I suggest nothing.
I suggest we do our research and don't jump the gun on those kinds of decisions until we know enough to put together a coherent build plan.
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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I suggest we do our research and don't jump the gun on those kinds of decisions until we know enough to put together a coherent build plan.
This would be an excellent synopsis to put before the start of this sequel quest.
- Location
- United States of America
Well... see, I wanted to be able to post this on the first page, but alas real life has a way of getting in the way of fantastical desires.
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
It's really cool, but I feel like it conflicts with the voice we get from LQ's thoughts.
I would strongly urge against looking into researching new arts right now, for three reasons.
1) We don't have time to work on additional combat arts right now. As it is, between advancing our cultivation arts, Physical, and Spiritual, we have most of our time committed already - and these things are points that would directly increase our cultivation rate, and therefore put is in a better situation if we get them done early.
2) Picking up arts narrows our future options, and the later we do it the less chance there is of us regretting our choice later on. Aside from the chance that we run into something useful somewhere like we did on multiple occasions last year, even the arts we have already are going to be gaining new techniques. If we know what those techniques are, we would be able to make a more synergistic choice of follow-up art.
3) Our current arts (or the ones among them that we actually want to cultivate, anyways) take precedence. FVM, SCS, TRF, and FSS are some of the core arts in our build, and we KNOW that we want to finish them ASAP. We can't cultivate most of them NOW because they are capped, but they won't stay capped for long, and once that happens it behooves us to focus on them instead of divert our efforts to something more peripheral.
1) We don't have time to work on additional combat arts right now. As it is, between advancing our cultivation arts, Physical, and Spiritual, we have most of our time committed already - and these things are points that would directly increase our cultivation rate, and therefore put is in a better situation if we get them done early.
2) Picking up arts narrows our future options, and the later we do it the less chance there is of us regretting our choice later on. Aside from the chance that we run into something useful somewhere like we did on multiple occasions last year, even the arts we have already are going to be gaining new techniques. If we know what those techniques are, we would be able to make a more synergistic choice of follow-up art.
3) Our current arts (or the ones among them that we actually want to cultivate, anyways) take precedence. FVM, SCS, TRF, and FSS are some of the core arts in our build, and we KNOW that we want to finish them ASAP. We can't cultivate most of them NOW because they are capped, but they won't stay capped for long, and once that happens it behooves us to focus on them instead of divert our efforts to something more peripheral.
- Location
- Colorado
Ok, Improved Bad Idea/Bad Idea Mk. 2-
[] Invest 4x YSS (+12 Free)
[] Very High resource expense
[] Physical Cultivation x2 (Stamina x1/Dexterity x1)
[] Spiritual Cultivation x2 (Composure)
[] Eight Phase Ceremony x4 (Stealth x2/Perception x2)
[] Sable Crescent Step x3 (Dance x2/Dexterity x1)
[] Argent Current x4 (War x2/Presence x1/Unarmed x1)
[] Argent Storm x1 (Dodge)
[] Perform Sect Duties x2 (Government)
[] Research Arts in Sect archive x2 (Intelligence)
[] Invest 4x YSS (+12 Free)
[] Very High resource expense
[] Physical Cultivation x2 (Stamina x1/Dexterity x1)
[] Spiritual Cultivation x2 (Composure)
[] Eight Phase Ceremony x4 (Stealth x2/Perception x2)
[] Sable Crescent Step x3 (Dance x2/Dexterity x1)
[] Argent Current x4 (War x2/Presence x1/Unarmed x1)
[] Argent Storm x1 (Dodge)
[] Perform Sect Duties x2 (Government)
[] Research Arts in Sect archive x2 (Intelligence)
- Location
- United States of America
It totally does conflict. The style that I used was the style of writing used for the synopsis of "The Name of the Wind." It's a cool style, but extremely arrogant.
That's true and the suggestion was mostly hyperbole. However, I feel that if you're reading the second quest you would be aware of the conflict and it serves as a cool trip down nostalgia lane that leads into a sequel nicely.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Pastering?
- Location
- earth
Hard to do when we don't know what they are yet.
And I think we could handle AM+ in terms of meridian usage. No one seems to think rounding out the Argent arts with Argent Pulse is worth it, apparently.
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We're not getting new arts. We're researching what our options there. This way when we get around to actually getting new arts we'll know what we have available.
Otherwise we'll get there and suddenly want yrsillar to think up all our options at once.
- Location
- United States of America
I assume it should be saying "mastering" as that makes much more sense.
- Location
- The Temple of the Winds
[ ] Plan Sect missions
-[ ] Invest 4x YSS (+12 Free YSS)
-[ ] Attribute EPC successes to Physical Cultivation
-[ ] High Resource Expense (YSS income wiped out, -10 reserves)
-[ ] Cultivate Argent Genesis x4 (Resolve x2, Composure x2)
-[ ] Cultivate Spiritual Cultivation x4 (Presence x2 , Wits x2)
-[ ] Cultivate Physical Cultivation x4 (Strength x2, Stamina x2)
-[ ] Cultivate EPC x4 (Perceptiveness x2, Stealth x2)
-[ ] Cultivate SCS x2 (Dance)
-[] Take Sect Jobs(Earns Sect Points 11-20 per AP)
--[] Waiting on Sect Job board
-[] Perform Sect Duties (Earns Contribution Points 1-4 per AP)
--[] Waiting on Sect Duties board
Switching Archive run for some, hopefully, stealth based missions. Both to fuel our drug addiction and for the sweet free EPC successes, which i'll sink into physical cultivation that is currently behind spiritual by ~600.
-[ ] Invest 4x YSS (+12 Free YSS)
-[ ] Attribute EPC successes to Physical Cultivation
-[ ] High Resource Expense (YSS income wiped out, -10 reserves)
-[ ] Cultivate Argent Genesis x4 (Resolve x2, Composure x2)
-[ ] Cultivate Spiritual Cultivation x4 (Presence x2 , Wits x2)
-[ ] Cultivate Physical Cultivation x4 (Strength x2, Stamina x2)
-[ ] Cultivate EPC x4 (Perceptiveness x2, Stealth x2)
-[ ] Cultivate SCS x2 (Dance)
-[] Take Sect Jobs(Earns Sect Points 11-20 per AP)
--[] Waiting on Sect Job board
-[] Perform Sect Duties (Earns Contribution Points 1-4 per AP)
--[] Waiting on Sect Duties board
Switching Archive run for some, hopefully, stealth based missions. Both to fuel our drug addiction and for the sweet free EPC successes, which i'll sink into physical cultivation that is currently behind spiritual by ~600.
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Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
I mean, the only difference between the two scenarios is having a free cultivation roll, so....
Zhengui Sketch
- Location
- Panama City
Well, since going to the archive trains academics/int, I wanted to keep the action rather than precommit to job board without seeing what the job board has. Unless, of course, we need to choose the action in order to see the Job board in the first place
[ ] Plan More dice
-[ ] Invest 4x YSS (+12 Free YSS)
-[ ] High Resource Expense (YSS income wiped out, -10 reserves)
-[ ] EPC bonus to EPC
-[ ] Cultivate Spirit x4 (Presence x2 , Wits x2)
-[ ] Cultivate Phys x4 (Strength x2, Stamina x2)
-[ ] Cultivate EPC x4 (Perceptiveness x2, Qi x2)
-[ ] Cultivate Argent Genesis x4 (Resolve x2, Composure x2)
-[ ] Research Arts in Sect Archive x2 (Academics)
-[ ] Take Sect Jobs(Earns Sect Points 11-20 per AP) x2 (Stealth x2)
-[ ] Invest 4x YSS (+12 Free YSS)
-[ ] High Resource Expense (YSS income wiped out, -10 reserves)
-[ ] EPC bonus to EPC
-[ ] Cultivate Spirit x4 (Presence x2 , Wits x2)
-[ ] Cultivate Phys x4 (Strength x2, Stamina x2)
-[ ] Cultivate EPC x4 (Perceptiveness x2, Qi x2)
-[ ] Cultivate Argent Genesis x4 (Resolve x2, Composure x2)
-[ ] Research Arts in Sect Archive x2 (Academics)
-[ ] Take Sect Jobs(Earns Sect Points 11-20 per AP) x2 (Stealth x2)
- Location
- Panama City
Yeah, no. Dropping SCS for sect job is a terible idea, not to mention we NEED to boost Dance for PLR to be relevant
Plus What Ayashi said.
- Location
- The Temple of the Winds
Looking at the numbers, seems like 2 AP in SCS is the lowest we can go if we want to be able to level it up on next turn.
And that's assuming we drop 4 AP and EPC bonus into it next month.
This is relevant because next month we should reach Green 2 and have quite a lot more arts to train up.
Note: next level of SCS should not unlock at green 2 due to our physical cultivation lagging behind.
And that's assuming we drop 4 AP and EPC bonus into it next month.
This is relevant because next month we should reach Green 2 and have quite a lot more arts to train up.
Note: next level of SCS should not unlock at green 2 due to our physical cultivation lagging behind.
Yo, @yrsillar, anything up with this one? It applies to PLR, SCS, and AS, and is reasonably important, especially as we can only cultivate SCS at the moment.
It says 'Any', and remember how many times our Sect missions allowed us to use Stealth? Quite frequently. Not all the time, no, but a lot of the time; most notably against Heizui.
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
Missions train anything. It's what's stated. As for a make up plan:
[ ] Plan setting up for the grind
-[ ] Invest 4x YSS (+12 Free YSS)
-[ ] High Resource Expense (YSS income wiped out, -10 reserves)
-[ ] EPC bonus to EPC
-[ ] Cultivate Spirit x4 (Presence x2 , Manip, Wits)
-[ ] Cultivate Phys x4 (Dex x2, Stamina x2)
-[ ] Cultivate EPC x4 (Perceptiveness x2, Stealth x2)
-[ ] Cultivate SCS x3 (Dance x2, Wits)
-[ ] Cultivate Argent Genesis x2 (Resolve x2)
-[ ] Take Sect Jobs(Earns Sect Points 11-20 per AP) x2 (Larcenyx2)
-[ ] Research Arts in Sect Archive x1 (Academics)
I am still waiting for site/elder info though. This would let us have SCS as fast as possible while also grinding EPC successes via Sect Job/EPC training, and would let us learn more about arts.
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