...and a Yin type is going to be *hugely* more expensive for the same effect than an element-specific type. It would probably be more efficient to get them one at a time, no?
The only reason I'm not advocating for a custom item now is because I'm unsure if we could pay part of it on recieving it. Because we will have a lot more money to throw around pretty soon, and can thus leverage the staff for a better artifact.
Darkness would
certainly be much more useful than Water.
@TotallyNotEvil I'm going to say that I disagree with your interpretation of the usefulness of the sash, and I don't like the selling of the drugs in order to keep red stones up. However, I really don't care what happens with the staff. So, you almost have me convinced to move to Plan Frugal. I just need to know, does plan Frugal have cookies?
Sure we do.
Plan Frugal promises that it will have cookies some day, and that they will be worth the wait. They're just not quite sure what form the cookies will come in, or when that will be.
In about three weeks, and I guarantee they will make Haku's taste like cardboard.
Seriously, look at the situation:
1) We have two Darkness Arts, one Wind art (which is where our natural talent lies), and the one Water art we have
involves playing wind instruments.
2) The staff has the biggest value of most of anything we could get short-term. We've excelled so far by leveraging any advantage we can get to the max. Selling it at first opportunity to something barely suitable for us is the opposite of that.
3) The Sash in now way helps us use our best technique, and most expensive one, SCS.
4) In about two weeks, we will be able to accrue a whole lot more cash. At which time, we can comission a
badass darkness-aligned battleflute by trading in the staff and said money.
5) The Sash, even within its specialty, is
barely better than the 20 stone Hawk Talons.
6) We know: a) A super intelectual healer; b) A charisma-focused high noble; c) A super-connected socialite; d) Bai Meizhen. We can leverage our contacts to get a much, much better deal than we could ourselves.
7) You are telling me you want to sell something we know for a fact is very valuable without knowing its
actual worth? When it could be anywhere from 60 to 200+?
We wait till we have some cash, which should be in Week 13 or so, and can thus set a proper commission for the custom item. Even better, we should definitely know how much the staff is properly worth.
There is only so much time we can spend cultivating new arts to useful levels, and that's not time we can spend on low-level stuff.
Imagine getting something like:
Obsidian Flute: This darkness-aligned Jian produces a haunting melody when swung by user capable of manipulating Wind. It provides 2 extra die to Darkness and Wind arts, and reduces their costs by one Qi each. DV 4, may produce music while attacking.
All I'm asking for is that we wait for two weeks, so we can make an informed decision. Why are so many people against that? When the Sash's effect for us is currently minimal?
We are getting the knives to be better, we are getting a new dot on them next week, we will be doing a pill-spree as planned. Just talk to our friends, figure this out, leverage it as far as we can. Our immediate needs are perfectly covered by Frugal.
