IIRC, the fallen star was supposed to be really deep into the earth, so it'd make more sense if the shishigui are doing stuff with it than the Cloud Tribe.
Haven't you made this argument before with previous choices?
Nothing wrong with arguing from a Doylist perspective
It feels like a very hypothetical argument, with little in the way of really proving or disproving the basis except to point to how the author has written in the past, to which I'd say they've done pretty well.
Thing is? "something has gone seriously wrong" has happened before.
Zhengui being on on high ground still isn't particularly meaningful against flying enemies, and absolutely every Cloud Barb that makes it far enough for the perimeter to matter will be airborne. Our own field effects might do something, but his just won't. If we want him to contribute, it needs to be in a relatively constrained space, preferably catching his enemies on the ground... like using turtle drop from stealth as a surprise attack opener before the enemy has really figured out what's going on. If he can get roots in place quick enough to block even a few of the cloud barbs off from their steeds, that could make a big difference.
No one's taking significant numbers of cloud barbs prisoner in this fight. We're murdering them. It's possible that if some of them get incapacitated, we might interrogate them afterwards, but the idea of dragging them back to Zhengui so that he can serve as a jail is silly... especially since that still wouldn't prevent them from using whatever arts they might have.
It's southern now; the vote option was edited.
It is meaningful, though, if they need to fly up to his elevation before they can start flying away. It means Zhen's projectiles have a shorter amount of time, and thus he's better able to serve as a flak cannon. That's my whole point about why the high ground is good: stick your AA there and there's no way for the barbs to get past without being in range.
Capture and interrogation is, like, a tertiary objective on this mission, but it is there.
Almost certainly otherwise the cloud nomads wouldn't be doing a ritual in it, but considering something is interfering with Prisim tier divination from a fragment of a Great Spirit of the Hidden Moon... I'm somewhat expecting the site to be something of sufficient significance for a Great Spirit of the Cloud Nomads that he/she/it has influence over it, which throws convention out the window in regards to what CN can do with it.
She might be. Good chance that one or both of the Bao are as well... primarily as crafters, but also perhaps with some trap prep.Do you guys think bai meizhen is in the underground defence mission ?
The bai's has great defence and is very good with toxins and cultivates earth 'geomance sites'
How would a fear domain affect the shishigue ? thy are kind masochistic
That might matter if Zhengui was actually good as a flak cannon. He's not particularly, though. It's not where his strength lies. He has two "shoot things at range" powers with no natural supporting arts. Worse yet - the better of the two comes with splash damage, which means that it's more about hitting tightly-packed enemies (say, those that have been constraiend by his roots) than it is about targeting individual flying dudes.
Anyone Ling Qi manages to willdrain all the way down can be left on the ground for easy later retrieval. I expect that we will wind up with some captives, who happen to be incapacitated before they die, and that we'll have a use for them... but the idea of trying to use Zhengui as a jail from the perimeter position implies that we're spending a *lot* more effort on them than we really should be.
Hrm? Oh, I'd been assuming from the point of view of assaulting the caldera, in which case sticking them under Zhengui is mostly a "prevent rescue" thing, and yeah, they'd just be the randos who got stuck in Ling Qi's tarpit and got drained out before she had the spare time to focus on them in particular.
