I'd say go down War domain. +0.5 Rank & +All Stats is nothing to sneeze at. Especially since all our encounters so far have been along those lines. It's also very generalist, applying to basically anything we select, a potent hedge against poor future votes.
It is generalist, but if you are going for raw power now it's a bit weak compared to powerhouse options like Quickening or Hero-Defeating Stance.
I think Exhaustion has synergy with buffing Gisena or Letrizia via Vanguard or Gown. We could go practice our napping technique and compete with Verchlengorge for most comfy mount. Losing the time hurts but I think losing the % in for weeks or ??? hurts more.
The main risk of Exhaustion is if someone attacks you in exactly one day. It's not a very high chance, but if it happens you will be at a severe, almost unrecoverable disadvantage. The other options spread out the risk progressively more.
4th coalescence Sorceress's are really powerful. I wonder what her fourth would be.
She's undergo Sorcerous Evolution, using another system of advancement!
Sheer defensive power. Quite an powerful build, if lacking in defensive power. Very effective against mages too, would hope we run into another one...also, might be helpful towards magic, maybe?
Power is a function of how long you can survive multiplied by how much damage you do per second. Against a wide array of different potential enemies, it would be wise to balance offense and defense...
Thankfully it's not a capital B brand as in the Accursed's curses. I have a feeling this is something close though. Who stained it, the Tyrant, the Forebear, someone else? Was this inscription in the ring before it was stained? If so, that would mean that this ring was made in another world or in the future of the world that Lord Hunger first got isekaied to, then dropped into the past to fulfill a stable time loop. If my theory is right, then that means that at some point, hopefully after the end of the quest, we drop the ring into the past so it can reach our hand in the first place.
Hm...
Oh, and we get Gisena a dress. Right after she asked for one. Which will lead to a funny scene.
You can just admit this is your motivation for voting for it!
We've been using our rickety defense well so far - for example in this fight Cuts would not have helped at all. The triple defense picks + vanguard would have turned it into a rout.
Not quite:
1) It took Hunger multiple hits to kill each of the distractions. This allowed the archer time to set up the field in the first place. Killing the distractions faster = fewer spatial instances = fewer wounds
2) When Hunger was rushing the archer, he could have used a 7x speed blade wind Fell-Handed Stroke instead of burning enormous amounts of energy on going fully incorporeal. This would have been both more reliable and cheaper.
Pure defense is actually somewhat questionable against scaling enemies like this one. No matter how strong your defense, if they crap out clones constantly then you will eventually be overwhelmed. But even more important than that, is not to fight yesterday's war! You should be prepared to deal with a broad field of potential enemies.
Being under bombardment from an archer with shadow clone abilities and whose individual arrows can penetrate the Evening Sky (y'know, the thing that can resist kiloton-range explosions) suggests to me that we need to considerably upgrade our defenses. Our attacks were powerful enough in this last fight, but our defenses were inadequate.
His arrows that struck the Evening Sky bounced off, it was the ones that hit areas cloaks don't cover that landed!
