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How tough is a five success Resolve test, by the by? I don't remember everything that's included in such a roll, but my impression is that five successes is pretty hard at the moment?
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Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)
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That's not additional, it's orthogonal to my point
Pointiest point evar.
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My impression is a 5 success Resolve test means getting 5 just through your stat or arts that increase resolve itself. For Ling Qi, that is Resolve 5 + TRF 3 + AM 2= 10 dice. So in average we would get 4 and thus fail such a test more often than not.
So such a test is pretty hard at our cultivation level even though we have 2 arts enhancing resolve, which I would think is not that common. Obviously the more cultivation we have the easier such a test will be, but it seems the sword will grow with us for a while yet.
Today? It's slightly harder than 50/50. For high Green, or even Cyan? Easy-peasy. It's an ability that gets less valuable as we level up, hence my desire for a scaling bonus.
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There's a pretty good chance it's not entirely common, since we have to be very worried about dispels due to our specific build, but there are a few characters we know of who will be pretty high up on it. And any professional and experienced green cultivator will by common sense, if they are not an idiot, boost their resolve so they are not vulnerable to effects which require a resolve test.
As per our conversation with Meizhen, we have explicit reason to expect that the weapon will scale with our cultivation. It's made of powerful enough materials by an experienced enough crafter that Ling Qi simply cannot tap into its full potential.
She said the material would give us extra abilities when we hit Cyan. There was nothing at all about any other abilities improving.
Mechanical scaling becomes narrative scaling, but it's still scaling.
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Well we'd need to add a stealth art or two to really enable stealth takedowns for people we use our Domain Weapon on, but it's within reach. More to the point is that that just isn't at all what the Singing Mist Blade is for - it's for team fights or 1v10 sort of scenarios where the fight is going to be loud and visible anyway due to AoE stuff. Right now, we punch way under our potential if we have to be quiet since we don't have extra Arts to slot in to our build to replace FVM and FSS. We might as well keep that rolling with a Domain Weapon whose potential matches up with those Arts and the next step of Arts after them. Then later after we develop another fighting style option more fully we can get another Domain Weapon to support it.
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I'm narrowing my support down to just the music option, since I've always been a fan of fluting people to death. Also, having Qi drain on hit instead of on damage is pretty nasty, it'll put all but the dodgiest enemies on the clock against us
I'm narrowing my support down to just the music option, since I've always been a fan of fluting people to death. Also, having Qi drain on hit instead of on damage is pretty nasty, it'll put all but the dodgiest enemies on the clock against us
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IMO the Sharp Note synergies with our build more, by severely curtailing an enemies ability to recover their Qi.
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I guess interpreting it as someone only gain the abilities when someone jumps to the requisite realm is a bit valid, but it doesn't really map right to the line about "teasing out abilities" because Meizhen should not get anything until she hits Prism by your thought. And she did not say anything about additional abilities, just not fully access the power which is too broad to specify any particular thing.
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It should be noted that the scale from a Prism beast need not (I would even say should not) be a Prism-level material.
I expect that for a material to be at level X, it needs to be valuable or even precious to people at that level. I don't expect an individual scale to qualify. Such a thing is of increadible value to someone at Green, but I doubt it is going to be particularly valuable to someone at Prism or even Violet.
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Re: scaling, the dress has scaled. It didn't tell us at first that it would, we just knew that it was a really rad dress. But for Ling Qi it got stronger at Green, and again after being jailbroken/Life-fibred. While obviously the Umbral Shard won't have DRM like the dress, I do imagine that it will scale by nature of being made professionally with a fourth-grade material for a third-grade cultivator. What we don't know (and can't know) is the granularity of that scaling. Maybe by the time Ling Qi hits Green 4 it's given another new ability, or its numbers have just increased every breakthrough/bottleneck within Green, or maybe she has to hit Cyan before getting anything. But I think all of the options will scale.
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Pretty hard, Arkeus has the numbers a few pages back, and in our combat spec sheet I think. This is because its stats plus arts, though Resilience may come in at some point. I don't recall, and that may be for resisting dispels.
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Well, Ling Qi herself throws 10 dice on a resolve test(which makes it about a coinflip or so to win), but she has 2 techs boosting it, which probably isn't usual even for high tier combatants(at least at our level).
