It's mostly not the same people. This quest have several factions, and while I am very loud I am but one person. I'm willing to adjust the EFB order to get this new Ring one first, if we must to survive, but I still want to aim for it immediately. Hence why I'm noting we can, in fact, reach it if we get, oh, 50 thousand words or so.
Not saying anyone in particular, but if we're going to abandon Shadowlord to go for EFB, I would expect us to actually go for an EFB.
You can't hold people to a position they never held, basically. I tried several times. It isn't effective.
She's the safer path until we run into another council member that isn't so... niave.
And that is relevant to the current situation how? It's nice to have super-stats, but we can't actually buy that without 25 arete and a pick. While we can force the arete through desperate action we can't force a pick into existence.
Because we're about to try and social our way into the inner ring?
Read the edit please, I sent it too soon.
Perhaps, but the hardest obstacle here is the introduction, once we are past that, our strenght means that the Moon Civilization would be perfectly willing to hire us to take Vanrier's place. So I don't think we need to worry that much.
Only so long as they believe we are actually on their side. And frankly if we come in with Gondar or the High Marshall we'd be good on that front. Selune, on the other hand, I suspect the council isn't nearly so stupid they would trust her judgement when she isn't actively trying.
Rihaku said earlier it wasn't too hard to grab a pick if necessary, we still haven't traveled back to the temple for instance so there could easily be an opportunity to grab a single pick on the way back. As for 25 arete we're pretty close to that at the moment and taking Crimson Flare or snap buying the stance EFB requires the same amount anyway.
How would they know that she hadn't checked us with her Bullshit? I think they will assume she had, they wouldn't expect her to be so careless I think.
Not this update he hasn't. I just checked all of his posts.
Because she's a naive child that only bothers some of the time? And will probably be giddily talking about her cousin?
Not very onerous seems to imply we wouldn't have too much of a problem grabbing a single pick if we needed one.
Never read implications into his posts. If he does not flat out state it you are making a dangerous assumption.
Rank grows hyperexponentially. It also gets harder to gain in the same manner. You're putting decades of rank gain on par with less than a month of stat gains to make a rather... distorted point.
Not very onerous is a pretty straightforward statement. I don't think we're likely to pick up Total Eclipse anytime soon anyway given it's a pure potential EFB so we're not going to pick it up in the temple and people are going to want to grab pillars afterwards. I'm happy with taking the pick that incentivizes Edeldross development since it's almost as good. It also lets us buff Gisena's stats by 60% as well and since she just upgraded them all to at least the high teens she'll get a fair bit of value out of that.
She may be pretty careless but she still has superhuman social instincts, manipulation and perhaps politicking skills. I suspect a lot of the council members are complacent like her.
It is. It also has nothing to do with what you want it to.
Which is why Flare is very good - it gets us scaling Rank and it gives us Rank towards Trinity prerequisite, which would allow us to hit Rank 10 with our blood magic extremely fast.
