When asked why it was three in the update, he said Shen Hu bonus between plan synergy and bonding event synergy.
We are taking 3 sect jobs +1 (FeFe) this turn. We'll take sect jobs most turns, and multiple ones. So we'll have plenty of exploration rolls.
I don't expect good sites, yes. I do think that finding mediocre sites (like the water one we found) could happen, and the actual difference between a good site and a mediocre site is not that high. I also don't expect to find any sites of the same quality as Silent Stone, and even that one's 'but wind' wouldn't be so much stronger than just a mediocre site.
So that's pretty cool. Especially since Moon and Darkness spirits could be a bit more difficult to find than your average Black Steel Bear. Also, if there are any specific spirits that we would want to treat with, Moon and Darkness spirits are pretty high up there in terms of having the most to teach us/bargain with us for. We haven't seen any strong pure darkness spirit yet but given the text of Coveteous Wraith, they normally don't last all that long. Finding a strong one that lasts longer than a night cycle would be pretty interesting, and probably exceedingly dangerous.
It's a gamble that's both pricey, as it means pushing back having a functional stealth suite for another handful of turns, but it's also purposefully hoping for a big event in a turn where we are already having too many events, after another turn where we had too many events, to the point where the writer expressed desire for a turn with fewer parts.
Take the example of the wood site. It gives an additional 1/10 to cultivation... for wood arts that have a physical keyword. That is, only TRF and not SES or IMH.
Don't take my reluctance to vote for your plan as a declaration against stealth. I'm all for stealth and would really like to dive deep into what it has to offer, especially with the revelation that Hanyi has a very good attention-grabbing art. I do want stealth, but I think that now is not yet the proper time to start really start working on it, and it would be more valuable to work on exploration.
Site quality is decided by the roll result, though, so while this will work for basic sites we are very unlikely to find strong ones.
That was why I talked about the importance of strong sites vs mediocre ones. Strong sites are a bit better than mediocre ones, but they are not so much better that, once we have a mediocre one, they are worth getting. Not only that, depending on how the 'penalty' works what determines likelyhood of getting a strong site is "how many exploration rolls we have made". Considering how many sect jobs AP we are likely to be doing, actually doing exploration actions would have to be done a lot to have higher odds of getting those better sites.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying "I am all for stealth, but in another handful of turns".
Could we really do this with C ranked stealth?
