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Xin Wu, yet another Cultivation Quest

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[X] A. Physical Cultivation

This seems like the best option since improving her physical cultivation is a general improvement to everything about her. I wonder if we can ask her if there is anything we can do to improve our spirit channels so we can more effectively channel her power?
 
Healing would be nice, but I kind think that's something we can do with our mother, to learn that and get closer to her. We like to get in, stick close, and hit hard, so I'm leaning towards Durability. We're already strong enough to beat down anyone we can hit, but we took a fair bit of damage from the ranged attacks in our duel, so this let's us get in tank hits before we reach our target and after we get there, if they can take a hit or two.

Edit: Considering what we know about Healing, I'm going for that now. Edit 2: Neither will likely win
 
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[X] E. Enhanced Awareness

@KittyEmpress is the assistance learning healing here different from what we learn with mother? Is the steward offering to help us increase our ability to channel healing/heal specifically with the ring? Or could we gain everything from the healing option by studying with mother?
 
Most of the time when you are with your mother you will be learning the Medicine skill, which covers mundane healing and makes magical healing effects cheaper (because you understand the body better and can be more efficient with how much energy you use.)

The Ring is offering you straight Healing, which is your magical healing skill, and governs how good you are at putting a body back together with magic, like your mom does all the time.

You cannot raise Healing outside of when you have the Signet. But you also cannot use it outside of this time.
 
[X] E. Enhanced Awareness

I do want Isha to study Healing somewhat, but her body is about to 'set', so to say. Healing is a skill, if a magical one, rather than a bodily change like the other things, so I think it to be less time sensitive.
 
[X] C. Enhanced Durability

Being able to tank hits is important for not dying, and is insane when you pair that with easy access healing when we have the ring full time. Let's us go full tank build and still hit extremely hard since we're so ahead in that aspect. I'd like to have as much of a buffer on taking damage as we can get.
 
I don't see a lot of reason to go for Healing at the moment, considering this is apparently one of the times it's much easier to work on Isha's body, and while we won't be able to use the healing until we get the ring and once we do she'll be in our head constantly to teach us anyway.

I think a more general improvement to everything is probably our best bet, espeically since it should affect our skill cap and possibly allow us to cut down on even more sleep later on, while possibly also making our next year's Signet session much better due to it's useable capacity scaling off physical cultivation.


Edit: NVm, see future vote later on in the page
 
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Aahhh I can't decide between those two options...

[ ] A. Physical Cultivation

[ ] F. Train Healing instead.

I wish I could vote both... 😅
 
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[X] E. Enhanced Awareness

No question here. Everything else she already has more of than most others, and healing, or at least medicine she can study on her own.
To react/escape/oppose danger, you need to spot it first. The sooner you notice, the sooner you can prepare.
 
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[X] A. Physical Cultivation

Would love to start getting into healing, but we don't get to have the ring frequently enough to be able to use it most of the time, so going for something which will improve everything sounds like an okay choice. Honestly any of these options are fine to take.
 
[X] C. Enhanced Durability

Changed again to improve Durability chances
 
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Blueshift said:
Changing to Physical Cultivation, cause it doesn't look like the healing or durability will win, and this one will hopefully help Durability at least a bit incidentally
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My vote system is random for this reason! By voting for durability, it increases the percentage chance that it wins, since I just add up the total number of votes (usually around 30) and then roll 1dX where x is the votes.

Durability can't win if you don't vote for it :p
 
[X] C. Enhanced Durability

On the other hand, thinking on it seems like no matter what we enhance we get some incidental physical xp based on it, so i'd rather keep increasing atleast one of our Enhanced abilities. Assuming we put in the same sort of effort as we did when gaining Enhanced Durability to Rank 4 in the past three weeks, we should get two thirds of the way to the next physical cultivation level by the end of our Signet time, setting us up well for the next year.

We could really use some more resistance to damage given how many dangerous stuff Isha ends up doing and how willing she seems to take injuries in her fight and based off the prior scenes we've had seems unlikely to change that until something else happens to show why thats not really a great idea.

Enhancing awareness could also be cool, it can give us more info as we pick up things people say around the embrace, let's the QM be even more descriptive in what Isha's senses pick up which is neat, and pairs well from a thematic standpoint after Isha's dad told her "Speed is Victory, but Awareness is Life."
 
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