I suppose that, given the diminishing returns of +s and the slowly-increasing holistic Edeldross bonuses, stat balance problems will largely sort themselves out over the long term, with a bit more +All Stats. The, uh, very long term. We should stop unintentionally mindblasting people in a few hundred years even without specific focus on it. Now that's value.
Hmm, now I've started worrying about other possible stat disbalance issues. Our physical parameters are less of a problem since we have so many sources of them, and Luck/Protection(/Willpower?) don't seem to interact with other stats majorly, so we can probably make them as big or small as we like. But what about Int/Wits/Wis? Wits are much easier to come by than Int, and Wis is even rarer. They're internal, so Hunger will be the one suffering any consequences, but will problems occur if our thoughts and perception become too fast without having the requisite Int or Wis? Like if we had a lot of Str without investing in Con, hypothetically speaking. Edit: Or a lot of Agi without Str or Con, to make a better analogy.
A mental unbalance in favor of Wits shouldn't be a problem; AI manage it fine. And we already have the Wits Sky Veil if it became an issue. Having lots of Int and Wis without the processing speed would be annoying. Actually, there might be a soft cap on smarts based on Wits? Not enough hardware to hold the software? It's all magic, so the metaphor isn't that appropriate here.
Skynet: I can detect no problems with that statement.
Hmm, making a Lucky Charm part of our Panoply might merit consideration. Can never really have enough Luck.
Alright, that makes sense. @runeblue360, the Allies tab of our Character Sheet seems to be grossly misinformed! Aeira and Aobaru appear to be lacking their mook designations!
No, those are elite mooks! You can tell because they haven't fallen over gibbering yet.
We're heading straight for the Tower, the Walls vote lost. It's still possible we'll stumble upon something on the way, but our focus is on finishing the target quickly atm.
Actually, it could be relevant. There's a whole mythical kingdom between us and the Tower, and while we'll try to speed through, our Charisma is still incredibly attention-grabbing. We'll be leaving whole groups of fanatics behind wherever we go. That would be quite an embarrassing way to 'accidentally a revolution'. And who knows how uncontrolled Charisma will influence what happens in the Tower itself?
That's Sky Veil. Says in the option itself that it's a rare trait to be able to reduce Cha without affecting our Protection etc.
We're still going to pass through them, on account of the Walls encircling the whole area and us needing to get through but yeah.
I mean it could be bad, but the reason Hunger wants to get some mitigation is because he wants to interact and not take away choice. Combatwise it's probably a boon.
We spent days under her Element while we were cloaking Vershe on the way back originally.
Sky Veil solves that problem for an agreeable cost, just not one I'd like to prioritize right now while we're barreling into a fight that has a death chance even considering our current level of power.
That's not how I interpreted the Sky Veil reduction.
I'm not sure if it goes from 75>50 or 75>56, but surely the decrease goes all the way to zero? It'll work no matter how charismatic Hunger gets, I thought.
That's easily solved through Progression though. Once we have it we can likely do something like pay 2 Arete to make it more granular, or get some sort of social EFB with this as a base as a permanent solution.
The key here is 'passing through', we're not actually stopping there. 'Straight to the Tower, all else can wait'. We could have changed the decision if we had left most of our party behind and only taken Aobaru, but so far we appear to follow the initial decision.
What I'm saying is that combat challenges might not be the only kind we encounter there. I hadn't been that worried about it before the latest chapter, but seeing how Rihaku wrote so much about it and keeps emphasizing the problem, I'll err on the side of caution. Were we truly lacking in terms of Arete, I might have decided differently, but it seems we can afford it to me.
Uncomfortable in the sense that we would have to put perception filters between ourselves and (some of) our companions. Enough had been said about that though.
I thought the lowest reduction is 100%, removing all social effects of Charisma, so it solves things pretty much perfectly. Why do you think otherwise?
No? You'd need way more stuff for manipulation. Realistically, we need to find MAN related Artifact, and then spend stupid amount of resources to get it where Charisma is now*. We are talking 50 Arete/12 picks kind of expenditure, when all of that can be used to make RoQ part of our Panoply instead.
Probably, but it'll be the same choice then as now: power vs. alleviation. If we don't care when Bearic is over a week away, how much worse will the odds look if we're considering Manipulation upgrades when Procyon is at the gates?
