That doesn't really make much sense for the default setting, considering the giant pile of Elder Exalts. It's also contradicted by the fluff text for Travel Without Distance, which mentions that both the Sidereals and the Lunars use it to maintain hidden meeting places.
To be fair, Lore requires that we spend experience on others for its most potent training effects. We eventually get the experience back, possibly even beyond what we invested in the first place, but both Sorcery and Lore are expensive ways of building up a powerbase. It's just a quest of how we want to go about doing that.
IIRC The charm let you roll for every XP spent and recover one per success. We can average more successes than dice rolled.
That, plus FSSA.3E said:
Fate-Shifting Solar Arete(x2) can be used once per day to get an average of .9 successes per dice on any roll. Combine this with the charm that allows failures(which will happen 40% of the time) to be rerolled will give a return of ~125% of the invested XP.
When you combine FSSA with Sidereal buffing you can get an average of 1 success per roll. Thanks, Pearl!Fate-Shifting Solar Arete(x2) can be used once per day to get an average of .9 successes per roll. Combine this with the charm that allows failures(which will happen 40% of the time) to be rerolled will give a return of ~125% of the invested XP.
Oh, and don't forget to spend willpower on the roll to get a free extra XP.
Sidereal buffing is apparently a bit more difficult nowadays, what with them having been banished from heaven, but it's still a broken combination.
Strangely enough, in this case Sidereal buffing only increases the average gain from 125% to 130%. Hardly worth the effort.
Yeah, its a bet with chances of succeeding seeming to be quite low anytime soon, even with Ulyssian's abilities. And applying this method in the first place with our possible-in-future DB -based organizations without causing Wyld Hunt on that Twilight... Still, its a chance, and I think I'm already too attached to Strategos to pass the chance to grab it. Not sure about Ayala, but we'll see how that goes, either sooner with the war or possibly later.
Just spending a day doing it, while time intensive, is still quite fast when compared to Sorcery, even if its effects can be more potent. On top of that, more flexibility with faster reaction time against sudden threats. Also, a thought occured to me: wouldn't PoSC make sneaking into Heaven and altering the Loom much easier? And with Sidereal Astrology stacked on top of this... It seems that it would allow us to use our advantages to accumulate more advantages, and repeat it until we are in a situation to win against our enemies. So sticking to my vote.
We're Zao's protege, invitations are optional. Besides, do you want to be the bouncer who tries to show Ulyssian the door? Seems like there are career paths with longer life-expectancies.
It was more, "We don't have to be rude by ignoring invitations if we aren't given them."
Or if playing in a group.
