Alright, time to explain you guys why you should vote for Follow Through. Sadly, we didn't get 6th Sign through, making this harder, but it is what it is!
- While Follow Through does come with horrendous up front cost, it's also the must likely to succeed and, thus, least likely to fail. If you want to live long and grow strong, taking temporary setback is clearly better than having Procyon party-wipe us!
- The above can't be stressed hard enough. Other options are very risky "meh, we can take it" that have higher chance of Procyon falling and everyone dying. If you are confident in our chances then by all means take it, but if, like me, you see this as ultimate fight of this quest in more way than one, do consider tanking the loss for victory. One of benefits of being Progression Cursebearer is that we can bounce back with mere investment of time, after all
- Of course, the big consideration of Follow Through is cost - in terms of Arete, Advancements, Rank, our blade and Hunger himself
- Arete is big one, of course. With ability to retain everything else with Arete expenditure, pouring as much as we can is the thing to do, although burning our hard earned resource on virtually nothing hurts. Still, it is what it is, and Follow Through does offer a Haeliel Favor point, which refunds 25 Arete we spend on this choice, subsiding cost by a half. As such, spending 50 Arete on preserving Hunger is more like spending 25 Arete - still painful, but it hurts less, for sure
- While Hunger's memories and personality will take a hit, combination of good Arete investiture and our friends being there for us will help us bounce back this a lot. I'm bringing this up because there's a big ass group of people whining about muh suicide(while, ironically, voting for options that have bigger % to actually kill us!) when, in fact, we can recover
- Now, Advancements are actually why I wrote this post. While on surface losing ~50% of everything we did so far hurts, in practice we actually have a lot of wiggle room here. We have a lot of Echos and Blood Advancements to burn if number of picks is the thing we let go, and if we need to lose pure value, we can tank losing Signs, Silver of Evening, Crimson Flare and so on. You can think of it as trimming the fat(except the fat is gold in this case). As long as we retain OaFs, Pillars and Cut Through it's fine
- We would lose a lot(and I do mean a lot of value), but we'd streamline our build a lot, and we'd also get a ton of value between Procyon picks, Heroic Progression and Favor. We'd still be in net loss, but the point is that the loss is not as total as you might think!
- Rank loss is sad(as is why i told you guys to get the 6th Sign) but we can get it back. More importantly, this entire sequence would change the focus of our build away from Rank anyway
Of course, while these points contextualize the price and explain why it's not as bad as your kneejerk reaction might make you believe, they also admit that the cost is quite high! Still, we knew what we were signing up where we choose to Hold The Line, so we should be ready to tank losses and make good choices.
I understand being confident in our chances against Procyon and desire to win it all, but not voting Follow Through is very dangerous. It's a course of action that might very well end up with Hunger's death. As such, please consider being prudent and voting Follow Through!
[X] Follow Through
