[X] Murderer's Panoply
[X] Aggressive
[X] Absolute Focus
Oh, how he burns like Venus in the Evening Sky....
Rank isn't worth taking with Panoply, I think, compared to Focus/Ring Affinity. It's not a large amount of Rank, and we'll likely be stacking up Rank anyways, so picking a greater temporary multiplier now in Focus might be worth more permanent Rank overall than the immediate pick. I'm not sure what Ring Affinity does, obviously, so it's hard to weight it effectively against Focus. I'm actually really curious what it does, but I have a policy of not jumping on ??? options in cases like these. I think that stacking a further 10% effectiveness on top of our already existing effectiveness bonus, and perhaps a little more, is absolutely worth 2 unrealized Arete.
Panoply over Barest Cut, still, because I don't think holding back at this point in time is going to make the most of this situation. Panoply over Regiment because I think Regiment doesn't provide a high enough grade of firepower supremacy. Panoply over Bright Vanquisher because I think Rage is tactically risky to exploit the way that people are imagining, and adds little to our everyday abilities without incurring massive negative characterization problems (per Rihaku).
Aggressive because Panoply can actually follow through hard on such a strategy, and therefore should probably take it. I could be convinced around to Conservative , on the grounds that risking as little as possible is the best way for someone with unlimited progression to win whatever scenario they're in, but we're actually under constant threat by the Apocryphal Curse, so the risk of choosing Aggressive and being severely injured/dying is up against the risk that without enough power, we'll be in a worse and riskier situation later on (vs. Ber, Astral Lords, etc.).
