It is also the cheapest at 15 with all other options costing more than 30 so it wouldn't be as costly as the others, but I don't plan on buying it right now maybe a few turns later when getting blood qi becomes much more easier
No. That's not even the point. It's not the price in actions or blood qi. It's that if it's not the core to our kit, then once our boy gets good enough, it's a straight-up
drawback. It's paying something in the short term to make his life worse in the long term.
Again, if we want to go full-on claws, that's fine. It's an interesting decision with interesting tradeoffs. This isn't about that. This is about the "backup weapon" plan.
- Most people don't choose to take claws because there are
downsides to turning your fingers into killing blades. You can learn how to work around it, and those who follow this path do, but it's not free. It takes attention. It also makes you look funny and makes you stand out more and may make certain people rather more concerned about you because you are armed with a deadly weapon at all times. These are manageable downsides, but they
are downsides, and they kick in as soon as you buy that first level and they go away never. So just buying, like, a level or two in the short run, and then dropping it later? That means that we're saddling our boy with a permanent reduction in quality of life for a purely temporary gain... and since it's for the backup weapon, it's not even a particularly
significant gain.
- If claws are our backup weapon, then we'll need a primary weapon. Let's say we're talking about swords. We'll need to invest the resources to get a good sword, and then get a better sword, and keep upgrading our sword at reasonable intervals. This will leave us with a bunch of leftover swords. As such, the easiest, most obvious backup weapon to have is just... to keep around our old swords. Long-term, we'll have a spatial ring or something equivalent, and we'll be able to do that easily.
- That primary weapon? eventually we're going to get to the point where we want sword-related qi arts, and possibly other sword-boosting mystic stuff that we haven't even heard of yet. Perhaps some sword intent? Regardless, that's all going to mean that if we want claws to be a useful backup weapon in the
long term, it's going to wind up
way more expensive than the plan of "I'll just use my old sword" It's going to mean investing in higher and higher levels of claws, and investing in developing claw arts to go alongside our sword arts and so on and so forth. It's going to wind up pouring lots of resources in, just trying to keep pace with "my old sword" who's there just standing still.
So yeah. As soon as you set out on the path of "claws as a backup weapon", you're locking yourself in, in the long-term, to either doing a simple thing
very inefficiently, or to accepting a permanent reduction in quality of life for
no long-term benefit. Both of these things are bad. Do not do it.
