There's also the fact that winning the tournament isn't the only way to get into Inner Sect. We don't even know if winning is how they pick entrants, it could just be a way to display talent so the Elders can choose between those with the ambition. Also, I imagine a support applicant with enough talent could be given a by even if it's typically just winners that go through.
You can just taste the Ling Qi-ness in this hypothetical conversation.
The value the art gives does not have to be solely at the tourney. If the art helps us reach sites that were out of easy reach before that would be great. If it helps us steal and make clean getaways. Anyway the value an art gives to help us into the inner sect does not need to be during the tourney to be worth while.
Yup, almost double the votes as of last tally
A little bit more speed and possibly dodge as a passive will help some.
Maybe some kind of enchanted forest thing? Music on the wind luring people to their deaths or driving them mad. More mind-affecting direct illusions than lost in the fog.
We aren't going to max all our arts. Getting AC3 in the two eightfold pills actions means we have it at a good level where it's usable and decide whether we want to max it or not, as it has to compete with a lot of other powerful arts for that.
This is pure speculation, but I suspect that we'd be better off having AC4 than AC3 and FZ3
That's why it's so good AC3 and hopefully FZ3 will be rather quick, so we can decide whether either of those arts are worth taking further for our particular build without losing too many actions.
I still carry the dream, the dream that we can get FZ1 and FZ2! It all depends on how FZ progresses is determined.
I actually feel like the ZB+ branches feel 'complete' there. ZB seems like a simple and direct art that demands complete mastery of specific aspect of wind that aren't conceptual, and I can see the three branches being extremely polished art that do their simple specific thing extremely well, but that for higher cultivation levels you probably have to go into more esoteric or conceptual things.
We are planning on learning it far enough to know whether we want to learn it all the way through before breakthrough (limited time).
The majority of the thread wants to learn it, to at lest rank 3. Some want to get Ashen Shadow Art instead. A few want to get both. The when of learning it is still being worked out.
