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Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

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Humbaba said:
Getting through to AS4 before breaking through might well impress her, but maintaining the focus on the Argent Soul art rather than our other practicals despite it having no practical benifits at our level and risking us falling behind our peers strikes me as something she wouldn't look favourably on given her previous advice to us.
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Not at all. There is a difference between 'Focusing on something and not getting anything else' and 'Getting it on the side while also improving the rest'. AS5 is never bad (it's still good in Red Soul, just not urgent) and getting it underway just means being able get it finished more quickly when we are in Yellow.

And, yes, she wants us to do practical things too like Arts/Meridians/Qi/Spiritual Cultivation. Not going all up in one, but balancing all of them. That... includes AS.

EDIT: Just realised The plan I am switching to does not have Spiritual Cultivation, so I guess either contempt plan are equal Su-bootlicking wise. Well, not quite equal, but the difference isn't that big.
 
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...Is the only difference between Plan Contempt 1 and 2 exactly which arts we practice?
 
Kai Merah said:
...Is the only difference between Plan Contempt 1 and 2 exactly which arts we practice?
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No, Contempt 1 cultivate AS and a 3rd Art, Contempt 2 cultivate Physical and Spiritual. So it's not quite 'which arts'.

My old plan didn't have shopping but Gu Xiulan (best gal) and had Spiritual and AS.
 
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Arkeus said:
@CircleTheSkies, @Vanguard_D, I am switching my vote because of tactical voting reeasons. The more I think about it and the more the current winning vote has much too low odds of impressing Elder Su for my paranoia-addled mind.

[x] Beneath the Horizon of my Contempt.


@TheLastOne And yeah, I'll also add to the 'please use a Qi Foundation Pill', simply because we might not have enough weeks before we get to either Yellow or Silver to use them in an optimal manner, so might has well use them when we can. Likewise, it's probably better to switch the FVM and ZB action, as training FVM in the hot spring is better as long as we get a Art training with Li Suyin elsewhere (in this case ZB).
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Hmm, I hate using a major pill that will only help one roll, but you're right that we probably aren't going to be able to use them much longer. Gah.

Sure, I guess.

Edit: Dropped Zephyr's Breath for Qi cultivation, as we aren't getting it to it unless we roll well next week, and Qi does benefit from the pill.
 
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TheLastOne said:
Hmm, I hate using a major pill that will only help one roll, but you're right that we probably aren't going to be able to use them much longer. Gah.

Sure, I guess.

Edit: Dropped Zephyr's Breath for Qi cultivation, as we aren't getting it to it unless we roll well next week, and Qi does benefit from the pill.
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You huh probably also should add [X]'s on lines like for AS, as the tally skips lines without them.
 
TheLastOne said:
Edit: Dropped Zephyr's Breath for Qi cultivation, as we aren't getting it to it unless we roll well next week, and Qi does benefit from the pill.
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I hadn't even considered that, nice! Doing this sends a clear message to Elder Su that, no we aren't slacking, we just have a plan. And she saw what happened the last time we had a plan for our development. Good utilization of cultivation resources is something I feel she would appreciate, given her place in the sect.
 
Qi and probably some big gainz on our overall Cultivation too, we'll be throwing a lot of dice on pill week.
 
Alectai said:
Qi and probably some big gainz on our overall Cultivation too, we'll be throwing a lot of dice on pill week.
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Yeah, Pill week is going to be fun. However, I have the strong opinion that buttload of Qi +1> buttload of Qi :p

TotallyNotEvil said:
AS cultivation? Qi? Please, we have five auto sux on AS without trying, AS 5 is literally useless to us right now, and we will be doing a Pill Week for another boatload of Qi.
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Not only is AS5 not useless, but the faster we get to AS5 the faster we get to EPC1, and wasting Qi Foundation Pills is wasting major pills. @TheLastOne's plan is significantly more efficient than yours.
Yun said:
It is one stone per whichever is your lowest cultivation level, so Ling Qi would need to be early Silver physical, and Yellow Soul to use 4.
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I suspect that it would be 3 red+ 1 yellow by then.
 
Yeah, pretty sure that we can't use Red Stones anymore once we hit Yellow.

That being said, the spirit vein we found is good for Yellow too, so yay?

Anyway, speaking of Pill Week, how are we going to distribute our actions? We'll functionally have 5 + Class. And the way the Sable Light Pills work is that they encourage us to spend as many actions on Arts or Meridians as we can. As we have enough Meridians to master every Art we know, I think it's probably going to end up being "Two on SCS and Zephyr's Breath, then one on FVM?" That way, all of our overflow goes towards Spiritual Cultivation, which should put us a stone's throw away from Yellow.
 
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Alectai said:
Yeah, pretty sure that we can't use Red Stones anymore once we hit Yellow.

That being said, the spirit vein we found is good for Yellow too, so yay?

Anyway, speaking of Pill Week, how are we going to distribute our actions? We'll functionally have 5 + Class. And the way the Sable Light Pills work is that they encourage us to spend as many actions on Arts or Meridians as we can. As we have enough Meridians to master every Art we know, I think it's probably going to end up being "Two on SCS and Zephyr's Breath, then one on FVM?" That way, all of our overflow goes towards Spiritual Cultivation, which should put us a stone's throw away from Yellow.
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It's more efficient to spend one action on each kind of cultivation, so that each action generates a whole Qi Cultivation action. So we try for three more Meridians, and all three of our arts, generating a total of six qi cultivation rolls. It's not like we won't need more open Meridians - I wouldn't be surprised if level three Forgotten Vale Melody required another two, or if level three/four Sable Crescent Step required another one.
 
@yrsillar do we know if Elder Su will calculate the progress that was made through the first 11 weeks for the library pass, or will she take into account the progress made in the twelfth week as well?

Or in other words, does Ling Qi know if this is the last week to impress Elder Su or if week 12 is the last week?
 
Thor's Twin said:
@yrsillar do we know if Elder Su will calculate the progress that was made through the first 11 weeks for the library pass, or will she take into account the progress made in the twelfth week as well?

Or in other words, does Ling Qi know if this is the last week to impress Elder Su or if week 12 is the last week?
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I think it's unlikely that she'll decide who gets the passes based only on the last week's performance.

Most likely, the passes are a 'Most Improved Acolyte' kicker. In which case, our performance almost certainly qualifies us as one of the top three, considering we entered the Sect with nothing and have climbed to the heights of the first stage in physical and spiritual cultivation, with at least two potent Arts and the fourth layer of Argent Soul locked down--depending on how week 12 goes, we may very well also be at Peak Red/Gold and ready to break through at any time.

In which case, our growth has naturally been superior to that of one who started with significant advantages and weapons--and thus, we are more likely to be a good investment of further resources, especially as we've been proving we can make effective use of resources that we've acquired.

But yeah, barring some really, really bad luck in the next week or two--or a huge fuckup that we can't recover from, we're probably going to get one of the passes. Whether Li Suyin gets one too is up in the air, but she's pretty talented too, so I figure at least one of us will benefit. We've been effectively doing everything right up until now, without the same advantages the other high rollers have benefited from. We've also basically confirmed that they were watching the clash we had over the Vent based on the fact we got a Qi Foundation Pill despite our growth not justifying it.
 
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@Alectai Yeah, I'm not asking if they are only going to be calculated using last week's results, but I am asking if the determination of who has improved the most happens at the beginning of week 12 or the end of week 12. If it is at the beginning of week 12, then we won't be able to use the drug rush to get large results and impress even further, so we should use all of the possible drugs to increase our cultivation this week. If it is at the end, and Elder Su counts week 12 cultivation efforts, then our drug rush will most likely net us a library pass.
 
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