It miiiight; depends on the scope of the construct.
Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
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Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
Both FSA and IWA seems to have both Qi mitigation noping as well as armour piercing, while FSA seems to mainly have Qi mitigation noping.
Dont think not getting FSA or something like that will be the problem. Seems like most of the voters want it but low archery skill+no site for cultivation yet and the option for hands-free damage in ASA makes ASA more beneficial to take first.
- Location
- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
We have ridiculous talent with a bow it'll rise fast. ASA is yet another debuff art and it requires us to get in close and risk getting hit instead of being able to kite around the enemy from range.
Kai Merah
Hound Hearted Hedonist
- Location
- Somewhere in the corners of my imagination
Also, it's six stages, unlike 5 stages for the other arts, so will probably take longer to finish learning, meaning we should get started earlier.
- Location
- Singapore
[x] Ice Wraith Art
Torn between this and the ash one right now, with falling stars close behind. Anyhow, I think I'll be fine if any of the first three win
Torn between this and the ash one right now, with falling stars close behind. Anyhow, I think I'll be fine if any of the first three win
- Location
- Australia
Yeah, I'd definitely support getting FSA in the future, I just don't think it's ideal to get first, because we currently don't have the meridians to start training it immediately (wasting the pills we've used this turn), and we don't have a good site for cultivating it yet either. Inevitably, we'll get these issues sorted, and when we do we can pick up FSA.
- Location
- United States
Oh. There was that. I guess we just make sure we're near some shadow areas before long ranging them.
Anyways I'll support anything but Ashen shadow. It's melee range so doesn't really match with our style even if it looks cool. So tactically voting it is.
[X] Falling Stars Art
Anyways I'll support anything but Ashen shadow. It's melee range so doesn't really match with our style even if it looks cool. So tactically voting it is.
[X] Falling Stars Art
- Location
- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
I suspect they all stop around mid-yellow, upon which we need to get the upgrade.
Melee fits our style though? We aren't a range-only peep after all, and having something to use that fits our style in melee is good. Also, considering the Ice Wraith is also melee, so I guess you are only supporting FSA.
That's a bit weird though, given that getting it's second floor version first is probably a very bad idea. OTOH, getting something else is perfectly fine.
But going "this will make it impossible to get it" is kinda false.
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Yeah, if we don't go for the archery art now I would be very-much down with picking one up in the future. We do have a talent for archery and we should use it - I'm just not sure we should use it now.
Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Ice Wraith will still do damage, and is also armour piercing. Our current best strategy is to hit the enemy from close-mid range during the turns it takes FVM to disperse. If the Ash art had armour piercing I'd be going for that one, but I think Ice Wraith now, Falling Stars in a few weeks will be our best bet for combat art options for the inner sect fight, because it will let us hit from far away, and then put up FVM when they close, then finish our wounded and tired opponents off with Ice Wraith, with the defenses up to protect us if they get lucky.
Ice Wraith should come first because it's useable with our daggers, which is our current mastery so we don't have a few weeks where our art is hamstrung by our lack of weapon skill. We can then pick up Falling Stars or it's second floor version or whatnot once we have some bow skill and that heaven site.
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
Pretty much- we get better stupidly fast in archery... but that means we aren't good yet. Given the speed we are going at, by the time we are archery 4 we should have access to floor 3 archive.
Obviously it doesn't mean we want to get one there, especially as I suspect it will merely be the upgraded version of FSA, so getting FSA even then might be better.... But right now it's not stronger than our other options.
The blurb on ASA is a bit weird- it hints that it bypass armors to debilitate the enemies directly. It probably does less pure damage than IWA but also bypass armor.
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- Location
- United States
Well that's your personal thoughts on melee. We've used melee like once or twice. That doesn't seem to fit our keep-away-suck-em-dry style. As far as Ice Wraith goes? The defensive aspects make up for it being a melee art.
- Location
- Portugal
Honestly don't see the appeal in Ashen Shadows beyond its hands free component. Meanwhile Falling Stars both plays to our Strengths - wind and bows - AND curbs our weakness - armor pen.
[X] Falling Stars Art
[X] Falling Stars Art
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I'm thinking we'll be getting a spine art eventually anyway and since we can't know how they'll stack I'm not too bothered about IWA. If it were ranged I'd probably have gone for it though.
Between FSA and ASA lack of site and ability to train it this turn kinda drops FSA from the race
[x] Ashen Shadow Art
*Edit* just saw your comment about defensive boost making up for it
Between FSA and ASA lack of site and ability to train it this turn kinda drops FSA from the race
[x] Ashen Shadow Art
Ice Wraith Art is melee too so is it just FSA and RLA you like?
*Edit* just saw your comment about defensive boost making up for it
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Actually how does attacks that choke, drain and debilitate work in this? IWA and FSA seems to punch through and slice through (directly or just the cold?) armor. ASA does not have that but draining a person of their heat or choking them will still kill a person.
- Location
- United States of America
Eh I honestly don't care either way as we can get both should the need arise I like it because it will synergies well with our turtle most likely. We have bonuses to it plus an area. It's nice thematically with Gu and might even buff her abilities a bit or synergies well .
Lots of pluses, same can be said for bow art , but we don't have a heaven area yet, nor a decent bow. Mind you we can fix this if we really want a bow art in a few turns so it really doesn't matter what we get I just like ash is all
- Location
- United States
See above.