time! #737 Words.
So, there's something to be said for not wasting time here, especially if we go for the longer route to the tower itself! However, we should carefully consider what we stand to give up here. One thing that we will definitely give up if we take this is updates - both the other options will take one or more updates to resolve, generating Arete.
This gets us a short subplot (Arete generation) and +1 Arete. Modest gains for a modest investment.
Takes a few days, but will take a lot of updates. This is actually a potential upside, as it causes a lot of time to be spent generating Arete. However, personally I don't find government reforms very entertaining, although Gisena and the elementalists coming along may spice things up a little. Still, do we want to spend what could be a week or more of Real Life time on this? I don't want to, but it does give us the chance to stockpile Arete. I can't imagine anything would come up in this plotline that I'd actually want to spend Arete on.
...Unless maybe Lunar Coronet and Philosopher's Wreath might be options. I suppose it's possible, giving Letrizia Surgecraft generated some picks.
Costs us three days. However, I think the power of this option should not be underestimated - I think that it'd likely take at least three updates to investigate the Walls of Myth, which assuming average Arete generation gets us like 15-18 Arete? Even if we spend 7 Arete on a new thing unlocked by the Walls of Myth, we'd end up with net positive Arete for the trip, putting us closer to getting Once and Future before the tower.
See that "Somewhat riskier" line? No. We are already taking a risk by doing this, we shouldn't add onto it. The sole reason I can see to vote for this is if we take Be the Change and generate like 20+ Arete during the subplot (which is honestly really possible). Given that I find Be the Change not very entertaining though, I won't be voting for this.
I Am The Danger is nice, but +10% effectiveness does not make up for increased risk. This is Moon Temple 2 Tower Boogaloo we can't be doing dumb stuff.
Arete cost of 0, effective, prevents silliness with having bought the upgrade to get Stranglethorn and then not getting Stranglethorn. Possibly a bad idea if we go to Walls of Myth, since having Stranglethorn to eat picks at the walls would prevent us from spending Arete frivolously. Maybe. There's a chance, at least.
Finish this part of the Blood Advancement tree, and unlock new blood advancements. Here's the thing - we don't want new blood advancements right now. If they cost Arete, it gets in the way of Once and Future. If they don't cost Arete, they compete with Stranglethorn for Areteless picks. After we grab Stranglethorn we should get this, but not before.
No. We have healing from our Crimson Flare, very powerful healing at that. Also, optimizing ADS is nice, but we took the Trinity that synergizes more with Once and Future. Also we don't even have ADS yet, why would we want to upgrade it?
This puts us at Rank 7 with Hero-Defeating Stance up. With Once and Future, that's Rank 8, Combat rank 9, Blood rank 10. But we'd need to restart saving for OaF again from scratch.
However, this can only be taken with Be the Change, which as I've talked about has incredible Arete generation potential. It's not completely impossible that we could take this and then generate enough Arete for OaF before we even leave the Sovereignty. Something to consider, but I'm not a huge fan of that plan. If Be the Change takes shorter then we expect, or our Arete generation falls during the period of governmental reconstruction, we may be left holding the bag.
If it works out though, well, rank 9 spiking to 10 for battle purposes.
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Closing thoughts: Be the Change + Crown + Straight to the Tower is synergistic, but risky. Walls of Myth with Stranglethorn and Intervention or Laissez-faire gets us closer to Stranglethorn, we pick up the last few Stranglethorn picks on the way or at the Walls, and have enough time to probably generate enough Arete for OaF and a 7-Arete pick-up from the Walls of Myth.
So, there's something to be said for not wasting time here, especially if we go for the longer route to the tower itself! However, we should carefully consider what we stand to give up here. One thing that we will definitely give up if we take this is updates - both the other options will take one or more updates to resolve, generating Arete.
This gets us a short subplot (Arete generation) and +1 Arete. Modest gains for a modest investment.
Takes a few days, but will take a lot of updates. This is actually a potential upside, as it causes a lot of time to be spent generating Arete. However, personally I don't find government reforms very entertaining, although Gisena and the elementalists coming along may spice things up a little. Still, do we want to spend what could be a week or more of Real Life time on this? I don't want to, but it does give us the chance to stockpile Arete. I can't imagine anything would come up in this plotline that I'd actually want to spend Arete on.
...Unless maybe Lunar Coronet and Philosopher's Wreath might be options. I suppose it's possible, giving Letrizia Surgecraft generated some picks.
Costs us three days. However, I think the power of this option should not be underestimated - I think that it'd likely take at least three updates to investigate the Walls of Myth, which assuming average Arete generation gets us like 15-18 Arete? Even if we spend 7 Arete on a new thing unlocked by the Walls of Myth, we'd end up with net positive Arete for the trip, putting us closer to getting Once and Future before the tower.
See that "Somewhat riskier" line? No. We are already taking a risk by doing this, we shouldn't add onto it. The sole reason I can see to vote for this is if we take Be the Change and generate like 20+ Arete during the subplot (which is honestly really possible). Given that I find Be the Change not very entertaining though, I won't be voting for this.
I Am The Danger is nice, but +10% effectiveness does not make up for increased risk. This is Moon Temple 2 Tower Boogaloo we can't be doing dumb stuff.
Arete cost of 0, effective, prevents silliness with having bought the upgrade to get Stranglethorn and then not getting Stranglethorn. Possibly a bad idea if we go to Walls of Myth, since having Stranglethorn to eat picks at the walls would prevent us from spending Arete frivolously. Maybe. There's a chance, at least.
Finish this part of the Blood Advancement tree, and unlock new blood advancements. Here's the thing - we don't want new blood advancements right now. If they cost Arete, it gets in the way of Once and Future. If they don't cost Arete, they compete with Stranglethorn for Areteless picks. After we grab Stranglethorn we should get this, but not before.
No. We have healing from our Crimson Flare, very powerful healing at that. Also, optimizing ADS is nice, but we took the Trinity that synergizes more with Once and Future. Also we don't even have ADS yet, why would we want to upgrade it?
This puts us at Rank 7 with Hero-Defeating Stance up. With Once and Future, that's Rank 8, Combat rank 9, Blood rank 10. But we'd need to restart saving for OaF again from scratch.
However, this can only be taken with Be the Change, which as I've talked about has incredible Arete generation potential. It's not completely impossible that we could take this and then generate enough Arete for OaF before we even leave the Sovereignty. Something to consider, but I'm not a huge fan of that plan. If Be the Change takes shorter then we expect, or our Arete generation falls during the period of governmental reconstruction, we may be left holding the bag.
If it works out though, well, rank 9 spiking to 10 for battle purposes.
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Closing thoughts: Be the Change + Crown + Straight to the Tower is synergistic, but risky. Walls of Myth with Stranglethorn and Intervention or Laissez-faire gets us closer to Stranglethorn, we pick up the last few Stranglethorn picks on the way or at the Walls, and have enough time to probably generate enough Arete for OaF and a 7-Arete pick-up from the Walls of Myth.
